functions. A month before the book's release, New York Sun journalist Jacob Gershman reviewed My Freshman Year and correctly guessed the university and professor behind the pseudonyms. Gershman wrote, “Ms. Nathan, whether by choice or accident, also planted in her ethnographic study many clues about her identity." The book became the subject of a media frenzy. Small and Northern Arizona University admitted their connection to the book after a few days. My Freshman Year started debates about the ethics of "going undercover" in research. Some questioned Smart's career motives for writing the book. Using pen names in anthropology has several precedents, including Elenore Smith Bowen (Laura Bohannan) and Cesara Manda (Karla Poewe). Similar ethnographic studies of student life have precedents, the most well-known being by Michael Moffatt and the team of Dorothy C. Holland and Margaret A. Eisenhart. However, Small was the first anthropologist to use pseudonyms to protect her informants, while also raising the issue of secrecy and ethnographic ethics in the same book. Small noted that she consulted the American Anthropological Association's Code of Ethics before developing her study, one critic noted that her "covert ethnography" was in direct opposition to the professional code that calls for openness with participants. Small said the experience gave her more empathy for students and changed her approach to teaching. Homelessness In 2020, Small published The Man in the Dog Park: Coming Up Close to Homelessness with Cornell University Press. Her inspiration for the book was her ten-year relationship with Ross Moore, a disabled Vietnam veteran who experienced homelessness. Moore is a co-author of the book. Small writes, "As a society, we create the conditions for a slippery slope causing countless individuals to slide into homelessness, yet we disavow the results. This is the great delusion, really, that some win, some lose, but the laws, institutions, and policies we support (or fail to support) have little to do with it." Community service In 1993, Small developed a catalog so the Hopi Arts & Crafts Coop Guild could their crafts directly to consumers. Small founded Pipeline Northern Arizona University after reading that Arizona had the second highest high school dropout rate in the United States. Pipeline NAU is a partnership between the university, Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Northern Arizona, and Flagstaff Unified School District No. 1. It pairs seventh-grade students with an NAU faculty or staff member who serves as a mentor for