2010       “Locating Personhood and Place in the Commodity Landscape,” City and Society Vol. 22(2) PDF

2010       “Personhood in Place: Personal and Local Character for Sustainable Narrative of Self,” City and Society Vol. 22(2)  PDF

2009       “Pursuing the Good Life: American Narratives of Travel and a Search for Refuge” in Lifestyle Migration: Expectations, Aspirations and Experiences, K. O’Reilly and M. Benson, eds.  London: Ashgate PDF

2008       “American Dreaming: Refugees from Corporate Work Seek the Good Life” in The Changing Landscape of Work and Family in the American Middle Class, E. Rudd & L. Descartes, eds.  Lanham, MD: Lexington PDF 

2007       “Therapeutic Uses of Place in the Intentional Space of Purposive Community” in Therapeutic Landscapes: Advances and Applications, A. Williams, ed.  London: Ashgate PDF

2007       “From Sweet Potatoes to God Almighty: Roy Rappaport on Being a Hedgehog” [with Tom Fricke], American Ethnologist Vol. 34(3) PDF 

2006       “Grey Suit or Brown Carhartt: Narrative Transition, Relocation and Reorientation in the Lives of Corporate Refugees,” Journal of Anthropological Research Vol. 62(3) PDF 

2006       “Striving for Unity: A Conversation with Roy Rappaport" [with Tom Fricke], Michigan Discussions in Anthropology Vol. 16(1) PDF

2005       “From Pi to Pie: Moral Narratives of Non-economic Migration and Starting Over in the Post-industrial Midwest,” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography Vol. 34(5) PDF

2003       “Nationalism in Indonesia: Building Imagined Community and Intentional Communities through Transmigration,” Ethnology, Vol. 42(2) PDF

2002       “Integrating Work in Academe and Advocacy,” Sloan Research Network Vol. 4(2) PDF