Postdoctoral Research and Teaching Associate I am a sociocultural anthropologist of religion, particularly interested in the theological inspirations and political subjectivities of Orthodox Christians in Greece. Across the scales of my research, I highlight how theology is actually crucial to understanding not only religious practice but also alternative modes of self and community cultivation within a body politic. I am interested in how anthropology and theology speak back to one another and can be used to promote a more nuanced, narrative-driven, and empathetic approach to representing people’s social worlds. My first book project, based on 16 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Athens, explores this intersection between theology and anthropology through a focus on the Church of Greece's religious humanitarianism and the politics of care. I argue that pious women and priests continued their care work, what I call “liturgical care,” because it was how they made themselves into both good Athenian citizens and good Orthodox Christians, and it bore important consequences for the boundaries of their communities. I bring the interdisciplinarity of my work directly into my classroom at UGA, where I teach Introduction to Religious Thought, Anthropology of Religion, and Theologically Engaged Anthropology Education Education: PhD, Sociocultural Anthropology, Boston University, 2025 MA, Southeast European Studies, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 2018 BA, Sociology & Anthropology, Washington and Lee University, 2016
