About Myself

I am the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Washington's Simpson Center for the Humanities. My teaching and research interests span a broad range of topics including humanitarianism, gender, economic life, ethics, and social welfare in the post-World War II world. My research on "private humanitarians" in the period of socialism connects multiple conceptual threads such as globalization, natural disasters, diaspora and migration, austerity economics, and transnational solidarity practices through historical as well as multi-sited ethnographic analysis.

I invite you to learn more about my research, teaching, and ongoing academic projects.
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