Research Interests & Work in Progress

• capitalism, labor, value
• the state, para-states, and state effects
• violence
• Latin America, especially the Andean region
• historical anthropology

Teaching Interest & Responsibilities

• The Anthropology of Violence and Suffering
• Development, Inequality, and Social Change in Latin America
• The Anthropology of Law and Human Rights

Affiliations

• Councilor, American Ethnological Society
• Reviews Editor, Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology /li>

Awards & Grants

• “Collaborator,” Carnegie Corporation, “States at Regional Risk” (2007-2011), $483, 286, Bruce Knauft (P.I.)
• Postdoctoral Fellowship, Emory University (2006-2008)
• Postdoctoral Fellowship, Kellogg Institute, University of Notre Dame (2006-2007), declined
• Doctoral Research Award, Pacific Rim Foundation, University of California
• Doctoral Award, SSHRCC (2000-2002)

Publications

• Off-Centered States: Political Formation and Deformation in the Andes (in preparation, with David Nugent)
• “Neoliberal Reckoning: Ecuador’s Archive of Suffering,” in The Violence of Ambiguity: Social Change and Subject Making in Postneoliberal Latin America, Nancy Grey Postero and Mark Goodale (eds.). (forthcoming, 2011)
• ”Mestizo Mainstream: Reaffirmations of Natural Citizenship in Ecuador,” in Subalternity and Difference: Investigations from the North and the South, Gyanendra Pandey (ed.), Routledge (forthcoming, 2011).
• ”State by Proxy: Privatized Government in the Andes.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 52:2 (2010): 319-350.
• ”Histories in Red: Ways of Seeing Lynching in Ecuador.” American Ethnologist 36: 1 (2009): 20-39.