Syracuse University

Post-Doc, Sociology

Other Affiliations: Carleton University, Interdisciplinary Studies/Sexuality Studies

SSHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs, Syracuse University

Thesis Title: Intimate Archives, Migrant Negotiations: Affective Governance and the Recognition of 'Same-Sex' Family Class Migration in Canada

About

My interdisciplinary research focuses on health, immigration, and border control policies as important sites of trans/national and affective governance.  Examining state logics and “public” policy through the lens(es) of critical social theory (particularly transnational, decolonizing, & queer feminist theory), my work is philosophical in bent and empirically based. I received my PhD from the Graduate Program of Women’s Studies at York University in 2010, and am currently an Adjunct Research Professor of Human Rights & Sexuality Studies at Carleton University.  I also hold a SSHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in the Department of Sociology at Syracuse University and have recently returned from New York University’s Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, where I was a Visiting Scholar in residence for the fall academic term of 2011.


You can find my writing published or soon-to-be published in WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly, Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Topia: A Journal of Canadian Cultural Studies, and several edited collections, including Transnationalism, Activism, Art (University of Toronto Press), and Feminist (Im)Mobilities in Fortress North America: Rights, Citizenships and Identities in Transnational Perspective (Ashgate, Gender in a Global/Local World Series).

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