An anthropologist of Europe trained at the University of Oxford, I do research in Istria, Croatia with winemakers and business owners to learn about their lives as they adapt to the European Union's governance regimes and post-capitalism. I am interested in the issues that shape their daily business and personal lives, and how they have come to understand their role in developing and governing their local market. Most recently, my main point of focus has been their economic values, and how those play out in everyday contexts, and especially how those values are challenged by (post-)capitalist market realities. This is explored in my book project entitled, The Art of Getting by in Istrian Winemaking, which is fully drafted.

I have published on local resistance to governance reforms around small business taxation systems, the value of favors in farming life, two introductions to anthropology of tax volumes, urban gardening, and solidarity networks in farming. I also researched alternative food procurement and distribution networks in urban Europe on an ERC project at Leiden University and the informal economy around the organic rose oil sector in Bulgaria at the Catholic University of Leuven.

I have just completed an edited volume with Johanna Mugler and Miranda Sheild Johansson, my co-editors, entitled: Anthropology and Tax: Ethnographies of Fiscal Relations. This groundbreaking volume, published by Cambridge University Press (2024), features contributions from 14 scholars, each offering fresh insights into the anthropology of tax.

The book is an outgrowth of a collaborative effort to establish tax as a sub-field within anthropology. My contribution has been the co-creation of a special issue in Social Analysis with Nicolette Makovicky as co-editor. This initiative emerged from our well-received panel at the UK's ASA in 2018, titled "The sociality of tax: State-citizen imaginaries". This event drew in a large handful of scholars focusing on tax, so much so that I built us the website, The Anthropology of Tax Network for us to promote our work and find new synergies for collaboration. It has resources like an ongoing bibliography that I maintain, and links to researchers and projects. Recently, we expanded this network into an EASA Anthropology of Tax Network, further elevating the profile of this sub-field to capture new members and inspire others. I am also part of a new network seeking to be formally established that is centered on studying the social worlds of inflation.

My Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship at Copenhagen Business School (2022-24) was a research project on the predatory financial practices of Croatian businesses and their profound impact on rural economic development. During this period, I was also an academic guest at Utrecht University, the Netherlands (2021-24), where I began as a Wenner-Gren Hunt Fellow.

I have been fortunate to earn financial support for my research from the EU's Marie Curie (Horizon 2020), Wenner-Gren Foundation, Independent Social Research Foundation, Clarendon Fund of Oxford Univ. Press, and American Council of Learned Societies.