WRITING

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Books

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Futures after Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore. 2024. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Available at https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/F/bo215474590.html.​

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• Honorable Mention for the Society for Cultural Anthropology's Gregory Bateson Book Prize, 2025

• Honorable Mention for the Anthropology and Environment Society's Julian Steward Book Award, 2024

• Reviewed in American Ethnologist, Anthropology and Humanism, Anthropology South Africa, Choice, Ethnos, History and Anthropology (book forum), Journal for the Anthropology of North America, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Social Anthropology, World History Encyclopedia 

• Open-access​ version available here: https://bibliopen.org/9780226833606

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Edited Collections

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“Everyday and Emergent Ecofascisms.” Forthcoming in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. (Co-edited with Zeynep Oguz.)

 

“Fieldwork Confessionals.” 2023. American Anthropologist 125(3): 623–72. (Co-edited with Ali Feser, Alix Johnson, Erin McFee, and Amy Leia McLachlan.) Available at https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1111/(ISSN)1548-1433.fieldwork-confessionals.

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“Vacancy.” 2022. Anthropological Quarterly 95(2): 241–474. Available at https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/48034.

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“Breathing Late Industrialism.” 2020. Engaging Science, Technology, and Society 6: 416–590.​ (Co-edited with Alison Kenner.) Available at https://estsjournal.org/index.php/ests/issue/view/13.

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Peer-Reviewed Articles

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“Introduction: Everyday and Emergent Ecofascisms.” Forthcoming in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. (Co-authored with Zeynep Oguz.) Available at https://doi.org/10.1177/02637758251374876.

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“The Storm Before the Storm.” Forthcoming in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. (Co-authored with Devin Proctor.) Available at https://doi.org/10.1177/02637758251376757. 

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“Weaponizing Nature, Naturalizing Violence: Anthropologies of Ecofascism.” Forthcoming in American Anthropologist. (Co-authored with Mona Bhan, Alexandra Coțofană, Radhika Govindrajan, Julia Leser, Zeynep Oguz, Yuka Suzuki, and Noah Theriault.) 

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“Reading Fascists Reading Shakespeare: Literary Populism in White Power Fiction.” 2025. Public Culture 37(1): 15–37. (Co-authored with Devin Proctor.) Available at https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-11714141.

 

“The Little Things.” 2023. Part of a peer-reviewed collection called "Hundreds for Katie." Eduardo Hazera, ed. Anthropology & Humanism 48(2): 401. Available at http://doi.org/10.1111/anhu.12437.

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“Fieldwork Confessionals.” 2023. American Anthropologist 125(3): 623–8. (Co-authored with Ali Feser, Alix Johnson, Erin McFee, and Amy Leia McLachlan.) Available at https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/aman.13887.

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“I know I shouldn't say this, but...” 2023. American Anthropologist 125(3): 633–7. Available at https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/aman.13893.

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“Uncertainty in Motion: Rumors of a Proxy War in Late Industrial Baltimore.” 2023. Cultural Anthropology 38(3): 303–33. Available at https://journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca/article/view/5239.

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“Vacancy: An Introduction.” 2022. Anthropological Quarterly 95(2): 241–76. Available at https://muse.jhu.edu/article/857853/pdf.

 

“Postindustrial Futures and the Edge of the Frontier.” 2022. Anthropological Quarterly 95(2): 277–310. Available at https://muse.jhu.edu/article/857854/pdf.

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“Dissociation.” 2022. Part of a peer-reviewed forum called “The Vertiginous: Temporalities and Affects of Living in Vertigo.” Daniel M. Knight, Fran Markowitz, and Martin Demant Frederiksen, eds. Anthropological Theory Commons. https://www.at-commons.com/pub/dissociation/release/1.

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“Breathing Late Industrialism.” 2020. Engaging Science, Technology, and Society 6: 416–38. (Co-authored with Alison Kenner.) Available at https://estsjournal.org/index.php/ests/article/view/673.

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“Atmospheric Coalitions: Shifting the Middle in Late Industrial Baltimore.” 2020. Engaging Science, Technology, and Society 6: 462–85. Available at https://estsjournal.org/index.php/ests/article/view/421.

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“Unbelonging: The Politics of Address.” 2020. Part of a peer-reviewed forum called "Futile Political Gestures." Galina Stjepanovic, ed. Anthropological Theory Commons, October 16. Available at https://www.at-commons.com/pub/unbelonging-the-politics-of-address/release/1. 

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“Waste-to-Energy: Garbage Prospects and Subjunctive Politics in Late-industrial Baltimore.” 2019. American Ethnologist 46(3): 328–42. Available at https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/amet.12792. 

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• Winner of the Anthropology and Environment Society's Rappaport Prize, 2017

• Winner of the Anthropology and Environment Society's Junior Scholar Award, 2019

• Selected by American Ethnologist for open-access reprint in Déjà Lu, 2021

• Selected by Wiley for curated collection on "Environmental Policy," 2022

 

“‘It’s exhausting to create an event out of nothing.’ Slow Violence and the Manipulation of Time.” 2018. Cultural Anthropology 33(1): 142–71. Available at https://journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca/article/view/3489.

 

“Accountable Talk: ‘Real’ Conversations in Baltimore City Schools.” 2017. Anthropology and Education Quarterly 48(1): 77–97. Available at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aeq.12184/abstract.

 

“‘…And That’s Why I Teach For America’: American Education Reform and the Role of Redemptive Stories.” 2016. Text & Talk 36(2): 111–31. Available at https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/text.2016.36.issue-2/text-2016-0006/text-2016-0006.xml/.

 

“Teach For All: Storytelling ‘Shared Solutions’ and Scaling Global Reform.” 2015. Education Policy Analysis Archives 23(45): 1–27. Available at http://epaa.asu.edu/ojs/article/view/1784.

 

“Cultural Adaptation and Translation of Outreach Materials on Autism Spectrum Disorder.” 2015. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 45(8): 2329–36. With Roy R. Grinker, Christina Kang-Yi, Rinad Beidas, Adrienne Lagman, and David Mandel. Available at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25758819.

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Book Reviews

 

“Beware the Emerald City: Review of The Sustainability Myth: Environmental Gentrification and the Politics of Justice by Melissa Checker.” 2021. Political and Legal Anthropology Review 44(2): 106–8. Available at https://polarjournal.org/2021/01/03/beware-the-emerald-city/.

 

“Review of Define and Rule: Native as Political Identity by Mahmood Mamdani.” 2013. Anthropological Quarterly 86(3): 927–33. Available at http://www.jstor.org/stable/43652642?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents.

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Other Writing​​​

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“It Matters What Scales Tell Stories: Response to Futures after Progress Book Forum.” Forthcoming in History and Anthropology. 

 

“Security, Impunity, Ethnography: Response to Heath Pearson’s ‘The Sheepdog Who Cried Wolf: How Pastors, Prosecutors, and Police Officers are Building an Army.’” Forthcoming in Current Anthropology.

 

“The Fight Against Incineration is a Chance to Right Historic Wrongs.” 2024. Op-ed for the Baltimore Beat, June 26. https://baltimorebeat.com/op-ed-the-fight-against-incineration-is-a-chance-to-right-historic-wrongs/. (Co-authored with Anand Pandian.)

 

“Baltimore’s Toxic Legacies Have Reached a Breaking Point.” 2024. SAPIENS, April 23. https://www.sapiens.org/culture/baltimore-coal-oil-industries-legacies/.

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“Anthropology Faculty Statement Against the Interim Expressive Policy.” 2024. Op-ed for the Cornell Daily Sun, March 11. (Co-authored with departmental colleagues.) https://cornellsun.com/2024/03/11/guest-room-anthropology-faculty-statement-against-the-interim-expressive-activity-policy/.

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“Curtis Bay Residents Deserve a Coal-free Future.” 2024. Op-ed for the Baltimore Sun, February 18. https://www.baltimoresun.com/2024/02/18/curtis-bay-coal/.

 

Public testimony on the CSX coal terminal explosion. 2022. Baltimore City Council Investigatory Hearing, June 15. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCqYd2UpMbk (at 56:30).

 

“Toxic Disavowal.” 2020. Somatosphere, January 20. Available at http://somatosphere.net/2020/toxic-disavowal.html/.

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“America’s Post-industrial Futures.” 2018. Photo essay for Sapiens. November 28. Available at https://www.sapiens.org/culture/post-industrial-futures-america/.

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“Trump’s Slogan: More About the ‘Make’ Than the ‘Great.’” 2017. Op-ed for Sapiens, April 25. Available at http://www.sapiens.org/language/trump-economics-america-great/. With Vincent Ialenti.

 

“The Incinerator Does Not Exist: Sensory Engagement with Toxic Potentials.” 2017. Part of a series called “Sensory Engagements with a Toxic World.” Chisato Fukuda, ed. Second Spear, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, March 29. Available at http://medanthroquarterly.org/ 2017/03/29/the-incinerator-does-not-exist-sensory-engagement-with-toxic-potentials/.

 

“On Not Being Seen.” 2016. Part of a series called “Ethnographer as Advocate.” Haley Bryant and Emily Cain, eds. Anthropology News, February 17. Available at http://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2017/02/17/now-you-see-me-now-you-dont/.

 

“Curtis on the Bay: Failed Development and the Mythology of Trump.” 2016. Part of a series called “Crisis of Liberalism.” Dominic Boyer, ed. Hot Spots, Cultural Anthropology, November 30. Available at https://culanth.org/fieldsights/curtis-on-the-bay-failed-development-and-the-mythology-of-trump.

 

Contributor to community papers in Baltimore, Maryland, 2015–18.

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