I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. I am also the founder/director of the Infrastructural Inequalities Research Group Lab.
My book, Refusing Sustainability: Race and Environmentalism in a Changing Europe, is forthcoming (July 2025) with Stanford University Press.
Research interests include: racism and racialization, waste, materiality, critical environmental politics, labor, linguistic anthropology, nuclear energy, rivers, infrastructural inequalities, activism, and humor.
My research has been funded by the School for Advanced Research,
Woodrow Wilson Center, Council for European Studies, Fulbright-Hays, American Research Center in Sofia, Wenner-Gren Foundation, U.S. State Department, Hellman Fellows Program, and the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI).
My book, Refusing Sustainability: Race and Environmentalism in a Changing Europe, is forthcoming (July 2025) with Stanford University Press.
Research interests include: racism and racialization, waste, materiality, critical environmental politics, labor, linguistic anthropology, nuclear energy, rivers, infrastructural inequalities, activism, and humor.
My research has been funded by the School for Advanced Research,
Woodrow Wilson Center, Council for European Studies, Fulbright-Hays, American Research Center in Sofia, Wenner-Gren Foundation, U.S. State Department, Hellman Fellows Program, and the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI).