Militarization: A Reader offers a range of critical perspectives on the dynamics of militarization as a social, cultural, political, economic, and environmental phenomenon.

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Life by Algorithms: How Roboprocesses are Reshaping Our World
brings together leading ethnographers to produce a portrait of the impact of algorithmic automation across many domains of contemporary American life, from public education to pork production to ubiquitous surveillance.
 
 

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Making Refuge: Somali Bantu Refugees and Lewiston, Maine
How do people who have survived the ravages of war and displacement rebuild their lives in a new country when their world has totally changed? This book follows the trajectory of Somali Bantus from their homes in Somalia before the onset of Somalia’s civil war, to their displacement by violence to Kenyan refugee camps, to their resettlement in cities across the United States, to their settlement in Lewiston, Maine as “secondary migrants” grappling with the struggles of xenophobia, neoliberalism, and grief. Tracking their experiences over three decades of mobility from refugee camps to places of refuge in the US, the book asks what humanitarianism feels like to those who are its objects and what happens when refugees move in next door. The competing and contradictory responses by Lewiston’s residents to the unexpected arrival of thousands of refugees illuminates contemporary debates about economic responsibility, moral responsibility, security and community that immigration provokes.
 
 

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The Insecure American, coedited with Hugh Gusterson, University of California Press, 2009, features essays by nineteen leading ethnographers who analyze why Americans are feeling insecure and how they are responding. The essays map the impact of a fraying safety net, the 'war on terror', the labor market's race to the bottom, the 'war on drugs', mass incarceration, and more.
 
 
 

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Transforming Cape Town, University of California Press, 2008 (Leeds Honor Book Award, Society for Urban, National, and Transnational Anthropology, 2009) analyzes how and why apartheid-era inequalities continue to define social realities in Cape Town and discusses anti-racism and anti-poverty projects that seek to challenge the enduring inequalities left in place after the dismantlement of legal apartheid.
 
 
 

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In Why America's Top Pundits Are Wrong: Anthropologists Talk Back (University of California Press 2005), coedited with Hugh Gusterson, anthropologists challenge the portrait of the post Cold War world promoted by some of American's foremost commentators.

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Violence: A Reader (Palgrave Press and New York University Press 2002) is a collection of significant theoretical and ethnographic studies of violence by social scientists.

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Unraveling Somalia: Race, Violence, and the Legacy of Slavery (University of Pennsylvania Press 1999)argues that Somalia’s violence must be understood in the context of late 20th century sociopolitical transformations, such as colonialism, Cold War alliances, and postcolonial neoliberal development interventions, that had fundamentally altered Somali social relations and political identities.
 
 
 

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The Struggle for Land in Southern Somalia: The War Behind the War (Westview Press and Haan Publishing 1996), edited with Lee V. Cassanelli, analyzes the historical factors that contributed to the patterns of violence in southern Somalia during the civil war.