Dr. Heiman received her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.  She has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Zimbabwe and New Jersey.  Her current research focuses on middle class anxieties and suburban life amid contemporary economic shifts and neoliberal state policies.  Her research interests include habit formation and objects of class display, zoning and the suburban landscape, youth culture and family life, white flight urban-suburban migration, and racial politics of public school debates.  Her book, Rugged Entitlement: Driving After Class in a Suburban New Jersey Town, is forthcoming from the University of California Press.  She has published articles on the category of “Generation X,” class politics of sport-utility vehicles, and the need for a culturally grounded social psychology.  Her work has been supported through funds from the Spencer Foundation and National Science Foundation.  She will be on leave during the 2006-2007 academic year while being a Visiting Scholar at the School of American Research (Summer) and the Russell Sage Foundation (Fall-Spring).