His research and teaching interests revolve around the politics of labor and nature, biotechnology, animal life, working class history, and industrialization. His current book project, tentatively titled Porkopolis: An Ethnography of Standardized Life, is based on two years of ethnographic research in the workplaces and wake of some of the world’s largest “factory” hog farms and slaughterhouses. He is developing a second ethnographic research project on leather tanning, rural-urban connections, and the history of manual labor in the United States. Though not an applied anthropologist by training, he occasionally undertook community-directed side-projects over the course of his ethnographic fieldwork, and looks forward to learning from the many collaborations happening through the TCRC. He has also worked for many years as a community activist on issues ranging from food politics to labor justice.