In 2007, her article ‘The Cockpit’s Empty Chair’ appeared in the Teachers College Record, and her article ‘Raising Spectres’ appeared in Exhibition Experiment (New Interventions in Art History), edited by Paul Basu and Sharon Macdonald. Her research interests include mass media production and reception, forms of agency generated by anti-sweatshop and fair trade movements, and the history of capitalist spectacle in Chicago. She holds a PhD from the University of Chicago, and is currently revising her ethnography of linguistic and material practices among Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry visitors and staff, Reality World. She and Rebecca Field were married on May 20th, 2004, in Wellfleet, Massachusetts.