Teaching

Awards

Above and Beyond Award, UVic Faculty of Social Sciences (2024)
Keith Roberts Teaching Innovations Award, SAGE Publishing (2019)

Graduate 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)

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.