About Me:
After many years as an occupational therapist and educator, I completed a PhD in anthropology -- a degree that made a lot of sense to me because of my interest in the ordinary everyday things that people do. My focus was work, and my dissertation was on self-employed people making crafts and selling them at local craft fairs. More recently I have been studying contemporary quilt making as a means of looking at occupation from the individual to global level. My most recent research started while consulting on a qualitative component for a research project on the sensory experiences of autism. I am now working with data from interviews that are part of that study.
Area(s) of Training
anthropology, cultural anthropology, ethnography, other
Area(s) of Expertise
occupational science, craft occupations
Current Area of Employment
Faculty, occupational science/occupational therapy
