Academic background
Curriculum vitae
Selected highlights appear below. The full public CV is available as a PDF.
Download Full CV (PDF)Academic appointments
- 2020–presentLecturer (Continuing Appointment), Anthropology Department, University of California, San Diego.
- 2017–2020Lecturer, Anthropology Department, University of California, San Diego.
- 2015–2019Honorary Fellow, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh.
- 2013–2015Lecturer, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh (equivalent to Assistant Professor position in the American System).
- 2009–2013Lecturer, Anthropology Department, University of California, San Diego.
- 2006–2009Visiting Assistant Professor, Anthropology Department, Reed College.
Education
- 2009PhD. in Anthropology, University of California, San Diego.
- 2000M.A., in Anthropology, University of California, San Diego.
- 1997J.D., in Criminal Jurisprudence, University of San Diego, summa cum laude.
- 1992B.A., in Anthropology, University of California, San Diego.
Selected teaching
- The Anthropology of Artificial Intelligence (UCSD 2024)
- Anthropology of Religion (UCSD, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2023, 2024)
- Religion and Ecology: How Religion Matters in the Anthropocene (UCSD 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023)
- Language and Religion (UCSD 2017)
- Anthropology of Christianity (University of Edinburgh 2014)
- Person, Self, and Subject (Reed College, 2009)