Accompaniment, Trust, and La Colaborativa: An Ethnography of COVID-19 Vaccination in Chelsea, Massachusetts (2022)
A National Health Service on an “Island of Strangers:” An Ethnography of Migration and the NHS (2024-2025)
Spiritual Humanitarianism: Migrant Bodies and Moral Responsibility in the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the International Catholic Migration Commission (ICMC) (2025-2026)
Presentations
“Incommunicability and Responsibility: The NHS and Migrant Communities,” featured poster at the 11th Biennial Conference of the Society for Humanities, Social Science, and Medicine, UCSF/ UC Davis/ UC Berkeley, San Francisco, California, USA, April 2026.
“Incommunicability and Responsibility: The NHS and Migrant Communities,” featured paper at the annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, New Mexico, USA, March 2026.
“Incommunicability and Responsibility: The NHS and Migrant Communities” featured speaker at the Faith and Migration Research Symposium, Woolf Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge UK, February 2026.
“Incommunicability and Responsibility: The NHS and Migrant Communities” presentation at Multaka Oxford, University of Oxford, Oxford UK, February 2026.
“The Case for a Critical Medical Anthropology of COVID-19,” paper presentation at the Medical Anthropology Young Scholars annual conference in Tilburg, Netherlands, June 2025. Co-authored with Anile Tmava.
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