Eva works at the intersection of disability and immigration. As a Research Associate at the Institute on Disabilities she contributes to local, state and national projects, examining secondary transition, supported decision-making, the school-to-prison pipeline and deinstitutionalization.
Eva is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Temple University. Her research applies critical disability theory to the examination of immigration governance to reveal overlooked and interlocking regimes of ableism, nativism and racism, which actively produce labor market inclusion and social exclusion.
She has worked as a director in cable television, where she was awarded first place in live-to-tape directing by the National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors, an executive producer and news correspondent of the award-winning Lucy Ann Lance Business Insider and the syndicated University of Michigan FanFest Tailgate show, and a screenwriter in corporate video production.
She is currently producing/co-directing the film Sadeepa Full of Light about a Sri Lankan woman's battle with Wilson's disease and immigration restrictions. She is a founding member of VAST, the Visual Anthropology Society at Temple, which holds an annual conference on the futures of visual ethnography and research.
Eva received her M.A. in Anthropology from Temple University in 2016 and a B.A. in English Literature, with a focus in screenwriting, from University of Michigan in 2006, where she served as research and post-production assistant to Ruth Behar on her visual ethnography Adio Kerida.
Eva’s research interests include immigration policy, rite of passage, social justice, and traditional and new media.
Eva is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Temple University. Her research applies critical disability theory to the examination of immigration governance to reveal overlooked and interlocking regimes of ableism, nativism and racism, which actively produce labor market inclusion and social exclusion.
She has worked as a director in cable television, where she was awarded first place in live-to-tape directing by the National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors, an executive producer and news correspondent of the award-winning Lucy Ann Lance Business Insider and the syndicated University of Michigan FanFest Tailgate show, and a screenwriter in corporate video production.
She is currently producing/co-directing the film Sadeepa Full of Light about a Sri Lankan woman's battle with Wilson's disease and immigration restrictions. She is a founding member of VAST, the Visual Anthropology Society at Temple, which holds an annual conference on the futures of visual ethnography and research.
Eva received her M.A. in Anthropology from Temple University in 2016 and a B.A. in English Literature, with a focus in screenwriting, from University of Michigan in 2006, where she served as research and post-production assistant to Ruth Behar on her visual ethnography Adio Kerida.
Eva’s research interests include immigration policy, rite of passage, social justice, and traditional and new media.
