Awards, Presentations, Student Reviews
Awards
Graduate Student Excellence Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (2018, 2020)
Research Assistantship, Graduate School, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee & Medical College of Wisconsin (2019-2020)
Doctoral Fellowship, Helen Bader Institute for Nonprofit Management, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (2019-2021)
Graduate Student Travel Award, Graduate School, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (2017, 2018, 2019)
Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, South Asia Summer Language Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2015)
Teaching Assistantship, Graduate School, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (2014-2015)
Presentations
Panel Organizer/Chair.
2019. Benevolence and Responsibility: The Pastoral Paradox in Contemporary Institutions of Care. Society for Psychological Anthropology Biennial Meeting, Santa Ana Pueblo, NM.
Paper Presenter.
2024. A Systematic Analysis of Tobacco Laws that Limit Local Authority in U.S. States. Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, Edinburgh, UK.
2023. E-cigarette Preemption Laws: Limiting Local Communities from Protecting Youth. Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, San Antonio, TX.
2019. The Currency of Hope: Exchanging Aspirations at the Front-line of US Homeless Care. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC.
2019. Compassionate Disconnect: The Paradox of Mental Health at a Shelter for Homeless Men. Society for Psychological Anthropology Biennial Meeting, Santa Ana Pueblo, NM.
2019. Compassionate Disconnect: The Paradox of Mental Health at a Shelter for Homeless Men. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Anthropology dept. Annual Student Colloquium, Milwaukee, WI.
2018. Crumbled Together and Torn Apart: Vicarious Trauma at the Front Line of Homeless Care. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Jose, CA.
2018. “Where I End and You Start”: The Ethical Limits of Good Care. American Ethnological Society Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA.
2018. The Micro-politics of Care: Social Work and the Management of Moral Responsibility. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Anthropology dept. Annual Student Colloquium, Milwaukee, WI.
2018. Examining Nonprofit Executive Director-Board Relations in Two Countries as they Relate to Perceptions of Board Effectiveness: Executive Director Perspectives. Co-presenters Douglas Ihrke and Michael Ford. Midwest Public Affairs Conference, Chicago, IL.
2017. Sharing Care: Relational Ethics in Care Giving and Receiving. Society for Psychological Anthropology Biennial Meeting, New Orleans, LA.
2016. Technologies/Care: Self/Other. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN.
2015. Which Justice? Whose Rationality?: Negotiations of Legitimacy in Post-Conflict Northern Uganda. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Anthropology dept. Annual Student Colloquium, Milwaukee, WI.
