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Dr Tina Sikka

Reader in Technoscience and Intersectional Justice

  • Email: tina.sikka@ncl.ac.uk
  • Address: Department of Media, Culture and Heritage
    School of Arts and Cultures
    Rm 2.84 Armstrong Building
    NE17RU
Background

Dr. Tina Sikka is Reader in Technoscience and Intersectional Justice in the School of Arts and Culture at Newcastle University, UK. Her current research includes the critical and intersectional study of science, applied to climate change, bodies, and health, as well as research on consent, sexuality, and restorative justice.Dr. Sikka also works in the areas of decolonisation, bordering practices, and DEI.



Dr. Sikka’s book, Health Apps, Genetic Diets, and Superfoods: When Biopolitics Meets Neoliberalism (Bloomsbury, 2023), uses autoethnography, science and technology studies, and new materialism to examine what constitutes ‘good health’ and explore possibilities for enacting health justice. Her previous book, Sex, Consent, and Justice: A New Feminist Framework (Edinburgh University Press, 2021) offers a novel approach to sexual ethics and transformative forms of justice using case studies from #MeToo, while her first book, Climate Technology, Gender, and Justice: The Standpoint of the Vulnerable (Springer, 2019), draws on feminist science studies to explore the science underpinning solar climate engineering. 


Dr. Sikka has published articles in such noted journals as Sexuality, Gender and Policy, The Nordic Journal in Feminist and Gender Research; The Journal of the Swiss Anthropological Association; Capitalism, Nature, Socialism; Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation, and Culture; and Food, Culture, Society. She has also contributed interviews, articles and expertise to public-facing media outlets including Huffpost, Jacobin, Public Seminar, and The Conversation. She is an avid podcaster, appearing on both academic and popular podcasts, and has been invited to speak at international conferences, symposia, and corporate panels. 


Dr. Sikka’s work on EDI, and current role as Director of EDI in The School of Arts and Cultures at Newcastle University, has led to invitations to lead workshops and she acts as a consultant on race, gender, and the workplace, cancel culture, and equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in the public and private sectors.



Roles and responsibilities at Newcastle University:



  • Director of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion: School of Arts and Cultures (2022-2025)
  • Seconded to the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, RED Fellow to School X
  • Central author of Media, Culture, Heritage anti-racism statement
  • Lead on Media, Culture, and Heritage’s Pedagogical, Pastoral, and Inclusivity Project
  • Research Ethics Committee Member
  • Board Member: University Gender Research Group
  • Health and Safety Committee Member
  • Currently serving as Head of Postgraduate Research (2018-2022)
  • Head of Postgraduate Scholarships (2018-2022)



Education:


School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC

SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow (2010-2012)

Supervisor: Dr. Andrew Feenberg (Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Technology)


Faculty of Communication and Culture, York University, Toronto, Ontario

PhD. Faculty of Arts, in the Joint Graduate Program in Communication and Culture (2004-2008)

Dissertation title: ‘Recuperating Politics from Derrida: A Pragmatist Critique.’

Advisor: Dr. Myles Ruggles


Department of Mass Communication, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario

MA, Journalism and Mass Communication (2003-2004)

Thesis title: ‘The Relationship between Technology and the Future in Modern and Postmodern Thought.’

Advisor: Dr. Sheryl Hamilton


School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC

Post-Baccalaureate Diploma in Communications (2002-2003)


School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC

BA in Communications (1997-2002)



Other platforms and resources:


Academia 

Google Scholar 

Orcid

Personal website

Linkedin

Twitter






Research

Dr Sikka’s current research includes the critical and intersectional study of science, applied to climate change, bodies, and health, as well as research on consent, sexuality, and restorative justice. She has published books, several dozens of peer-reviewed articles, media articles and blogs, book reviews, participated in over a dozen of podcasts, spoken at invited lectures and participated in conferences/symposiums/keynotes.


See below for a list of her professional associations and activities; successful funding applications; and list of publications.


Professional Associations/Activities


Funding

Current and recently completed funded projects include:


1. Newcastle University QR Policy Funds (£14500). ‘Sexual Ethics in HE: Exploring the Future of University Policy,’ 2023. 

2. QR EDI Funds (£1500). ‘Sexual Ethics and Lived Experience: Empowering Sexual Futures Art and Sound Exhibit,’ 2023.

3. QR Global Fund (£500). ‘EDI Event: Intersectionality and Students Experience’, 2023

4. PI, Violence Abuse and Mental Health Network and UKRI Grant (£15000). ‘Sexual Violence and Lived Experience: New Futures,’ 2022.

5. Newcastle University Faculty Research Training Programme Fellowship (FTRP) 2022-2024.

6. Newcastle University Global Fund (£593.59). ‘Disruption and Belonging: HASS PGR Experience.’ (2022)

7. Newcastle University QRSPF Research to Policy Fund (£8401). ‘A qualitative, experiential, and policy-driven study of Covid-19 through the lens of gender, race, and fatness’ (2022)

8. Co-I, NERC (£98, 326). ‘Making Environmental Science Equal, Diverse, and Inclusive.’ (2021-2022).

9. Newcastle University QR SPF Research to Policy Fund (£3,594.99). ‘Covid-19 and Race: News Coverage of Structural Racism and the Role of John Henryism and Racial Weathering in BAME Covid-19 Deaths’ (2021)

10. Newcastle University Policy Fellowship 2019-2020

11. Faculty Bid Preparation (£800): ‘Anti-Carceral Feminism and Consent in the Age of #MeToo’ (2020)

12. Faculty Research Fund (£1300): ‘Anti-Carceral Feminism and Consent in the Age of #MeToo’ (2019).

13. Winner of the International Award for Excellence in the area of Climate Change: Impacts and Responses for my article Geoengineering in a World Risk Society. Awarded by Common Ground Publishing (2012).

14. SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship “Awarded”; 2 years at Simon Fraser University (2010-2012).


Dr Sikka was the Country Coordinator for Canada in 2015 for the Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP). The GMMP works to pursue gender equality in news media. In March 2015, the project completed a global day of monitoring in which a multiplicity of news media in over 100 countries was monitored in order to present a snapshot of how women are represented in mainstream news both quantitatively and qualitatively. Dr Sikka oversaw a team of students monitoring the media, and prepared and wrote the country report for Canada.


Reviews/Book Reviews

Virgie Tovar. ‘The Self-Love Revolution: Radical Positivity for Girls of Color’, Fat Studies, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21604851.2020.1797351.

Debbie Rodan, Kate Ellis and Pia Lebeck. ‘Disability, Obesity and Ageing: Popular Media Representations’, The Popular Cultural Studies Journal, Vol 4 (1&2), 499-503, 2016.

Johanna Oksala. ‘Feminist Experiences: Foucauldian and Phenomenological Investigations’, Phenomenological Reviews: http://reviews.ophen.org/2016/05/27/johanna-oksala-feminist-experiences-foucauldian-phenomenological-investigations/

Allen Thompson and Jeremly Bendik-Keymer, Ed. ‘Ethical Adaptation to Climate Change: Human Virtues of the Future’, Perspectives on Politics, Vol. 11(3): 936-939, 2013.

Elmer J. Thiessen. ‘Ethics of Evangelism: A Philosophical Defense of Proselytizing and Persuasion’, Canadian Journal of Communication, Vol. 37(4), 2012.

John D. Jackson et al. ‘Mediated Society: A Critical Sociology of Media’, Canadian Journal of Communication, Vol. 37(3), 2012.


Articles/Blog Posts/Podcasts/Public Talks

August 1 2023. “Sex, Consent and Justice II: Culture, Sex, Relationships.” Culture Sex Relationships. https://soundcloud.com/

culturesexrelationships/tina-sikka-sex-consent-and-justice-ii?fbclid=IwAR3uPk9oMgMWoUvO5nGX9nWcaCO3Gpoq4UyycFBG2Yf0XTaZUSP2AY6UkoA

October 10 2022. “Gender Based Violence & Victim Support Services” TransClusive Podcast. https://transclusive.captivate.fm/episode/dr-tina-sikka 

March 7 2022. "Sex, Consent and Justice: A New Feminist Framework" (Edinburgh UP, 2021).” New Books in Critical Theory Podcast. https://newbooksnetwork.com/sex-consent-and-justice

January 2022. “Tina Sikka: Sex, Consent and Justice.” Culture, Sex, Relationships. https://soundcloud.com/culturesexrelationships/tina-sikka-sex-consent-and-justice

November 29 2021. “Climate Engineering: An Examination of the Skies Through the Lens of Art, and Culture.” Backchannels: Society for Social Studies of Science. https://www.4sonline.org/4s-publications/backchannels/

December 1 2021. “A Conversation with Tina Sikka on ‘Sex, Consent and Justice.’” Edinburgh University Press Blog. https://euppublishingblog.com/2021/12/01/a-conversation-with-tina-sikka-on-sex-consent-and-justice/

July 5 2021. “Covid-19 Myths, Misconceptions and Rumours with Dr Tina Sikka.” From Newcastle: Newcastle University. https://podcasts.ncl.ac.uk/fromnewcastle/

January 2021. “Covid-19, Fatness, and Risk: Medico-Media Discourses and Stigma.” Platypus: The Castac Blog. http://blog.castac.org/author/tinasikka/

December 11 2020. “Tina Sikka reads Helen Longino.” Give Theory and Chance Podcast. 

September 1, 2020. ‘Media, Ideology and Social Justice.’ Murmurations. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/murmurations-11-media-ideology-social-justice-dr-tina/id1521912808?i=1000489795409.

July 2020. ‘What is Cancel Culture Interview.” Huffpost. ’https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/what-is-cancel-culture_uk_5f08a1ddc5b63a72c341535b

July 13, 2020. ‘Fugitivity: How Black Studies Can Help Us Rethink The Refugee.’ Dismantle. https://www.dismantlemag.com/2020/07/13/fugitivity-black-studies-rethink-refugee/

May 27, 2020. ‘BMI, Race, and Bodies: How Race Science Reemerges in the Unlikeliest of Places.’ Nursing Clio. https://nursingclio.org/2020/05/27/bmi-race-and-bodies-how-race-science-reemerges-in-the-unlikeliest-of-places/

May 29, 2020. ‘Racialisation, COVID-19 and Bioessentialism.’ Transforming Society, Bristol University Press. http://www.transformingsociety.co.uk/2020/05/29/racialisation-covid-19-and-bioessentialism/

April 27, 2020. ‘The Meaning(s) of Medical Masks: Hygiene, Fashion, Solidarity — and care.’ Public Seminar.

https://publicseminar.org/2020/04/the-meanings-of-medicalmasks/?

utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-meanings-of-medical-masks

April 14, 2020. ‘How Genetic Diets and Health Tech Turn Food into Surveillance Tools with Dr. Tina Sikka.’ AnthroDish: 

https://www.anthrodish.com/episodes/tinasikka

February, 2020. ‘Race Science, Ancestry Tests, and Capitalism. Surviving Society Podcast.

https://soundcloud.com/user-622675754/ss-tina

December 13, 2019. ‘Two Arguments to Help Decide Whether to ‘Cancel’ Someone and Their Work.’ The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/two-arguments-to-help-decide-whether-to-cancel-someone-and-their-work-128411

December 11, 2019. ‘Health and Justice: Neoliberalism, Apps and the Limits of Individual Choice.’ Areo. https://areomagazine.com/2019/12/11/health-and-justice-neoliberalism-apps-and-the-limits-of-individual-choice/

December 8, 2019. ‘Social Media Penetrates Every Aspect of Our Online Lives for Profit.’ Truthout. https://truthout.org/articles/social-media-penetrates-every-aspect-of-our-online-lives-for-profit/ by Tina Sikka, Florian Zollmann, Daniel Broudy & Jeffery Klaehn

August 15, 2019. ‘Neoliberal Capitalism and the Limits of Individual Choice. Alternet. https://www.alternet.org/author/tinasikka/. 

July 10, 2019. ‘Will the Idea of Intergenerational Justice Mobilize Us Into Climate Action? An Interrogation of the Politics of Climate Change. Public Seminar. http://www.publicseminar.org/2019/07/will-the-idea-of-intergenerational-justice-mobilize-us-into-climate-action/

July 2019. ‘Why We Need A Feminist Climate Science and How We Might Get It.’ LadyScience. https://www.ladyscience.com/features/why-we-need-a-feminist-climate-science-and-how-we-might-get-it

July 2019. ‘Episode 21: How Women Built the Environmental Movement.’ Podcast: LadyScience. 

June 25, 2019. ‘Against Twenty-First-Century Race Science.’ Jacobin. https://www.jacobinmag.com/author/tina-sikka

June 6, 2019. ‘Politics of categorization: Race and blood.’ Sociology Lens: https://www.sociologylens.net/topics/race-and-ethnicity/politics-categorization-race-blood/24530

April 2019. ‘035 - Climate Technology, Gender, and Justice, with Tina Sikka.’ Podcast: General Intellect Unit: 

March 21, 2019. ‘Climate Technology, Gender, and Justice: The Standpoint of the Vulnerable.’ Podcast: New Books in Critical Theory:

https://newbooksnetwork.com/tina-sikka-climate-technology-gender-and-justice-the-standpoint-of-the-vulnerable-springer-2019/

September 5, 2018. ‘What not to watch: #MeToo and contemporary popular culture’ Sociology Lens: http://www.sociologylens.net/article-types/opinion/not-watch-metoo-contemporary-popular-culture/21836

September 4, 2018. ‘#MeToo: Can We Still Consume The Work Of ‘Bad Men’? Feminists in India: https://feminisminindia.com/2018/09/06/post-metoo-consume-work-bad-men/

May 30, 2018. ‘An Intersectional Analysis Of Geoengineering, with Tina Sikka.’ General Intellect Unit Podcast: https://player.fm/series/general-intellect-unit-2362935/ep-016-an-intersectional-analysis-of-geoengineering-with-tina-sikka

May 17, 2018. ‘An Intersectional Analysis of Geoengineering: Overlapping Oppressions and the Demand for Ecological Citizenship,’ Shift and Signal School Workshop and Podcast: https://thenewbridgeproject.com/taxonomies_events/talks/ & https://soundcloud.com/user-772580414

January 26, 2017. ‘Virtuous, vulnerable and burdened: how feminism is undermined by making everything ‘a feminist issue.’ The F Word: Contemporary UK Feminism: https://www.thefword.org.uk/2017/01/virtuous-vulnerable-and-burdened-how-feminism-is-undermined-by-making-everything-a-feminist-issue/

September 20, 2016. ‘Virtuous, vulnerable and burdened: how feminism is undermined by making everything ‘a feminist issue.’ Sociological Imagination: http://sociologicalimagination.org/archives/18848/comment-page-1.

May 19, 2016. ‘How Will Gender Affect the Practice of Medically Assisted Dying?’ Ottawa Citizen: http://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/columnists/sikka-how-will-gender-affect-the-practice-of-medically-assisted-dying (Print, A8).

May 6, 2016. ‘We Need to Address the Gender Biases in the Physician Assisted Dying Debate.’ Canadian Progressive: http://www.canadianprogressiveworld.com/?s=sikka 

June 2, 2014. ‘Contested Spaces: An Opening to Geoengineer the Planet?’ Washington Geoengineering Consortium: http://dcgeoconsortium.org/2014/06/02/contested-spaces-an-opening-to-geoengineer-the-planet-guest-post-tina-sikka-simon-fraser-university/


Invited Lectures/Talks

September 7-8. “Sexual Ethics, Art, and Lived Experience.” Invited talk. Narratives of Law in the Exhibition Space, Liverpool University, Faculty of Law.

June 16 2023, “Sexual Ethics and Lived Experience.” Sensitive Subjects: Creative Practice and Ethics. Newcastle Medical Humanities Network. 

April 28 2022. “Cancel Culture Panel Event.” inmarsat: Eden Network (global, mobile satellite communications). https://www.inmarsat.com/en/index.html

March 7 2022. Lecture. "Law in the #MeToo Era" Seminar Series. Osgood Hall Law School, York University.

November 5, 2021. “Decolonizing Research: An Approach to Writing for Students.” The New School Student Senate: Afro and Indigenous Futures Series.

September 2020. ‘'What to do about #MeToo? Consent, Autonomy, and Restorative Justice a Case Study.' Bowes Museum: The Power and The Virtue. https://www.blimeycollective.co.uk/onlineseries

November 2018. Talk: ‘Intersectionality in Scientific Spaces: Climate Change and Medically Assisted Dying.’ Newcastle University Feminist Society.

October 2018. Workshop: ‘Intersectionality in Scientific Spaces.’ A Dialogue on Language and Labels. A 3-part workshop series. Newcastle University.

October, 2018. Talk: ‘Science in Public Spaces.’ Newcastle Medical School


Creative Practice

VAMHN and UKRI project digital installation (2023). ‘Sexual Violence and Lived Experience: New Futures,’ https://www.theasys.io/viewer/twfpg1ROwzjaz8Bmh0C04GOH1aL0Fy/.

Co-authored digital space on consent (2020-2021). ‘Spaces of Consent.’ https://www.lladykitt.com/spaces-of-consent. 

‘Spaces of Consent’ included in: ‘Reimagining Justice’ exhibition, National Center on Restorative Justice, Vermont, USA, 2021 

‘Spaces of Consent’ presented at the Nasty Women London exhibition, Open House Hackney, London, UK, March 2022.

ESRC Project Sole Lead: Produced Anti-Racist and Decolonial Podcast Series for Postgraduate Scholarship Recruitment (2021): https://www.ninedtp.ac.uk/podcast-series/


Conferences/Symposia/Keynotes 

Society for the History ofTechnology (SHOT) Annual Conference, Long

Beach, California. “Indigenous knowledge and new materialism" (October 27-29 2023).

NIAS Conference 2023: Belonging and Mobility, Amsterdam.“Belonging, Scholarship and the Politics of Labour: International Graduate Students.” (October 19-20 2023).

Workshop Facilitator for an Arts England Funded

Project. “Exploring Models of Sexual Ethics and Consent using Theatre of the Oppressed.” (August 30 2023).

Consultant and speaker for an Arts England funded project. "Justice Recitation" (July 1 2023).

Sensitive Subjects: Creative Practice and Ethics.Newcastle Medical Humanities Network. “Sexual Ethics and Lived Experience.” (June 16 2023).

6th Nordic STS Conference (TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture, Oslo, Norway). Who is FemTech for? Intersectional Interventions (June 7-8 2023).

Research Event Keynote, ‘Sexual Violence and Lived Experience: New Futures,’ (Feb 2, 2023).

Book Launch and Symposium: ‘Sex, Consent, and Justice: A New Feminist Framework” (online)

Talk and panel. Newcastle University, Gender Research Group (March 17, 2022)

Spaces of Consent Symposium/Panel (online)

Talk: “Spaces of Consent.” Newcastle University, Gender Research Group (April 29-30th 2021)

Swiss STS Conference (online due to Covid-19)

Multiple Matters (February 16th 2021). Invited Talk: “The neoliberalization of sleep: A discursive and materialist analysis of sleep technologies.”

NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (online due to Covid-10)

Invited Talk: “Feminist Materialism and Covid-19: The Agential Activation of Everyday Objects” (February 26th 2021).

British Sociological Association (online due to Covid-19)

Remaking the Future (April 13-15 2020). ‘Feminist Materialism and Covid-19: The Agential Activation of Everyday Objects.”

Massey University (online due to Covid-19)

Invited Talk: Fat Studies: Past, Present, Futures (June 18-July 8 2020). ‘The Medicalization, App-ification, and Genetification of Fatness.’

British Sociological Association (paper accepted but cancelled to Covid-19)

Reimaginating Social Bodies: Self, Institutions and Societes (April 21-23 2020). ‘Sleeping Apps: The New Frontier.’

Cardiff Metropolitan University

Institute of Medical Ethics (June 24-26th 2019). ‘Barriers to Access: A Feminist Analysis of Medically Assisted Dying and the Experience of Marginalized Groups.’

University of Copenhagen

The Digitally Engaged Patient (June 11-12 2019). ‘Personalized Nutritional Genomics: An Analysis of the Intersection of Racialization, Nutritional Reductionism, and Nutritional Capital.’

University of Gottingen, Germany

10th European Feminist Research Conference (September 12-15th 2018). ‘An Intersectional Analysis of Geoengineering: Overlapping Oppressions and the Demand for Ecological Citizenship.’

Umbra Institute, Perugia Italy

Perugia Food and Sustainability Conference (June 7-10 2018). ‘The Contradictions of a Superfood Identity in a Postfeminist, Neoliberal World.’

Manchester University, UK

DSA2018 (Development Studies Association): Global Inequalities (June 27-29 2018). ‘Geoengineering, Neoliberalism, and the Ethics of Care.’

University College Dublin, Ireland

Trust, Expert Opinion and Policy: A Multidisciplinary Conference (August 31-September 2 2017) ‘Feminist Epistemology and Trust in Climate Modelling.’

University of York, UK

Food as a Feminist Issue (June 30, 2017) ‘Contemporary Superfood Cults: Nutritionism, Neoliberalism and Gender.’

Cambridge University, UK

ESRC Climate Ethics and Climate Economics/Centre for Study of Existential Risk (May 8-10th, 2017). ‘Feminist Epistemology: A Reevaluation of Uncertainty, Risk, and Climate Disruption.’

Antwerp, Belgium

Science Shaping the World of Tomorrow (March, 2015). ‘Imagining Climate Mitigation: Geoengineering, Sustainability and Justice’ 

San Jose, Costa Rica

10th International Conference of the International Developmental Ethics Association (July 2014). ‘Contested Spaces: Geoengineering, Developmentalism and Governance’

UBC, Vancouver, BC

8th International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability (January 2012). ‘A Critical Assessment of the Economic Study of Geoengineering’ 

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Climate Change Conference (July 2011). Climate Change and its Global Implications for People, Ethics and Equity. ‘Geoengineering in a World Risk Society.’ 

Virtual Conference

Klima 2011/Climate 2011. ‘Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management

'An Analysis of the Connection between Climate Change, Technological Solutions and Potential Disaster Management: The Contribution of Geoengineering Research.' Article was peer reviewed and published.

Trinity Western University Langley, BC

BC Political Science Association (May 2011). Politics in Transformation. ‘Politics of Geoengineering.’

Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec

Canadian Communication Association (CCA) Conference (June 2010). Chair: ‘Rethinking Research’

University of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Alberta

Canadian Communication Association Conference (June 2007). ‘Derrida, Habermas and the Question of Consensus’

York University, Toronto, ON

Intersections Graduate Conference (March, 2006). Chair: ‘Right Here: Rethinking Relativism and Pluralism’

York University, Toronto, Ontario

Canadian Communication Association Conference (June 2006). ‘Indigenous Knowledge and the Regulatory Discourses of Environmental Risk: Globalization, Biotechnology, and Social Justice’

Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY

Media Environments and the Liberal Arts Conference (June 2004). ‘Discourse of National Security and War.’ 

University of Winnipeg, Manitoba

Canadian Communication Association Conference (June 2004). ‘Technology and the Myth of Progress’

Tulane University, New Orleans

Console-ing Passions: The International Conference of Feminism and Television, Video, New Media, and Audio (June 2004). ‘Feminism, McLuhan, and Media Effects’

Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario

Symposium on Conflict Resolution (February 2004). ‘Technology and War.’

Teaching

Newcastle University

Lecturer in Media, Culture, Heritage, January (2017-present)

Reader in Technoscience and Intersectional Justice 

Senior Fellow of AdvanceHE (formerly the Higher Education Academy)

HSS8007: Qualitative Methods (PGR Training)

MCH8081 : Representations: Feminism, Race and Intersectionality

MCH8081: Feminist Media Studies: Gender and Intersectionality (elapsed)

MCH2065: Race and Identity

MCH2069: Research Methodologies (UG & PG)

MCH2075: Representations: Identity, Culture and Society 

MCH2013: Food and Gender

MCH8177: Politics, Power and Communication



Previous Teaching experience includes:


Simon Fraser University, Fraser International College, University of the Fraser Valley (2002-2017)

Teaching Assistant:

Introduction to Communication (2002)

Readings in Marshall McLuhan (2003)

Qualitative Methodologies (2003)

Social Production of Popular Music (2009)

Media and Audiences (2009)

Introduction to Communication (2007, 2008)

Social Design (2007, 2008)

Lecturer:

International Communication (2009)

Introduction to Communication (2009)

Introduction to Mass Communication (2010)

Media and Audiences (2010)

Political Economy (2010)

Social Dimensions of Advertising (2010)

Introduction to Mass Communication (2010)

Technology and Gender (2013-2015)


York University (2004-2007)

Course Director:

Communication Theory; 3rd year (2006-2007)

Teaching Assistant:

Introduction to Communication (2006)

Technology and Culture/New Media (2004-2007)

Research Assistant:

- Supervisor: Dr. Myles Ruggles. 

Intellectual property rights, philosophy of bioinformatics, genetic modification of foodcrops (corn) in Mexico (2004-2007).

- Supervisor: Dr. Rosemary Coombe 

Restructured Dr. Coombe’s doctoral course in cultural studies and her graduate course on transnationalism (2006-2007) 


Carleton University (2003-2004)

Teaching Assistant 

Introduction to Mass Communication 

Publications