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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
Refereed Articles
2015    The Cause of All Paraguayans? Defining and Defending Hydroelectric Sovereignty. Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology 20:2, 242-263.
 

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
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    “All That Is Water: Engineering Energy Sovereignties and Electricity Nationalities” presented at the 112th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago. Nov. 20-24.

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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