Royal Roads University

Faculty Member, Communication and Culture

Professor, Canada Research Chair (Inoovative Learning and Public Ethnography)

About

I earned my M.A. in Communication in 1999 and my Ph.D. in Sociology in 2004—both from Washington State University. My dissertation was an ethnography of the occupational culture of professors, and focused on the experience of self-authenticity in the context of professorial work. I joined Royal Roads University in 2005 and became Professor in 2011. Within the School of Communication and Culture I teach courses in research methodology and in media and cultural studies. I also deeply enjoy supervising theses in my areas of expertise, such as mobilities, embodiment, material culture studies, technology and culture, everyday life, cultural geographies, non-representational theory, and ethnography.

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