Research Interests

Death, Slow Violence, Illness, Toxicity, Accidentality, Mourning, Genocide, War, Disaster, Displacement, Slavery, Poverty

Anthropocentrism, Life/Nonlife, Climate Change, Human-Animal Relations, Landscape History, Multispecies Approaches, Political Ecology, Resource Extraction

Medical Anthropology, Human Evolution, Brain Evolution, Human Osteology, The Forensic Corpse, Mortuary Practices, Epidemiology, Mind and Psyche

Empire, Mission History, Frontiers, Exploration, Settler Colonialism, Colonial Rule, Postcoloniality

Ethnicity, Indigeneity, Gender, Disability, Queer Theory, Race, Class, Caste, Natures, Value

Economics, Economic Anthropology, Labor, Land, Risk, Debt, Consumption, Development, Finance, Agriculture, Entrepreneurialism

Anthropocene, Environment, Political Ecology, Climate Change, Resource Extraction, Landscape history

Human Rights, Property, Legal Regimes, Sovereignty, Citizenship, Law in Practice, Policing, Surveillance, Crime, Restitutions

Historical Anthropology, Archives, Documentation, Historical Archeology, Remains and Ruin, Museum Anthropology

Globalization, Migration, Pastoralism, Sedentism, Seas and Littorals, Transport and Travel, Refugees, Nomadism, Rhythms and Flows, Diaspora

Religion, Religion and Media, The Sacred, Secularism, Gifts, Ordinary Ethics, Humanitarianism, Mediation, After Conflict, Philosophy

Magic, Ritual, Theater, Religion, Climate Change, Simulation, Rhetoric, Play, Protest and Dissent, Sacrifice, Militaries, Publics

Cities, Built Environment, Housing, Infrastructure, Urbanism, Pre-Urban Spaces, Rural, Atmosphere, Borders, The Home, Region Making, Camps and Prisons

Medical Anthropology, Anthropology of Science, Popularization of Science, Forensic Science, Calculation and Measure

Evidence, Literature and Translation, Materiality, Semiotics, Museums, Signed Languages, Interaction, Linguistic Anthropology

Anthropocene, Governance, Nationalism, Neo-Liberalism, State in Society, Political Economy, Economy, Development, Capitalism, Revolution, Populism, Democracy

Aesthetics and Politics, Media and Technology, Photography, Sound Studies, Art and Archeology, Deaf Worlds, The Sonic Past