About Me

I am an Associate Professor in Department of Anthropology and the Program in Global Studies at the University of Virginia.

I’ve been doing fieldwork in Egypt since 2000. My first book, Well-Connected: Everyday Water practices in Cairo (JHP 2023), investigates the ways in which lower income residents of Cairo work to obtain sources of potable water and deal with the ramifications of sewage in their urban ecology.

Research for my second book project, on charitable water fountains called sabils, is ongoing, and I have a third project on greywater reuse and urban agriculture in collaboration with the Athar Lina Intatative in the al-Khalifa neighborhood of historic Cairo