Teaching and Research Interests
Popular culture, youth, social movements, deviance, and
social theory
Courses Taught
Sociology of Popular Culture
Sociology of Youth
Social Movements
Sociology of Deviance
Intro to Sociology
Youth, Music, and Counterculture
Film and Society
Globalization
Social Problems
Contemporary Social Theory
Selected Publications
“Friends Don’t Let Friends Listen to Corporate
Rock: Punk as Field of Cultural Production,” forthcoming in
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography.
“Alternative to What? Subcultural Capital and the Commercialization of an Alternative Music Scene,” Deviant Behavior 26: 3 (May-June 2005), pp. 229-252.
“Postmodernism and Punk Subculture: Cultures of Authenticity and Deconstruction,” The Communication Review 7: 3 (July-September 2004), pp. 305-327.
“’. . . And Tomorrow Is Just Another Crazy Scam’: Postmodernity, Youth, and the Downward Mobility of the Middle Class” in Joe Austin and Mike Willard (eds.) Generations of Youth: Youth Cultures and History in Twentieth-Century America (New York: NYU Press, 1998), pp. 253-71.
