Books
Resurgency: Outlasting the War on Terror. Global Insecurities Series. Duke University Press. 2026.
The Social Properties of Concrete. Punctum Press. 2025. eds. Elinoff and Rubaii.
Select Academic Articles
“Torture as Kinship Work: Infrastructures of Cold War Affect.” co-authored. History and Anthropology 37(2): 169-175. 2026.
“When ‘Conflict Minerals’ Go to War.” co-authored. Political Geography 123. 2025.
“Bone uranium and lead in bone concentrations in adults from Fallujah, Iraq.” co-authored. Environmental Pollution 348(1). 2025.
“Parting the Fog of War: Assessing Military Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Below.” The Extractive Industries and Society 23. 2025.
“Deferral and Dispersal: the military violence of post-war clean-up.” co-authored. Human Organization 9(1950):1-13. 2025.
“Late modern war and geos: the ecological “beforemaths” of advanced military technologies.” co-authored. Security Dialogue 56(1): 38-57. 2025.
“Cement and Displacement: Material Life in the Wake of Extractive War.”American Ethnologist 52(1): 31-43. 2025.
“Spatial Distribution of Heavy Metal Contamination in Soils of Fallujah, Iraq.” co-authored. Exposure and Health 17: 31–39. 2025.
“Decentering Death: The war on terror and the less-than-lethal paradigm.” American Anthropologist 126(3): 497–508. 2024.
“This is why we protect the rivers, This is how we protect the rivers.” Critical Times 6(2), 2023: 195-201.
Troubling Complicities: The anthropologist as (im)moral subject.” co-authored. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 13(2): 377-393.
“‘Concrete Soldiers’: T-walls and Coercive Landscaping in Iraq.” International Journal of Middle East Studies 54(2), 2022: 357-362.
“Trust without Confidence: Moving Medicine with Dirty Hands.” Colloquy in Cultural Anthropology. 2020. 35(2): 211-217.
“Tripartheid: How Sectarianism Became Internal to Being in Anbar, Iraq.” Political and Legal Anthropology Review. 2019. 42(1):125-141
Book Chapters and Op-Eds
“The beforemaths: an agenda for research on wars to come.” co-authored. Fennia: International Journal of Geography 204(1): 1-7. 2026.
“Lessons from Fallujah: War Returnees Face Long-Term Health Risks from Heavy Metal Exposure.” co-authored. Costs of War Report, Brown University. 2025.
“What poisoned al-Faluja can tell us about toxic risks in Gaza and Lebanon.” co-authored. Al Jazeera English, Mar 24. 2025.
“Note the Ghosts: Among the More-than-Living in Iraq.” In War-torn Ecologies, An-archic Fragments. ICIC Berlin Press: 85–103. 2023.
“Military Burn Pits are not Just a Veteran Issue: Without Iraqis and Afghans, the PACT Act becomes an alibi for environmental injustice.” co-authored. Medium. Sept 21, 2022.
“What Displacement Teaches Us About Surviving Changed Climates.” POMEPS Studies 46: Environmental Politics in the Middle East and North Africa.
“On sieges, boundaries, and military creep.” Book Symposium for Waste Siege, by Sophia Stamatopoulou, HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 2021. 11(1): 354–356.
“When States Need Refugees.” Un-Settling Middle Eastern Refugees: Regimes of Exclusion and Inclusion in the Middle East, Europe, and North America. Berghahn Books. 2021, 25-40.
“Birth Defects and the Toxic Legacy of War in Iraq.” Middle East Report Issue 296: “Nature and Politics.” Sept 2020.
“The Incredible Simplicity of Anti-Imperialism.” American Anthropologist Public Anthropologies Blog. Feb 13, 2020.
“Concrete and Livability in Occupied Palestine.” Engagements, Anthropology and the Environment Blog. Sept 20, 2016.
Creative Ethnography
“Forensics: multiple choice” and “Exposure Histories” in Anthropology and Humanism 51(1). Second Prize Winner for Poetry in the Society for Humanistic Anthropology 2025 Writing Awards. 2026.
“The Explosion.” In Anthropology and Humanism 48(2). 2023.
“Homelanding.” In Anthropology and Humanism 48(1). Second Prize Winner for Poetry in the Society for Humanistic Anthropology 2022 Writing Awards. January 3. 2023.
“Frozen Baby Story.” In “Flash Ethnography,” edited by Carole McGranahan and Nomi Stone. American Ethnologist Collection. Oct 26, 2020.