I am the Osterweis Family Associate Professor of Anthropology at Bowdoin College. My research projects are united by a focus on the implications of Aboriginal Australian representations for the future of their communities. This site highlights my collaborative film and podcast productions, as well as my research projects, publications, and public scholarship.
Based on years of ethnographic fieldwork with Indigenous media organizations in the Kimberley region of Northwestern Australia, Dreaming Down the Track: Awakenings in Aboriginal Cinema (2025, University of Minnesota Press) traces the dynamic process of filmmaking as a critical mode of political transformation, as well as a social process through which Aboriginal futures are collectively imagined and called forth.
My research has been supported by grants from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, the Fulbright IIE US Scholar Program, the Lois Roth Endowment, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the American Council of Learned Societies.