I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). Before arriving at UAB, I was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where I worked with Professor H. Clark Barrett on the Geography of Philosophy Project. Prior to that, I completed my Ph.D. in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Connecticut, where I worked with Richard Sosis in the Evolution, Cognition and Culture Lab as well as Richard Wilson at the Human Rights Institute. 

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The central themes in my research are cooperation and conflict, which I explore by drawing from theories and methodologies in anthropology, cognitive science, human rights, and philosophy.