BA, Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley (1992)
MA, Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz (1994)
PhD, Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz (1999)

Research Interests
My general teaching and research interests include: environmentalism and other social movements, political culture, postsocialist societies, critical heritage studies, and the anthropology of food. I have conducted ethnographic research in Hungary, Portugal, and the United States. In my book, Wild Capitalism: Environmental Activists and Post-socialist Political Ecology in Hungary (2006), I examine how the meanings of “civil society” and “environment” have changed as environmentalists encounter the political and ecological realities of life after state socialism.

In recent projects I investigated the environmental justice issues of Hungarian Roma (Gypsies) communities and farm-to-school food systems in the United States using the PhotoVoice research method.  I am writing a book with Prof. Aline Gubrium on participatory digital research methods for the social sciences.

For 2010-2013 I am the PI (with Prof. Jacqueline Urla) of a National Science Foundation international research and training program, “Cultural Heritage in European Societies and Spaces (CHESS)” (NSF OISE-0986575).

In Spring 2011, I will be spending my sabbatical in Portugal, as a visiting scholar in the Department of Anthropology at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (New University of Lisbon).