Conceptions of homelessness, domicile, and the law
Criminal Justice responses to sexual violence
Sex offenses and offenders
Settler colonialism
Critical approaches to children and youth
Micro and macro approaches to violence
Recent Awards
March 2020
Outstanding Faculty Graduate Mentor Award
April 2019
Faculty of Public Affairs Research Excellence Award
Amount Awarded: $10,000
June 2017
Ontario Early Researcher Award
Amount Awarded: $150,000
Current Research Projects
Principal Investigator, “Digital Culture, Youth, and Policing: Risk-taking and police response in the information age”. Funding: Ontario Early Researcher Award, $150,000.
Co-investigator, “A genealogical study of Indigenous Adoption in Canada: A multi-faceted examination of events in the removal of Indigenous children with a concentration on child welfare policy shifts between 1950 and 1985”. Funding: SSHRC Insight Grant, $313,480; CIHR, $12000.
Principal Investigator, “Brazilian Jiu Jitsu as a Way of Life: Communities of practice, violence and injury”, SSHRC Explore CU Development Grant, $9,460.
Student Supervisions
Supervision of PhD Students (current):
Supervisor: Taryn Hepburn (PhD – current), Law and Legal Studies, Carleton University.
Supervisor: Corrine Baray (PhD – current), Law and Legal Studies, Carleton University.
Supervisor: Bridgette Desjardins (PhD – current), Law and Legal Studies, Carleton University.
Supervisor: Daniella Bendo (PhD – current), Law and Legal Studies, Carleton University
Supervisor: Andrew Costa (PhD – current), Law and Legal Studies, Carleton University
Co-Supervisor: Marcus Sibley (PhD – current), Law and Legal Studies, Carleton University
Supervision of MA Students (since 2014):
Supervisor – Gurdeep Jagpal – Thesis – Defense: January 11, 2019
Thesis Title: Sikh Males In Ontario And Random Police Stops (Carding)
Supervisor – Matthew Hopkins – Major Research Essay – Submission: August 28, 2018
Essay Title: The Ontological Deep-Freeze Legal and Political Identity as the End of Becoming
Supervisor – Maryan Hatam – Thesis – Defense: September 10, 2018
Thesis Title: The Professionalization of Canadian Correctional Officers: 1920s-1960s
Supervisor – Darby Babin – Thesis – Defense: April 27, 2018
Thesis Title: Liberating Legal Education: Using Critical Feminist Pedagogy to Educate on the Problems of Oppression and Gender-Based Violence
Supervisor – Corinne Baray – Thesis – Defense: August 28, 2018
Thesis Title: “This, Too, Shall Pass” : Examining the Path to National Resilience in Israeli Society. A Grounded Theory Approach
Supervisor – Taryn Hepburn – Thesis – Defense: April 27, 2018
Thesis Title: How to Make a Criminal: A Genealogy of the Youth Criminal Justice System in Canada
Supervisor – Shanna Hickey – Thesis – Defense: May 1, 2018
Thesis Title: Exploring Canadian Child and Youth Advocacy Centre (CAC/CYAC)
Supervisor – Steven Hardy – Thesis
Thesis Title: Street involvement, Intravenous drug users, and Police Interactions
Supervisor – Brooke Fox – MRE
Thesis Title: A Look Inside: An Ethnographic Observational Study on Ontario Bail and Remand Courts
Supervisor – William Martin – Thesis – Defense: January 10, 2017
Thesis Title: Securitization of Mental Health: An Analysis of Ellen Richardson
Co-supervisor – Sakif Alam – Thesis – Defense: September 12, 2016
Thesis Title: Enterprise Liability and the Rana Plaza Factory Collapse
Supervisor – James Liles – Thesis – Defense: September 1, 2016
Thesis Title: Policing Mental Health: A case study of a crisis unit in a major Canadian city
Supervisor – Jonathan Ravanelli – Defense: April 26, 2016
Thesis Title: Deleuze and Big Data: How Facebook’s Use of Big Data Analytics Shifts Legal Personhood, Privacy and Commerical Expression
Supervisor – Kyla Doll – Defense: December 16, 2014
Thesis Title: Representations of Gender on the Television Series “Deadly Women”
