I am a queer non-binary white settler, and a Professor & Coordinator of Women’s and Gender Studies at Mount Royal University.

My current research program is inspired by two central curiosities:

1) the institutionalization of feminist and queer logics in higher education, including critical studies of EDI, sexualized violence responses, and more recently, the rise of “anti-gender ideology” on university campuses

2) queer kinship, including kinship navigation during the COVID-19 pandemic, environmental/climate justice responses to reproduction through a queer lens, and queer parenting in the time of “parental rights.”

My second book “Reproduction in Crisis” explores discourses of crisis related to population, specifically in response to climate disaster, ‘replacement,’ and in/fertility. Offering a queer reproductive justice analysis, this book aims to illustrate how the contemporary panic around falling and rising birth rates— and shifting racial, sexual, and gender demographics— is inextricably tied to homophobia and transphobia. I argue that binary conceptualizations of birth rates— too high or too low, over or underpopulation— rely on old racist, eugenic, and colonial logics that have become new again in the ‘post-COVID’ context. This book offers a hybrid theory/memoir approach to capture both individual and collective entanglements with ecological collapse, the rise in global fascism, increase threats of violence against 2SLGBTQIA+ communities, and everyday encounters with conspiratorial logics.

With Irene Shankar, I recently completed an edited collection mapping the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on marginalized faculty members. Unmasking Academia: Institutional Inequities Laid Bare During COVID-19 is under review with the University of Alberta Press.

I sit on the Editorial Board for Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture & Social Justice and I am the 2023-24 Co-President of the association for Women’s, Gender and Social Justice (WGSJ.

My first book, Manufacturing Urgency, was the recipient 2019 Women's and Gender Association’s Outstanding Scholarship Prize.