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
• American Association of University Professors