• Ph.D., University of California - Irvine (Social Science)
• B.A., Texas A&M Univ. (Anthropology)
• B.S., Texas A&M Univ. (Psychology)

• At SUA since 2005
• 2001 - 2005, Asst. Research Anthropologist, University of California - Los Angeles
• 1999 - 2001, Postdoc, University of California - Los Angeles

• Culture, mental health, and young people
• Family life in local/global contexts
• Poverty and Inequality

• "Child Care Instability and the Effort to Sustain a Working Daily Routine: Evidence from the New Hope Ethnographic Study of Low-Income Families" (with T. S. Weisner, S. Geis, and A. C. Huston), In C.R. Cooper, C. Garcia-Coll, W.T. Bartko, H.M. Davis, and C.M. Chatman. (Eds.) Developmental Pathways Through Middle Childhood: Rethinking Contexts and Diversity as Resources. Pp.121-144. Mahwah (NJ): Laurence Erlbaum Associates, 2005.
• "'You have to push it - who's gonna raise your kids?' Situating child care and child care subsidy use in the daily routines of lower income families" (with T.S. Weisner), Children and Youth Services Review 26(2): 143-171. 2004
• "Identity, Activity, and the Well-Being of Adolescents and Youth: Lessons from Young People in a Micronesian Society," Culture Medicine and Psychiatry 27:187-219., 2003
• "A Widow, a Child, and Two Lineages: exploring kinship and attachment," Chuuk American Anthropologist, 104(1): 123-137, 2002
• "Making Ends Meet in Milwaukee: The Cultural Process Behind Household Finances and Maternal Mental Health and Well-Being" (with R. Mistry), Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Dallas, Texas, 2004
• "Elements of Globalization in the Micronesian Suicide Epidemic," Presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropology Association, Chicago, IL., 2003

• Urban Anthropology
• Social Science Research Methods

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