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Research Interests

Disability Studies, Sociology of Health and Illness, Medical Sociology, Digital Platforms and Assistive Technology, Social Inequality, Social Policy, Sociological Theory, Qualitative Research

Supervision

I am accepting prospective graduate students, and undergraduate thesis supervisions, for the 2026-2027 academic year. I'm especially open to students with interests in disability studies, sociological theory, and the sociology of health and illness.

Please include a CV and draft project statement if you get in touch with me via email.

Biography

Before coming to ºÚÁϳԹÏ×ÊÔ´ in 2018, I was a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow in the department of Social Justice Education, OISE / University of Toronto (2014-2016), and later, a Killam postdoctoral fellow at Dalhousie’s department of Sociology and Social Anthropology (2016-2018). I completed my doctoral work at Carleton’s Department of Sociology and Anthropology.

I’m currently working on three main projects. The first is historical, exploring disability policy in Canada, the US, and France after the second world war. Here I'm doing archival research to see how governments, activists, and other groups organize disability politics around conceptions of freedom. The second project is qualitative, exploring how disabled youth use digital platforms in their romantic lives. Finally, I continue to work with colleagues in the rehabilitation sciences, exploring how disability is managed and made meaningful in the clinical space. Most recently, I've been looking at how clinical disability measures are translated into income support program eligibility.

Teaching

I teach courses on the sociology of health and illness, sociological theory, and disability studies.

In 2025-2026:

• SOCY 200: Sociology of Health
• SOCY 301: Disability and Society
• SOCY 410: Sociology of Health, Illness, and Disability (Undergraduate Seminar).
• SOCY 425: Sociology of Health, Citizenship, and Welfare (Undergraduate Seminar).

In the past I have taught:

• SOCY 226: Central Concepts in Sociological Theory
• SOCY 227: Theorizing Contemporary Society
• SOCY 936: Disability Studies (Graduate Seminar)