cv/bio
postdoc
2025 - 2029 University of Oslo
UNRULY entanglements of sociomaterial change, knowledge and power in energy frontiers
postdoc
2024 - 2025 Taft Research Center @ University of Cincinnati
Worldmaking and Radical Worldbuilding
phd anthropology
2018 - 2024 University of Texas at Austin
dissertation Impermanent Basin: Felt Zones and Technologies of Ephemerality
book project: thoughtlessness: heat, tremor, breath. On the sensory politics of energy and evasions in the Permian Basin.
mfa poetry
2014 - 2017 University of Minnesota
thesis Majority Reef (Inside the Castle Press, 2020)
interests: listening, energy/env humanities, im/materialisms, time/temporality, affect, the ordinary, atmospherics, sensory/sound studies, elemental/chemical anthropology,
anti-ethnography/the nonrepresentational/experimental methods, poetics
Permian Basin; hemispheric Americas; American West