I am a broadly trained sociocultural anthropologist with over 20 years of research experience, most of it in Bosnia and Herzegovina. I am currently a professor at the Institute for European Ethnology and co-director of the Stadtlabor for Multimodal Anthropology at Humboldt University in Berlin. Before moving to Germany, I was Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto Mississauga and Senior Researcher at the University of Toronto Ethnography Lab, where I maintain an affiliation. I have degrees in Modern European History from UC Santa Cruz (BA), German and European Studies from Georgetown University (MA) as well as Anthropology from the University of Chicago (MA, PhD). In addition to Toronto, I have taught and/or supervised undergraduate and graduate students at McMaster University, The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, The University of Bremen, and The University of Chicago.
I grew up in Southern California, and in a previous life was heavily involved in the DIY music scene up and down the West Coast of the United States. 2020 marked the 25th anniversary(!) of the coast-to-coast tour of my band, The Fisticuffs Bluff.