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I received my PhD in Sociology from York University in 2022, and my MA in Critical Sociology from Brock University in 2014. Prior to that, I attended Laurier Brantford where I completed my undergraduate degree in Criminology and Psychology; I am thrilled to return to Laurier as an assistant professor.
My teaching and research interests are distantly related. As an instructor, I teach courses in Criminology. I frequently teach introductory courses (such as CC100: Introduction to Criminology) and fourth year qualitative methods. I also enjoy teaching students about feminist criminology, the intersections of mental health and crime, and deviance studies.
As a researcher, I am a fat studies scholar who explores fatphobia and anti-fat bias in health care. I look at the way that body size, specifically fatness, impacts the ability of fat Canadian women to access health care services. Further, I am passionate about investigating the ways in which fat women experience discrimination related to reproductive health and access to reproductive assistance. I co-lead edit an open-access journal called Excessive Bodies: A Journal of Artistic and Critical Fat Praxis and Worldmaking, and co-manage the Fat Studies Research Cluster associated with the Canadian Sociological Association.