Dr. Carney is a sociocultural and critical medical anthropologist with research and teaching specializations in transnational and gendered migration, migration and health, and food and food systems. She conducts the bulk of her research in the western United States with Latinx, Mexican, and Central American communities and in Italy with a particular focus on migration in the Mediterranean. Some of her most recent work has examined migrant solidarity networks in Sicily, the social organization of labor within the Pacific Northwest hops industry, critical perspectives on the human microbiome, and approaches to community health among diasporic populations in the American Southwest. At the University of Arizona, she teaches courses on: food and migration; the anthropology of food, fermentation, and microbes; ethnographic research methods; and migrant health in the Americas and the Mediterranean.