I'm a cultural anthropologist who specializes in human rights, history and memory, political anthropology, youth cultural production, and material culture. My research in Southeastern Europe specifically focuses on how actors in Albania and the Western Balkans negotiate international human rights discourse and democratization in the present to confront the 20th century socialist past and establish futures they desire for themselves, their nation, and their region. In this project, I confront what it means to be human in an increasingly globalized world, faced with the challenging legacies of the past and the continued hold of neoliberalism in this post-Cold War moment. In addition to introductory and qualitative methods courses in cultural anthropology, I teach topics courses on history and memory, human rights, Eastern Europe, health and migration, and science fiction. As I tell each of my students in my courses at Lawrence, I am excited to learn with you!
