about

I am an Assistant Professor in Women’s and Gender Studies at Mount Royal University. My research and teaching engages closely with critical disability studies, critical gerontology, and queer and trans studies to examine social issues related to aging, disability, and care access and equity. Many of my projects concern 2SLGBTQIA+ communities.

Before joining MRU I completed a PhD and Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto, and worked in a community-based research department. I have led and collaborated on a range of qualitative research projects with academic and community partners. This includes ethnographic, interview & focus group, and arts-based projects focused on long-term care, dementia and unpaid care, homecare and personal support work, consent and capacity, intergenerational storytelling, and access to housing. This work has been funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Public Health Agency of Canada, and the Alzheimer Society of Canada Research Program, among other funders.