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I am a cultural anthropologist specializing in youth cultures and participatory youth research. I hold a PhD in anthropology from the University of Queensland and a master’s degree in social anthropology from Oxford University. My recently published book, Belonging and Becoming in a Multicultural World: Refugee Youth and the Pursuit of Identity (Rutgers University Press 2020), examines racial identity among refugee youth in Australia.
My current engaged work includes my position as the Director of the Refugee Project for Stone Soup, children’s literary magazine. In this role, I collect writing and artwork by children living in refugee camps across the globe for publication and broader public dissemination, as well as teach ethnographically informed creative nonfiction writing workshops. I teach anthropology and ethnographic writing in both university and community-based settings.