My primary research areas include the politics of higher education, social reproduction, labour, migration, and debt. I'm interested in how privatization, financialization, and transnational labour migration shape and are shaped by the daily and intergenerational work involved in sustaining and reproducing people, households, communities, and labour markets.

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I have published on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on temporary labour migration and processes of privatization impacting reproductive health care in Ontario. My completed dissertation, “The Costs of Inclusion: Debt, Migration, and the Privatization of Post-Secondary Education in Canada," examines the impact of the privatization of higher education on students, particularly indebted and/or international students, in Canada.

 

My doctoral research emerges, in part, from my experiences as a graduate student worker and union executive member at York University, where I observed pressures placed on universities and students to treat higher education as an investment, rather than an entitlement.  It also stems from my experience as Founding and Managing Editor of GUTS Magazine, a leader in digital feminist publishing. During my seven years at GUTS, I  wrote and edited articles on the effects of exploitation and indebtedness among young people. This experience roots me in a community of artists, journalists, and emerging scholars thinking about and living through the reality of youth precariousness and indebtedness, and continues to frame how I approach my academic research.