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Postdoctoral Fellow, Université de Lausanne

I am a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Institute of Geography and Sustainability at the University of Lausanne. I hold a PhD in Geography and International Development Studies from the University of Guelph. My research aims to deepen understandings of the everyday gendered, classed, casted, and racialized inequalities that are (re)produced in the imagining, governance, and material transformation of cities. My current projects are investigating ‘Smart’ development projects in South Asian cities and the uneven roll-out of urban infrastructural transformation, often from the perspectives of people who live and work in the urban margins.

Experience

  • 2022–present
    Postdoctoral fellow, University of Lausanne
  • 2022–present
    Collaborator, Queen's University
  • 2021–2022
    Postdoctoral fellow, Queen's University

Education

  • 2020 
    University of Guelph, PhD, Geography and International Development Studies
  • 2014 
    University of Guelph, MA, Geography
  • 2008 
    Carleton University, BA (hons), Environmental Studies

Publications

  • 2022
    Dirty work in the clean city: An embodied urban political ecology of women informal recyclers’ work in the ‘clean city’, Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space
  • 2021
    “We live and we do this work:” Women waste pickers’ experiences of wellbeing in Ahmedabad, India. , World Development
  • 2018
    Informal recyclers’ health inequities in Vancouver, BC. , New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy
  • 2016
    Surviving neoliberal urbanism: Informal recyclers’ geographies of survival in Vancouver, BC., Applied Geography

Grants and Contracts

  • 2022
    Pandemics and Cities
    Role:
    Co-Investigator
    Funding Source:
    Urban Studies Foundation
  • 2022
    Early Career Research Grant
    Role:
    Funding Source:
    University of Lausanne
  • 2017
    Pruitt Dissertation Research Fellowship
    Role:
    Funding Source:
    Society of Woman Geographers

Professional Memberships

  • American Association of Geographers
  • Canadian Association of Geographers
  • Canadian Association for the Study of International Development