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Assistant Professor
Geological Sciences & Geological Engineering
Keywords: geography and international studies; Indigenous experiences of and resistance to imposed development; Canadian international mining and extractive industries in Latin America; human rights; academic activism; photography.
Keywords: popular music; visual culture; critical theory; music and violence.
Keywords: media art; art and feminism; animation history and theory; experimental music; magic and the occult; speculative futurisms; human-animal relationships.
Keywords: poverty; food; the body; health; childhood; qualitative research methods.
Keywords: global urban infrastructure; social reproduction; bioeconomies; urban political ecology; critical development studies; health sociology; critical race feminist geographies.
Keywords: cultural relations between Roman soldiers and Indigenous peoples; religious practices of Roman soldiers; Nabataean religion and culture; ancient bath-houses and bathing technology; petroglyphs and graffiti from all cultures; history of archaeology and attitudes towards cultural heritage.
Keywords: music theatre and opera in Canada & US; musicology; performance studies; historiography; popular culture; memory theory; intermediality.
Keywords: scenography; theatre production design; interaction of architecture, sound, and performance design.
Keywords: Haitian literature and history; Black diaspora and anticolonialism; Black/Indigenous relations; Haitian solidarity and community with the TaÃno, Indigenous inhabitants of Hispaniola; Spanish colonialism; national narratives and mythologies.
Keywords: Canadian film industry; urban film cultures; film festivals; event cinema and new modes of film distribution; cinema and intermediality.
Keywords: histories, reconstructions, and new performances of late 20th century electronic and experimental music; electroacoustic composition practices including field recording, studio recording, synthesis, processing and mixing; building sensor-based instruments and controllers; sound and intermedia installation work; pop music recording and production.
Keywords: twentieth century Canadian social movements in a transnational context; histories of global development; settler colonialism; race, gender, and decolonization; anticolonial and decolonial Indigenous social movements.
Keywords: feminist, trans, and queer poetics; psychoanalysis and affect theory; postcolonial/decolonizing poetics and theory; sex workers' rights; literatures and theory.
Keywords: clowning; theatre; the comedic and absurd as approaches to witnessing violence beyond an aesthetic of injury and spectacle; the relationship between aesthetics and ethics in translating stories of violence; creative non-fiction; the role of the imagination in learning and development; Canada's involvement in the development of the atomic bomb.
Keywords: history of the Middle East and Islam; market systems, the origins of global capitalism, consumerism, neoliberalism; theories of state formation.
Keywords: Women literature, creative writing, translation, Quebec’s literature, black studies, contemporary feminism.
Keywords: ancient South Asia; South Asian religion; forensics in colonial India; Indian cinema; horror films; food history.
Keywords: linguistic anthropology; Indigenous language revitalization in Brazil and Canada; community-based research and collaborative ethnography.
Keywords: Science and Technology Studies; political economies of pharmaceutical knowledge and more broadly the political economy of knowledge.
Keywords: ecological communities and environmental ethics; social construction of nature; environmental hermeneutics and phenomenology; emotional geographies; ethics of tourism; the place of nature in political and social theory; posthumanism.