about me
I am an anthropologist and human-environment geographer broadly interested in the ways that people live with water and infrastructure. I received my PhD in 2018 from Florida International University and from 2018 to 2023 was an assistant professor of anthropology and environmental studies at Wagner College in Staten Island, NY. In the summer of 2023, I moved to Chatham University where I am an assistant professor of sustainable communities and the director of the sustainability program. Prior to working in academia I was a Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
My current research looks at the ways the people who fish in urban waterways navigate novel terrains of risk as they seek to create new forms of commons.
“It is my hope that, when we think and write about infrastructure in North America (and anywhere) we don’t see it as abstract but as a neighbor, as a part of daily life, and as something that people might already have envisioned as existing differently. That we attend not just to its politics but also to its aesthetics, its audacity, and its existence in a multitude of forms which not only shape but also violate individual ideas of space, place, and belonging.”