I study culture and meaning-making in everyday life. I have written about a wide variety of topics, from the occupation of bicycle messengers to the social world of parkour to the political activism of college student.
The Politics of Speech on Campus (co-authored with Amy J. Binder) Sociological Forum (2021)
Trumpism on College Campuses (co-authored with Amy J. Binder) Qualitative Sociology (2020)
Civil and Uncivil Places: The Moral Geography of College Republicans American Journal of Cultural Sociology (2018)
College Republicans and Conservative Social Identity Sociological Perspectives (2016)
Parkour: Adventure, Risk, and Safety in the Urban Environment Qualitative Sociology (2013)
Parkour, Masculinity, and the City Sociology of Sport Journal (2013)
Parkour, the Affective Appropriation of Urban Space, and the Real/Virtual Dialectic City & Community (2012)
Hollywood, Bike Messengers, and the New Economy Critical Sociology (2016)
Appropriating the City: Space, Theory, and Bike Messengers Theory & Society (2009)
Bike Messengers and the Really Real: Effervescence, Reflexivity, and Postmodern Identity Symbolic Interaction (2006)
"It's the Job I Love": Bike Messengers and Edgework Sociological Forum (2006)
Style and Action: A Decoding of Bike Messenger Symbols Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (2005)
Reconsidering Edgework Theory: Practices, Experiences, and Structures International Review for the Sociology of Sport (2022)
What We Talk About When We Talk About Taxes (co-authored with Isaac William Martin) Symbolic Interaction (2012)
Towards a Theory of Emotive Performance: With Lessons from How Politicians Do Anger (co-authored with Kwai Hang Ng) Sociological Theory (2010)
The Channeling of the American Mind (co-authored with Amy J. Binder) Heterodox: The Blog (2022)
Higher Education for American Democracy and the Channels of Student Activism (co-authored with Amy J. Binder) Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning (2022)
In the Trump Era, Campus Conservative Groups are Fighting One Another (co-authored with Amy J. Binder) Monkey Cage (2020)
Student Activism is Often Uncivil. We Can Change That (co-authored with Amy J. Binder) The Chronicle of Higher Education (2019)
If You Think Campus Speech is All Angry Confrontation, You're Looking in the Wrong Places (co-authored with Amy J. Binder) Monkey Cage (2018)
Jeff Sessions Just Criticized University Safe Spaces, But Conservatives Want Their Own Safe Spaces Too Monkey Cage (2017)
America's Middle-Class Tax Morality The Guardian (2012)
Edgework in the Workplace Work in Progress (2011)
Lessons from Bike Messengers Berfrois (2011)
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