• CIC Doctoral Scholar, Northwestern University 1998
  • PhD Candidate, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1998
  • MA, University of Dayton 1995
  • BA, Miami University 1992

Media and society, legal communication (First Amendment issues), social movements, political/social impact of new media technologies

  • NCA Top Graduate Instructor Award (1995)
  • 6-time recipient of NCA Top Paper honors (1998-present)

Author, Media and Society: A Sourcebook (1993), Animal Farm Revisited, “An Open Letter to All Americans” (1998), “Rave: The Rising Buzz of the Digital Underground,” Against the Sophists (publication forthcoming), and “Go Granny Go: Media Strategies in 21st Century Social Movements”