About

I am an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. As a sociocultural anthropologist, my scholarship brings together feminist and political economic approaches to critically understanding processes of mobility, violence/security and humanitarianism in the Americas, and more recently the borders of Europe. My book, Lives in Transit: Violence and Intimacy on the Migrant Journey chronicles the dangerous journeys of Central American migrants crossing Mexico and examines how economies of violence, intimacy and care develop along transit routes. Lives in Transit was selected as a 2017 winner of the UC Press International Competition in Public Anthropology and awarded the 2020 Robert B. Textor and Family Prize in Anticipatory Anthropology from the American Anthropological Association. My current research examines emerging transatlantic mobilities and migrants’ creative strategies of movement and solidarity. I am on sabbatical (2021-2022) and conducting research in Spain.

I teach courses on Cultural Anthropology, Race & Ethnicity, Gender & Sexuality, Migration, Ethnographic Methods, Anthropological Theory, Applied Anthropology and International Studies.