Medical and political anthropology, global health, humanitarianism, care,
theories of affect, ethnography, Eastern Europe, and theory from the peripheries

I am an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. My research interests sit at the intersections of anthropology, global health, affect theory, gender and sexuality studies, and Ukrainian studies. Through these intersections, I explore patient community-building, unintended consequences of global health programs, medical humanitarianism, and state-citizens relations.

I received my PhD in Anthropology (with a minor in East European studies) from Indiana University Bloomington in 2024.

As an international scholar whose research trajectory spanned multiple countries and continents, I am interested in thinking about positionality, situated knowledges, and the value of cross-disciplinary conversations.

This is my personal website. It includes updates on my research, collaborations, conference presentations, publications, teaching, and my non-academic writing.

Outside academia, I enjoy going to the movies, snowboarding, chilling by the pool, and hiking with my two precious dogs, Doxa and Habitus.