• PhD

Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Integrated Studies (Co-editor, 11th edition, Macmillan, 2020).

"The Regulations of Robbers": Legal Fictions of Slavery and Resistance (Ohio State University Press, 2001).

Bao Phi. Asian American Literature: An Encyclopedia for Students (Greenwood, 2021).

The Pitfalls of Ally Performance: Why Coalition Work Is More Effective Than Ally Theater. With Kristin J. Anderson. "Benign" Bigotry blog on Psychology Today (2019). 

The Cynical Red Herring of Arming Teachers. With Kristin J. Anderson. "Benign" Bigotry blog on Psychology Today (2018). 

Troubling the “Beat Inevitable”: Brooks, Ellison, and the Cultural Logic of Lynching. MELUS (2017).

Social Justice, Action, and Teaching: The Legacies of Eric Rofes. Humboldt Journal of Social Relations (2012).

"All its people, including its jotería": Rewriting Nationalisms in Cherríe Moraga's Queer Aztlán. Humboldt Journal of Social Relations, Special Issue on Oppression and Resistance (2007).

Resisting Slavery among the Pettifoggers: Sojourner Truth as Legal Actor. MELUS Special Issue on "Multi Ethnic Literatures and the Idea of Social Justice" (2003).

Exposing the Lie of Neutrality: June Jordan's Affirmative Acts. Still Seeking an Attitude: Critical Reflections on the Work of June Jordan. 33-47. Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2004.

"Real" Boys? Manufacturing Masculinity and Erasing Privilege in Popular Books on Raising Boys. With Kristin J. Anderson. Feminism and Psychology (2002).

"The Laws Were Laid Down to Me Anew": Harriet Jacobs and the Reframing of Legal Fictions. African American Review (1998). (Reprinted in Norton Critical Edition of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, 2000).

• Ph.D. Cultural Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley (In Progress)
• M.A. Anthropology, Medical Anthropology Focus, University of California, Berkeley
• B.A. Anthropology, Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley

• Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Chicago
• M.A., Anthropology, University of Chicago
• B.A. Chinese Language and Literature, University of Minnesota

• MA in Anthropology, California State University Sacramento 2011
• BA in Anthropology/ Minor in Native American Studies from Humboldt State University 1998

• Master of Arts in Cultural Resources Management, Sonoma State University
• Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology, Humboldt State University