Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
2023. “Security Regimes: Transnational and Imperial Entanglements,” (co-authored with Inderpal Grewal and Sahana Ghosh). Annual Review of Anthropology.
2022. “Security from the South: Postcolonial and Imperial Entanglements,” (co-authored with Inderpal Grewal and Sahana Ghosh). Social Text 40(3): 1-15.
2022. “From the Sky to the Streets, and Back: Geographies of Imperial Warfare in East Africa,” Social Text 40(3): 37-59.
2021. “Race, Space, and ‘Terror’: Notes from East Africa,” Security Dialogue 52(1S): 115-123.
2021. “Citizen-Suspect: Navigating Surveillance and Policing in Urban Kenya,” American Anthropologist.
2019. “#SomeoneTellCNN: Cosmopolitan Militarism in the East African Warscape” Cultural Dynamics (31)4: 323-349.
2014. “Peacekeeping as Occupation: Managing the Market for Violent Labor in Somalia,” Transforming Anthropology 22(1): 31-37.
Other
2022. “Geopolitical Lives,” (co-authored with Kristin Peterson) American Anthropologist website.
2020. “American Anthropology, Decolonization, and the Politics of Location” (co-authored with Sahana Ghosh and Madiha Tahir). American Anthropologist website.
2020. Making Sense of the East African Warscape. In Africa and the Middle East: Beyond the Divides. POMEPS Studies 40.
Media/Blogs/Popular Press
2023. “What is AFRICOM? How the U.S. Military is Militarizing and Destabilizing Africa,” Teen Vogue.
2023. “Empire by Invitation,” The Intercept.
2022. “Biden Hosts Summit of 49 African Leaders to Counter China & Russia’s Growing Power Across Continent,” Democracy Now!
2022. “Somalia and the War on Terror,” American Prestige. (Podcast)
2022. “The Somalia Proxy,” Bad Faith with Briahna Joy Gray. (Podcast)
2022. “Endless War in Somalia,” Africa is a Country.
2022. “Wave of Coups Disrupts Africa as U.S.-Trained Soldiers Play Key Role in Overthrowing Governments,” Democracy Now!
2021. “Geographies of War-Making in East Africa,” Africa is a Country.
2020. “Kenya, the United States, and the Project of Endless War in Somalia,” Review of African Political Economy.
2018. “Twenty Years On: The War on Terror in East Africa,” SSRC Items.
2017. “Criminal Indictments at Home, Secret Wars Abroad,” Intercepted Podcast.
2017. “Hashtag Somalia” Africa is a Country.
2016. “Beyond the International Criminal Court,” Africa is a Country.
2016. “Kenya’s Refugee ‘Problem’,” Africa is a Country.
2015. “In Conversation with Luis Moreno Ocampo,” Al-Jazeera.
2014. “Yesterday’s News: Religion, Politics, and Violence in Kenya,” Warscapes.
2013. “Kenya Attacks: What About the Casualties of Somalia’s War Zone?” The Guardian.
2011. “Mapping War Crimes in Sudan: An Open Letter to George Clooney,” Pambazuka News.
2010. “AFRICOM and the ICC: Enforcing International Justice in Africa?” Pambazuka News (with Adam Branch).
2010. “US Legislation Authorizes Military Operation against the LRA in Uganda,” Pambazuka News.