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More Than Pretty Boxes earned an Honorable Mention from the 2025 Delmos Jones and Jagna Sharff Memorial Book Prize of the Society for the Anthropology of North America
Upcoming Events
November 22, 2025 (New Orleans, LA): Chairing a roundtable at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association
March 9, 2026 (Rancho Palos Verdes, CA): Presenting to a local chapter of the American Association of University Women
Recent Media & Events
September 20, 2025 (Atlanta, GA): Featured speaker at the Institute for Challenging Disorganization Conference
September 9, 2025 (Zoom): Presentation to the NAPO Georgia Regional Chapter
August 2025 (Chicago, IL): Presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association
August 2025: Interview with the Good Enough Mompreneur podcast
May 19, 2025 (Los Angeles, CA): Presentation to to the Los Angeles Chapter of the National Association for Productivity and Organizing Professionals.
April 17, 2025 (virtual): Presentation to to the National Association of Black Professional Organizers.
Was interviewed about something I *thought* I knew but got totally wrong for the Make Me Smart podcast by Marketplace.
March 29, 2025 (Portland, OR): Presented a paper, “Organizing Better Careers, Especially for Women,” for a session on Work in the Wake of the Pandemic at the joint conference of the Society for Applied Anthropology and the Society for the Anthropology of North America.
March 27, 2025 (Chicago, IL): Interviewed by NAPO President Mindy Godding at the Annual Summit of the National Association of Organizing and Productivity Professionals.
OC Register feature on More Than Pretty Boxes
More Than Pretty Boxes was a featured read for the CSUF School of Nursing Book Club!
More Than Pretty Boxes was featured on the Page 99 Test blog by the Campaign for the American Reader. See how well page 99 reflects the book.
CSUF News covered the release of More Than Pretty Boxes.
Interview with Michael Johnston of the New Books in Sociology podcast
Interview with personal coach and professional organizer Amelia Pleasant Kennedy for her podcast, A Pleasant Solution.
Talk on interdisciplinary research methods to the NAPO Authors Special Interest Group of the National Association of Organizing and Productivity Professionals.
Roundtable discussion on my new book, More Than Pretty Boxes, with colleagues Ilana Gershon, Caitrin Lynch, Tarini Bedi, Rachel Howard, and Katie Kilroy-Marac at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Revised transcript will soon be available!
PubFest interview with Dean Jessica Stern of the CSUF College of Humanities & Social Sciences, November 2024.
Pollak Library Noon Time Talk, “From Clutter to Kondo: The Rise of Professional Organizing,” November 2024.
“What’s Motivating Us to Organize and Declutter?: Professor Explores Trends in New Book,” Orange County Register, February 8, 2024.
“Why is Work/Life Balance So Elusive? Because It’s Made Up,” Elaine Cha, St. Louis on the Air, St. Louis Public Radio, St. Louis, MO (January 27, 2023).
“Revisiting Anthropologies of Unemployment: A Conversation with Jong Bum Kwon and Carrie Lane,” Kelly McKowen, Mergers and Acquisitions, podcast of the Society for Economic Anthropology, October 12, 2021.
“unWorking,” Craig Desson, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Radio Special (September 4, 2020).
