Recent Talks and Conference Presentations


Department of Anthropology, Wake Forest University. March 29, 2022.

“For Love and Liberation: Using Ethnography to Understand Cultures of Aid and Support Ethical Humanitarian Response.”


Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. Lily Family School of Philanthropy and Religious Studies. March 30, 2022.

“‘Love and Liberation:’ Samafal and Alternative Humanitarian Epistemologies.”


“Provincializing Humanitarianism,”

Humanitarian Salon 2.0, moderated by Kate Phillips-Barrasso, Vice President of Global Policy and Advocacy at Mercy Corps, and hosted by Eric Schwartz, Elizabeth Ferris, and Michael Barnett, at Refugees International.


“Malnutrition and Nutrition Interventions in Humanitarian Emergencies”

Icahn School of Medicine.


“Love, Liberation, and the Localization of Humanitarian Response.”

Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University.


Georgetown University, with Professor Lahra Smith.

“‘Building One’s Own House’: Ethiopian Women’s Irregular Migrations Out of Africa.”


Georgetown University.

“Medical Humanitarianism.”


American University.

“Conflicts in Ethiopia.”


“Border-crossing in the time of COVID: testing and quarantine as new sites of population control, or better access to care?”

Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association (ASA).


Coronavirus Multispecies Reading Group. Hosted by Eben Kirksey, Princeton University and Rachel Vaughn, UCLA.

“The social lives of camels, humans, and MERS-CoV in Ethiopia.”