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Background

I am a cultural anthropologist interested in comparative political economy and the ways that welfare and growth regimes shape subjectivities, moralities, dependencies, and inequalities. My current research focuses on Norway's diverse and evolving social democracy. My first book,  (2026, University of Toronto Press), examines the everyday lives of the unemployed in Oslo to rethink the Nordic welfare model as a system of sociocultural and moral instruction. I am currently at work on a second book about the technological revolution remaking social support over the life-cycle in Norway.

My scholarship has appeared in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Anthropological Quarterly, Economic Anthropology, the Anthropology of Work Review, as well as edited volumes, including Sustainable Modernity: The Nordic Model and Beyond and Migration and Multiculturalism in Scandinavia. I also co-edited  (2020, Palgrave Macmillan). 

My research has been supported by the Fulbright Program (2010-2011, 2023-2024), the Josephine de Karman Fellowship Trust, the American-Scandinavian Foundation, the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, the Norwegian Centre for International Cooperation in Education, the Princeton Fellowship of Woodrow Wilson Scholars, and the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.

Education

PhD, Anthropology, Princeton University (2019)

Select Publications

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Courses Taught

ANTH 300: History of Anthropological Theories
ANTH 350: Cultural Aspects of Business

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