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Research Interests & Work in Progress

• 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 Interests & 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.