- Program Director | Instructor | Internship Coordinator, School of Health and Human Performance, Dalhousie University, Dalhousie University
I used hegemonic and hybrid masculinities theories, Deleuzian theory, and interrogated a feminist ethics of care to learn about and critique the discourses of masculinity in online men’s rights communities on Reddit. My dissertation research seeks to question the socio-political impacts of masculinities discourses, the role that media communities and platforms have on individuals and social life, and the implications of these discourses and media landscapes on power and domination.
I am currently a postdoctoral fellow at Université du Québec à Montréal with the International Network on Technology, Work and Family (INTWAF). My research in this position seeks to understand manager relationships with surveillance software and its effects on workplace leadership, trust, and employee satisfaction. The first phase of this research is focused on managers who are also involved in a personal privacy-oriented online community, and so the ethical implications of using this technology are of particular interest in addition to the practical use information about employee surveillance.
Experience
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2023–presentInstructor, Dalhousie University
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2021–2023Postdoctoral Fellow in International Network on Technology, Work, and Family, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
Education
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2022University of Waterloo, PhD, Faculty of Health
Publications
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2025Scholar and student wellness while confronting violence and ignorance: Can we trust our institutions when we are targeted, Studies in Social Justice
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2025Section 5: Sex, gender, sexuality and the outdoor leisure body, In. Baker, M. & Carr, N. (eds). Inclusion and Equity in Outdoor Leisure: Whose Body Belongs
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2025Leisure, Technology, and Far/New-Right Ideologies in 4 Parts, In Lashua, B., Spracklen, K., & Yuen, F. (eds). Research Handbook on the Sociology of Leisure
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2025‘Trying to talk white male teenagers off the alt-right ledge’ and other impacts of masculinist influencers on teachers, Gender and Education
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2024Navigating a feminist ethics of care, ethnographic methods, and academic activism in researching men’s rights and the far right: a researcher’s struggles, In: Vaughan, A., Braune, J., Tinsley, M., & Mondon, A. (Eds.) The Ethics of Researching the Far & Extreme Right
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2024La surveillance des employés et la nouvelle réalité du travail, In Ollier-Malaterre, A. & Parent-Rocheleau, X. (eds). Le management à l'ère numérique : nouvelles pratiques, réalités et régulations
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2024Confronting and (Re)constructing “Conquest Culture” in Outdoor Adventure: A Critical Analysis of #Microadventure Content on Facebook and Instagram, Journal of Outdoor Recreation, Education, and Leadership
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2023“Are there any other male friendly subs on here?” - Online men's rights groups as simultaneous communities of care and entrees into soft misogyny, supremacist discourses, and pipelines to radicalization, Leisure/Loisirs: special issue on Leisure, Inclusion and Belonging
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2023The Right to Disconnect: A Policy Innovation First Step, Stanford Social Innovation Review
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2023Methodology in Motion: Reflections on using Appnography, Qualitative Inquiry
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2023Surveillance, Capitalism, Leisure, and Data: Being Watched, Giving, Becoming, Leisure Sciences
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2023Diritto e volontà di disconnessione, due elementi che devono viaggiare in parallelo, Harvard Business Review Italia
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2023Employee Surveillance Technologies: Prevalence, Classification, and Invasiveness, Surveillance & Society
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2022Digital Research for Social Justice, In Johnson, C.W. & Parry, D.C. (Eds.) Fostering Social Justice through Qualitative Inquiry: A Methodological Guide, 2 nd Edition
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2022From #Gamergate to #Feminism: Gender & Leisure, In: Schneider, I.E. & Kivel, B.D. (Eds) Diversity & the Recreation Profession: Organizational Perspectives, 4 th Ed
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2021“A Positive Identity for Men”? Pathways to far-right participation through /r/MensRights and /r/TheRedPill, In Devries, M., Bessant, J. & Watts, R. (Eds.), The Rise of the Far-Right: Technologies of Recruitment & Mobilization
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2021Sailing Away on the SS Academe: A Discussion of Current Graduate Student Experience in Leisure, SCHOLE: A Journal of Leisure Studies and Recreation Education
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2021Sex, Power, and Controlling Bodies: The Incels and Pickup Artists, In D.C. Parry & C.W. Johnson (Eds.) Promiscuous Perspectives: Sex and Leisure
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2021‘What’s my score?’: The complexities of straight male Geo-Social Networking Application use, Leisure Studies
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2021“Entitled to everything responsible for nothing:” Gendered Discourses of Antifeminism, Biological Determinism, and Violence in Two Communities of Reddit’s Manosphere, AG About Gender - International Journal of Gender Studies
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2020Are you sure you want to view this community? Exploring the ethics of Reddit’s quarantine practice, Journal of Digital Ethics
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2019Volunteering as meaning-making in the transition to retirement, Canadian Journal of Nonprofit and Social Economy Research
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2018Camper Self-Concept Promotes Environmental Awareness: A Relationship Mediated by Social Inclusion, ournal of Youth Development
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2015How Expectations Do Not Equate with Practice: The Gendered Reality of the Female Resident Assistant, Journal of College & University Student Housing
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2012Pervasive patriarchal leadership ideology in seasonal residential summer camp staff, Leadersip
Grants and Contracts
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2025Radicalization: Rural experiences and Prevention Needs. Collaboration between Canadian Institute for Far-Right Studies and White Ribbon
- Role:
- Co-Applicant
- Funding Source:
- Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety
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2024Safe and Meaningful Camp spaces for queer youth: Exploring safe and welcoming overnight camp experiences
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- PI
- Funding Source:
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
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2024Countering Disinformation About The 2SLGBTQI+ Community in Rural Canada: Investigating How Canadians Interact with the Anti-SOGI Movement in Alberta, British Columbia, and Nova Scotia
- Role:
- Co-PI
- Funding Source:
- Digital Citizen Contribution Program. Ministry of Canadian Heritage
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2023Talking Masculinity: Developing interventionist programs for teachers and youth workers in Aotearoa
- Role:
- Co-PI
- Funding Source:
- Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism Fund, Government of New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs
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2018Learning Innovation and Teaching Enhancement (LITE) Seed Grant
- Role:
- Lecturer
- Funding Source:
- University of Waterloo
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2017Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Canadian Graduate Scholarship (SSHRC CGS-D)
- Role:
- PhD Candidate
- Funding Source:
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
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