Hi.

I'm a cultural and linguistic anthropologist with interests in mass media, political language and performance, publics and publicity, the social life of projects, nation branding, international intervention, and global governance in Macedonia, the Balkans, and the European Union.

I earned my Ph.D in anthropology from the University of Chicago.  I've taught anthropology at the University of Helsinki, the University of Virginia, Wake Forest University, the University of Chicago and Columbia College Chicago.  From 2023 to 2024, I was a Core Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies.

Currently, I'm working on two main things.  

The first thing is a genealogy of project making and the project form.  You can read more about it here.

The second thing is a book titled, "The Sovereignty Trap: Euro-Atlantic Integration and the Politics of Intervention in Macedonia." Drawing on my long-term research in Skopje, North Macedonia, it tries to understand why American and European efforts to support Macedonia's integration into Euro-Atlantic strucutres often produced the opposite effect.