I am a cultural anthropologist interested in how land, governance, and borders are lived and negotiated in everyday life, particularly in rural and agricultural settings. My work sits at the intersection of political and legal anthropology, agrarian studies, and border studies. It is driven by a broader concern with how systems of power, such as public policy, legal regimes, and economic infrastructures, take shape in the daily practices of people working the land.

My current research focuses on rural life in the borderlands of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland in the aftermath of Brexit. Based on ethnographic fieldwork with farmers, I examine how agricultural livelihoods are sustained through cross-border practices such as moving livestock, accessing markets, and sharing resources. Rather than treating the border as a fixed line, I approach it as something that is constantly made and remade through everyday activity—through movement, cooperation, and the practical work of maintaining farms across two political systems.