Associate Professor, Department of Special Education, Counseling and Student Affairs
Coordinator of the M.S. in Academic Advising Program
College of Education
Kansas State University
My work explores professions and the people who inhabit them — how fields develop, how identities take shape, and how people make meaning of their work and lives.
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Academic advising has practitioners, scholarship, graduate education, and a global professional association — yet its professional status remains contested. My work examines how occupations become professions and how fields develop identities, structures, and bodies of knowledge.
Professional socialization, workplace learning, career development, and the everyday experiences through which people come to understand themselves and their work. I study these processes among academic advisors and other professionals.
Sexuality, gender, culture, privilege, belonging, and identities that sometimes sit uneasily beside one another. I study how people understand, negotiate, express, and transform identity across educational, professional, cultural, and community contexts.
Research design, qualitative methodology, scholarly writing, publication, and collaboration are not simply tools for producing research — they shape what fields know and how they develop. My work examines and advances the practices through which scholarship is created, communicated, and used.
A musician who became an advisor, an advisor who became a professor, and a professor who never quite stopped being either.
I welcome inquiries about doctoral study, collaborations, invited talks and manuscript reviews.
