Research Interests & Work in Progress

• Natural resource extraction and social change
• Indigenous-state relations
• Ethics of production and consumption
• Work and livelihood
• Circumpolar North America

Teaching Interest & Responsibilities

• Political Ecology
• Culture and Communication
• Native America and the State
• Politics of Indigeneity
• Gender and Political Economy

Affiliations

• Society for Linguistic Anthropology, Graduate Student Representative
• American Anthropological Association
• Women and Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto-St George

Awards & Grants

• 2011, Graduate Student Paper Prize, Society for Urban, National and Transnational Anthropology
• 2010, St. Clair Drake Award, Society for the Anthropology of North America
• 2010, University of Toronto Summer Writer's Prize, Non-Fiction.
• 2010, Northern Scientific Training Program Award.
• 2009, Ontario Graduate Scholar Award.
• 2007, 2008, Edward W. Nuffield Graduate Fellowship, University of Toronto.

Publications

• 2012, “In Search of Hope: Mobility on the Canadian Frontier” In 21st Century Migration: Ethnography and Political Economy, Lem, W and P Gardiner-Barber (eds.). Routledge: London, 207-246.
• 2011, “Economic Insecurity as Opportunity: Job Training and the Canadian Diamond Industry” in Humanizing Security in the Arctic, Daveluy, M, F Lévesque, and J Ferguson (eds.). Canadian Circumpolar Institute Press: Edmonton, 293-304.
• 2009, “Posséder le Dena’ina : Luttes Autour de l’appropriation d’une Langue Autochtone en Alaska”. Anthropologie et Société, 32.
• Under Contract, Oxford UP. Sustaining the Nation: Natural Resources and the Making of a National Linguistic Minority. Co-written monograph with Monica Heller, Micelle Daveluy, Mireille McLaughlin and Hubert Noel.