Positions
Chair
Faculty of Arts and Science - Social and Cultural Studies
Full-time Faculty
Graduate Studies - Environmental Science/Studies, MESc/MES
Full-time Faculty
Graduate Studies - History, MA
Full-time Faculty
Graduate Studies - Sociology, MA
Full-time Faculty
Faculty of Arts and Science - Social and Cultural Studies - Sociology
Education
PhD, Anthropology, Memorial
2009
MA, Anthropology, Memorial
2000
BA (H), Sociololgy, Queen's
1997
BA, Mathematics and Statistics, Queen's
1996
Areas of specialization
Environmental Politics / Political Ecology
Social and Cultural Theory
Science
Technology
Society
Settler Colonialism
Historical Memory and Critical Heritage Studies
Death
Dying
Mourning
Extinction Studies
Animal Studies
Fisheries and Aquaculture
Commodities and Commodification
Canadian Studies
Teaching Areas
Undergraduate Programs
- Sociology
Graduate Studies
- Environmental Science/Studies, MESc/MES
- History, MA
- Sociology, MA
Graduate Supervision
Accepting Students for Supervision
School year
- 2026/27
- 2027/28
- 2028/29
Supervised Theses / Projects
- PhD Projects
- "There’s No Climate Change Here: Fishing, Memory, and the Uneven Experience of Environmental Change in Rural Newfoundland" by Joonas Plaan (PhD, Anthropology)
- “Gendering Citizens and Subjects: The Making of Computer Scientists in Singapore" by Samantha Breslin (PhD, Anthropology)
- "Unable to Live, Unable to Die: Tensions of Life Saving/Death Assisting in the Intensive Care Unit" by Amanda van Beinum (PhD, Sociology) (supervisory committee)
- "Listening to the Universe: The Search for Life at the Dawn of an Interstellar Age" by Michael Oman-Reagan (PhD, Anthropology) (in progress)
- “Redrawing Class Maps in the New Gilded Age: Charting Occupations of Public Space in Montreal, New York City, and Beyond by David Cooney (PhD, Anthropology) (in progress)
- Master's Projects
- “Death in the Digital Age: Exploring Virtual Forms of Grieving Within Networked Community Spaces” by Marly Hill (MA, Sociology)
- “Sites of Grave Meaning: the Heritage of Human Remains on the Rideau Canal” by Casey Gray (MA, Indigenous and Canadian Studies)
- “Seeing is Deceiving: Hunting, Ecology, and Visual Media” by Anne Troake (MA, Sociology)
- “Environmental Crises and the Management of Perception in the Newfoundland Aquaculture Industry” by Ben Rigby (MA, Anthropology)
- "CBNRM Performance in the Maasi Mara Region and the Northern Rangelands of Kenya” by Iddi Babu (MES, Environmental Studies)
Research
Research Interests
- Species at risk
- Protected areas
- Environmental preservation and conservation movements
- Fisheries; and aquaculture
- Capitalism and social inequality
Open to Media Inquiries
Publications
See the attached list of sample publications. If that's too many to list, please let me know.