I am a sociocultural anthropologist with expertise in migration, religion, affect, and psychological and medical anthropology in the contemporary United States. My research aims to illuminate the relationship between an individual’s feelings and beliefs and their daily lived encounter with structures of power.

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Towards this end, I have focused on two core research projects tracing the circulation of affect, emotion, and belief in U.S. society. The first project investigated how undocumented migrant experience in the U.S., marked by marginalization, invisibility, loneliness, and “feeling stuck,” encouraged evangelical religious experience and devout belonging.

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The second project, launched in Fall 2020, considers novel and existing forms of vaccine skepticism in the U.S. in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic and its aftermath. The project examines how experiences of medical harm, and feelings of medical and institutional distrust, produce novel health behaviors, political orientations, and religious solidarities.

I am currently Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Maine where I teach introductory and upper-level classes on anthropological theory, health and society, migration, and religion in the contemporary U.S. I hold an M.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University, a Master's in Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School, and a B.A. from Wesleyan University.