My previous research, while focusing upon a number of different content areas, aligns with the broader aims of that above:  to analyze public communication that undergirds social, political and cultural ideologies enabling power and privilege.   A few of those projects have included the commercialization/commodification of the university system in the U.S., the perversity of mediated images surrounding sports star, Allen Iverson, and the media accounts of Los Angeles uprising.

My second area of research focuses upon critical pedagogy and teaching practices that enhance student learning.   I am interested in how both the structure of teaching lessons and “best practices” encourage effective and insightful learning.  I am also concerned to study the ways that teaching and learning foster projects of social justice and democracy.   I have written about and presented my  findings as well as facilitated teaching workshops with a cadre of professionals for the last ten years. This work aims to collaborate with others about how to provide spaces of learning that capitalize upon creativity, self-reflexivity and principled action.