Implementing Inequality

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. Ethnographic data elucidate how common bureaucratic practices obscure on-the ground work of implementation agents, rendering them an inferior class of professionals (reword) and frustrating their efforts.

Journal Articles

My journal articles investigate how institutional categories operating in development organizations formalize differential privilege within the industry, ultimately replicating many of the same global inequalities these institutions seek to combat. Among others, I have been published in: 
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• Anthropological Quarterly, 
• American Anthropologist, 
• Human Organization, and the 
• Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

These and more are expanded upon here.

Collections

I have edited two collections that apply critical and anthropological analysis to professional hierarchies in Africa broadly and to development work across contexts.
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These include a 2016 collection for Critical African Studies and a 2019 collection for Critical Policy Studies, which also features an article I wrote. More here.