She earned her doctorate in sociology at the Graduate Center of CUNY, and her master�s degree in theology at Harvard University. Her book about touching children, breastfeeding, children�s sleep and contemporary childrearing advice, Boundaries of Touch: Parenting and Adult-Child Intimacy was published in July 2007 by the University of Illinois Press. She also assisted Patricia Ticineto Clough in editing The Affective Turn: Theorizing the Social (Duke University Press 2007). More recently, she co-authored Seeing White: An Introduction to White Privilege and Race (Rowman and Littlefield 2011) with Amy Eshleman and Ramya Vijaya. She has recently completed her fourth book, a mix of memoir and a social history of cattle ranching in the United States, The Parallel Lives of Women and Cows: Meat Markets, (Palgrave Macmillan 2012).