I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of Winnipeg, and a PhD student in Sociology at the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center. My research is about the relationship between social welfare politics and criminalization. I am interested in the racial logics of these politics/processes, and their place in the history of settler colonialism in Western Canada. I’m motivated by the desire to understand and resist settler colonialism, and the (related) expansion of policing and prisons in Canada and around the world.
I’ve taught introductory criminology and sociology courses at CUNY Brooklyn College, the University of Winnipeg, and CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and I’ve worked as an Instructional Technology Fellow at CUNY Macaulay Honors College. As part of my degree I’m completing a certificate in Interactive Technology and Pedagogy.
I live in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.