I am a Horizon Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Concordia University, working with Project SOMEONE to build resilience against hatred and radicalization leading to violent extremism. I am also a Research Associate at the International CyberCrime Research Centre at Simon Fraser University, Visiting Researcher at the VOX-Pol Network of Excellence, and the Associate Theses Research Editor of Perspectives on Terrorism. My primary research interests include: right-wing extremism, hate/bias crime, countering violent extremism, and research methods and methodology. My research appears in, amongst others, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression, and the Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice. I have also presented my findings before the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, the Swedish Defence Research Agency in Stockholm, and the Centre of Excellence for National Security in Singapore.
Experience
2017–present
Horizon Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Project SOMEONE, Concordia University
Education
2017
Simon Fraser University, Doctor of Philosophy (Criminology)
2011
University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Master of Arts (Criminology)
2009
University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Bachelor of Arts, Honours (Criminology and Justice)
2007
Durham College, Ontario College Diploma (Law and Security Administration)
Publications
2018
You-Tubing White Power Music: An Exploration of Hate Anthems Online, Journal of Radical Criminology
2018
Who’s a Terrorist? What’s Terrorism? Comparative Media Representations of Lone-Actor Violence in Canada, Canada Among Nations, 2018: Terrorism and Counterterrorism (University of Toronto Press)
2017
Acknowledging that Canada’s Hate Groups Exist, Policy Options
2017
The Maturation of Hate Crime Scholarship, Critical Concepts in Criminology (Routledge)
2017
Broadening our Understanding of Anti-Authority Movements in Canada, Canadian Network for Research on Terrorism, Security and Society Report
2017
How We Can Build Resilience Against Hatred in Canada, The Globe and Mail
2017
Resisting the Right: Countering Right-Wing Extremism in Canada, Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice
2017
Searching for Signs of Extremism on the Web: An Introduction to Sentiment-based Identification of Radical Authors, Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression
2016
Measuring Online Affects in a White Supremacy Forum, In Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI)
2016
Uneasy Alliances: A Look at the Right-Wing Extremist Movement in Canada, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism
2016
Sentiment-based Classification of Radical Text on the Web, In Proceedings of the 2016 European Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference (EISIC)
2016
White Pride Worldwide: Constructing Global Identities Online, The Globalisation of Hate: Internationalising Hate Crime (Oxford University Press)
2015
Right-Wing Extremism in Canada: An Environmental Scan, Public Safety Canada Report
2015
Sentiment-based Identification of Radical Authors (SIRA), In Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE ICDM Workshop on Intelligence and Security Informatics