I'm always grateful when people outside of academia reach out for sociological insights on today’s pressing social issues. Recently, I was asked to weigh in on a question that continues to gain urgency: Why do so many rural young people in the United States feel profoundly disconnected from society? Too often, public conversations default to... Continue Reading →
Southern England is a landscape that holds its own time. During my recent trip to Oxford I used my iPhone11 to serve as my notebook. From train and bus I tried recording the small and large ways the countryside reveals itself. In England, the light is never static. A single hillside can shift from sunlit... Continue Reading →
This summer we went down to visit my brother’s family in Oklahoma. I first moved Oklahoma when I was nine years old. I’m originally from Los Angeles but my mother divorced my father, and her subsequent boyfriend’s job moved us to Oklahoma. I would live in Oklahoma for the next 15 years until I was... Continue Reading →
