Teaching

Awards

• Above and Beyond Award, UVic Faculty of Social Sciences (2024)

• Keith Roberts Teaching Innovations Award, SAGE Publishing (2019)

Graduate Students, Honours Students, & Postdoctoral Fellows

I supervise students who work on projects related to labour, the environment, food & agriculture, and immigration. Some of the people with whom I’m working include:

• Susanna Klassen (SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow)

• Jen Kostuchuk (PhD)

• Tayler Zavitz (PhD)

• Mariia Kozlova (MA)

• Nia Rocca (B.A. Honours Thesis)

• Shannon Sherk (B.A. Honours Thesis)

Graduate Student Alumni

• John Mills (MA), Policy Assistant at the National Farmers Union

Graduate Courses

• Qualitative Research (SOCI 515)

Undergraduate Courses

• Ecology, Society and Global Change (UVic SOCI 207)

• Qualitative Research Methods (SOCI 374)

• Work, Globalization and Labour Movements (SOCI 321)

Undergraduate Research Supervision

I supervise original undergraduate student research through both the UVic Sociology Honours Program and my Qualitative Research Methods class. Several students I’ve mentored have successfully published their research:

• Bihis, A. (2024). “I can't help you. You're beyond me.”: Exploring First-Generation University Students’ Perceptions of Family Support. Social moments: A student journal of social relations, 5, 15-24.

• Skov, B., & Weiler, A. M. (2024). Find a place where you can be a part of the change: A thematic analysis of the conditions that influence direct pro-environmental collective activism. Journal of Interpersonal Relations, Intergroup Relations and Identity.

• Rocca, N. (2024). What is love? (baby don’t hurt me): Exploring young women’s perception of love and relationships in relation to 21st Century fanfiction. Sociology Between the Gaps: Forgotten and Neglected Topics, 9, 1-10.

• Dunkerson, A., & Weiler, A. M. (2023). “Oh! Based on Voice, Assigned Female at Birth”: Transmasculine Voices and Gender Construction. Canadian Graduate Journal of Sociology & Criminology, 6(1), 1-18.

• Nawar Rodyna, S. (2023). “We are very proud and very tempted and determined to make this food.” How immigrant Muslim women preserve cultural identity through food. Arbutus Review, 14(1), 81-96.

• Marthyman, A. (2022). Allied Interpreters: Exploring the Role Perception and Ethics of Uncertified Interpreters Supporting Migrant Agricultural Workers in British Columbia. Arbutus Review, 13(1), 91-107.