My research.

I study the ethics, politics and knowledge of global anthropogenic climate change.

My current research project, “Feeling Climate Change: Energy Ethics and Climate Affects in France,” is an ethnographic study of social mobilizations and non-governmental organizations working on the energy transition in French urban climate politics. It expands upon more than a decade of research, including my doctoral dissertation, which was nominated for the Canadian Association for Graduate Studies-ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award.

My larger book project based on this work, "Possibility in an era of climate change: ethics, feelings and energy futures," examines how science and politics are brought together to meet the challenges and possibilities of climate change.

My writing also aims to touch on the spirit and affect of what it means to live together in an era of global ecological change. What does it feel like, affectively and politically, to imagine energy futures and climate-safe futures tied to particular energy systems and sets of relations?

Drawing inspiration from ecology, present day justice movements and French Romanticism alike, I’m also broadly interested in ethics—how we relate to each other and ourselves—and the ways in which contemporary problems pose productive challenges and theoretical questions to the ways we are used to doing and thinking and feeling.

Drawing from my expertise with mid-level experts, Science and Technology and digital & remote ethnographic fieldwork, I was recently research lead for the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)-funded project “Virtual Primary Care: Policy issues and options.” How do expert-practitioners navigate their knowledge and experience at both the practical or clinical level and the institutional, policy or systems level to affect change?