Merging ethnography and performance, Jamie’s research regards mediumship and danced spirit possession in Afro-Brazilian religions. Her creative practice also involves experimental and performative modes of writing about/with/as embodied practices. Jamie has been the recipient of a Fulbright-Hays, and was a Social Science Research Council DPDF Fellow in Black Atlantic Studies. Her collection of images and experimental writing, “Generating Intensities,” was awarded the 2021 President’s Award for Graduate Writing (first prize) by the Society for Humanistic Anthropology. She is also the author of “Alternative Texts,” winner of the Society for Humanistic Anthropology’s 2020 Ethnographic Poetry Prize (third place) and published in Anthropology and Humanism, Vol. 46, Issue 2, Dec 2021. Other recent publications include her collection “New Variants” in Anthropology and Humanism, “On Synecdoche” in Current Anthropology Vol. 63, Issue 1, February 2022, “On the Medium: Embodiment, Textuality, and Performativity” and “Deserto” both in Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies, Vol. 19, No. 1 (2003).  Jamie teaches Afro-Brazilian Dance and Culture at UC Davis.