I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies and a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Global and Intercultural Studies at Miami University, Ohio. My research interests include materiality, waste management, nuclear energy, informal economies, urban infrastructure, postsocialism, EU integration, the Roma diaspora, and humor.
Based on forty months of fieldwork in Bulgaria conducted on city streets, in landfills, Roma neighborhoods, executive offices, and at the Ministry of the Environment, my dissertation examines the juncture of material waste management and racialization, specifically highlighting the intersection between physical garbage and the Roma minority, often considered “social trash” throughout Europe.
My research has been funded by the Woodrow Wilson Center, the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe, the Council for European Studies, Fulbright-Hays, the American Research Center in Sofia, and the Wenner-Gren Foundation.
Based on forty months of fieldwork in Bulgaria conducted on city streets, in landfills, Roma neighborhoods, executive offices, and at the Ministry of the Environment, my dissertation examines the juncture of material waste management and racialization, specifically highlighting the intersection between physical garbage and the Roma minority, often considered “social trash” throughout Europe.
My research has been funded by the Woodrow Wilson Center, the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe, the Council for European Studies, Fulbright-Hays, the American Research Center in Sofia, and the Wenner-Gren Foundation.