She teaches Early Childhood Education courses to preservice teachers and Qualitative Methods and Analysis courses at the Graduate level. Her primary research interests are in childhood studies, educational anthropology, and cultural studies. Her research focuses on play, media and popular culture in the preschool classrooms. She is the author of several chapters and articles on children’s understanding and use of media and popular culture in situated communities. Most recently she has been studying media uses and understandings of children who are precariously housed and homeless in the Southern region of the United States.