I am a PhD student in anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. My work engages science and technology studies, material culture studies, historical anthropology, and the anthropology of Latin America. It centers on archaeological, industrial and natural scientific extraction in southern Mexico in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, examining how these projects generate resources and scientific objects and dramatically alter the region in the process. You can e-mail me at rkett at uci dot edu, read my tumblr, or read my cv here.