I’m an anthropologist and a writer.

Publications

2022. Developmental friendship as workplace connection. Etnofoor 34(1).

2022. Moral change through the lens of marriage. In New Perspectives on Moral Change, edited by Cecilie Eriksen and Nora Hämäläinen. Berghahn.

2021. Felt unfreedom: Reflecting on ethics and gender in Jordan. Ethnos 86(3).

2021. Embodying Levantine cooking in Amman, Jordan. In Making Levantine Cuisine, edited by Anny Gaul, Graham Pitts, and Vicki Valosik. University of Texas Press.

2019. Ugly feelings of greed: The misuse of friendship in working class Amman. Cambridge Journal of Anthropology 37(2).

Media appearances

“The One with the Medium Friend,” BBC Radio 4, Woman’s Hour, July 11, 2024

Illuminating friendship network at CRASSH Cambridge

Daniel Hruschka, The measure of friendship: cross-cultural perspectives. 24 October 2022.

Cathy Mason, Friendship and equality. 7 November 2022.

Rebecca Graber, Lived experience of friendships: Insights from creative research with marginalised communities. 6 February 2023.

Constance Furey, Corporate friendship in the English Reformation. 20 February 2023.

Shilpa Phadke, Nithila Kanagasabai, Masshal Saif, Yusra Alvi, and Subha Wijesiriwardena, Yaari—Reflections on friendship. 6 March 2023.