My research.

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

More specifically, my dissertation focused on the network of organizations that make climate science politically actionable and climate action scientifically accurate in North America.

They are mid-level experts: the policy coordinators, science communicators and educators, data analysts and technology developers working in the middle ground between climate change science and climate politics.

My writing additionally addresses the spirit and affect of what it means to live together in an era of global ecological change. How can we help people be alive to the danger and possibility of now?

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 in mid-level experts, Science and Technology and digital & remote ethnographic fieldwork, I am currently research lead for the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)-funded project “Virtual Primary Care: Policy issues and options.”

As part of my ongoing research agenda, I am developing a comparative study across North American and European francophonie, to follow the work of mid-level climate change activist-experts in French energy politics.