Sub-fields of specialization: Environmental anthropology, cultural geography, environmental history, animal studies, science and technology studies, postcolonial theory, feminist theory, American West, modern Japan.
Specific areas of interest: Multispecies anthropology; human-nonhuman “globalizations”; projects of modernity in Japan, Chile, and the United States; indigenous movements and natural resource claims; concepts of sustainability; theoretical approaches to frontiers, borderlands, and contact zones; practices of comparison; experimental methodologies; the “Pacific Rim”; gender studies.