He is the author of Nine Choices: Johnny Cash and American Culture , the co-author of The World Is a Text: Writing, Reading, and Thinking about Culture and Its Contexts, and the co-editor of Remaking the American College Campus: Essays (McFarland, 2016). He has served as the Fulbright Roving Scholar in Norway (2007-2008) and was a John H. Daniels fellow at the National Sporting Library (2013-2014).