Publications
Books
Futures after Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore. 2024. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Edited Collections
“Fieldwork Confessionals.” 2023. American Anthropologist 125(3): 623–72. (Co-edited with Ali Feser, Alix Johnson, Erin McFee, and Amy Leia McLachlan.)
“Vacancy.” 2022. Anthropological Quarterly 95(2): 241–474.
“Breathing Late Industrialism.” 2020. Engaging Science, Technology, and Society 6: 416–590. (Co-edited with Alison Kenner.)
Peer-Reviewed Articles
“The Little Things.” 2023. Part of a peer-reviewed collection called “Hundreds for Katie.” Eduardo Hazera, ed. Anthropology and Humanism 48(2): 401.
“Fieldwork Confessionals.” 2023. American Anthropologist 125(3): 623–8. (Co-authored with Ali Feser, Alix Johnson, Erin McFee, and Amy Leia McLachlan.)
“I know I shouldn't say this, but...” 2023. American Anthropologist 125(3): 633–7.
“Uncertainty in Motion: Rumors of a Proxy War in Late Industrial Baltimore.” 2023. Cultural Anthropology 38(3): 303–33.
“Vacancy: An Introduction.” 2022. Anthropological Quarterly 95(2): 241–76.
“Postindustrial Futures and the Edge of the Frontier.” 2022. Anthropological Quarterly 95(2): 277–310.
“Dissociation.” 2022. Part of a peer-reviewed forum called “The Vertiginous: Temporalities and Affects of Living in Vertigo.” Daniel M. Knight, Fran Markowitz, and Martin Demant Frederiksen, eds. Anthropological Theory Commons, June 3.
“Atmospheric Coalitions: Shifting the Middle in Late Industrial Baltimore.” 2020. Engaging Science, Technology, and Society 6: 462–85.
“Breathing Late Industrialism.” 2020. Engaging Science, Technology, and Society 6: 416–38. (Co-authored with Alison Kenner.)
“Unbelonging: The Politics of Address.” 2020. Part of a peer-reviewed forum called "Futile Political Gestures." Galina Stjepanovic, ed. Anthropological Theory Commons, October 16.
“Waste-to-Energy: Garbage Prospects and Subjunctive Politics in Late-industrial Baltimore.” 2019. American Ethnologist 46(3): 328–42.
- Winner of the Anthropology and Environment Society's Junior Scholar Award, 2019
- Selected by American Ethnologist for open-access reprint in Déjà Lu, 2021
- Selected by Wylie for curated collection on “Environmental Policy,” 2022
“‘It’s exhausting to create an event out of nothing.’ Slow Violence and the Manipulation of Time.” 2018. Cultural Anthropology 33(1): 142–71.
“Accountable Talk: ‘Real’ Conversations in Baltimore City Schools.” 2017. Anthropology and Education Quarterly 48(1): 77–97.
“‘…And That’s Why I Teach For America’: American Education Reform and the Role of Redemptive Stories.” 2016. Text & Talk 36(2): 111–31.
“Teach For All: Storytelling ‘Shared Solutions’ and Scaling Global Reform.” 2015. Education Policy Analysis Archives 23(45): 1–27.
Book Reviews
“The Sustainability Myth: Environmental Gentrification and the Politics of Justice by Melissa Checker.” 2021. Political and Legal Anthropology Review 44(2): 106–8.
“Define and Rule: Native as Political Identity by Mahmood Mamdani.” 2013. Anthropological Quarterly 86(3): 927–33.
Essays, Podcasts, and Public Scholarship
Author of “Curtis Bay Residents Deserve a Coal-free Future.” 2024. Op-ed for the Baltimore Sun, February 18.
Interviewed (by Fern Shen) for “After a Century of Industrial Accidents and Toxic Exposures, Curtis Bay Residents Say They’ve Had Enough.” 2022. Baltimore Brew, December 5.
Author of public and written testimony on the CSX coal terminal explosion. 2022. Baltimore City Council Investigatory Hearing, June 15. (Beginning at 56:30 minutes into linked recording.)
Guest (with Rasheeda Green) on “Geographies of Privilege.” 2021. Episode of Crossroads podcast, May 19.
Interviewed (by Kate Blackwood) for “Ahmann Co-edits Journal Issue on 'Late Industrialism.’” 2020. Cornell Chronicle, November 30.
Work featured on “Let it Burn.” 2020. Episode of Crossroads podcast, June 16.
Author of “Toxic Disavowal.” 2020. Somatosphere, January 20.
Interviewed (by Alize Arıcan) for “Features.” 2019. American Ethnologist, September 20.
Author of “America’s Post-industrial Futures.” 2018. Photo essay for Sapiens. November 28.
Interviewed (by Alexandra Vieux Frankel) for “This Was An Event.” 2018. Dialogues, Cultural Anthropology, June 19.
Guest (with David Giles and Elana Resnick) on “Episode 8.” 2018. Conversations in Anthropology podcast, February 11.
Author (with Vincent Ialenti) of “Trump’s Slogan: More About the ‘Make’ Than the ‘Great.’” 2017. Op Ed for Sapiens. April 25.
Author of “The Incinerator Does Not Exist: Sensory Engagement with Toxic Potentials.” 2017. Part of a series called “Sensory Engagements with a Toxic World.” Chisato Fukuda, ed. Second Spear, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, March 29.
Author of “On Not Being Seen.” 2016. Part of a series called “Ethnographer as Advocate.” Haley Bryant and Emily Cain, eds. Anthropology News. February 17.
Interviewed (by Diane Stopyra) for “The Great Garbage Fire Debate: Should We be Burning Our Trash into Energy?” 2017. Salon, January 2.
Author of “Curtis on the Bay: Failed Development and the Mythology of Trump.” 2016. Part of a series called “Crisis of Liberalism.” Dominic Boyer, ed. Hot Spots, Cultural Anthropology. November 30.
Recent recorded talks
“Time Bomb: Two Hundred Years of Toxic Disavowal in Late Industrial South Baltimore.” 2022. Johns Hopkins University, Department of Anthropology, December 6.
“Hope at the End of the World: Two Views from Late Industrial Baltimore.” 2022. University of Delaware, Department of Anthropology, October 27.
“How Waste Became Renewable in Baltimore: A Cautionary Tale.” 2022. Cornell University, Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future, May 9.
