“Stairway to Heaven: One Family’s Journey in the Eldercare Business in America”: An autoethnographic study that follows a family eldercare business from before the advent of Medicare through the Covid pandemic.

 “A Crack in the Wall: American Grifters, Urban Tricksters, and the Making of Donald J. Trump”: A study of American con men and the archetypes and narratives that paved the way for our current climate in which con men are elevated to the highest positions of political power in the United States.

“Collecting Disaster” is an examination of archival collections dedicated to the industry of risk management that reframes the actuarial representation of risk to the realms of humanities scholarship, uncovering new political and cultural implications in rare and under-examined visual and material artifacts.  This is a collaboration with art historian and curator, Dr. Susan Rosenberg.