Onimọ nipa iṣelu ati ti ofin, o jẹ alaga Ẹgbẹ Anthropological American lati ipari 2009 si ipari 2011, olootu ti Ethnologist ti Amẹrika lati ọdun 2002 si 2007, ati Alakoso AAA's Society for Cultural Anthropology lati 1999 si 2001.
Ni ọdun 2013 o ṣe iranlọwọ idasile Antropologos sem fronteiras ti o da lori Ilu Brazil (Awọn onimọ-jinlẹ laisi awọn aala). O ti ṣe awọn ipo iṣaaju ni Ile-ẹkọ giga Harvard, Ile-ẹkọ giga Duke, U ti California-Santa Cruz, ati U ti Iowa.
Onkọwe, alakọwe, olootu, ati olootu ti awọn iwe pupọ, boya o jẹ olokiki julọ fun iṣẹ rẹ lori Karibeani (paapaa ni “Karibeani ati Awọn Itumọ Rẹ fun Amẹrika,” ti a tẹjade nipasẹ Ẹgbẹ Afihan Ajeji ni 1981), iṣẹ rẹ lori Amẹrika (paapaa ni Funfun nipasẹ Itumọ: Isọri Awujọ ni Creole Louisiana [Rutgers University Press, 1986]) ati iṣẹ rẹ lori Israeli (paapaa ni Awọn eniyan gẹgẹbi Koko-ọrọ, Awọn eniyan gẹgẹbi Nkan: Iwa-ara-ẹni ati Eniyan ni Israeli Onigbagbọ [University of Wisconsin Press, 1989]).
Rẹ julọ to šẹšẹ iwe ni o wa Amẹrika Ti ṣe akiyesi: Lori Ẹkọ nipa Anthropology Kariaye ti Amẹrika, ṣe atunṣe pẹlu Jasmin Habib (Berghahn Books, 2017) ati Awọn Iwoye Agbaye lori AMẸRIKA, ṣe atunṣe pẹlu Jane Desmond (U of Illinois Press, 2017). O tun Alejo-Ṣatunkọ a 2018 atejade ti RIAS (Iwe akọọlẹ International American Studies Association's irohin) lori Awọn odi, Ohun elo ati Asọye: Ti o ti kọja ati lọwọlọwọ, ati pe o ni iwe ti n bọ, Igbesi aye Anthropological, coauthored pẹlu Brigittine French (Rutgers University Press, 2020).