Awards and Honors
2024 George A and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation Fellowship
2022 Jordan Schnitzer Prize in Social Science, Anthropology, and Folklore, Association for Jewish Studies, for Genetic Afterlives: Black Jewish Indigeneity in South Africa. Duke University Press (2020).
2022 Diana Forsythe Prize Honorable Mention, American Anthropological Association Committee for the Anthropology of Science Technology and Computing, the Society for the Anthropology of Work, and the General Anthropology Division, for Genetic Afterlives: Black Jewish Indigeneity in South Africa. Duke University Press (2020).
2015 American Anthropological Association General Anthropology Division Prize for Exemplary Cross-Field Scholarship for “Genetic Diaspora: Producing Knowledge of Genes and Jews in Rural South Africa.” Cultural Anthropology. 29.3: 552-574 (2014).
Publications
Book:
- Genetic Afterlives: Black Jewish Indigeneity in South Africa. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020.
Articles and Book Chapters:
- "After Race Classification: Grappling with South African Indigenous DNA in Practice" in Ordering the Human: The Global Spread of Racial Science, eds. Eram Alam, Dorothy Roberts, and Natalie Shibley, 2024. 242-267. New York: Columbia University Press.
- "Legislating Forensic Genetics in South Africa: Science, Justice, and the Occlusion of Race in Postapartheid DNA Databasing" in Law, Practice and Politics of Forensic DNA Profiling: Forensic Genetics and Their Technolegal Worlds, eds. Victor Toom, Amade M'charek, and Mattias Wienroth, 2023. 72-90. New York: Routledge.
- "Afterword: Data, Life, and Worlds in an Anthropology of Bioinformation" in Bioinformation: Worlds and Futures, eds. Silvia Posocco and EJ Gonzalez-Polledo, 2022. 183-188. New York: Routledge.
- “Forensics and Fortification in South African Self-Captivity.” History and Anthropology, 2019. 30.5: 521-526.
- Year in Review Essay: “Time and Relational Possibility: Cultural Anthropology in 2017.” American Anthropologist, 2018. 120.2: 305-327.
- “Engagements with Decolonization and Decoloniality in and at the Interfaces of STS: Introduction,” co-authored with Kristina Lyons and Juno Parreñas. Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, 2017. 3.1: 1-10.
- “Genetic Ancestry and Decolonizing Possibilities.” Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, 2017. 3.1:14-19.
- “Jewish Genetics.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Jewish Studies, edited by Naomi Seidman. New York: Oxford University Press. October 26, 2015.
- “Genetic Diaspora: Producing Knowledge of Genes and Jews in Rural South Africa.” Cultural Anthropology, 2014. 29.3: 552-574. (Awarded the 2015 American Anthropological Association General Anthropology Prize for Exemplary Cross-Field Scholarship; Reprinted 2016 in Déjá Lu. 4.1: 1)
- “African Indigenous Citizenship,” co-authored with Rachel Giraudo. The Routledge Handbook of Global Citizenship Studies, 2014. Edited by Engin F. Isin and Peter Nyers, 545-556. New York: Routledge.
- “Religion as Race, Recognition as Democracy: Lemba ‘Black Jews’ in South Africa.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2011. 637.1: 148-164.
Other Writing
- "South Africa's Lemba People: how they view their Jewishness challenges Zionist ideas that identity is linked to one homeland," The Conversation, April 30, 2024.
- "Land, People, and Palestine: Lessons from Jewish Genetics," Society for the Social Studies of Science Palestine Forum, April 19, 2024.