I am an Associate Professor of Political Science at Brock University in St. Catharines. I hold a PhD in Political Science with a specialisation in political economy from Carleton University. Prior to my academic career, I worked as a journalist with the social justice-focused newspaper Catholic New Times, and as an economist with the Canadian Parliamentary Information and Research Service (roughly equivalent to the US Congressional Research Service), serving on various parliamentary committees, including Finance and Foreign Affairs and International Trade. I am the co-author (with Natasha Tusikov) of The New Knowledge: Information, Data, and the Remaking of Global Power (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023), and the author of Copyfight: The Global Politics of Digital Copyright Reform (University of Toronto Press, 2014). I have also co-edited two volumes on technology and internet governance and have published extensively on the political economy of knowledge, in academic journals and in the Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail, and the National Post, among other publications.
Experience
–present
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Brock University
Education
2011
Carleton University, PhD in Political Science, Specialisation in Political Economy
2005
Carleton University, MA in International Affairs
1997
University of Toronto, MA in Economics
1996
Carleton University, BA (highest honours) in Economics and Political Science
Publications
2016
"Copyfight: Global Redistribution in the Digital Age," in Structural Redistribution for Global Democracy, Rowman & Littlefield
2015
Historical Institutionalism in Communication Studies (with Sara Bannerman), Communication Theory
2014
The False Friends Problem for Foreign Norm Transplantation in Developing Countries (with Miranda Forsyth), Hague Journal on the Rule of Law
2014
Copyfight: The Global Politics of Digital Copyright Reform, University of Toronto Press
2014
Birth of a movement: The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement and the politicization of Mexican copyright, Policy & Internet
2013
Fair Copyright for Canada: Lessons for Online Social Movements from the First Canadian Facebook Uprising, Canadian Journal of Political Science
2011
International Copyright Treaties and Digital Works: Implementation Issues in Canada and Mexico, Australian Journal of Communication