Education Ph.D. candidate (Sociology) University of Alberta, Canada theory/culture Supervisor: Rob Shields, Henry Marshall Tory Chair and professor, Departments of Sociology and Art & Design, and Director, City-Region Studies Centre Graduate coursework (Sociology) University of Calgary, Canada M.A. (Religion, Culture and Society) Lancaster University, UK Specialised in social, cultural, and religious theory Supervisor: Dr. Paul Fletcher B.A. (Religious Studies) University of British Columbia, Canada, and University of California at Berkeley, USA (year on exchange) Specialised in religious mythology & philosophy Awards (selected) Augustana Doctoral Scholar in Residence Sociology Doctoral Research Grant Government of Alberta Graduate Citizenship Award Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship - Doctoral Level University of Alberta Graduate Students' Association AEGS Community Involvement Award Dr Jean Agrios Graduate Scholarship in Sociology J. Gordin Kaplan Graduate Student Award University of Alberta Department of Sociology Graduate International Travel Scholarship University of Alberta Graduate Students' Association Graduate Research Travel Grant University of Alberta Provost Doctoral Entrance Award Publications (selected) Refereed publications Ambivalence and Strangeness in the Everyday Utopianism of Suburbia. Public Journal 43 (2011): 110-24. Ecologies of Affect: Placing Nostalgia, Desire, and Hope, co-edited with Tonya K. Davidson and Rob Shields. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2011. Illustrating Desires: The Idea and the Promise of the Suburb in Two Children’s Books. In Ecologies of Affect: Placing Nostalgia, Desire, and Hope: 169-93. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2011. Introduction, with Tonya K. Davidson and Rob Shields. In Ecologies of Affect: Placing Nostalgia, Desire, and Hope: 1-15. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2011. Conclusion: A Roundtable on the Affective Turn, with Rob Shields, Tonya K. Davidson, and the contributors. In Ecologies of Affect: Placing Nostalgia, Desire, and Hope: 317-326. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2011. Profile of Georges Henry Erasmus. In Hidden in Plain Sight, vol. 2, ed. Cora J. Voyageur, David R. Newhouse, and Dan Beavon: 418-21. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011. Community and Collaboration in Media and Arts Activism: A Case Study, with Lynette Bondarchuk. In Understanding Community Media, ed. Kevin Howley: 151-60. Thousand Oaks, IL: Sage, 2010. Popular publications On Laughter. Take Zine 5.2 (2011). The Mirth of Existential Crisis. Take Zine 5.2 (2011). Cupcakes, gender, nostalgia: The commodification and consumption of girlhoods past, with Tonya Davidson. Briarpatch Magazine 39:2 (Mar/Apr 2010): 26-28. On the Graffiti Question. Curb Magazine 1:1 (2010): 4-6. Miniature Universe: The Illustrated Alphabet. Take Zine 5.1 (2010). Graffiti: A slideshow exploring what it is and issues surrounding it. Art Central, CRSC's multimedia display for Alberta Arts Days (2009). Growing Art. Take Zine 4.1 (2009). Additional published contributions Reviewer, Space and Culture–International Journal of Social Spaces: since April 2005. Co-editor, Take Zine (publication sponsored by the Sociology Graduate Students Association and Department of Sociology, University of Alberta): since September 2006. Contributor, The Yolk (theory weblog sponsored by the Sociology Graduate Students Association, University of Alberta): since September 2006. Associate editor, Curb Magazine (publication of the City-Region Studies Centre): January 2010-April 2011. Conferences & presentations International "Ambivalent Suburbia: Ordinariness, happiness and hopefulness, and the suburban imaginary," Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, USA, Apr 2011 "Suburban Nature: Myth and ruin," Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, USA, Apr 2010 "Suburbia: placing love, the good life and utopia," Affecting the Urban: Desire, possibility and embodiment, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Boston, USA, Apr 2008 "Getting to the 'Good (W/L)ife' by Sacrificing the Bride," Crossroads in Cultural Studies, Bi-annual Conference, Association for Cultural Studies, Istanbul, Turkey, July 2006 "Liminality as Stabilizer and Meaning-Maker," Geography and Liminality: Theories and Case-Studies International Workshop, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands, July 2006 National "The Art of Suburbia: Critical utopianism and the suburban imaginary," Culture, Power and Everyday Life stream, Canadian Association of Cultural Studies Biennial Conference, Montreal, Nov 2011 "Arts Engagement in the Edmonton City-Region," Canadian Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Ottawa, May 2009 "Ideal places, placing ideals: 'The suburban' as contested urban space," Canadian Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Vancouver, Canada, June 2008 "The Perfect Bride: The Sacrificed Body of Love," Canadian Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Saskatoon, Canada, June 2007 "Edmonton Small Press Association: A Case Study of Community Cultural Development in Independent Media and Arts Activism," co-authored with Lynette Bondarchuk. Joint session in the Association of Canadian and Quebec Literatures and Canadian Comparative Literature Association Annual Meetings, Canadian Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Saskatoon, Canada, May 2007 "Unsettling the Urban: Sprawl (Suburbs and Slums)," Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association Annual Meeting, Canadian Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Toronto, Canada, June 2006 "How Suburbia is Coming to Matter," Insides, Outsides and Elsewheres, Annual Conference, Canadian Association of Cultural Studies, Edmonton, Oct 2005 "Food Insecurity, Globalisation and the Coming Empire," Society for Socialist Studies Annual Meeting, Canadian Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, London, Canada, June 2005 Regional and local "Happy Place? Suburbia as ambivalent utopia," Theory Building. 3rd Annual Space and Culture Group Theory Retreat. Lesser Slave Lake, Alberta, Sept 2010. "Art and the City-Region," Engaging Communities Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Annual Conference, University of Alberta, Edmonton, May 2009 "Suburban Nature," Arts Based Research, (a)esthetics and the human in ruins. 2nd Annual Space and Culture Group Theory Retreat, Lesser Slave Lake, Alberta, Sep 2009 "Green spaces: picking up on the pastoral in the city" with Bryan Sluggett, Space and Culture Research Group, Edmonton, Aug 2009 "How abstract thinking and 'irrelevant' research make the world better for everyone," with Heidi Bickis, International Week, University of Alberta, Jan 2008 "White Wedding: Ritual Sacrifice in Liminal Space," Fear, Space and the Subject of Violence Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Annual Conference, University of Alberta, Edmonton, May 2006 "Beyond the Everyday: The Contemporary Wedding as Rite of Passage and Space of Liminality," W. David Pierce Annual Colloquium, Department of Sociology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Nov 2005 "Exploring the Play of Nostalgia, Memory and the Imaginary in Thinking About the City and Suburbia", with Kim Livingston, Sociology in Process Seminar Series, Department of Sociology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Mar 2005 "Globalisation, Food Security and Activism," W. 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