master's research:

Master's thesis in Anthropology
Advisor: Elizabeth Traube

The Virtual Campfire: An Ethnography of Online Social Networking explores the increasingly blurred boundaries between human and machine, public and private, voyeurism and exhibitionism, the history of media and our digitized future. Woven throughout are the stories and experiences of those who engage with these sites regularly and ritualistically, the generation of "digital natives" whose tales attest to the often strange and uncomfortable ways online social networking sites have come to be embedded in the everyday lives of American youth.

undergraduate research:

• Online Social Networks as Vehicles for Individual and Collective Remembrance
Grounding the Past: Monument, Site, and Historical Memory with Phil Wagoner, Fall 2007

• Being, Knowing, and Being Known on the Facebook
Qualitative Research Methods in Psychology with Rachael Russell, Fall 2006

• The Trance Dance Experience
Anthropology of Dance with Katja Kolcio Fall 2006

• Bridging the Virtual and the Real: Identity and Community on the Facebook
Youth Culture with Elizabth Traube, Spring 2006

• Eating Disorder Communities On The Web
Seminar in Eating Disorders with Ruth Striegel-Moore, Spring 2006