Education
Doctor of Philosophy in Sociocultural Anthropology
2025University of California, Berkeley
Unsettling forms: Animation, alienation, and violence in Berlin
— Co-advisors: Charles L. Briggs & Daniel Fisher;
Committee: Charles Hirschkind, Stefania Pandolfo & Niklaus Largier
Master of Arts in Social Sciences
2016University of Chicago
"All there is": On reconciliation and the poetics of a singing voice
— Advisor: Michael Silverstein
Bachelor of Arts in Sociology, with Distinction
2014University of Alberta
Fellowships & Grants
SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship
2025–2027Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
Berlin Program Postdoctoral Fellowship
2025–2026Berlin Program for Advanced German & European Studies,
Freie Universität Berlin
Wenner-Gren Post-PhD Research Grant
2025–2026The Wenner-Gren Foundation, New York
John Gumperz Graduate Student Essay Prize
2024Society of Linguistic Anthropology
One-Year Grant for Doctoral Candidates
2022–2023Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD)
Berkeley–Freie Universität Mobility Grant
2022Erasmus+
Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant
2021–2022The Wenner-Gren Foundation, New York
Regents' Fellowship
2017–2021University of California, Berkeley
SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship
2017–2020Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
Diebold Fellowship in Linguistic Anthropology
2017University of California, Berkeley
Master of Arts Tuition Scholarship (full)
2015–2016University of Chicago
Publications
Un-sitely mediations: A gestural approach to animated citationality
2024Semiotic Review 10
Post-secondary education's chronic problem (OR, it's about time.)
2022With A. Taylor. In Equity and Social Justice Education Perspectives in Canada, ed. A. Abdi. Canadian Scholars Press.
Parasites and post-truth climate
2019Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 30(1): 4–26
(De)constructing the "lazy Indian": An historical analysis of welfare reform in Canada
2019With R. Taylor-Neu, T. Friedel, A. Taylor & T. Kemble. Aboriginal Policy Journal 8(2): 65–87
"All there is": The reconciliatory poetics of a singing voice
2018American Anthropologist 120(1): 113–125
"Trying to square the circle": Research ethics and Canadian higher education
2018With A. Taylor & S. Butterwick. European Educational Research Journal
Presentations
Elon's Arm: Notes on the Reanimation of Gesture
2025American Anthropological Association Meeting, New Orleans
Panel: Gesture: Citations, Resuscitations, and Excitations
Peripheral Visions (invited)
2025Department of Anthropology, University of California, San Diego
Berlin is (not) Berlin: Reanimations of the City as Ethnographic "Site"
2023American Anthropological Association Meeting, Toronto
Panel: Fieldwork Technologies – Transitional Histories of Ethnographic Mediation
Un-sitely Mediations
2023Semiotic Anthropology Conference, Penn University
Unsettling the Score
2019American Anthropological Association / Canadian Anthropological Association Meeting, Vancouver
Panel: Othering Images, Images of the Other
A Parasite and Post-Truth Climate
2017American Anthropological Association Meeting, Washington D.C.
Panel: Reality
Teaching
Poetics of Crisis (Instructor)
Spring 2025Reading and Composition — University of California, Berkeley
Introduction to Media Studies (Discussion Leader)
Fall 2024University of California, Berkeley
Anthropology of Animation (Instructor)
Fall 2020Reading and Composition — University of California, Berkeley
Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology (Discussion Leader)
2019–2020University of California, Berkeley
Teaching Recognitions
Certificate of Teaching & Learning in Higher Education
2025University of California, Berkeley
Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award
2020University of California, Berkeley
Engagement
Contributing Editor, Visual & New Media Review
2019–presentSociety for Cultural Anthropology
Co-founder & Co-convener, Armchair Ethnography Working Group
2018–2025University of California, Berkeley
Co-convener, Anthropological Inquiry Working Group
2018–2021University of California, Berkeley
Co-convener, Linguistic Anthropology Working Group
2017–2019University of California, Berkeley
Other Writing
In/visible Routers: A Q&A with Ann-Christin Zuntz
2025Supplementals, Society for Cultural Anthropology
Digit-al Symptoms
2024Anthropology News, American Anthropological Association
Absorbing Images
2024Visual and New Media Review, Society for Cultural Anthropology
Shaka McGlotten on Dragging: Or, in the Drag of a Queer Life
2023CaMP Anthropology Blog
Digitally Mediated Intimacies: An Interview with Molly Hales
2021Supplementals, Society for Cultural Anthropology
Dust Response
2019Member Voices, Society for Cultural Anthropology
Visual Art & Film
Similar Rubble
2025Spectral Remix Exhibition, Merchant House Gallery, New Orleans. Video.
Album Cover Illustration for John Borra, Last Dance at The E Room
2025Animation GIF and Illustrations for Hard-Working Students Project
2022–2023University of British Columbia
Illustrations for Stephanie Glick, Public Scholars Initiative
2022University of British Columbia
Graphic Story for Hard-Working Students Project
2021University of British Columbia
Illustrations for Alberta Stories – Indigenous Stories
2020SSHRC Partnership Grant
Album Cover Illustrations for John Borra, Blue Wine
2019