As a social scientist and a prehospital emergency responder, I work on research topics that blend political-legal and medical anthropology, such as lived experiences of security and the social production of injury. I engage ethnography as a method and a form of storytelling to understand the entanglements between the contemporary state and various modes of violence and wounding.
Follow the links below to read selected journal articles and book chapters.
Violence Exchange
"We All Have the Same Red Blood": Security Aesthetics and Rescue Ethics on the Arizona-Sonora Border
Writing in and from the Field
Time Lag
Injured by the Border: Security Buildup, Migrant Bodies, and Emergency Response in Southern Arizona
Called to “Ankle Alley”: Tactical Infrastructure, Migrant Injuries, and Emergency Medical Services on the US–Mexico Border
In/visible–In/secure: Optics of regulation and control
Crimecraft: Journalists, police, and news publics in an Argentine town
States of Camouflage
On and Off the Record: The Production of Legitimacy in an Argentine Border Town