I am a cultural anthropologist and assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology and Geography at Colorado State University. My research focuses on the relationship between aesthetics and politics and on youth and generational change in urban Africa.

Selected Publications:

(2021) Infinite Repertoire: On Dance and Urban Possibility in Postsocialist Guinea. The University of Chicago Press. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo88749814.html

(Forthcoming) “Deliberations in Dance: Affecting Publics and the Politics of Ethnicity in Guinea’s Nascent Democracy.” African Studies Review.

(2021) “The Revolution Lost: Generational Change and Urban Youth Logics in Conakry’s Dance-Music.” In Young People and Popular Culture in Africa, edited by Paul Ugor. New York: University of Rochester Press, African Studies Series.

(2019) “Performing Excess: Urban Ceremony and the Semiotics of Precarity in Guinea-Conakry.” Africa: The Journal of the International African Institute. 89 (4): 718-738.

(2018) “Occult Return, Grace, and Saabui: Practicing Transnational Kinship in Postsocialist Guinea.” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 24 (2): 1-18.

(2016) “Inalienable Performances, Mutable Heirlooms: Dance, Cultural Inheritance, and Political Transformation in the Republic of Guinea.” American Ethnologist 43(4): 650-662.