“My fiancé is very much a world citizen”: Gendered Orientalist Habitus and White Women’s Account of WWAM Relationships

Building off a chapter submitted to an edited volume, currently, I’m working alongside a professor to publish an article in a peer-reviewed journal. I’ve presented this research alongside my professor at the UMW Social Research Colloquium.

Life-style or Marriage Migrants? Western Women and Positioning Privilege in Asia

What started as a paper in my Sociology of East Asia class ended up developing into an upcoming chapter for an edited volume on privileged migrants in Asia edited by Diotima Chattoraj. Currently, the chapter is interview. The research done for the chapter was presented at the UMW Sociology Symposium and will be presented at the Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies (MARAAS) at the University of Delaware in November.

Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Summer Institute

During the Summer of 2023, I was a part of the University of Mary Washington’s Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Summer Institute (AHSSI). More specifically, I served on the Creating Compost and Community: Developing an Urban Food Waste Recovery Project. The report my fellow student and I wrote can be found on the Bragg Hill Community Garden Website.

Quantitative Research Methods for Sociology

For a semester I served as the lab aide for the Quantitative Research Methods for Sociology class. As an aide, I assisted students with Stata during lab hours and had my own office hours where I could help with writing, statistics, and Stata.

Internship

Intern at the U.S. Office of personal management (opm), office of workforce policy and innovation

I currently work in the U.S. Office of Personal Management (OPM) inside the Office of Workforce Policy and Innovation. I conduct literature reviews, help interview agencies about their use of the FEVS, and perform thematic analysis on previously collected data, among other things.

Rappahannock Group Sierra Club intern

Starting in January of 2023, I am currently an intern for the Rappahannock Chapter of the Sierra Club. During my internship, I did research for the club, attended meetings and reported back, created a new format for their newsletter, edited their websites through the use of Drupul and WordPress, and managed their Instagram account.