I am a 2025-2025 Taft Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cincinnati. My work contributes to critical conversations in medical anthropology, temporality, and urban life. My manuscript Awake in the World; Insomnia and the Arts of Living in Belgrade merges ethnographic theory and historical contextualization with poetic and multimodal elements demonstrating how creative forms can deepen analytic insight. Probing the limits of ethnographic inquiry, my writing examines familiar expressions - racing against time, feeling out of sync, not present, exhausted, adrift from one’s own time, not being in control - which reveal how time is not only learned but disciplined through the everyday routines of modern life. My current project examines urban development in Cincinnati through the object of sound. Insomnia talk is a space for me to organize many projects that grew out of my dissertation, and a space to keep you awake...