I write in a few different worlds.
Some of my writing is academic. Some of it is public sociology. Some of it is fiction.
To me, these aren’t separate pursuits. They all begin with the same question: How do people create meaning through stories? Sometimes that question becomes a journal article. Sometimes it becomes an essay. Sometimes it becomes a Fallout fanfiction.
I’ve come to think that each kind of writing makes me better at the others.
my writing
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fanfiction
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public essays
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journal articles
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silly things
✳︎ fanfiction ✳︎ public essays ✳︎ journal articles ✳︎ research projects ✳︎ silly things
This is where I write public sociology essays for anyone curious about the social world. I love taking everyday experiences and asking what they reveal about the ways people create meaning together. I write to make sociology feel accessible, thoughtful, and fun.
I also write fiction, primarily character-driven stories set in the Fallout video game universe. While they may seem very different from my academic work, many explore the same themes that fascinate me as a sociologist: identity, grief, community, morality, and the stories people tell about themselves. Writing fiction has made me a better scholar, and studying sociology has made me a better storyteller.
Read my Master’s Thesis, On Saying Goodbye: Interactional Role Liminality & Post-death Symbolic Interaction. My research centers on symbolic interaction, identity, grief, memory, and the social processes through which people construct meaning in everyday life.