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 research interests include racism and racialization, waste, materiality, critical environmental politics, labor, linguistic anthropology, nuclear energy, infrastructural inequalities, activism, and humor.
Based on over three consecutive years of fieldwork in Bulgaria conducted on city streets, in landfills, Romani neighborhoods, executive offices, and at the Ministry of the Environment, my book manuscript examines the juncture of material waste management and racialization, specifically highlighting how environmental sustainability becomes racial practice.
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 research interests include racism and racialization, waste, materiality, critical environmental politics, labor, linguistic anthropology, nuclear energy, infrastructural inequalities, activism, and humor.
Based on over three consecutive years of fieldwork in Bulgaria conducted on city streets, in landfills, Romani neighborhoods, executive offices, and at the Ministry of the Environment, my book manuscript examines the juncture of material waste management and racialization, specifically highlighting how environmental sustainability becomes racial practice.
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).