School of Social and Political Science

Background

My doctoral research explores how Norwegian folk high school education uses Lutheran rituals, service projects, and international study trips to create embodied value formations that inform how students view global relationships, the climate crisis, and the future. My work employs multimodal ethnographic methods that include film, storytelling, music, photography, and mixed media.

EDUCATION

2019- present: PhD Social Anthropology, The University of Edinburgh. Supervisors: Dr. Naomi Haynes (Social Anthropology) and Dr. Guy Puzey (Scandinavian Studies)

2016-2018: Master of Theological and Cultural Anthropology, Eastern University, St. Davids, PA. Supervisors: Dr. Eloise Meneses and Dr. Eduardo Ramirez

2007-2011: Bachelor of Arts, Communications Studies, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

TEACHING/ EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE

2023: Guest Lecturer, Anthropology and Environment, The University of Edinburgh. Art and Storytelling for Environmental Futures

2023: Teaching Assistant, Edinburgh Futures Institute, The University of Edinburgh. Religious Identity Through Story

2020- present: Tutor, Social Anthropology, The University of Edinburgh. Social Anthropology 1B: Anthropology Matters; People First: The Anthropology of Development (masters course, online); Anthropology and Environment (online); Climate Change and Social Life

2018-2019: Adjunct Professor, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA. American Diversity: Immigrant America

2017-2018: Assistant to the Director of the MATCA graduate program at Eastern University, St. Davids, PA   

2017-2018: Copy editor and peer reviewer for the On Knowing Humanity Journal

2014-2019: Political Science Teacher, Esperanza Charter Academy, Philadelphia, PA

GRANTS

January 2021: ERASMUS+ Traineeship Grant, European Commission

July 2020: Atelier: Creative Arts and Social Sciences Network postgraduate student grant, The University of Edinburgh

July 2017: Ethnography Through the Eyes of Faith graduate student summer fellowship, The John Templeton Foundation

CONFERENCES

May 2023 (forthcoming): Presenter, The Society for the Anthropology of Religion Biennial Conference 

May 2022: Presenter, The University of South-eastern Norway’s 9th Nordic Conference on Adult Education and Learning 

November 2020: Organizer, The University of Edinburgh’s Dismantling Oppressive Structures in Anthropology virtual conference

October 2018: Panelist, Princeton University’s Imagining Radical Futures graduate student conference