- Research Fellow, Department of Anthropology, McGill University
I'm a cultural anthropologist specializing in ethics, values, and religious communities. I use my training as an ethnographer to make sense of situations where people find themselves pulled between conflicting commitments. I've conducted extensive ethnographic research with American evangelicals who resist the polarizing impulses of today's politics. My current work, based in Montreal, Quebec, analyzes how moral values shape economic action in the social innovation sector, namely the transformation of heritage church buildings into community spaces.
Experience
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2023–presentResearch Fellow, McGill University, Department of Anthropology
Education
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2023University of Cambridge, Ph.D. Social Anthropology
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2018Université de Montréal, M.Sc. Anthropology
Publications
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2024Proselytising is not evangelism: epistemic virtue and religious suasion at a church in Nashville, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
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2024Au-delà des croyances littéralistes : repenser le croire évangélique d’une perspective socio-épistémologique, RELIER. Revue interdisciplinaire d’études religieuses
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2024Religious Suasion (special issue), Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
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2023Wellbeing and Happiness, The Cambridge Handbook for the Anthropology of Ethics
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