Degrees

• MS in Sociology, Brigham Young University-Provo, 2025.
• BS in Sociology, Brigham Young University-Provo, 2022.

Fields of Study

Social Movements; Culture; Computational Methods; Race, Class, and Labor; Sociological Theory; Collective Action; Stratification and Inequality

Publications

• Wood, Michael Lee and Travis Ashby. 2025. “Cultural Power via Contaminating Dualities.” Poetics 110 (1).
• Ashby, Travis, Omar Lizardo, Dustin S. Stoltz and Michael L. Wood. 2023. “The Raw and the (Over) Cooked: States are Physical Qualities.” Metaphor and the Social World 14(1):22 – 42.

Awards & Grants

• 2024. Professional Presentation Award, Graduate Student Society, Brigham Young University.
• 2024. Graduate Student Conference Travel Grant, Department of Sociology, Brigham Young University.
• 2023. Garner Research Fellowship Award, “Race as a Value Sphere: Thinking with Weber and Du Bois,” Department of Sociology, Brigham Young University. Faculty Mentor: Michael Lee Wood, Ph.D.

Conference Presentations

• 2024. “Meaning Less: The Curious Case of Plasma Donation.” Presented at the November 2024 Annual Meeting of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) in Washington, D.C. (with Sam Norton and Curtis Child). 
• 2024. “Cultural Power via Contaminating Dualities.” Presented at the August 2024 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association in Montréal, Canada (with Michael Lee Wood). 
• 2024. “Globalization in the Middle: International Student Strategies at a Mid-Tier University.” Presented at the August 2024 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association in Montréal, Canada (with Jonathan Jarvis).
• 2023. “Race as a Value Sphere: Thinking with Weber and Du Bois.” Presented at the August 2023 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association in Philadelphia, PA (with Michael Lee Wood, Omar Lizardo, and Dustin Stoltz).