Education
2021 Ph.D. Sociology, Simon Fraser University
Teaching
Policies and practices students can expect in my classes:
- Guiding Questions of the Day and clearly marked key concepts to help students focus on the most important content.
- Structured breaks, for example, no classes on the Fridays before spring / fall breaks.
- A set number of automatically excused absences so you do not have to justify absences or share private health and family information with your professor for your absences to be excused.
- In the classes that have quizzes, they are open-note.
- "Temperature checks" for student-centered collective consent, decision making, and feedback.
- Built-in extra credit - when life gets in the way and students miss class content, they don't have to hustle to catch up; they get to move on from missed work and still have a chance to earn 100%.
Research
My scholarship examines how normative categories are constructed and naturalized through medical discourse.