Extended bio for the curious

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  • Early tenure and promotion to Associate Professor, San Jose State University, 2014.

  • Early tenure and promotion to associate professor, Louisiana State University, 2018.

  • Dwight L Freshley and Martha Nell Hardy Awards for outstanding teaching

  • Performance Studies Scholar of the Year, Southern States Communicaiton Association, 2012.

  • Producing director and technical director, HopKins blackbox theatre

  • Seventeen peer-reviewed publications focusing on how performance creates belonging

  • Courses taught: crisis communication, international business speaking, small group communication, media production, storytelling, communication theory, ethnography, oral history, communication and culture, performance methods, directing, performance in everyday life, performance of ethnodrama, performance historiography, performance composition, performance and tourism,

  • Advisor of four successfully defended dissertations

  • Committee member for fifty graduate students.

  • Ethnograpnic research on the Appalachian Trail, in Greece, and North Korea

  • Co-creator of award winning podcast “Catalogue of Ships”

  • Writer/ director of six full-scale, original theatrical productions

  • Fifty five competitively selected academic presentations

  • Two-time Moth Story Slam winner.

  • Two year member of The Mee-Ow show improvisational comedy troupe.

  • Twenty six years of teaching experience with students ages 3 to 68.