My current book project, Materials of the Medicine: An Ethnography of Plant-Human Relations draws on extended ethnographic fieldwork with herbalists to explore histories of colonization and the racialized segregation of medical knowledge about plant medicines.

The book contributes to ongoing conversations in medical and environmental humanities. I am concerned with the politics and histories of medical knowledge and practice pertaining to bodies, plants, chemicals, environments, health, and illness, and what it takes for humans and a living earth to flourish. The key question my book asks is: What does it take to create remedies for the things that ail us?