About Me

I am an inter-disciplinary academic working in the political ecology and political economy traditions with a professional background in the environmental monitoring and sampling. I hold a PhD from York University’s Department of Politics. My dissertation research analyzed the conditions under which fossil fuel assets are deserted by their operators in Alberta, Canada. In this research, I employed interview data, regulatory grey literature, and geological/ecological scientific publications to develop a critical environmental history of the province’s resource development. To my knowledge, I offered the first critique of this region’s fossil fuel liability management regime through these combined critical physical geologic and political economic framework. I am in the process of editing my dissertation into a book manuscript entitled Slow Motion Landslide: Deserted Fossil Fuel Assets and Political Power in Alberta, to be published by UBC Press in 2027.

I am a research collaborator on a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council funded project examining intercontinental resource extraction entitled Contested Energy Futures. We are currently editing a collected volume of vignettes detailing corporate tactics to access resource basins, and the resistances to these tactics, entitled The Corporate Strategies Playbook.

While at York University, I served in several roles for the student and labour unions on campus. In the first year of my studies, I was the Vice President Community Relations for the York University Graduate Students’ Association. In following years, I served in multiple positions on CUPE 3903‘s Executive Committee during collective bargaining and subsequent strike. These days, I am also a part-time carpenter working throughout the city of Cleveland, Ohio.