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I am a medical anthropologist working at the intersection of biomedical knowledge production, feminist theories of kinship and care, and decolonial temporalities. My work is grounded in long-term fieldwork in Tanzania and committed to an anthropology that is multimodal, politically engaged, and abolitionist at its core.

I am currently a postdoctoral fellow within the "Epidemic Traces" project, funded by the Norwegian Research Council and housed in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Oslo. I received a PhD in anthropology from Cornell University in December 2022. I received a joint MPH/MA in public health and anthropology from the University of Illinois at Chicago "Global Health and Anthropology" program in 2014. 

My current research, called "Containment and Flow," is about overlapping projects and logics of containment in a former leprosy quarantine camp in Rufiji, Tanzania. Working collaboratively with Anitha Tingira (Anthroplogy, U. of Dar es Salaam) and Nicholas Calvin Mwakatobe (freelance visual artist in Dar es Salaam), we follow what it means to inhabit, and remake, landscapes designed for the containment of disease.

My doctoral research-turned-book project, Inheriting Otherwise, is about the rising prioritization of sickle cell disease in Tanzania. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork from 2018-2020, it argues for a broader conceptualization of bodily inheritance both with and beyond genetic kinship.

I am committed to coalition building and mutual aid, both within and beyond academia. I co-founded (with Trishna Senapaty) the Abolitionist Anthropology Working Group, a mutually supportive community of anthropologists invested in diverse anti-carceral scholarly and social justice work. 

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