Areas of Interest: Environmental Humanities, Latin America, Sustainability, Water, Political Economy
ACADEMIC
APPOINTMENTS
2015- Assistant
Professor of Anthropology, Duke University, NC.
Co-Director, Global
Brazil Lab, Franklin Humanities Institute
2012-15 Assistant
Professor of Anthropology, Wheaton College, IL.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. The Graduate Center, City University
of New York, Anthropology.
B.A. Harvard College,
History. Graduated cum laude.
PUBLICATIONS
2015 The Cause of All Paraguayans? Defining and Defending Hydroelectric Sovereignty. Journal of Latin American and Caribbean
Anthropology 20:2, 242-263.
2013 Surveillance and State Violence in Stroessner's Paraguay: Itaipú Hydroelectric Dam, Archive of Terror. American Anthropologist 115:1, 44-57.
2010 Stimulating Consumption: Yerba Mate Myths, Markets, and Meanings from Conquest to Present. Comparative Studies in Society and History 52:1, 6-36.
2010 Stimulating Consumption: Yerba Mate Myths, Markets, and Meanings from Conquest to Present. Comparative Studies in Society and History 52:1, 6-36.
2008 Fine Dining: Race in Pre-Revolution Cuban Cookbooks. Latin American Research Review 43:2, 205-223.
Other Publications
2014 Sustainability:
Lessons from Latin America. Wheaton Magazine. Autumn.
2014 Arab Eyes and
Arab Voices: A Review. Books and Culture.
March/April: 22-23.
2013 Why the West Loves Sci-Fi and Fantasy: A Cultural Explanation. The Atlantic.
2012 A Tale of Two Quintessential Argentine Beverages: wine and yerba mate. Slate.
2012 Trouble on the Triple Frontier. Foreign Affairs.
2010 An Intimate Chat with The Figurine’s Kunle Afolayan and Ramsey Noah. MTV Iggy.
2010 Review of “The Figurine.” MTV Iggy.
2001 Cinderella Redux: Seeking True
Beauty with Latin America’s Most Popular Soap Opera. Regeneration Quarterly (April).
GRANTS/AWARDS
2012 Presidential Management Fellowship Finalist
2010 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship
2010 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship
2008 IIE Fulbright Dissertation
Research Grant
2008 Wenner-Gren Foundation
Dissertation Fieldwork Grant
2007 Foreign Language and Area
Studies Fellowship (intensive Guaraní), Summer
2004-08 CUNY Chancellor’s Fellowship
PRESENTATIONS
Invited Lectures
2015 "Power is Politics": Engineering Energy Sovereignties in the Anthropocene. Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), Duke University. January 30.
2014 “ZanaAfrica: Making a Difference as a
Business School Case Study.” Chicago Africa Business Group Guest Lecture,
University of Chicago Booth School of Business. March 5.
Conference Papers
2013 “Contested Accounts and Conspiracy Theories:
Protesting Energy Debt, Narrating the Paraguayan Nation” at the American
Ethnological Society/Association for Political and Legal Anthropology Joint
Spring Meeting, Chicago, April 11-13.
2012 “Speaking of Paraguay: The Legacy of the
Robertson brothers’ Letters from Paraguay”
at Rethinking Inheritance Conference, The New School for Social Research. April
28.
2011 “Managing Expectations: Spectacles of Corruption,
Rituals of Patronage” at the 110th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological
Association, Montreal, Nov. 15-20.
2011 “Journeys of Empire: the Robertson brothers’
Letters on Paraguay” at the Annual Meeting
of the Association of American Geographers, Seattle, April 12-16.
2010 “Paraguayan Nation-State Making: The Power
Plays of Recovering Hydroelectric Sovereignty” at “The State: Fixity and
Circulation” panel (co-organizer) at 109th Annual Meeting of the
American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, Nov. 17-21.
2010 “The Stakes of a City: Ciudad del Este as
Competing Territorial Strategies” at XXIX International Congress of the Latin
American Studies Association, Toronto, Oct.r 6-9.
2009 “El Estado Paraguayo Opaco: la Corrupción y
la Transparencia” at VIII Reunión de Antropología del Mercosur, Buenos Aires,
Sept. 28-Oct. 2.
2009 “Tentaciones Hidroeléctricas y los Juegos
del Poder: Interpretando el Estado Paraguayo en el Marco de Itaipú, como
Frontera Binacional” at VIII Reunión de Antropología del Mercosur, Buenos Aires,
Sept. 28-Oct. 2.
Other Presentations
2014 Panelist, Africa Business Forum at the
Emerging Markets Summit, University of Chicago Booth School of Business. April
12.
2014 Panelist, Wheaton College Science Symposium
“Nuclear Energy: Realizing the Promise.” March 26.
2013 “Sympathy for the Engineer,” presentation at
the Wheaton College Science Lunch Seminar, Oct. 8.
2011 “Stakes of a Triple Frontier City: the
Untold History of Ciudad del Este, Paraguay.” The New York Public Library’s
Research Study Rooms’ public lectures on History. New York. Jan. 21.
2009 Radio interview
with Democráticamente Online. Ciudad del Este, Paraguay. July 28.
2009 “Itaipú: The Power to Redefine Paraguay.”
Presentation to Emory Executive MBA International Trip Module. Asunción,
Paraguay. April 18.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Anthropological
Association, Member
American Friends of ZanaAfrica,
Chairwoman (2007-2015)
Association of American
Geographers, Member
Latin American Studies
Association, Member
New York Public Library, Wertheim
Study, Writer in Residence 2010
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