I am a social and medical anthropologist and interdisciplinary health researcher.
Currently, I am a SSHRC Research Fellow in the Department of Health and Society at the University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC), a Visiting Scholar in Social Anthropology at the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh, and a Reviews Editor at the journal Medicine Anthropology Theory.
My anthropological research uses clinical ethnography to examine the aesthetics and affective politics of care. My first book project, Composing Care: Music Therapy and Clinical Aesthetics, explores the role of aesthetics in the making of care clinical through ethnographic research with certified music therapists and their patients in hospitals across Canada and the United States (2019-2021).
Funded by a Wellcome Trust Early-Career Award (2026-2031), my next project, Madness in Medicine: Psychotic Experiences and Innovative Approaches to Mental Health Care in the UK, is a community-engaged clinical ethnography that explores how mental health clinicians and experts by experience in South London are revaluing psychotic-like experiences, engaging them therapeutically as insight or illness through experimental psychedelic trials and new models of psychosis care.
My interdisciplinary health research examines disability justice and the politics of sexual and reproductive health care in Canada (2022-2025). My past research activities (2012-2018) have covered topics in gender, sexuality, and health in Canada and South Africa, including the gendered dimensions of HIV/AIDS.
I hold a PhD in Social Anthropology from York University (2021), an MA in Gender Studies from Central European University (2011), and a BMus (Hons) in Music from Dalhousie University (2010).
My research and teaching interests include social & cultural anthropology; medical anthropology; anthropology of care; anthropology of science & technology; sensory anthropology; anthropology of art, affect, & aesthetics; disability anthropology & mad studies; decolonial, feminist, queer & crip theory; ethnographic methods & writing.