Good Bodies? The Intersection of Virtue, Charity, and Fitness. I
am interested in the ways in which the body of the long-distance
runner is considered an embodiment of virtue, and how such bodies
symbolically "harnessed" by the corporate economy through
organized running events that raise money for various charities.
Transforming Masculinities in Vanuatu:
This research project is an exploration of gender, identity and subjectivity
as they emerge in two increasingly significant realms of labour and livelihood:
Vanuatu’s rapidly-expanding tourism industry and New Zealand’s newly-launched
Recognised Seasonal Employer (RSE) program.
Citizenship and Suburban Space (a joint project with Girish
Daswani and Susannah Bunce): The pedagogical goal of this project is encourage
student experiential learning. Students in Anthropology and Cities studies will work
under the supervision of a multiidisciplinary team of urban planners, anthropologists
and local research collaborators to explore intersections of housing, services,
identity and belonging for Newcomers in the priorityneighbourhood of
Kingston/Galloway/Orton Park (Scarborough). The research will address the
housing needs and practices of newcomers to KGOP, namely how physical space
and ideas of belonging and citizenship are interconnected.
Teaching Interest & Responsibilities
Gender and sexuality
Culture, Film, and Media
Melanesia
Fieldwork and Qualitative Analysis
Affiliations
American Ethnological Society
Society for Cultural Anthropology
Melanesian Interest Group
Awards & Grants
2010-2012 SSHRC Standard Research Grant $28 829
2010-2011 UTSC Teaching Enhancement Grant $2882
2009-2010 CERIS "Citizenship and Urban Space: Intersections of Housing, Services, Identity and Belonging for Newcomers in Kingston/Galloway/Orton Park, Scarborough" (with Girish Daswani [PI] and Susannah Bunce) $12 500
2009-2010 SSHRC Institutional Grant (SIG) "Good Bodies: Running, Charity, and Ethics”" $700
2008-2009 Student Experience Fund Award for Student Fieldwork Projects (with Girish Daswani); $3 500
Publications
2008 Gender, Blame, and Kastom: Understanding HIV in Vanuatu. in Making Sense of AIDS: Culture, Sexuality,
and Power in Melanesia, eds. Leslie Butt and Richard Eves. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. 133-149.
2005 Who Wears the Trousers in Vanuatu? in Auto-Ethnographies:
The Anthropology of Academic Practices, eds.
Anne Meneley and Donna J. Young. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press. 51-64
2005 Review of Brennan, Denise (2004) What’s Love Got to Do With It?
Transnational Desires and Sex Tourism in the Dominican Republic. Durham and London: Duke University Press.
Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology Online.
