I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Science's Law & Society program. As teaching-stream faculty, I am especially interested in scholarly teaching and effective pedagogy, with a particular focus on technologically-enhanced, online, and AI-aware approaches to learning.

As an interdisciplinary scholar, I wrote my doctoral thesis ("Reece's Pieces: The Limits of Law and the Life Sentences of Lucy the Elephant") at the intersection of legal studies, animal studies, and cultural studies. Through examining the debate over the welfare of Lucy the elephant both inside and outside Canadian courtrooms, I became starkly aware of something that now informs my approach to teaching in the Law & Society program: the gap between the hopes and expectations everyday people have for what the law can do and the very real limits of what the law is actually capable of addressing. Particularly through general education courses I regularly now teach, I aim to help students with non-specialist knowledge to discern the ways in which contemporary social issues both are and are not effectively engaged with by our legal system.

Research Interests

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Science's Law & Society program. As teaching-stream faculty, I am especially interested in scholarly teaching and effective pedagogy, with a particular focus on technologically-enhanced, online, and AI-aware approaches to learning.

As an interdisciplinary scholar, I wrote my doctoral thesis ("Reece's Pieces: The Limits of Law and the Life Sentences of Lucy the Elephant") at the intersection of legal studies, animal studies, and cultural studies. Through examining the debate over the welfare of Lucy the elephant both inside and outside Canadian courtrooms, I became starkly aware of something that now informs my approach to teaching in the Law & Society program: the gap between the hopes and expectations everyday people have for what the law can do and the very real limits of what the law is actually capable of addressing. Particularly through general education courses I regularly now teach, I aim to help students with non-specialist knowledge to discern the ways in which contemporary social issues both are and are not effectively engaged with by our legal system.

Degrees

Professional Leadership

I have served as Coordinator for two departmental programs (the Law & Society and Foundations) while also regularly chairing the departmental Curriculum Committee and Teaching Development Committee.

Research Interests