About

I am an anthropologist interested in death, Buddhism, and material culture. My research spans new traditions and technologies of Buddhist death rites, the lifecycle of religious materials, and modern lifestyle movements. In sum, I study the stuff of death and death of stuff.

I hold a PhD in Anthropology at the University of Melbourne and a MSc from Oxford University. For my doctoral research, I worked in Japanese Buddhist altar stores, to investigate how cultural traditions around death can themselves ‘die’, be replaced, or transformed. The research is published inWhen Death Falls Apart, out now with the University of Chicago Press.

I currently hold a Melbourne Postdoctoral Fellowship (2022-2025) for the project “Transnational Futures of Deathcare in the Asia-Pacific”.