Selected Scholarship

Community-Based Learning

• “Piloting a Community-Based Learning Teaching Assistant Program.” Co-authored with Bethany Ozorak. Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning 25(3). 2025.
• “(Re)mapping Blackness while Interrogating Whiteness: Enacting a Critical Place-Based Curriculum in Lexington, Virginia.” Co-authored with Jayne Reino. The Journal of Community Practice 33(2): 130-141. 2025.

Jewish Food and Culture

• “Chicken Soup and Chopped Liver: Sharing Ashkenazic Jewish Recipes across Generations.” Dublin Food Gastronomy Symposium. May 2024.

Science, Technology, and Society

• Campus Sexuality “Text to Sex: The Impact of Cell Phones on Hooking up and Sexuality on Campus,” Mobile Media and Communication 4: 102-120. 2016.

American Race Relations

• “Making African American Homeplaces in Rural Virginia,” Ethos: The Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology 39(3): 368-394. 2011.

Mountain Jews and the Caucasus

• “Communities of Mourning: Mountain Jewish Laments in Azerbaijan and on the Internet.” In Religion, Morality, and Community in Post-Soviet Societies, edited by Mark Steinberg and Catherine Wanner. Pp. 149-177. Indiana University Press. 2008.
• “Patriarchy through Lamentation in Azerbaijan,” American Ethnologist 35(1):81-94. 2008.
• “Are They Jews or Asians? A Cautionary Tale about Mountain Jewish Ethnography.” Slavic Review 63(1): 113-140. 2004.

Russian Jews

• Jewish Russians: Upheavals in a Moscow Synagogue. University of Pennsylvania Press. 2003.