Lost People: Magic and the Legacy of Slavery in Madagascar.

I am Senior Research Scholar and Director of Programs for the Forum for Scholars and Publics at the Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University. A sociocultural anthropologist by training, I have worked in Madagascar, Nepal, and the United States conducting original research and facilitating multidisciplinary public engagement. My teaching, research and public engagement work has increasingly explored the relationship between place, sensory experience, archives, and the creation of individual and collective meaning. My recent publications draw on research conducted as part of a multi-sited collective of researchers exploring the everyday material manifestations of COVID-19. I am also a lead researcher on the "Activism, Music, and the Rosetta Reitz Archive", a project at Duke University that convenes a multidisciplinary group to researchers exploring what Reitz’s legacy can teach us about archival care, feminist entrepreneurship, the visibility of cultural labor and the politics of storytelling. My work has been funded by the Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, the National Science Foundation, Fulbright IIE, the Russell Sage Foundation, and various internal grants at Washington University in St. Louis and Duke University.