Medical, political, and disaster anthropology; death, disease, and violence; revolution and (de)colonization; international medical aid; Bolivarianism; Haiti, Cuba, Venezuela

Ph.D. Rice University, Anthropology, 2014 projected

B.A. George Mason University, Anthropology and Global Affairs, 2009

2010-11 June-Aug, Dec-Jan, Port-au-Prince, Haiti (preliminary dissertation fieldwork). Research focus: Cuban medical aid in Haiti, urban political affiliations, contemporary conceptions of Haitian revolution, earthquake and cholera relief.

2010 October, Sukkur and Karachi, Pakistan (flood relief work with Global DIRT and International and Canadian Medical Assistance Teams). Relief focus: installation of water filtration system, organization of IDP (internally displaced persons) camp pharmacy.

2009 June-August, Kigali, Rwanda (summer research project). Research focus: illicit mineral (coltan) trade between DR Congo and Rwanda, female participation in illicit economies, violence and economic choice.

2005 September-November, Lima, Peru (volunteer with Cross-Cultural Solutions). Relief focus: assistance to physicians in physical therapy clinic

2010-11 Mellon Seminar “Mapping Death,” Rice University 

2010 Graduate Research Fellowship Program, National Science Foundation

2010 Summer Research Funds, Rice University, Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

2009 Research Experience for Undergraduates, National Science Foundation

2009 Outstanding Undergraduate Student, George Mason University, Anthropology and Global Affairs

2009 Summa Cum Laude, George Mason University

2011 “Living Death: Realms of Un-life in Contemporary Haiti.” Paper accepted for presentation at Mellon Seminar symposium, 23 April, Rice University.

2011 “Armed Peace, Vulnerable Power, and Consensual Rape: Contradictions and Complexities of Military Sex Regulations in Relief Work Haiti.” Paper accepted for presentation at Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality graduate symposium, 11 March, Rice University.

2010 “Revolutionary Politics and the Haitian Aid Identity.” Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, 17-21 November.

Spanish           Latin American, fluent spoken and written

Portuguese      Latin American, fluent spoken and written

Creole             Haitian, conversational

French             Continental, conversational

Arabic              Modern Standard, basic conversation and written