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PORTFOLIO
Canvas Faculty Survey: Spring 2023
Governing Better Outcomes: Canvas Apps at VCU
Faculty Development Sessions
Teaching & Learning Certificate Program
In July 2019, Brian Canaday, Director of IT at the VCU School of Pharmacy, and I co-led the "Teaching With Technology" session for the Teaching & Learning Certificate Program.
Transitioning to Online Instruction
ITCC Lunch & Learn Series
QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
Graduate Thesis Paper
Illuminates the gendered experiences of female food laborers and how women make meaning through their labor in this context. I utilize autoethnographic methods supplemented with ethnographic interviewing to analyze my own experiences as a female food laborer.
Specifically, I discuss experiences growing up on an alpaca farm in rural Virginia, my employment as a cashier at Grocer’s Market, as a voluntary laborer with the International Organic Farming program, and my experiences working alongside female farm owners in Ireland and Virginia.
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Awarded "Outstanding Thesis Award" in May 2019.
I wrote an ethnographic and autoethnographic account through interviews and experiences with migrant farmworkers, in order to understand the role of their work in identity formation in the Fall of 2016. I utilized a narrative methodology to give voice to those I interviewed, while also maintaining confidentiality through pseudonyms and partial fictionalization of accounts. Autoethnographic reflections also served to illuminate the connections and disconnections between my experiences on a small family farm to their experiences in large-scale industrial agriculture.
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Presented at the National Communication Assocation conference in November 2017.
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