Langelinie Promenade, Østerbro, Copenhagen, Denmark
A visit to Copenhagen during EF Tours' professional training for educators over the November holidays. The training focused on history and culture, travel management, and global learning experiences. Highlights included the Round Tower, Amalienborg Palace, Tivoli Gardens, and a personal side trip to Malmö, Sweden.
Scholarship
My scholarship examines how educational institutions shape subjectivities, moral expectations, and ways of knowing. Drawing on poststructural theory, particularly Michel Foucault's work on genealogy, power/knowledge, and problematization, I explore how the categories that organize educational life come to seem natural, and what becomes possible when they are questioned.
Book Chapters
"Descending Otherwise: Inquiry Through Seven Gates." In The Routledge International Handbook of Post Qualitative and New Approaches to Inquiry, edited by Lisa A. Mazzei, Alecia Jackson, Elizabeth A. St. Pierre, and Maggie MacLure. Routledge (forthcoming).
Chapter in Foucault and Education: Exploring Perspectives and Practices, edited by Rouhollah Aghasaleh, Tristan Gleason, and Jim Burns. Bloomsbury Publishing (forthcoming).
Forewords
Foreword to Human Teaching: How Recentering What's Real Sustains Your Practice by Chris Osmond. A Typewritten Human Words Project (2026).
Dissertation
Liturgy: A Foucauldian Genealogy on the Discourse of Moral Ideologies Within Educational Assessment. Ed.D. dissertation, Appalachian State University, 2025.
Works in Progress
"The Lazy Teacher: Care, Sacrifice, and the Moral Economy of the Vocation," a Foucauldian genealogy of how teaching became organized as a vocation requiring the visible expenditure of the self, and what becomes possible when teachers refuse the binary the moral economy requires.
Proposal submitted for an article to The International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, special issue on Michel Foucault's Analytic of Problematization, edited by Alecia Jackson and Star Brown.
Honors and Recognition
Nominated, Naylor Outstanding Dissertation Award, Reich College of Education, Appalachian State University. Nominated by dissertation chair Dr. Alecia Jackson, Professor of Leadership and Educational Studies. The dissertation — an interdisciplinary Foucauldian genealogy drawing on governmental policy, history, religious imagery, musical concepts, narrative poetics, and literature — was described as "theoretically mature, methodologically experimental, and conceptually innovative."
Graduate Scholarship, Reich College of Education, Appalachian State University. Awarded in recognition of doctoral coursework and scholarship.