I am a social and medical anthropologist and interdisciplinary health researcher.
Currently, I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Health and Society at the University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC), a Visiting Scholar in Social Anthropology at the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh, and a Reviews Editor at the journal Medicine Anthropology Theory.
My anthropological research uses clinical ethnography to examine the aesthetics and affective politics of care. My first ethnographic book project, Composing Care: Music Therapy and Clinical Aesthetics, explores the key role of aesthetics in making care clinical through ethnographic research with certified music therapists and their patients in hospitals across Canada and the United States (2019-2020). My second ethnographic book project, Madness in Medicine: Psychotic Experiences and Clinical Mental Health Care, will explore how innovative treatments that mobilize or manage psychotic experiences are transforming mental health care, for whom, and to what effect.
My interdisciplinary health research examines disability justice in sexual and reproductive health care in Canada (2022-2024). My past research activities (2012-2019) have covered topics in gender, sexuality, and health in Canada and South Africa, including the gendered dimensions of HIV/AIDS.
I hold a PhD in Social Anthropology from York University(2021), an MA in Gender Studies from Central European University (2011), and a BMus (Hons) from Dalhousie University (2010).
My research and teaching interests include social & cultural anthropology; medical anthropology; anthropology of care; anthropology of science & technology; sensory anthropology; anthropology of art, affect, & aesthetics; disability anthropology & mad studies; decolonial, feminist, queer & crip theory; ethnographic methods & writing.