He also directs the Museum Studies and Diversity Studies Programs. His research interests include tourism; questions of identity, representation, and Native American sovereignty; and how such issues are engaged in contemporary museum, casino, touristic, and photographic practice. He is the author of Casino and Museum: Mashantucket Pequot Representation; his articles and reviews have appeared in Museum & Society, Museum Anthropology, Visual Anthropology Review, Museum Anthropology Review, Ethnohistory, American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Tribal Government Gaming, and the Journal of Anthropological Research.