Education
2020-2026 | McGill University — Montreal, QC.
Ph.D. Candidate in Communication Studies/Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Thesis: “Long Time, First Time: A History of Call-In Radio in the United States and Canada 1945-1975.”
Co-supervisors: Dr. Jonathan Sterne and Dr. Alex Blue V
2017-2019 | Concordia University — Montreal, QC.
MA Media Studies.
Thesis: “Aural Intimacies: Gendered Constructions of Familiarity on The Mary Margaret McBride Program.”
Supervisor: Dr. Sandra Gabriele
2012-2016 | University of British Columbia — Vancouver, BC.
BA Philosophy (major) and Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice Studies (minor).
First Class.
Publications
Refereed Journal Articles
2024 “Becoming Spectral: Towards a Media History of Ghosting.” Social Media + Society 10.4. pp. 1-10. With Torbjörn Rolandsson. Second author, my contribution, 49%.
2023 “Forging a Format: Advertising, Attention, and Intimacy on the Mary Margaret McBride Program, 1941-1954.” Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media 21.2 pp. 155-170.
2021 “Charting a Different World: Sound Mapping Together on Coast Salish Territories.” MAST: The Journal of Media Art Study and Theory. 2.2. pp. 41-52. With Russell Gendron. First author, my contribution, 51%.
Forthcoming “‘The Revolution Will Be Podcasted’: Aesthetic Strategies of Far-Right Digital Audio.” Media Fields special issue “Media Literacy of the American Alt-Right” 19.1 (accepted).
Forthcoming “Melodies of the Toppling Trees: The Tree Farm Pastoral, Extractivism, and Attachment in British Columbia, Canada” (Accepted at Cultural Studies).
Refereed Book Chapter
2025 “A ‘Magic Spell Right Into Your Own Heart’: Mary Margaret McBride Finds Her Pace.” Junctures in Women’s Leadership: Media and Journalism. Ed. Linda Steiner. Rutgers University Press. pp. 65-79.
Co-Authored Refereed Book Chapter
2018 On This Patch of Grass: Urban Parks and the Politics of Occupied Land. Fernwood Publishing. With Matt Hern, Selena Couture, and Daisy Couture. 158 pages. Second author, my contribution, 25%.
Other Writing - Non-Refereed
2022 “On This Patch of Grass: City Parks on Occupied Land: An Interview with Sadie Couture and Daisy Couture.” - Written Interview. Refractions: A Journal of Postcolonial Cultural Criticism 1.1. First author, my contribution, 50%.
2021 “The Intertidal Room.”- Short Reflection. The Museum of Data.
2020 “Sensate Sovereignty: A Dialogue on Dylan Robinson’s Hungry Listening.” - Co-authored Book Review. Amodern. With Jonathan Sterne, Mehak Sawhney, Shirley Roburn, Burç Köstem, Hannah Tollefson, Randolph Jordan, Landon Morrison, Allyson Rogers, and Michael Nardone. First author, my contribution, 10%.
Selected Awards
2025 Exploratory Research Grant — Hagley Center for the History of Business, Technology and Society
2025 Student Engagement Fund Awardee — McGill University
2024 Graduate Research Enhancement and Travel Award — McGill University
2024-2026 Doctoral Training Scholarship — Fonds de recherche du Québec Société et Culture (declined by recipient for 2025/26).
2024-2025 Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy Graduate Fellowship — McGill University
2024 Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation Fellowship — Smithsonian Institution National Museum for American History
2024 Graduate Mobility Award — McGill University
2023 Graduate Research Enhancement and Travel Award — McGill University
2023 Graduate Mobility Award — McGill University
2022 Graduate Research Enhancement and Travel Award — McGill University
2022 Graduate Excellence Fellowship — McGill University
2021-2025 Tri-Council Canada Graduate Doctoral Fellowship — Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
2020 Graduate Excellence Fellowship — McGill University
2020 Alastair McKinnon E-Research Award — McGill University
2020 Shree Mulay Graduate Award — McGill University
2019 Conference and Exposition Award — Concordia University
2018 Graduate Student Mobility Award — Concordia University
2018-2019 Canada Graduate Scholarship (Masters Program) Joseph-Armand Bombardier Award — Concordia University
2017 Out of Province Tuition Scholarship — Concordia University
2017 Concordia Merit Scholarship — Concordia University
Invited Talks
2025 Becoming Spectral: Towards a Media History of Ghosting. University of Toronto, Faculty of Information (guest lecture). 4 March 2025.
2025 Making Media History University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Media Studies Lecture Series (departmental lecture) 13 February 2025.
2022, 2023 Audio Media as Liberatory Practice: Criticism and Listening for Form. Emily Carr University of Art + Design. 9 March 2022, 8 March 2023, (guest lectures). Vancouver, BC.
2019 Thinking Forward: On this Patch of Grass. Vancouver Public Library (public lecture) 5 December 2019.
2019 Decolonizing Parks: On this Patch of Grass. Vancouver Parks Board (private lecture). 15 November 2019.
2019 Audio Genres: Radio and Podcast Forms and Aesthetics. Concordia University (guest lecture). 28 January 2019.
Refereed Conference Presentations
2025 Thinking With the Electromagnetic Spectrum. Media Theory Conference. (upcoming) November 7-8 2025. Centre for Culture and Technology, Toronto, ON.
2025 “Problem Areas”: Actuarial Thinking and Postwar Call-In Radio. Society for the Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting. (upcoming) 4 September 2025, Seattle, WA.
2025 The Desire for Crossed Wires: National Call-in Radio in the United States and Canada. Society for Cinema and Media Studies. 3 April 2025, Chicago, IL.
2025 “Problem Areas”: Responsibility and Risk in Postwar Call-in Talk Radio. Business History Conference. 15 March 2025, Atlanta, GA.
2024 Having a Heart-to-Heart Squawk: Call-In Radio and the Public Sphere. American Studies Association. 15 November 2024, Baltimore, MD.
2024 On Non-Connection: Making Mediated Avoidance with People, Paper, and Magnetic Tape. With Torbjörn Rolandsson. My contribution, 49%.
European Communication Research and Education Association. 25 September 2024, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Canadian Communication Association. 18 June 2024, Montreal, QC.
2024 Party Lines in the Beep-Tone Era: On (non)-interconnection and Call-in Radio. Society for Cinema & Media Studies. 16 March 2024, Boston, MA.
2023 Mary Margaret McBride and the Desire for Crossed Wires Radio Preservation Task Force Annual Conference. 28 April 2023, Washington, DC.
2023 ‘I Ate a Little Kiwi for Breakfast, Trying to Stay Healthy': Call-In Radio and the Public Sphere. Society for Cinema & Media Studies. 14 April 2023, Denver, CO.
2022 Melodies of the Toppling Trees: Settler Listening Imaginaries and Robert Swanson’s Whistle Farm. GLASS Canada: Listening as a Shared and Social Practice. 7 Oct. 2022, Regina, SK.
2021 ‘I Ate a Little Kiwi for Breakfast, Trying to Stay Healthy': Call-In Talk Radio, the Public Sphere, and Infrastructure Otherwise. Grierson Colloquium on Media and Infrastructure. 25 February 2021, remote.
2019 Aural Intimacies: Gendered Constructions of Familiarity on The Mary Margaret McBride Program.
ECREA Radio Research Conference: Radio as a Social Media. 20 Sept. 2019, Siena, Italy.
RE:SOUND, the 8th International Conference on the Histories of Media Arts. 21 August 2019. Aalborg, Denmark.
Canadian Communication Association. 4 June 2019, Vancouver, BC.
2019 Loud and Proud: Affirmative Resonances and Alt-Right Podcasts. Media in Transition 10: Democracy and Digital Media. May 2019, Cambridge, MA.
2019 COHDScast: Oral History, Aurally. Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling. March 2019, Montreal, QC.
2018 Sounds of Science: Shell Canada, Marianne G. Ainley, and the Montreal Women Scientist Project. Access Points Graduate Conference. 21 April 2018, Montreal, QC.
Media Production/Exhibition
2025 Terminal Infrastructure: Conversation with Hannah Tollefson - Podcast Episode for Future Ecologies special series Hyphaedelity.
2022 Feminist Ingredients for Revolution: A Food and Queer History Podcast - Podcast series. Montreal, QC. With Dr. Alex Ketchum. http://www.thefeministrestaurantproject.com/p/podcast.html
2021 Global Warming and the Sweetness of Life - Video Essay. Kirkenes, Norway.
2021 Dama Drama – Future Ecologies Podcast Episode. Vancouver, BC. With Russell Gendron. https://www.futureecologies.net/listen/fe-3-4-dama-drama
2020 Mayne Island Sound Map - Digital Storytelling and Mapping Project. Vancouver, BC. With Russell Gendron. http://mayneislandsoundmap.com/ - See stories “Sweet Dreams,” “The Joy of Cooking Fenison,” and “Fumbling Towards Reconciliation.”
2017-19 COHDScast — Podcast Series. Montreal, QC. With Maéva Thibeault. https://soundcloud.com/user-516340743
2014 Strathcona — Audio Documentary. Vancouver, BC. With Russell Gendron. https://soundcloud.com/russellwgendron/strathcona
Teaching
McGill University — Montreal, QC
Instructor for COMS 210 - Introduction to Communication Studies, 2025 (in person)
Instructor for COMS 200 - History of Communication, 2022 (hybrid) eaching Assistant for COMS 330 - Media in Cultural Life, 2025 (in person)
Teaching Assistant for COMS 310 - Media and Feminist Studies, 2022 (in person)
Teaching Assistant for COMS 210 - Introduction to Communication Studies, 2020, 2021 (online, two semesters)
Concordia University — Montreal, QC
Teaching Assistant for COMS 361 - Propaganda, 2018, 2019 (online, two semesters)
Teaching Assistant for COMS 220 - History of Communication and Media, 2018 (in person)
Teaching Assistant for COMS 240 - Communication Theory, 2017 (in person)
Relevant Employment Experience
2024 Radio Preservation Task Force, Doctoral Intern — Washington, DC
2022 Just Feminist Tech and Scholarship Lab, Research Assistant, Podcast Producer — Montreal, QC
2020-25 McGill University, Research Assistant for Dr. Jonathan Sterne — Montreal, QC
2019-present Solid State Community Industries, Audio Production Mentor, Fundraiser — Surrey, BC
2019-20 AIRS: Artist in Residence Studio Program, Artist in Residence, Communications Manager — Vancouver, BC
2018-19 The Oldest Game, a Newsgame, Research Assistant, Project Manager, Writer, Audio Producer — Montreal, QC
2016-19 Templeton After-School Film Program, Mentor, Program Facilitator, Coordinator, Advisor — Vancouver, BC
2010-15 Summer Visions Film Institute for Youth, Mentor, Equipment Room Supervisor, Script Supervisor — Vancouver, BC
Community Service/Involvement
2023-present Radio Preservation Task Force Graduate Student Council — Member
2023-present Culture and Technology Discussion and Working Group (McGill) — Facilitator
2018 Access Points Conference (Concordia) — Committee Member, Treasurer
2015-2017 Vancouver Institute for Social Research — Co-organizer
2015-2017 West Coast Legal Aid and Action Fund — Research Assistant
Affiliations
Society for the Social Studies of Science — Member, 2025 - present
Society for Cinema and Media Studies — Member, 2022 - present
Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (Concordia) — Student Affiliate, 2018 - present
Milieux Institute (Concordia) — Student Member and Expo Participant, 2017 - 2019