Welcome.

I am a professor of sociology at CUNY-Hunter College and the Graduate Center in New York. My research bridges the areas of cultural sociology and symbolic interactionism with a general emphasis on the social foundations of cognition, memory, identity, and knowledge. I am also interested in the cultural dynamics of moral and political conflict and contention.

My published writing has addressed various topics and themes including personal storytelling, anonymity and pseudonymity, autobiographical and collective memory, social performance, trauma, and the deep meanings associated with a wide variety of significant events, issues, and human experiences. I have also published work that addresses the remarkable methodology of social pattern analysis.