About

I am an anthropologist who conducts research with the professionals of southern Africa who are working to improve governance and livelihoods in their own countries.

I have published a book and several articles on Angolan development professionals working in an international good governance program and have recently begun a new project with Zambian planning and transportation officials.

One of my most recent publications is my new book, Implementing Inequality: The Invisible Labor of International Development. 

​A result of my research in Angola, this book explores the international development industry’s internal social dynamics and, in particular, how they unintentionally reproduce the global inequalities. ​

When I am not in Angola or Zambia, I am in Central New York, living in Syracuse with my husband and three children and teaching on the shores of Lake Ontario at SUNY Oswego. There, I currently serve as an Assistant Professor of anthropology.

​I  teach courses introducing students to cultural anthropology along with more advanced courses deepening students’ knowledge of medical anthropology and the anthropology of Africa.