I'm a sociologist and an Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Sociology at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan campus. Previously I taught in the Department of Criminology at Wilfrid Laurier University, located in Brantford, Ontario Canada.
I received my PhD from McMaster University (Sociology), MA from Carleton University in (Sociology) and BA from Carleton University in Criminology and Criminal Justice.
My research interests include the intersections of gender, health, and violence using interpretive (symbolic interactionism) and intersectional approaches to ethnographic methods.
My current research focuses on the ways that families of former athletes come to understand the athletes’ health post sports careers, specifically those who are suffering from brain injuries and progressive degenerative neurological diseases, like chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). My work seeks to better situate the everyday experiences of family trauma and the gendered violence implicit in care work and specifically I consider the social and medical responses to brain injuries and CTE. Without reifying the medical framework, my work helps to disentangle the relationship between brain injuries, gender scripts and intimate partner violence.