I’m an Associate Professor of Equity Studies (she/they) in the MAIS program and am based in Amiskwaciwâskahikan (Edmonton). Trained as a political scientist (Canadian Politics and Gender & Politics), my research and collaborations are intentionally interdisciplinary. I take a critical approach to citizenship, as I focus on the politics of race and racism, security and relational securitization in and across custodial/carceral spaces, and the implications for decolonial and antiracist politics in white settler colonial states.

In addition to being an active reviewer of journal and book manuscripts, I work on a number of editorial boards and presses, including associate for the Canadian Journal of Political Science, section editor for Studies in Social Justice, a member of the editorial board at Athabasca University Press, and a member of the publications committee for the Scholarly Book Awards (ASPP). You can find my own writing in a number of peer reviewed journals, including the Canadian Journal of Political Science, Citizenship Studies, Canadian Ethnic Studies, Studies in Social Justice, Atlantis, Journal of Canadian Studies, International Indigenous Policy Journal, International Journal of Qualitative Methods, Feminist Studies, and a number of edited collections.  You can order my latest co-authored book, The Letters: Institutional Lives and EDI through Fernwood Press, or a local independent retailer in your community.

In addition to my ongoing work on relational securitization in Canada, I continue to engage in several research projects and collaborations, including but not limited to:

• A 5-year (2025-2030) SSHRC-Insight Grant funded project, “The Puzzle of Discretion: Interrogating change with public sector workers in white settler colonial institutions” with Willow-Samara Allen (Royal Roads University). In this project we investigate discretionary power to understand how public sector workers in three provinces (AB, BC, and ON) are learning to witness, conceptualize, and use discretion in their work in the ‘helping sectors’ of education, children and family services, and health. We name discretionary power as a political question that is distinctly meaningful within contexts of systemic racism and white settler colonial violence.
• A collaboration with Alex da Costa (University of Alberta) and Beth Capper (University of Alberta) that interrogates police presence and carceral logics in schools, in particular through School Resource Officer programs.
• Collaborator with Dr. Anita Girvan, Dr. Davina Bhandar and Dr. Rita Dhamoon on the Insurgent Resurgent Knowledges Lab (IRK Lab).
• Producer of the podcast Academic Aunties with host and producer Dr. Ethel Tungohan, and producer Wayne Chu.

If you are a student interested in critical race theory; insurgent and resurgent knowledges; white settler colonial studies; intersectional feminist theory and methods; critical orientations to state, citizenship, and security; critical university studies; and movements for just and liberatory change, feel free to reach out! 

For the most current and accurate list of my most recent publications, please contact me through my faculty profile page.

Find out more about my collaborative work here:

You can purchase my co-authored book, The Letters: Institutional Lives and EDI, through Fernwood Publishing. 

Insurgent Resurgent Knowledges Lab (IRK Lab): www.irklab.ca

Puzzle of Discretion Project: www.puzzleofdiscretion.com

Academic Aunties: www.academicaunties.com