Research Interests & Work in Progress

• Humanitarianism and international development
• Medical anthropology: HIV and AIDS, social stigma
• Kinship and childhood
• Botswana

Teaching Interest & Responsibilities

• Medical anthropology
• Humanitarianism, international development, and human rights

Affiliations

• American Anthropological Association, member. Section member in Society for Medical anthropology, Society for Cultural Anthropology, and American Ethnological Society
• African Studies Association, member
• Research Affiliate, Population Studies and Training Center, Brown University

Awards & Grants

• 2012 Social Science Research Council Book Fellowship Award
• 2009-2012 Postdoctoral Fellowship in Anthropology, Population Studies, and the International Humanities, Brown University
• 2006 Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, fieldwork grant
• 2005 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad grant
• 2005 Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Award

Publications

• 2012. Beyond the Blame Paradigm: Rethinking Witchcraft Gossip and Stigma around HIV-Positive Children in Southeastern Botswana. African Historical Review 44(1):53-79.
• 2009. The ‘Failures of Culture’: Christianity, Kinship, and Moral Discourses about Orphans during Botswana’s AIDS Crisis. Africa Today 56(1):23-43.