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Assistant Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, Environmental Studies
Ph.D. 2005(Anthropology and Environmental Studies), Yale University; M.E.S. 1998 (Environmental Studies), Yale University; B.A. 1992 (History), Carleton College.
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Personal Homepage: http://homepages.nyu.edu/~ar131/
Research Interests: My research explores the political and cultural dimensions of sustainability in cities. Through ethnographic analyses of urban environmental improvement initiatives, I study how place-based affinities, contested histories, and ideologies of belonging develop in struggles over the form, content, and quality of urban environmental space. Through this work, I aim to understand connections between urban power relations and ideas of nature.
Affiliations: Associate Editor, Himalaya
Executive Committee, Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
Member, American Anthropological Association
Board of Advisors, Aquaya (2005)
Fellowships/Honors: The Golden Dozen Teaching Award, New York University College of Arts and Sciences, 2008.
The Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship, awarded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, 2007.
New York University Research Challenge Fund Grant, University Office of Sponsored Programs, 2006.
United States Environmental Protection Agency Science to Achieve Results Fellowship, 2000-2003.
Selected Works:
Under Review. Reigning the River: Urban Ecologies and Political Transformation in Kathmandu. Duke University Press.
Forthcoming. “When is Housing an Environmental Problem? Reforming Informality in Kathmandu.” Current Anthropology.
In press. “Marking Remembrance: Nation and Ecology in Two Riverbank Pillars in Kathmandu.” In Walkowitz, Daniel and Lisa Maya Knauer (eds). Narrating the Nation in Public Spaces: Memory, Race, and Empire. Duke University Press.
Forthcoming. “Restoration and Revival: Remembering the Bagmati Civilization,” In Guneratne, Arjun (ed). Symbolic Ecologies: Nature and Society in the Himalaya. Oxford.
2008. “Fluid City, Solid State: Urban Environmental Territory in a State of Emergency.” City and Society 20(1). PDF
2008. “The Rural in the Urban: Human Settlements, River Territories and a Contingent State in Kathmandu.” In Social Sciences in a Multicultural World: Proceedings of the International Conference Held on 11-13 December 2006, Kathmandu. SASON/NCCR (Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research): Kathmandu. Pp. 367-374.
2008. “The Concept of Human Agency in Contemporary Conservation and Development Discourses,” with Michael R. Dove, Andrew Mathews, Jonathan Padwe, and Keely Maxwell. In McCay, Bonnie, Susan Lees, and Paige West (eds). Against the Grain: The Vayda Tradition in Human Ecology and Ecological Anthropology. Rowan and Littlefield.
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