I am a cultural and semiotic anthropologist and an associate professor of anthropology at Colorado State University.

My work investigates the theoretical promise of corporeal action across multiple sites and intellectual registers. My first major project explored the relationship between aesthetics and politics in the Republic of Guinea through extended fieldwork among professional dancers and percussionists. My current project is an ethnographic study of rock climbers, their kinesthetic and linguistic practices, and the places they form relationships with. 

My book, Infinite Repertoire: On Dance and Urban Possibility in Postsocialist Guinea (U Chicago, 2021) won the de la Torre Bueno First Book Award from the Dance Studies Association in 2022. Other academic and popular articles have appeared in Current Anthropology, American Ethnologist, Hau, JRAI, African Studies Review, Critical African Studies, Africa: The Journal of the International African Institute, and Climbing Magazine.

My general approach to scholarship is that it is a practice of radical attention and curiosity. It is in that sprit that I engage research design, theory-making / theory-recognition, and teaching.