University of Chicago, Anthropology, AB cum laude 1985, MA 1987, PhD with distinction 1996
Dissertation: “The Power of Experience: Agency and Identity in Kayabi Healing and Political Process in the Xingu Indigenous Park”
Sociocultural anthropology, personhood and agency, ritual and religion, autobiographical narrative; Amazonia, Brazil
“The Animals’ Revenge,” pp. 233-41 in Stephen Beckerman and Paul Valentine, eds., Revenge in the Cultures of Lowland South America (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2008)
“Forgetting the Dead, Remembering Enemies,” pp. 107-23 in Gordon F. M. Rakita, Jane E. Buikstra, Lane A. Beck and Sloan R. Williams, eds., Interacting with the Dead: Perspectives on Mortuary Archaeology for the New Millennium (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005)
“I Foresee My Life”: The Ritual Performance of Autobiography in an Amazonian Community (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005)
“The Culture-Conscious Brazilian Indian,” American Ethnologist 31 (2004): 60-75
“Creating a Continuity between Self and Other: First-Person Narration in an Amazonian Ritual Context,” Ethos 30 (2002): 158-75
“History and Forgetting in an Indigenous Amazonian Community,” Ethnohistory 47 (2001): 381-401