About Me

Background

Where I Started

I grew up on Cape Cod, Massachusetts: or, white suburbia and "tourist country."

Discovering anthropology was first a means of expanding my horizons to peoples and cultures different from my own, then as a way of making sense of local and global inequalities and how we might make the world a safer place for people to live in.

What I'm Doing

I'm on the Job Market!

I'm a social scientist who loves teaching as much as I am dedicated to applied work and social research in a variety of settings.

My research and teaching focuses on the politics of belonging and identity, of community wellbeing and human livelihoods. My research asks, “security, for whom?,” and investigates how people respond in attitude and policy under national crisis. I study how the state governs everyday life, specifically: civil-military relations, mobility and migration, xenophobia and nationalism, as well as the intersections of gender, ethnicity, and class.

Check out my Research page or my CV in the menu to learn more about my skills and what I'm doing!

Who I am.

I am also an artist as much as I am an academic. I am happiest when running, drawing, and baking, hosting crafternoons with friends and family, and bird-watching and hiking with my partner.

Outside of academia, I am passionate about bringing anthropology and basic human empathy into the real world, to use it in both practical and creative settings. Ethnographic film is one area I wish to explore this.

Checkout my Creativity page to see some of my projects and pastimes.