Curriculum Vitae
Education.
Ph.D. University of Western Ontario, 2017
Faculty of Information & Media Studies
M.A. University of Victoria, 2010
Political Science with Cultural, Social & Political Thought specialization
B.A. University of Alberta, 2007
Political Science with Honours
Appointments.
University of Toronto, 2021-Present
Managing Director
Critical Digital Humanities Initiative
McMaster University, 2020-2022
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of English and Cultural Studies
University of Pennsylvania, 2019-2020
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities
Wolf Humanities Center
University of Toronto, 2017-2019
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities
Jackman Humanities Institute
Fellowships Scholarships & Awards.
Resident Fellowship, Whitney Western Art Museum, Center of the West, Cody, Wyoming, 2021-2022.
SSHRC Explore Standard Research and Research Creation Grant, Arts Research Board, McMaster University, 2021-2023.
IDEAS (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility and Sustainability) Grant, MacPherson Institute for Innovation, Leadership, and Excellence in Teaching, McMaster University, 2021.
Open AIR Montana Writing Residency, National Bison Range, 2020 (postponed to Fall 2021 due to COVID-19).
John Topham and Susan Redd Butler Off-Campus Faculty Research Award, Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Environmental Reportage Writing Residency, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, 2018.
Peer-Reviewed Publications.
Settler Colonial Ways of Seeing: Documentation, Administration, and the Interventions of Indigenous Art, Fordham UP, 2024.
“Speculative Shit: Bison World Making and Dung Pat Pluralities,” chapter in Decolonising Animals, edited by Rick De Vos (Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2023): 163-185.
“Field Guide to Lost Futures: A Collaborative Engagement with the Anthropocene,” Prompt: A Journal of Academic Writing Assignments, Vol. 7, No. 1 (2023): 3-10.
“Looking at Law: Refusals of Settler Colonial Politics in Nadia Myre's Indian Act,” CR: New Centennial Review, Vol. 21, No. 3 (2021): 135-164.
“Reciprocity,” chapter in Showing Theory to Know Theory: Understanding Social Science Concepts Through Illustrative Vignettes, edited by Patricia
Ballamingie and David Szanto (Ottawa: Showing Theory Press, 2021): 388-396.
“Living in Lost Futures,” Journal of Environmental Media, Vol. 2, Supplement 1 (2021): 10.1-10.6.
“Afterward: To Visualize the Future is Political Work,” Visual Futures: Exploring the Past, Present, and Divergent Possibilities of Visual Practice, edited by Tracey Bowen and Brett Caraway, under contract with Intellect Books (forthcoming 2021).
“‘Last of the Buffalo’: Bison Extermination, Early Conservation, and Visual Records of Settle Colonization in the North American West,” Settler Colonial Studies, Vol. 10, No. 1 (2020): 126-147.
“Buffalo Bones, Buffalo Treaty,” Journal of Narrative Politics, Vol. 5, No. 2 (2019): 62-70.
“Human-Bison Relations as Sites of Settler Colonial Violence and Decolonial Resurgence,” Humanimalia: A Journal of Human-Animal Interface Studies, special issue on Decolonizing Animal Studies, Vol. 10, No. 2 (2019): 10-41.
“Disrupting the Register: TreatyCard.ca and Indigenous Counter-Archives,” PUBLIC: Art/Culture/Ideas, No. 57 (2018): 48-57.
“The Face and the Number: Memorial and Statistical Narratives in Auschwitz-Birkenau’s Central Sauna Portrait Exhibit,” Photography & Culture, Vol. 11, No. 1 (2018): 41-59.
Public Engagement.
“Sorry, Sorry, Sorry, Sorry,” review of David Gaertner’s The Theatre of Regret, Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism & Review, Vol. 250 (2022): 149-152, available online.
“The Pleasure(s) of Pen(s) on Paper,” Literary Hub, Craft + Criticism section, 26 October 2021, available online.
“Nowing: A Political History of the Present,” Femme Art Review, Reviews section, 03 August 2021, available online.
“Reintroducing bison to Indigenous land is a small act of reconciliation,” The Globe and Mail, Opinion section, 23 July 2021, available online.
“Can we still write together when this is over?” Avidly: A Channel of the Los Angeles Review of Books, 06 July 2021, available online.
“How to be a good host for guest speakers in your class,” University Affairs, 24 June 2021, available online in English and French.
“Creativity thrives in community,” Guest post, NicoleDieker.com, 28 April 2021, available online.
“Historical photo of mountain of bison skulls documents animals on the brink of extinction,” The Conversation, Environment + Energy Section, 02 December 2020, available online.
Press Interview: “War of words: Experts say the Wet’suwet’en actions are being mangled with loaded vocabulary,” by Rosa Saba, Toronto Star: Calgary Bureau, 15 February 2020, available online.
Press Interview: “Looking back on a decade of Mellon postdoctoral fellows at the Jackman Humanities Institute,” by Jovana Jankovic, Arts & Science News, University of Toronto, 23 July 2019, available online.
“Identifying ‘Indians’: Racial Taxonomy as a Settler Colonial Politics of Knowledge,” History of Knowledge Blog, German Historical Institute, 22 May 2019, available online.
“Review of ‘Face Politics’ by Jenny Edkins,” Visual Studies, Vol. 31, No. 4 (2016): 371-2.
Select Conference Presentations.
“Looking at Law: Visual Art as Document Analysis,” Annual Meeting of the Document Academy, Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden, Online, August 2021.
“Settler Colonial Ways of Seeing,” IAMHIST Master Class on Media and History, International Association for Media and History, Online, January 2021.
“The Visual Afterlives of Bison Bones,” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, Irvine CA, November 2019 (Panel Organizer).
“Identifying ‘Indians’: Racial Taxonomy and Identity Documentation as a Settler Colonial Politics of Knowledge,” Political Culture and the History of Knowledge Conference, German Historical Institute, Washington DC, June 2019.
“Return of the Removed: Bison as Invasive Native Species,” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, Toronto ON, November 2018.
“Settler Colonial Ways of Seeing: Indigenous Identity Documentation and Governance in Canada,” Annual Meeting of the Document Academy, University of Torino, Turin, Italy, October 2018.
“Accounting for Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women in Canada,” Emerging Expertise Conference, Strassler Centre for Holocaust & Genocide Studies, Clark University, Worcester MA, April 2017.
“Racialized Identification as Sovereign Technique: Colonial Authority and its Resistance,” International Studies Association 58th Annual Convention, Baltimore MD, February 2017.
“Decolonizing the Plains: Bison Life Beyond Colonial Commodification,” Decolonizing Animal Studies Conference, University of Alberta, June 2016.
Professional Training.
Advanced Facilitator Program, ICA Associates Canada, 2023—present.
Research Administration Certificate Program, Canadian Association of Research Administrators (CARA) and Mohawk College, 2021—2022.
Public Writing for Academics, Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto, March 2021.
Indigenous Cultural Competency Training: Cycle Two, delivered by Ontario Federation of Indigenous Friendship Centers, University of Toronto, January 2018.
Indigenous Cultural Competency Training: Cycle One, delivered by Ontario Federation of Indigenous Friendship Centers, University of Toronto, December 2018.
Academic Service.
Member, Anti-Racist Teaching Working Group, Department of English & Cultural Studies, McMaster University, 2020—present.
Convenor, Women Writing in the Humanities, 2018—present.
Peer Reviewer, Photography and Culture, double blind, 2018—present.
Member, Jackman Humanities Institute Strategic Communications Committee, University of Toronto, 2017-2019.