Current

• Postdoctoral Research Associate, NSF Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledges and Science (CBIKS), UMass Amherst

• Cohort Member, Jacob’s Pillow Curriculum in Motion™ Institute

• Co-Producer & Interdisciplinary Seminar Facilitator, The Open-Hearted MD

Experience

• Adjunct Professor, Tulane University (on campus; College-in-Prison Program); Bard Early College New Orleans (BECNO)

• Facilitator, Beaubourg Theatre (interdisciplinary arts workshops: Artist as Anthropologist, Manifestos, Altered States: Experimental Embodied Explorations & Altered States Collective)

• Manager of Programs Abroad, Museum of Jewish Heritage/Auschwitz Jewish Center, Poland

• Organizer, post-conflict healing initiatives in East Central Europe & Southeast Asia 

Works

Academic

• Article: "The Bookends: Defining the Boundaries of the Field"*

• Article: "Levity: Affect and Amusement in the Clinic"*

• Article: "Troubling Ends? An Exploration of 'End' of Life"*

• Book Review: Kanaka 'Oiwi Resistance to Settler Science at Mauna a Wakea by Iokepa Casumbal-Salazar (2025)*

Journalistic
artifact repatriation, museum exhibitions, graffiti politics, language resurgence, aesthetic beauty (The Economist); supersonic travel, brain donation (The Atlantic); urban photography (ArtAsiaPacific); arts initiatives, reproductive rights, historical memory (Pacific Standard); Jewish arts & culture (Tablet); food studies (Roads & Kingdoms); untangling colonialism (Paste); nostalgic reflections (Protocols); snark (VICE); hotel reviews (Travel Weekly); book reviews (WA Independent Review of Books); international news (The New York Times); travel guidebooks/articles, et al.

Support

• ByWater Institute: A Studio in the Woods Scholarly Residency (2024)

• USIEF Fulbright-Nehru Fellowship, India (2022-2023)

• Arts Letters & Numbers Artist Residency (2023)

• Mellon Graduate Fellowship in Community-Engaged Scholarship (2019-2021)

• Rotary Peace Fellowship / Certificate in Peace Studies & Conflict Resolution, Thailand (2014)

• Fulbright Fellowship, Poland (2011-2012)

Education

• PhD, Cultural Anthropology, Tulane University (2025)

• MA, Sociocultural Anthropology, Columbia University (2013)

• BS, Communication/Journalism & History, Florida International University (2007)

Practices

• Deep Listening® (Certified Facilitator)

• Non-Violent Communication

• community-engagement

• experimental ethnography

• movement and somatics, including dance, Radiant Body Yoga (RYT®), Contact Improv, et al. 

Curatorial

• Children of the Streets: Reminiscences of Jan Yoors (2021)

• Macro Meditations (2021)

• Q: On Waiting (2019)

• Mind Maps: Curated Journals 2004-2018 (2018)

• Wandering the World City: Jan Yoors’ New York Photographs, 1960s (2010)

• Przy Rondzie 6* 

Services: Editing, proofreading, fact-checking, application review, grant writing, project consultation, listening & brainstorming

Maps: Kraków, Poland; Dharamsala, India; New Orleans, LA

* in progress / forthcoming