Among his eight books are Mystery School in Hyperspace: A Cultural History of DMT (North Atlantic Books 2015), Global Tribe: Technology, Spirituality and Psytrance (Equinox 2012), Technomad: Global Raving Countercultures (Equinox 2009), and edited collections including Weekend Societies: Electronic Dance Music Festivals and Event-Cultures (Bloomsbury 2017), Victor Turner and Contemporary Cultural Performance (Berghahn 2008), and Rave Culture and Religion (Routledge 2004). He has been awarded fellowships in four countries, most recently in the Department of Social Science, University of Fribourg, Switzerland, as Senior Research Fellow on the Swiss National Science supported project “Burning Progeny: The European Efflorescence of Burning Man.” He is Executive Editor of Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture.