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Bridgette Desjardins is a PhD Candidate at Carleton University, where she holds a Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship. She is interested in sport and inclusion as related to gender, sexuality, and nationalism. Her dissertation explores militarism in amateur sport, focusing on road races in Canada, and her preliminary findings have been published in the Sociology of Sport Journal. <\/em>She is a member of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport and the International Sociology of Sport Association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Supervisor:<\/u>
\nDr. Dale Spencer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Degrees:<\/u>
\nPhD (ABD), Law and Legal Studies, Carleton University
\nMA, Cultural Analysis and Social Theory, Wilfrid Laurier University
\nBA, Sociology, Wilfrid Laurier University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contract Instructor (Carleton University):<\/u>
\nLAWS3903A – Law, Sport, and Society (Fall 2020)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publications:<\/u><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Desjardins, B.<\/strong> (2020) Running (for) the military: An ethnography of sport militarism at the Canada Army Run. Sociology of Sport Journal.<\/em> Ahead of Print. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1123\/ssj.2020-0011<\/a>  <\/u><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Desjardins, B.<\/strong> (2014). Whose Consent Matters? Sado-Masochism and Governmentality in Canadian Consent Law. INSEP – Journal of the International Network for Sexual Ethics & Politics<\/em>, 2<\/em>(1), 18\u201330. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3224\/insep.v2i2.19843<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scholarships, Fellowships, and Awards<\/u><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2019 \u2013 2022                SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship ($105,000)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2019 \u2013 2020                Ontario Graduate Scholarship – Declined <\/u>($15,000)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2018                            Hamlin Graduate Fellowship ($2,000)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2017 \u2013 2018                Ontario Graduate Scholarship ($15,000)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2017 \u2013 2021                Departmental Graduate Scholarship, Carleton University ($42,000)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2013 \u2013 2014                Graduate Scholarship, Wilfrid Laurier University ($3,500)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2013 \u2013 2014                University Fellowship, Wilfrid Laurier University ($4,000)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Selected Conference Activity<\/u><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Desjardins, B. (2020, October). \u201cRunning (for) the military: An ethnography of sport militarism at the Canada Army Run.\u201d ISSA Virtual Conference \u2013 Graduate Student Paper Award Panel.  (https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KjEPfoBu5CY&t=18s<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Desjardins, B. (2020, November). \u201cCheaters, Bullies, and Frauds: A discursive analysis of opposition to trans women athletes.\u201d North American Society for the Sociology of Sport. Virtual Conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Desjardins, B. (2020, June \u2013 Conference cancelled due to Covid-19). \u201cDefending the land of milk and honey: Militarism in Canadian hockey culture.\u201d The Hockey Conference 2020. Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Desjardins, B. (2019, November). \u201cEmbodying Nationalism in Ottawa Road Races.\u201d North American Society for the Sociology of Sport. Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Desjardins, B. (2019, March). \u201cWhat\u2019s affect got to do with it? The emotional sentiment of white nationalism.\u201d Law, Culture, and the Humanities, 22nd Annual Conference. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Desjardins, B. (2019, March). \u201cKneeling for the nation or standing for the status quo? Possibilities of Protest in Professional Sport.\u201d Graduate Legal Studies Association\u2019s Annual Conference. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Desjardins, B. (2018, July). \u201c\u2018Hockey is for everyone\u2122\u2019\u201d? Racism, Homophobia, and Inequality in Canada\u2019s Game.\u201d Canadian Sociological Association. XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology 2018. Toronto, Ontario, Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Desjardins, B. (2018, June). \u201cThe good old hockey game: Hockey as a site of race-making.\u201d The Hockey Conference 2018. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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