Nuclear Waste Anthropologist.

I am a Social Scientist in the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy. I am also a Research Associate in Cal Poly Humboldt’s Department of Environmental Studies. I hold a PhD from Cornell University and an MSc from the London School of Economics.

Prior to my federal service, I was MacArthur Assistant Research Professor at George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs. I have held fellowships at University of Southern California, University of British Columbia, and Cornell’s Society for the Humanities.

My research explores matters of environmental security, deep temporality, nuclear expert culture, and military-industrial accident futures. My work has been supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, N Square Collaborative, and The Berggruen Institute.

I have published with The MIT Press, American Ethnologist, Social Studies of Science, Physics Today, Nuclear Technology, Science & Technology Studies, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Nature Geoscience, and Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. My writing has been featured by the BBC, Scientific American, NPR, Science, Forbes, Atlas Obscura, Psyche, Public Radio International, and other outlets.

You can contact me at vfi2@cornell.edu.