Lori is a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology with a graduate specialization in Gender, Justice and Environmental Change at Michigan State University . She is the Assistant Editor of Human Ecology Review, an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of the interaction between humans and the environment. She received an award this year from the Society for Human Ecology for her work on the journal. She is also a graduate research assistant for Zakia Salime who is currently working on articles related to gender reform in Morocco since the 2003 Casablanca bombings.

Lori received her B.A. with honors from the University of Florida in 2002 with a double major in women's studies and political science. Lori's research interests are focused on gender, social movements, and health. She is particularly interested in the internationalization of the U.S.-based breast cancer movement and will pursue this topic for her dissertation.

While working with the Ecological and Cultural Change Studies Group, she coauthored a paper with Dr. Linda Kalof and Amy Fitzgerald entitled, “Hunting as a Sexually Charged Activity: Evidence from Traditional Bowhunter Magazine.” She and Amy Fitzgerald presented the paper at the Representing Animals Conference at Brock University on November 13, 2003 . Lori also has an article in Society & Animals 12(3) titled “Animals,Women and Weapons: Blurred Sexual Boundaries in the Discourse of Sport Hunting,” coauthored with Dr. Kalof and Amy Fitzgerald.

More recently, Lori and Dr. Linda Kalof coauthored a chapter on the sociology of femininity that has been published in the 21st Century Handbook of Sociology. Since the fall of 2005, Lori and Dr. Aaron McCright are co-editing Critical Mass Bulletin, the newsletter of the Collective Behavior and Social Movements section of the American Sociological Association. Dr. Sabrina McCormick and Lori recently completed an article entitled, “ The Breast Cancer Movement: An Example of “Corporatized Activism,” which has been submitted to Social Movement Studies.