EDUCATION

University of Birmingham
PhD, Department of Political Science and International Studies
2018-2024

Dissertation: The Cheapest Police: The Limits of Recognition and Intellectual Freedom in Canadian Libraries.
Supervisors: Dr. David Bailey and Dr. Sarah Bufkin

Carleton University
MA, Music and Culture
2009-2011

Thesis: Galina Ustvolskaya: Orthodoxy and Transgression in Soviet Music
Supervisor: Dr. James Deaville

Dalhousie University
MLIS, School of Information Management
2005-2007

University of Manitoba
BA, History and Slavic Studies
1995-2003

EMPLOYMENT

Acting Associate Dean of the Library, University of Winnipeg
Interim Directory, Oral History Centre
July 2025 - June 2026

Digital Infrastructure Librarian, University of Winnipeg
September 2022 - June 2025

Head, Discovery and Web Services, University of Alberta
2019-2022

Discovery Systems Librarian, University of Alberta
2011-2019

Emerging Technologies Librarian, University of Ottawa
2008-2011

Subject Bibliographer, University of Manitoba
October - December 2007 (Contract)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Monographs

Solving Names: Worldliness and Metaphysics in Librarianship (Library Juice Press, 2024)

Confronting the Democratic Discourse of Librarianship (Library Juice Press, 2025)

Chapters in Edited Collections

"Power." In Keywords in (Critical) Librarianship, edited by Nicholae Cline and Jorge Lopez-McKnight (MIT Press, forthcoming 2026).

“The Proletarianization of Academic Librarians.” In Academic Librarianship in Canada: Post-COVID Perspectives in a Neoliberal Era, edited by Jessica E. Shiers, Harriet M. Sonne de Torrens, Joana Szurmak, and Meaghan Valant. Library Juice Press, 2024.

“Linked-Data and Transindividual Ethics: An Essay in the Politics of Technology.” In Ethics in Linked Data, edited by Alexandra Provo, Kathleen Burlinghame, and Bri M. Watson. Library Juice Press, 2023.

“The Problem of Neutrality and Intellectual Freedom: The Case of Libraries.” In The Free Speech Wars, edited by Charlotte Lydia Riley. Manchester University Press, 2020.

“‘Ruthless Criticism of All that Exists’: Marxism, Technology, and Library Work.” In The Politics of Theory and the Practice of Critical Librarianship, edited by Karen P. Nicholson and Maura Seale, 39-66. Library Juice Press, 2018.

Peer-Reviewed Articles

“ChatGPT and the Commodification of Knowledge Work.” CAUT Journal, Spring 2024.

"Compound Brain or General Intellect: Paolo Virno's Transindividualism." New Proposals: Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary Inquiry 12(1)(2021): 9-21.

“Wittgenstein and Intellectual Freedom.” Journal of Radical Librarianship 7 (2021).

“Canadian Librarianship and the Politics of Recognition.” Partnership 16(1)(2021): 1-23. [Partnership “Article of the Year” for 2021].

“The Antinomies of Academic Freedom: Reason, Trans Rights, and Constituent Power.” Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship 6 (2020).

“Proxying the Data Body: Artificial Intelligence, Federated Identity, and Machinic Subjection.” Journal of Contemporary Issues in Education 15(1)(2020): 35-50.

“’The Power of Knowledge, Objectified’: Immaterial Labour, Cognitive Capitalism, and Academic Librarianship.” Library Trends 68(2)(2019): 153-173.

“Libraries, Labour, Capital: On Formal and Real Subsumption.” Journal of Radical Librarianship 4 (2018): 6-9.