Area of Interest:

Ethnicity, state, body & subject, power/knowledge, critical theory/cultural studies, visual anthropology, translocal ethnography (migration), Southeast Asia (Indonesia)

Research & Activities:

Entered the program in 1997.

Education: Middlebury College, BA 1995.

Research Interests: ethnicity, state, body & subject, power/knowledge, critical theory/cultural studies, visual anthropology, translocal ethnography (migration), Southeast Asia (Indonesia)

My dissertation project involves an ethnographic and historical study of migratory regions on the island of Sumbawa, Indonesia within the context of the state-sponsored Transmigration program.  This project examines how the collective identities of indigenous Sumbawanese and migrants from Bali have been formed and transformed through inter-group relations and state development practices.

I have also conducted research, writing and video production on homelessness in the United Kingdom, Speakers’ Corner in Hyde Park London, and the role of cars, consumerism, and contemporary environmentalism in the US.