Prospective Students

I’m not taking on new MA or PhD students at this time.

In general, I’m happy to consider supervising projects that take a critical, environmental, collective-humanistic, cultural, social, and/or historical approach to data, communication, media, and technology. 

I am available for supervisory committees and exams over Zoom.

I work well with students from interdisciplinary backgrounds. I’m an especially good fit for students whose research interests draw on qualitative, exploratory, research-creation, speculative, or ethnographic methods, and who work within communication and media studies; environmental humanities; environmental media; archival theory; elemental media; infrastructural studies; critical data studies; media archaeology; algorithm studies; science and technology studies (STS); history of technology; and critical theory.

I’m most excited about working with students interested in projects looking at the various and vast environmental impacts of data infrastructures.

I am not suited to projects primarily focused on solving technical problems (around AI and algorithms, for example) or looking for expertise in quantitative social sciences methods. 

I normally teach undergraduate and graduate courses on topics that intersect media and the environment.

Graduate students that I’m supervising/have supervised include:

Michelle Bunton, MA, (current, Queen’s), Naomi Okabe, PhD, (current, Queen’s) on space and motherhood, Noah Scheinman, PhD, (current, Queen’s) on landscapes, and Tessa Brown, PhD, (current, Queen’s) on neoliberalism and health technologies; Crystal Chokshi, PhD, (defended, UCalgary) on writing in the age of AI; Drew Thomas, MA, (defended, UCalgary) on the ownership and communication of heritage value in Canadian archives; Madeleine Mendell (defended, NYU) on DNA as media in the archive; Sean Willett (defended, UCalgary) on the sociotechnical imaginary of digital game cloud streaming services. 

I’ve modeled this section on Sun-Ha Hong and Anne Pasek’s ideas.