She received her PhD from The University of Georgia. Her dissertation study is a poststructural object-interview study about the folding of objects and subjects in family history genealogy and the resulting concept the ensemble of life, a loose grouping of objects associated with an ancestor's life. Her research agenda includes the study of poststructural and post-humanist theories, Deleuze, new materialism, subject-object relations, onto-epistemology, and qualitative research methodology. Introduction