She earned her Ph.D. in anthropology from UC Santa Cruz in 2004. Her research concerns the politics of knowledge, discourses of nature and science, and cultural practices of capitalism. She is interested in how divergent understandings of nature are produced, circulated, contested and transformed in translocal interactions shaped by the global expansion of capitalism. Nature in Translation: Freedom, Subjectivity and Japanese Tourism Encounters in Canada is her first book and analyzes the way Japanese tour guides translate ecological knowledge in national parks in the Canadian Rockies.