I am an anthropologist of the environment and science, working at the intersection of anthropology, environmental history, and STS. My research addresses experiences of everyday life, work, and knowledge in uncertain ecologies, the politics of environmental expertise, and the political ecology of conservation. I am drawn to watery places — like rivers, wetlands, marshes, urban water systems, and agricultural irrigation – and to practices of cultivation and seed-saving. I am also interested in how the study of relations between humans and other animals expands our understanding of the workings of power, society, and culture. I studied at the London School of Economics, where I obtained a BA in Social Anthropology, and I hold a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. I am currently a research professor in the Departments of Anthropology and Earth & Environment at Boston University, and I have been a fellow in the Agrarian Studies Program at Yale University, and taught anthropology at Amherst College.