Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas. Her research explores processes of exclusion and dispossession with a special interest in the relationship between political instability and marginalized communities, including squatter settlements, displaced people, refugees, asylum seekers and recently emancipated slave populations. Related research interests include land, law and the environment; moral economy; anthropology and ethics; and the ethnographic research methodology of transient, illegal and hard-to-follow populations. Her work has appeared in diverse journals, including Journal of Clinical Psychology and Journal of the Center for Nepal and Asian Studies.