Selected Scholarly Work
My scholarly work examines how institutions understand the people and communities they are intended to serve. Across projects in service-learning, veterans’ education, disability, mentoring, and the humanities, I have been drawn to the distance that can emerge between institutional intentions and lived experience.
Much of this work begins by listening closely to perspectives that are often treated as secondary: community partners, students, veterans, faculty, and collaborators working beyond the boundaries of the university. I am interested in what becomes visible when those perspectives are treated not as supporting evidence, but as essential knowledge.
The selections included here represent only a small portion of my published work. I have chosen pieces that are available online, open access, and that reflect the recurring concerns at the center of my scholarship: reciprocity, access, institutional responsibility, public engagement, and the ways education can either reinforce existing structures or help people imagine more humane ones.
Much of this work begins by listening closely to perspectives that are often treated as secondary: community partners, students, veterans, faculty, and collaborators working beyond the boundaries of the university. I am interested in what becomes visible when those perspectives are treated not as supporting evidence, but as essential knowledge.
The selections included here represent only a small portion of my published work. I have chosen pieces that are available online, open access, and that reflect the recurring concerns at the center of my scholarship: reciprocity, access, institutional responsibility, public engagement, and the ways education can either reinforce existing structures or help people imagine more humane ones.