I am an Assistant Professor of Sociology and a specialist in racial and ethnic relations, sociology of education, and qualitative methodology. I was awarded my Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania, where I completed an extensive six-year ethnographic project, which examined the African American gender gap in high school educational achievement. I am currently directing the “Montclair Diversity Project” which is investigating issues of gender, race and ethnicity right here at M.S.U; this project was awarded the “Student Faculty Research Award” in 2009. I am currently working on my first book based on my dissertation research titled “Mind The Gap.” I have been nominated for a Dean’s Recognition Award in Teaching and I was an "Engaged Teaching Fellow."

Courses Taught
GNED 202: Race and the Media (with Prof. Roberta Friedman)
Sociology 202: Racial and Ethnic Relations
Sociology 205: The Black Family
Sociology 311: Urban Sociology
Sociology 313: Sociology of Education
Sociology 400: Mass Media

Race and Ethnicity; Education; Urban Sociology; Qualitative Methodology; Gender