I am a Lecturer in Social Anthropology in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Reading. My research looks at the politics and aesthetics of material culture in Mexico and the United Kingdom, especially the topics of art production, cultural tourism and religious heritage. I completed my PhD at the London School of Economics in 2012, after which I held a postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of Oslo and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship at the University of Kent, as well as visiting teaching positions at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and the University of Cambridge.
Experience
2019–present
Lecturer in Social Anthropology, University of Reading
2018–2019
Sessional Lecturer/ Research support officer, University of Cambridge
2016–2018
Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Kent
2013–2015
Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Oslo
2012–2013
Sessional lecturer, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Education
2012
London School of Economics, PhD Social Anthropology
2006
London School of Economics, MSc Social Anthropology
2004
University of Warwick, MA Globalisation and Development Studies
2002
BA Social Cultural Anthropology w/ Minor in Latin American Studies, University of Calgary
Publications
2023
'Writing Practices' and Writing 'Practices': observation and struggle in fieldnotes about artisanal work., Encountering Craft Methodological Approaches from Anthropology, Art History, and Design
2021
Participatory Research in Mesoamerica and Data Protection in Europe (and elsewhere), Annals of Anthropological Practice
2020
The Politics of Craft and Working Without Skill, Craft Is Political: Economic, social and technological Contexts
2019
The Value of Aesthetics: Oaxacan woodcarvers in Global Economies of Culture, University of Texas Press
2018
“Making” Hierarchies of Labour in Mexican Artisanal Workshops, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
2016
The Art of Indigeneity: aesthetics and competition in Mexican economies of culture., Ethnos
2016
Who Authors Crafts? Producing woodcarvings and authorship in Oaxaca, Critical Craft: Technology, Globalization and Capitalism
2015
The Allure of Art and Intellectual Property: artisans and industrial replicas in Mexican cultural economies, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
2015
One Image, Two Stories: Ethnographic and Touristic Photography and the Practice of Craft in Mexico, Visual Anthropology
Grants and Contracts
2022
British Academy Innovation Fellowship - Route A
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PI
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British Academy
2016
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Research Grant (Horizon 2020), European Commission
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PI
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European Commission
2013
University of Oslo Writing Fellowship in Anthropology
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PI
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University of Oslo
2009
LSE Research Studentship
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PI
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London School of Economics
2008
Emslie Horniman Fund for Ethnographic Research, Royal Anthropological Institute