Peer-Reviewed Publications:

• (2024) “Infrastructure Fieldnotes: Engaging the City through Reading, Research, and Representations.” Teaching and Learning Anthropology 7 (1). (Co-authored with former undergraduate students Alexandra Groth, Swasti Shah, Anissa Sterner, Abigail Francis, and Denali Graham)
• (2023) “Remoteness and Connection on a Congolese Humanitarian Radio Network.” Anthropological Quarterly 96 (4)” 711-737. [available upon request]
• (2019) “Being Real on Fake Instagram: Likes, Images, and Media Ideologies of Value.” Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 29 (3): 359-74. [ungated]
• (2016) “Encouraging Rebel Demobilization by Radio in Uganda and the D.R. Congo: The Case of Come Home Messaging.” African Studies Review, 59 (1): 33-55. [ungated]

Public Writing:

• Listening through Noise in Central Africa Anthropology News (6/1/25)
• Inside and Outside of the University Home/Field (
• WashU Leadership: Protect Our International Students, Faculty, and Staff (op-ed co-authored with Marlon Bailey, Seema Dahlheimer, Angela Miller, Aaron Neiman, Stephanie Shady, and Jean-Francois Trani) Student Life [Washington University] (3/25/25)
• A Letter from Suspended Faculty Against Genocide (op-ed, co-authored with Michael Allen, Megan Green, Bret Gustafson, Angela Miller, and Aaron Neiman) Student Life [Washington University] (8/28/24)
• Being @CulAnth: Social Media as Academic Practice (seven essays, all co-authored and co-edited with Breanna Escamilla, Adam Fleischmann, Kristin Gupta, Hannah Quinn, and Lachlan Summers) Fieldsights, Member Voices (12/12/23)
• The Ties (and Screens) That Bind Us: Anthropocinema and Convivial Digital Spaces (co-authored with Sarah Richardson and Robert Hildebrandt) Fieldsights, Member Voices (6/7/22)
• Against Class as Usual American Ethnologist website “Pandemic Diaries” feature (5/16/2020)
• Writing and Research in a Conflict Zone Anthropology News (2/17/17)
• ICC Justice and the Trial Narrative Warscapes (1/17/17)
• Dominic Ongwen and the Search for Justice Warscapes (3/2/16)
• Can Radios Stop the LRA in Congo? African Arguments (10/10/13)
• A Rebel’s Escape – An LRA Commander Tells His Story Justice in Conflict (7/31/13)
• Kony 2013 Guernica (3/4/13)

Interviews/Features (that I conducted):

• Teaching Ethnography in the Heart of Government. A pedagogical feature and interview with Adrienne Pine. Fieldsights, Teaching Tools (1/15/2020)
• “The Anthropologist as Con Artist.” Interview with Sasha Newell. Fieldsights (12/19/2019)
• “Making Violence Visible.” Interview with Samuel Mark Anderson. Fieldsights (8/13/2019)
• “Becoming Infrastructural.” Interview with Michael Degani. Fieldsights (10/25/2018)