His major publications include Music/City: American Festivals and Placemaking in Austin, Nashville, and Newport, The Tour Guide: Walking and Talking New York, The City and the Hospital: The Paradox of Medically Overserved Communities, and his upcoming sociological thriller, The Set Up.

His work has also been published in City & Community, Media, Culture & Society, Sociological Theory, Qualitative Sociology, Sociological Forum, Socius, Contexts, and Ethnography. He was the co-editor of the ASA Culture Section Newsletter (2011-2014), a 2017 Public Engagement Project Fellow. He currently serves as the co-chair for the UMass Amherst Common Read committee, an advisory board member for the Penguin/Random House First Year Experience, supports the UMass Amherst Emerging Scholars program, and writes for the Everyday Sociology blog.