Education

• Ph.D., Anthropology, Columbia University (2016)
• M.Phil, Anthropology, Columbia University (2012)
• B.A., UC Berkeley, (2007)

Research Focus

Theories of subjectivity, cultural memory and the unconscious, the political, violence, language (translation), representation, economy and value, aesthetics, modernity, Afghanistan and the Islamic World, critical and social theory, psychoanalysis, literature, political economy, and archival histories.

Teaching

• Anth 120: The Literary and Ethnographic Imagination
• Anth 125B: Postmodernism(s)
• Anth 132: Psychological Anthropology
• Anth 210: Forces of Language
• Anth 210: Enlightenment, Radiant: Calamity