He joined the UNO faculty in 2006 and his research and teaching interests are in the area of family sociology and the sociology of sport. He has taught several courses at UNO, including social statistics, American family problems, sociology of fatherhood, and the graduate research methods sequence. He also is the graduate chair of the sociology master's program and the faculty advisor for the Sociology Club. He earned a BS in anthropology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2000), and an MA (2002) and Ph.D. (2006) in sociology from Pennsylvania State University.