Curriculum Vitae
Education
2008-2015
PhD in Anthropology, Columbia University (New York City, NY)
2006-2006
M.A. in Anthropology, University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN)
1999-2003
B.A. in Communication; Minor in Creative Writing, University of Utah (Salt Lake City, UT)
Employment
2024 –
Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.
2020 – 2023
Senior Lecturer and Research Fellow, Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg.
2019 – 2020
Lecturer in Anthropology, MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
2015 – 2018
Academy Scholar, Harvard University Academy for International and Area Studies.
2008 – 2015
Teaching Assistant, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University.
2004 – 2006
Teaching Assistant, Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota.
Awards
2019
Wenner-Gren Foundation Workshop Grant. Title: “Who gets the remainder? The ethics and politics of gleaning.” Co-organized with Amiel Bize
2018
Creative Nonfiction Award from the Society for Humanistic Anthropology, Honorable Mention. Title: “St. Xenia and the Gleaners of Leningrad”
2016
Creative Nonfiction Award from the Society for Humanistic Anthropology, Third Place. Title: “How Grades Had Been Gotten for Penguins and Money”
2010
Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant.
Service
2025 –
Current Anthropology Editorial Board Member
2024 –
GAD New Directions Prize Committee Member
2019 –
Soyuz Article Prize Committee Member