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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Edited Collections

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“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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“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/2022/06/03/dissociation/.

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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 http://www.at-commons.com/2020/10/16/unbelonging-the-politics-of-address/. 

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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 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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“Anthropology Faculty Statement Against the Interim Expressive Policy.” Op-ed for the Cornell Daily Sun, March 11. 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/.

 

Author of public and written 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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Interview with Alize Arıcan. 2019. Features, American Ethnologist, September 20. Available at https://americanethnologist.org/features/interviews/ae-interviews-chloe-ahmann.

 

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

 

Interview with Alexandra Vieux Frankel. 2018. Dialogues, Cultural Anthropology, June 19. Available at https://culanth.org/fieldsights/this-was-an-event-an-interview-with-chloe-ahmann.

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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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