(PhD University of New Mexico 1995; Director, Environmental Studies Program in the College, Senior Lecturer in Anthropology) Archaeology, method and theory, analytical methods, ethnohistory, colonialism, demography, landscape studies; Western North America, South Asia.
(PhD University of Pennsylvania, 2010; Mellon Postdoctoral Instructor) Linguistic Anthropology, anthropology of media (theories of film realism, reception studies), brands and counterfeiting, youth culture, gender; South Asia, Tamil Nadu, India.