Area of Interest:

Transnational global justice social movement networks, globalization, youth activist culture, social organization of differences, identity processes, social practice theory

Research & Activities:

Entered the program in 1998.

Education: University of California, Santa Cruz, B.A. 1995.

My dissertation focuses on the ‘edge effects’ of alter-globalization summit-hopping in the post-Seattle period from 2000-2005. This research examines interactions across distinct activist contingents, and between activists and non-activists, at protests during international financial institutions’ summit meetings. I use an ethnographic approach that emphasizes the fields of action in which ‘global’ summit protest events are situated, including locally particular political conditions and histories, policing practices, and popular representations.

Selected Publications:

In Process      Edge Effects at Activist Convergences: Locally Made Figured Worlds of/among Transnational Global Justice Networks. In Transnography: Ethnography of Transnational Social Movements. Durham, NC: Duke University Press

Under Review Global Justice Protest Events and the Production of Knowledge about Differences. McGill Journal of Education. Montreal, Quebec.

2008        Social movements and collective identity: A decentered, dialogic view. Dorothy Holland and Gretchen Fox, coauthors. In Anthropological Quarterly. Washington, D.C.: George Washington University Institute for Ethnographic Research.

2006        Becoming an environmental justice activist. Kim Allen and Dorothy Holland, coauthors. In Environmental Justice and Environmentalism:  Contrary or Complementary. Phaedra C. Pezzullo and Ronald Sandler, eds. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

2004        Edge-Effects within/around Global Justice Movements. In Session, "Ethnography, Academics/Activists, and Social Movements in an Age of Embattled Modernity." American Anthropological Association 103rd Annual Meetings, San Francisco, CA November 17-21

2004        Life at the Edge of the Global Justice Movement: Challenges and Strategies for Research Among the Activists. In Session, "Doing Activism and Research: Views from Inside the Anti-Globalization Movement.” The Society for the Study of Social Problems 54th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA August 13-15

2003        Report from Cancun. Internationalist Newsletter. Volume 11, No. 2. Chapel Hill, NC: Internationalist Books.

2002        Activism These Days: Challenges in Tracing Global Coalescence. In Session, "Against Neoliberal Globalization: Towards New Ethnographic, Theoretical and Political Tools.” American Anthropological Association 101st Annual Meetings, New Orleans, LA November 20-24

2001        Collective Environmental Action From an Anthropological Perspective: Environmental Movements in the U.S.Environmental Protection Agency Conference for Science to Achieve Results Graduate Fellows, Washington, DC July 16

2000        Cultural Politics/Intimate Politics: Local Activism and the Production of Environmental Publics in the United States. In Session, "Meaning, Subjects, and Networks: Environmental Social Movements and the Anthropology of Activism." American Anthropological Association 99th Annual Meetings, San Francisco, CA November 15-19 [with Kim Allen and Dorothy Holland]

2000        Radicals and Good Environmentalists: What Counts as Appropriate Environmental Action? In Session, "Identity Dialogues and Contexts for Environmental Action." North American Interdisciplinary Conference on Environment and Community, Reno, NV, February 10-12

1999        From Radicals to Good Environmental Subjects: Public Contest and Personal Struggle Over Appropriate Environmental Action. In Session, "New Social Movements and the Local: Developing Environmental Identities and Structures for Social Change." American Anthropological Association 98th Annual Meetings, Chicago, IL, November 17-21