Anthropology: Dance and performance, embodiment, community-based arts, medical anthropology, extraclinical care, narrative, trauma, American military culture, California and the Southwestern U.S.

Dance: American Modern dance (Taylor- and Graham-based technique, fall and recovery techniques) postmodern and contemporary (including Cunningham-inspired principles of movement), score-based improvisation, partnering, theatrical and nontraditional composition, dance film, community-based and recreational movement practices, critical dance studies

University of California, Irvine, Ph.D., Anthropology, expected 2028. Advisor: Justin Richland.

California State University, Long Beach, M.F.A., Dance. Thesis committee: Keith Johnson (chair), Betsy Cooper, Colleen Dunagan.

Sarah Lawrence College, B.A., Liberal Arts and Sciences, concentrations in Dance and Film. Advisor: Peggy Gould.

Instructor of Record: Modern Dance Basics, Modern I, Modern II, Modern III, Modern IV at Orange Coast College; Introduction to Ballet, Modern Techniques II, Viewing Dance, Introduction to Modern Dance at California State University, Long Beach.

Teaching Assistantships: Language and Culture, Introduction to Biological Anthropology, American Culture, Introduction to Medical Anthropology, Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology at University of California, Irvine.

Freelance: x2 Dance Collective, open company class; Brockus Project Studios, contemporary and conditioning; Tucson High School & Rincon High School, modern and contemporary forms; Esperanza Dance Project, modern dance; BreakOut Studios, beginning through advanced level Ballet, Modern, Contemporary, and Improvisation for adults.

Conference Presentations: “The Privileges and Privations of Precarity,” roundtable. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, 2025; “Medicine in Movement: Therapeutic Narratives in Dancemaking and Performance.” Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, 2023.

Company: Metaphysical Playthings, dir. Sarah Elizabeth Stanley; x2 Dance Collective, dirs. Brynn Bodair and Sarah Elizabeth Stanley; DIAVOLO | Architecture in Motion, dir. Jacques Heim, Dusty Alvarado (VOLO); Esperanza Dance Project, dir. Beth Braun.

Freelance: Ensemble Mik Nawooj; Path Of Miracles, dir. John La Bouchardière; SHORELINE Project, dir. Lara Wilson and Elizabeth Turks; Pantsuit Power for HRC 2016, dir. Celia Rowlson-Hall; Paradise Interrupted, dir. Jennifer Wen Ma.

Summer Research Award, Department of Anthropology; Shift/WEST Residency (two-time recipient), Brockus Project Studios; Grant recipient and guest artist/performer, MOCA Tucson; Distinguished Achievement in Creative Activity Award, College of the Arts, Celeste Kennedy Endowed Scholarship recipient, Department of Dance, California State University, Long Beach; Commissioned guest artist, Laband Gallery; Scholarship Recipient, Limón West; work-study scholarship, The Taylor School.