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Assistant Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis
University of California, Berkeley,
Socio-Cultural Anthropology, Ph.D. 2002; M.A. 1998
Brown University, Modern Culture & Media and
Middle Eastern Studies, B.A. 1995
Research Interests
Culture and economy; cities and globalization; financial markets; technology and cities; science and technology studies; social theory
Selected Works
"Markets and Machines: Work in the Technological Sensoryscapes of Finance," American Quarterly 58(3): pp. 815-837, September 2006.
Out of the Pits: Trading and Technology from Chicago to London. (University of Chicago Press, 2006)
"The Discipline of Speculators," Aihwa Ong and Stephen Collier eds. Global Assemblages: Technology, Politics, and Ethics as Anthropological Problems. pp. 253-269, (New York: Blackwell, 2005)
"The Productive Life of Risk" Cultural Anthropology.19(3): 365-391, August 2004.
"Time, Space, and Technology in Financial Networks," Manuel Castells ed. The Network Society: A Cross-cultural Perspective. pp. 197-213, (Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2004)
"Ambiguous Numbers: Trading Technologies and Interpretation in Financial Markets," Manuel Castells ed. American Ethnologist. 30(2): 258-272, May 2003. A revised version reprinted in Frontiers of Capital, Melissa Fisher and Greg Downey eds., (Durham: Duke University Press, Forthcoming 2006).
Fellowships/Honors
National Science Foundation Research Grant for Neuroeconomics: From
Synapse to Society 2006-2008
International Center for Advanced Study, New York University fellow
2004-2005.
Social Science Research Council, Dissertation Fellow, 2000-2001