I am an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Memorial University and teach courses on development, gender, globalization, and research methods.
I research the political sociology of international development and globalization. My current program of research has two concentrations: (1) foreign aid as a transnational process of development; and (2) gender and political power in the developing world.
My current SSHRC-funded Insight Grant, "Developing Conformity: Foreign Aid and the Diffusion of Global Norms" (2016-2021), employs cross-national statistical analysis to examine the role of foreign aid and other forms of development finance in the diffusion of global norms.
In late 2017, my book, The Globalization of Foreign Aid: Developing Consensus, was published by Routledge.
In 2016-2017 I was a Senior Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.
I am interested in working with graduate students with research interests in the sociology of development and globalization, especially on topics related to foreign aid.
Winter 2018 Office Hours
Tuesdays and Thursdays 12:30-14:00
Contact Me
Department of Sociology
Memorial University
St. John's, NL
Canada A1C 5S7
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T: (709) 864 4467
F: (709) 864 2075
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