Curriculum Vitae
Education
2019-2014
PhD Candidate, Sociocultural Anthropology, University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, Michigan
Dissertation, “A House Divided: Land, Kinship, and Crisis in Post-Earthquake Kathmandu,” Tom Fricke (Chair), Matthew Hull, Stuart Kirsch, Jatin Dua, Lan Deng
2011-2014
PhD Precandidate, Sociocultural Anthropology, University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, Michigan
2006-2006
MFA, Fiction Writing, The New School. New York, New York
1991-2003
BA, Anthropology/Sociology, Carleton College. Northfield, Minnesota
Employment
2022-present
Postdoctoral Fellow, The Anthropology of Economic Experimentation, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Halle (Saale), Germany
2019-2021
Visiting Assistant Professor, Anthropology Field Group, Pitzer College. Claremont, California
Fellowships, Grants, Honours (selected)
2020
University of Michigan’s Louise Ann Williams Anthropology Distinguished Dissertation Award
2019
International Institute for Asian Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship (declined)
2015
Wenner Gren Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Fieldwork Grant
2014
National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant
2004
Fulbright U.S. Student Research/Study Award
Teaching
Instructor of Record
2019-2021
“Introduction to Anthropology,” “Disaster and Society.” “Money, Morality, and Crisis.” “Law and Culture.” Anthropology Field Group, Pitzer College. Claremont, California
2018
“Foreclosure: The Culture of Financial Collapse,” Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, Michigan
Graduate Student Instructor
2017-2019
“Introduction to Anthropology,” “Law and Culture,” “Exchange, Commodities, and Money,” Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, Michigan
Service
2022
Submission reviewer for Social Anthropology
2021
Submission reviewer for Critique of Anthropology
2019
Grant application reviewer for the National Science Foundation
2017-2019
Graduate Student Advisor for the University of Michigan Undergraduate Journal of Anthropology
2015
Submission reviewer for Focaal
2012-2014
Editorial Intern for Cultural Anthropology