Selected Writing

On the Possibilities of Open Grief: Mourning, Affect, Attachment.

Cultural Anthropology. 35(1): 40–47 (2020)

Afterwar Work for Life: “Care” in Veteran Families

War and Health Catherine Lutz and Andrea Mazzarino, ed.s, New York University Press (2019)

US Military Burn Pits and the Politics of Health

With Kenneth MacLeish, Medical Anthropology Quarterly blog (2018)

Collateral Afterworlds: An Introduction

with Julie Livingston, Social Text. 35(130) (2017)

The Relativity of Toxicity

anthro[dendum] (2016)

Attachments of Life and Death: Heteronational Masculinity, Genital Injury, and the Soldier’s Body

Living and Dying in the Contemporary World: A Compendium, Veena Das and Clara Han, eds., University of California Press (2015)

After War: The weight of life at Walter Reed

Duke University Press (2016)

*Honorable mention for the Gregory Bateson Book Prize awarded by the Society for Cultural Anthropology.

Critical Military Studies, Queer Theory, and the Possibilities of Critique: the case of suicide and family caregiving in the U.S. military.

Critical Military Studies. 1(1): 1-15 (2014)

*Journal prize for best essay by an emerging scholar.

Life Support

with Nick Dupree, Cabinet of Commonplaces at Somatosphere.org (2013)