Select Academic Articles
“Decentering Death: The war on terror and the less-than-lethal paradigm.” American Anthropologist (early view), 2023.
“This is why we protect the rivers, This is how we protect the rivers.” Critical Times 6(2), 2023: 195-201.
Troubling Complicities: The anthropologist as (im)moral subject.” co-authored. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 13(2): 377-393.
“‘Concrete Soldiers’: T-walls and Coercive Landscaping in Iraq.” International Journal of Middle East Studies 54(2), 2022: 357-362.
“Trust without Confidence: Moving Medicine with Dirty Hands.” Colloquy in Cultural Anthropology. 2020. 35(2): 211-217.
“Tripartheid: How Sectarianism Became Internal to Being in Anbar, Iraq.” Political and Legal Anthropology Review. 2019. 42(1):125-141
Book Chapters and Op-Eds
“Note the Ghosts: Among the More-than-Living in Iraq.” In War-torn Ecologies, An-archic Fragments. ICIC Berlin Press. 2023, 85–103
“Military Burn Pits are not Just a Veteran Issue: Without Iraqis and Afghans, the PACT Act becomes an alibi for environmental injustice.” co-authored. Medium. Sept 21, 2022.
“What Displacement Teaches Us About Surviving Changed Climates.” POMEPS Studies 46: Environmental Politics in the Middle East and North Africa.
“On sieges, boundaries, and military creep.” Book Symposia for Waste Siege, by Sophia Stamatopoulou, HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 2021. 11(1): 354–356.
“When States Need Refugees.” Un-Settling Middle Eastern Refugees: Regimes of Exclusion and Inclusion in the Middle East, Europe, and North America. Berghahn Books. 2021, 25-40.
“Birth Defects and the Toxic Legacy of War in Iraq.” Middle East Report Issue 296: “Nature and Politics.” Sept 2020.
“The Incredible Simplicity of Anti-Imperialism.” American Anthropologist Public Anthropologies Blog. Feb 13, 2020.
“Concrete and Livability in Occupied Palestine.” Engagements, Anthropology and the Environment Blog. Sept 20, 2016.
Creative Ethnography
“The Explosion.” In Anthropology and Humanism 00(0): 1–2. 2023.
“Homelanding.” In Anthropology and Humanism. Second Prize Winner for Poetry in the Society for Humanistic Anthropology 2022 Writing Awards. January 3, 2023.
“Frozen Baby Story.” In “Flash Ethnography,” edited by Carole McGranahan and Nomi Stone. American Ethnologist Collection. Oct 26, 2020.
“Little Girl + Megaphone.” Post-Covid Fantasies Series in Pandemic Diaries, American Ethnologist blog. July 27, 2020.