2021-present   
University of Cologne, Akademischer Rat (international equivalent to Assistant Professor), Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology

2020-2021       
University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Child and Family Studies

2018-2020       
Miami University of Ohio, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology & Latin American, Latino/a and Caribbean Studies

2017-2018       
University of Cologne, Senior Researcher, Global South Studies Center

2016-2018      
University of Bonn, Lecturer, Department for the Anthropology of the Americas

2015-2016       
Yale University, Postdoctoral Associate, Program in Agrarian Studies

2005-2014       
University of Michigan, MA & PhD Student, Department of Anthropology

• Brazil
• Latin America
• Landless movements
• Land and property rights
• Dispossession
• Semiotics
• Racialization
• Social freedom
• Rural livelihoods
• Agroforestry
• Convivial conservation
• Distributive politics
• Cash transfers
• Financialization
• COVID-19
• Climate change
• Multispecies ethnography
• Human-environment interaction
• Political ecology
• Agrarian studies