She specializes in the ethnographic study of aspiration in and for Arctic North America. In 2013, she received her PhD from the University of Toronto; her dissertation focused on the cultural and corporeal consequences of diamond development in northern Canada. Heavily influenced by humanistic anthropology and creative ethnography, her body of scholarship includes experiments with ethnographic fiction and image-based work (http://sites.uci.edu/vcun/). She is co-editor of North American Dialogue, the peer-reviewed journal of the Society for the Anthropology of North America.