CV HIGHLIGHTS
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Assistant Teaching Professor, Sociology and Politics, Thompson Rivers University
December 2019 – Present
Co-editor of Neos: A Publication of the Anthropology of Children and Youth Interest Group
December 2021 – Present
Executive Board Member, Program Co-chair, and Mentorship Coordinator, Society for the Anthropology of Work
January 2020 – Present
Term Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Simon Fraser University
Spring 2018, Fall 2019 (Sessional Instructor Fall 2016 and Fall 2018)
Term Lecturer, Labour Studies Program, Simon Fraser University
Summer 2019
Instructor, Department of Social, Cultural, and Media Studies, University of the Fraser Valley
January 2019 – Present
Instructor, Department of Anthropology, Kwantlen Polytechnic University
May 2018 – April 2019
Contributing Editor and Section Editor, Society for Cultural Anthropology
2014 – 2019
Youth Worker and Group Facilitator, Various Settlement Organizations and School Districts
2008 – 2017
December 2019 – Present
Co-editor of Neos: A Publication of the Anthropology of Children and Youth Interest Group
December 2021 – Present
Executive Board Member, Program Co-chair, and Mentorship Coordinator, Society for the Anthropology of Work
January 2020 – Present
Term Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Simon Fraser University
Spring 2018, Fall 2019 (Sessional Instructor Fall 2016 and Fall 2018)
Term Lecturer, Labour Studies Program, Simon Fraser University
Summer 2019
Instructor, Department of Social, Cultural, and Media Studies, University of the Fraser Valley
January 2019 – Present
Instructor, Department of Anthropology, Kwantlen Polytechnic University
May 2018 – April 2019
Contributing Editor and Section Editor, Society for Cultural Anthropology
2014 – 2019
Youth Worker and Group Facilitator, Various Settlement Organizations and School Districts
2008 – 2017
Education
PhD (anthropology), Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Simon Fraser University, 2018
MA, Department of Anthropology, University of Victoria, 2010
BA (hons), Department of Anthropology, University of Victoria, 2007
- Dissertation: "To Live My Life": An ethnography of cross-border life and kinship from the perspectives of Filipina/o-Canadian youths
- Supervisory Committee: Professors Parin Dossa, Noel Dyck, and Kathleen Millar
- External Examiners: Professors Rhacel Salazar Parreñas and Habiba Zaman
- Funding: Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship; CD Nelson Memorial Entrance Scholarship
MA, Department of Anthropology, University of Victoria, 2010
- Thesis: Transnationally Adopted Children's Perspectives on Place and Identity
- Supervisory Committee: Professors Lisa M. Mitchell and Peter Stephenson; External Examiner: Professor Annalee Lepp
- Funding: SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship; President's Scholarship
BA (hons), Department of Anthropology, University of Victoria, 2007
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- Co-applicant, Understanding Precarity in BC (UP-BC) SSHRC Partnership (2021-2027, $2,499,946) and subgrant Principal Investigator for UP-BC Migrant Care Workers Project (2023-2024, $77,676)
- Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship (2013-16)
- SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Doctoral Scholarship (offer declined) (2013)
- Promising Alumni Award, Camosun College (2014)
- C.D. Nelson Memorial Graduate Entrance Scholarship, Simon Fraser University (2012)
- SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Masters Scholarship (2009-10)
- University of Victoria President’s Research Scholarship (2009)
- University of Victoria Graduate Studies Fellowship (2008)