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Education
Ph. D. Student, Sociology: September 2005- present
University of Alberta
M.A. Sociology: August 2005
University of Victoria
B.A. Anthropology: June 2002
Carleton University
M.A. Thesis
Feminist Zines: Cutting and Pasting a New Wave
Peer Reviewed Publications
“Remembering Houses: The Role of Domestic Architecture in the Structuring of Memory” Space and
Culture, 2009.
“Stigma and the Single Girl: Performing Gender, Sex, and the City" Studies in Symbolic Interaction, 2007.
Book Review: Claiming Space: Racialization in Canadian Cities, edited by Cheryl Teelucksingh (2006).
Waterloo, Canada: Wilfrid Laurier University Press Space and Culture, 8 2007; vol. 10: pp. 373 - 375.
Book Review: Claims to Memory: Beyond Slavery and Emancipation in the French Caribbean,
Catherine Reinhardt (2006) New York: Berghahn Books Canadian Review of Sociology, 2007.
Book Review: Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy Space and Culture, 8 2006; vol. 9:
pp. 326 - 328.
Non-Academic Publications
"Leamington: Bloom or Bust" with Katherine Davidson, Canadian Dimension, Winnipeg, 2009.
"Hot Architecture" Catalogue Essay for exhibition Labor Schoeppingen, Schoeppingen Germany, 2009.
“The Shipbuilder, Dog River and Other Road-Side Delights: How I learned to stop in Saskatchewan”
Briarpatch Magazine, Regina, 2008.
“Destinations: Big Things on the Side of the Road” Legacy Magazine, Edmonton, 2008.
“The Calgary Project” Review Legacy Magazine, Edmonton, 2007.
“Running Toward Home” Review. Legacy Magazine Edmonton, 2007.
"Stephanie Davidson: A Sensory Conversation" Catalogue Essay for exhibition Disonancias Tour
Donostia-San Sebastian Spain, 2007.
“Haunting Edmonton” Review-in-Brief, Latitude 53 Magazine 7.3, Edmonton, 2006
Co-founder and co-editor of Take Magazine: the publication of the SGSA of the University of Alberta,
2006.
Conference Presentations
“Affectionate Design: Love Letters to Berlin”
Presented at: Psychogeographies of Possibility: Re-imagining Spaces in Critical Times, Guelph,
November, 2009.
“Scouting for Aboriginality in Ottawa’s Urban Spaces: Unmapping as Methodological Practice”
Presented at: Canadian Association of Cultural Studies, Montreal, October, 2009.
Invited panelist to “Women’s Bodies in a Public History Context” Canadian Association of Women in
Public History, Ottawa, November, 2008.
“Working Stories: An Autoethnography of my Virtual Homeland”
Presented at: Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association, Vancouver, June, 2008.
“The First Great Canadian: Expanding Narratives of Belonging Through Stone Bodies”
Presented at: American Association of Geographers, Boston, April, 2008.
“Martha Stewart: ‘Camp’ Cupcake” Presented at: Canadian Association of Cultural Studies, Edmonton,
October, 2007. * featured on the radio show Adament Eve
“A House History Project: Grappling with the role of Domestic Architecture in the Structuring of Memory”
Presented at: On Mobilities SGSA Conference at the University of Alberta, Edmonton. May, 2007
“Traces and Translations:Actualizing a Hereditary Bruise”
Presented at: the University of British Columbia, Sociology Department's conference: Shifts, Ruptures
and Dissonances: Liminal Spaces of the Social Vancouver British Columbia. May, 2007
“My Virtual Homeland: The Kapetanovo Diaspora Project”
Presented at: Canadian Studies Student Forum: Multiculturalism, Aboriginalities and Diasporas:
Canadian Identities at Risk or Gaining Strength? Vancouver, October 2006.
“Big Things on the Side of the Road: Road-Side Enticements in an Era of Supermodernity”
Presented at: Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association Learneds,York University, Toronto,
June 2006. *featured in the National Post coverage of Congress
“My Virtual Homeland: The Kapetanovo Diaspora Project”
Presented at: Fear, Space and the Subject of Violence, University of Alberta, Edmonton, May 2006.
“Feminist Zine Pirate: Rearticulating Femininity and Feminism in the 3rd Wave”
Presented at: W David Pierce Research Colloquium, University of Alberta, Edmonton, November 2005.
“The Perzine is Political: Feminist Zines, Style and the Third Wave”
Presented at: Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association Learneds, London, June 2005.
“Love it/ Shove it: Third Wave Feminisms, Popular Culture and Consumption”
Presented at: Social Sciences Graduate Symposium, University of Victoria, February 2005.
“Feminist Zines: Cutting and Pasting A New Wave”
Presented at: Celebrating a Legacy: A Teach-In on Institutional Ethnography, OISE, Toronto, October 2004.
“Race and Cultural Space: Immortalizing Canada’s Multicultural Past”
Presented at: Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association Learneds, Winnipeg, June 2004.
“Relocating Woman: Embodiment and the Postmodern/ Feminist Debate”
Presented at: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Discourses Of/ Against Incorporation and Corp-
orealization, Victoria, March 2004.
“Speed Dating: The Presentation of Self in Five Minutes” with Jason Manett
Presented at: Couch-Stone Winter Symposium, Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction,
Vancouver, February 2004.
Teaching Experience
Instructor
SOC 300: Sociology of Gender, Summer 2009, University of Alberta
Teaching Assistant
SOC 300: Sociology of Gender, January 2008, University of Alberta
SOC 212: Social Theory: September 2007, University of Alberta
SOC 301: Sociology of Gender: January 2007, University of Alberta
SOC 212: Social Theory: September 2006, University of Alberta
SOC 212: Social Theory: January 2006, University of Alberta
SOC 301: Sociology of Gender: September 2005, University of Alberta
SOC 202: Social Problems: January 2005, University of Victoria
SOC 306: Deviance and Crime: September 2004, University of Victoria
SOC 390: Media and Popular Culture: September 2004, University of Victoria
SOC 202: Social Problems: January 2004, University of Victoria
SOC 100: Introduction to Sociology: September 2003, University of Victoria
HUMR 100: Introduction to Human Rights: January 2002, Carleton University
Guest Lecturer
WST 300: Introduction to Women’s Studies: January 2006, University of Alberta
SOC 302: Sociology of Gender: November 2005, University of Alberta
SOC 390: Media and Popular Culture: November 2004, University of Victoria
Prizes/ Awards Received
2009- Queen Elizabeth II Doctoral Scholarship
2006- Provost Doctoral Scholarship renewal, University of Alberta, Graduate Assistantship
2005- Provost Doctoral Entrance Scholarship, University of Alberta, Graduate Assistantship
2004- Graduate Tuition Fellowship, University of Victoria
2003- Roy Watson Graduate Scholarship, University of Victoria, Graduate Tuition Fellowship
2002- B.A. Highest Honours, Carleton University
2001- Dean’s Honour List, Carleton University, A. Davidson Dunton Scholarship
2000- Dean’s Honour List, Carleton University, George Fierheller Scholarship
1999- Dean’s Honour List, Carleton University, Gordon Robertson Scholarships
1998- Carleton University Entrance Scholarship, Carleton University
Community Involvement
Sociology Graduate Students’ Association, Co-President: 2006-2007, Edmonton, Alberta
Graduate Students’ Association, Sociology Representative: 2005-2006, Edmonton, Alberta
Space and Culture Reading Group, Member: September 2005-present, Edmonton, Alberta
Sociology Graduate Students’ Association Conference Organizing Committee, Member: December
2005- May 2006
Girl Guides Leader: September 2003- June 2004, Victoria, British Columbia
Languages
- Have a working knowledge of reading and speaking French
- Have studied Swahili, Polish and German