CVEducation:PhD, sociology, University of Toronto, 2023MA, sociology, Lakehead University, 2016BA hons, sociology (minors in English and philosophy), Lakehead University, 2014Research: Cognition, Interaction, and Creativity in Songwriting Sessions: Advancing a Distributed Dual Process Framework. 2024. Social Psychology Quarterly. Cognition in Situations. 2020. Symbolic Interaction.Posthumous Consecration in Rock’s Legitimating Discourse. 2020. Poetics.“Opening Access” to Open Access Editors: Theoretical Reflections on the use of Communication Technologies in Long-Distance Interviewing. 2018 w/ Antony Puddephatt. Chapter 24 in The Craft of Qualitative Research published by Canadian Scholars’ Press.Power, Emergence, and the Meanings of Open Access Scholarly Publishing in Canada. 2017 w/ Antony Puddephatt. Studies in Symbolic Interaction.Symbolic Interaction, Public Sociology, and the Potential of Open Access Publishing. 2017 w/ Antony Puddephatt. Qualitative Sociological Review.Non-refereed publications:I’m Not Afraid of ChatGPT in my Classroom. 2023. University Affairs.So You’re an Academic Ham: Three Suggestions for Non-Boring Scholarly Presentations. 2022. University Affairs.The Chessworld and its Tiny Publics. 2018. Book review of G. A Fine’s Players and Pawns: How Chess Builds Community and Culture in Symbolic InteractionAwards & grantsSSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship, awarded 2023Ontario Graduate Scholarship, awarded 2021Daniel G. Hill Award for Best Student Paper presented by the University of Toronto’s Sociology Department, awarded November 2020.SSHRC Storyteller Award, awarded May 2020SSHRC Doctoral Award, awarded Sept 2019.University of Toronto Summer Fellowship, awarded 2018. Ontario Graduate Scholarship, awarded 2018.Ontario Graduate Scholarship, awarded 2017.Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship, awarded 2015.Outstanding Graduating Student Award presented by Canadian Sociological Association, awarded April 2014.