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My research and teaching interests center on gender, sexualities, social Inequalities/stratification, women of color feminisms, research methods, LGBT communities and politics, feminist theory and methods, race/ethnicity, and rural studies. I am currently completing my dissertation, “Men in Context: Transmasculinities and Transgender Experiences in Three U.S. Regions,” which takes an intersectional approach to understand how various spatial contexts (region and urban/rural) and institutional contexts (work, family, and school) influence men’s gendered, racialized, and sexual interactions and identities. I have published work on the effects of fear and violence on masculinities in interaction and how intersecting identities affect experiences of violence. I am the current recipient of the Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship in the Center for the Study of Women in Society.