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SOCIOLOGIST · ETHNOGRAPHER · MAKER
Making, materials, and the earth.
I study craft, the senses, and the environmental costs of making. Through glass, from the hot shop to the quartz mines of Appalachia, I trace how materials shape bodies, labor, and planetary political economy.
Assistant Teaching Professor of Sociology, Northeastern University
“One of the most original ethnographers of the senses and materiality.”
Claudio E. Benzecry, Symbolic Interaction
The book
Fire Craft: Art, Body, and World among Glassblowers
Columbia University Press, 2025
A sensory ethnography of becoming a glassblower — of heat, breath, and the bodies that gather around molten glass in a New York hot shop.
“It is really a book about life, and about what might happen to life if it gets too hot.”
Tim Ingold, Glass Quarterly
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