Anthropologist writing about infectious disease afterlives and disability worlds in Brazil. Postdoc @DukeGHI.
Durham, NC
Joined April 2018
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Beyond thrilled to share that I will be joining the University of Colorado Colorado Springs as Assistant Professor of Anthropology next fall! 🎉 1/3
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My assessment of the “Report” and its misrepresentation of anthropology in @chronicle … a mini 🧵
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Those of you who know me know how very much this means to me. There's so much I could say about these last 6+ years on the academic job market, and maybe sometime I will. 2/3
We are doomed. wapo.st/3HhGIEJ
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Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest is an escalation in U.S. repression against the Palestine movement. But the response to his case has exposed a dangerous trap—one that risks undermining the fight against repression rather than strengthening it. A thread: 🧵
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“Blanc’s dialectic of land and legitimacy suggests that in the Brazilian countryside, one’s sense of legitimacy was fundamentally tied to a particular relationship with land,” @Caiobarbo writes in a review of Jacob Blanc's recent book. shorturl.at/KjXnv
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This week, NACLA published a review by @Caiobarbo of the Prestes Column and original reporting on femicide in Colombia and from @javibonilla on the Panama Canal. Check out this week's newsletter as well to find out what's going on in the region. nacla.salsalabs.org/feb_07_2…
Really appreciative and awed by all the collective work that went into this.
Closing out #ReadPalestine Week 2024, @dukeasjp introduces Free Learning for a Free Palestine: A Palestine Liberation Education Starter Kit. Read more here: dukeforpalestine.org/2024/12…
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"Every anthropologist who has ever called for “decolonizing anthropology” (as well as everyone else) should be actively invested in using their platform... to call for a free Palestine and an end to the Israeli occupation, ongoing for 76 years."
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He carried a morbidly injured toddler around looking for the parents so the child wouldn't die alone. (He did anyway.) Maybe instead of turning this into "look what humanitarians our diverse faculty are... 1/2 medschool.duke.edu/blog/edi-…
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If I edited a volume on carnival in Latin America, who would be interested?
This volume is intended to introduce students and unfamiliar readers to the distinct carnival celebrations of different communities in Latin America. Chapters should not be overly theoretical. 4-5k
I was aware before that the lack of affordable childcare in this country (US) was awful, but living it is really something else.
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Assistant Professor of Afro-Hispanic Studies
Washington University in St. Louis - Danforth Campus: School of Arts & Sciences: Romance Languages and Literatures apply.interfolio.com/155197
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Very excited to dig into this new collection from @culanth - a counter-archive holding onto memories, footprints, reflections, and fieldnotes from this spring's protest encampments: culanth.org/fieldsights/seri…
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Does anyone here work in an anthropology dept that could use some books? i am ready to get rid of a lot of books i accumulated during grad school and would be happy to media mail them to a dept or someone who can use them!
What is our favorite anthro writing on the lasting impacts of ethnographic methods on the people/communities anthros study? What has helped you think about this in your own research?
I just can't stop thinking about how that guy really woke up and said, You know who I should use my writing skills to f*** over today? Disabled college students.
“A strange paradox: in his freshman year, my former student Caleb Hughes was required by Martin to read a book insisting that free society tolerates Nazi protests. A year after Caleb graduated, Martin had him arrested for pro-Palestinian protest.”
Great essay on how the “Palestine exception” is playing out locally.
thehill.com/opinion/educatio…
