I am a PhD student at Rice Anthropology Department at Rice University. I study with honeybees and beekeepers at the sealed Armenia-Turkey borderland. Honeybees constantly cross this border where humans are forbidden to do so. This landscape wit(h)ness to overlapping violent histories of climate, dispossession and genocide.

My project analyzes how political violence shapes the landscape and how more-than-human agents can be involved in politics, creating transnational communication that works toward peace and justice. This research challenges the idea of peace as a human-only process and investigates a more-than-human understanding of conflict resolution.

I lead an international/inter-disciplinary bee studies group and welcome all researchers working with critters.