Her research focuses on legal and institutional discourse, violence and empathy in democratic processes, ethnographic methods and theory, and gender and language in society. Her previous research focused on a transsexual marriage trial, while her current research focuses on Texas death penalty cases. These two contexts demonstrate how legal discourse requires the making and unmaking of persons into human beings. She currently teaches Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, including an honors section; Language, Gender, and the Body; and the Ethnography of Law. More information...