Areas of expertise:
Economic development, artisan and peasant economies, globalization, Latin America.
Education:
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Recent courses taught:
Introduction to Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology
Cultural Ecology
Latin America & the Caribbean Peoples & Cultures
Bolivia: Culture, Colonialism & Modernity
Linguistic Anthropology
Selected publications:
Fast, Easy, and In Cash: Artisan Hardship and Hope in the Global Economy (2015) with Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
“Risk-seeking Peasants, Excessive Artisans: Speculation in the Northern Andes” (2014) with Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld. Economic Anthropology 1:124-138.
“Cultural Anthropology: Global Transformations, Human Nature, Public Debates” (2014). Teaching Anthropology: SACC Notes 20:12-15.
“Peasants and Pirámides: Consumer Fantasies in the Colombian Andes” (2012). In Consumer Culture in Latin America. Anna Cristina Pertierra and John Sinclair, eds. New York: Palgrave MacMillan.
“Disappearing Act: Race and the Neo-Liberal State” (2006). In Nationalism’s Bloody Terrain: Racism, Class Inequality, and Politics of Recognition. George Baca, ed. New York: Berghahn Books.
“Inverting Development Discourse in Colombia: Transforming Andean Hearths” (2002). American Anthropologist 104:1110-1122.
College service and professional affiliations:
Anthropology Department Chair
Society for Economic Anthropology, Board Member
Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology
American Anthropological Association
Editor, Open Anthropology for the American Anthropological Association
