Publications
I’ve begun sharing more personal writings on Medium in my series Ambivalent Academic.
My chapter “Pragmatism and Indigenous Philosophy” is included in The Bloomsbury Handbook of Pragmatism (2024), a collection of current research in aesthetics, economics, education, ethics, history, law, metaphysics, politics, race, religion, science and technology, language, and social theory that shows where important work continues to be done, the tensions that exist, and the new directions the field is taking.
My article “Graffiti and Colonial Unknowing: A Comment on Mishuana Goeman’s ‘Caring for Landscapes of Justice in Perilous Settler Environments’” appears in The Pluralist, Volume 19, Issue 1, Spring 2024. Published by the University of Illinois Press, this peer-reviewed journal is “dedicated to advancing the ends of philosophical thought and dialogue in all widely used philosophical methodologies, including non-Western methods and those of traditional cultures.”
My paper “Indigenizing Philosophy on Stolen Lands: A Worry about Settler Philosophical Guardianship” was published in The Inter-American Journal of Philosophy, Volume 12, Issue 2, Fall 2021, and The Pluralist, Volume 17, Issue 1, Spring 2022.
I wrote a book review for “In This Together: Fifteen Stories of Truth & Reconciliation” in the Canadian Journal of Native Studies, 39.2, 2021.
My article “Recognizing Settler Ignorance in the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission” in Feminist Philosophy Quarterly (2018) argues that the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission provides a concrete example of how a politics of recognition fails to transform relationships between Indigenous and settler communities because it fails to account for structural settler ignorance.
My chapter “On the Existential Damage of School Shootings” in Rethinking Feminist Phenomenology, Theoretical and Applied Perspectives (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018) gives a phenomenological account of habits of hypervigilance after the 2007 Dawson College school shooting. I draw from classical and critical phenomenology, as well as from my own work experience as a self-defence instructor and trainer at COPA (centre ontarien de prévention des agressions [Assault Prevention Centre of Ontario]), to describe the possibility of gaining trust in the world again through bodily practices in the form of feminist self defence classes.
My doctoral thesis “Unable to Hear: Settler Ignorance and the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission” articulates a novel theoretical framework of settler ignorance, which reveals how the elimination of Indigenous peoples requires their delegitimatization as knowers.
BOOKS
Settler Ignorance (In preparation).
BOOK CHAPTERS
“Pragmatism and Indigenous Philosophy,” The Bloomsbury Handbook of Pragmatism, 2nd edition, March 2024.
“On the Existential Damage of School Shootings.” Rethinking Feminist Phenomenology, Theoretical and Applied Perspectives. Eds. Sara Cohen Shabot and Christinia Landry. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018.
ARTICLES
“Graffiti and Colonial Unknowing: A Comment on Mishuana Goeman’s ‘Caring for Landscapes of Justice in Perilous Settler Environments’,” The Pluralist. 19.1, Spring 2024.
“Indigenizing Philosophy on Stolen Lands: A Worry about Settler Philosophical Guardianship,” The Pluralist. 7.1, Spring 2022.
“Indigenizing Philosophy on Stolen Lands: A Worry about Settler Philosophical Guardianship,” Inter‑American Journal of Philosophy. 12.2, Fall 2021.
“Metaphorical and Literal Groundings: Unsettling Groundless Normativity in Environmental Ethics.”, co-written with Bonnie Sheehey, Environmental Ethics. 42.2, Winter 2020.
“Recognizing Settler Ignorance in the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission.” Feminist Philosophy Quarterly Special Issue on Epistemic Injustice and Recognition Theory. 4.4, 2018.
“When listening isn’t enough: Settler Denial and Epistemic Injustice.” APA Newsletter on Indigenous Philosophy. 17.1, Fall 2017.
“A Politics of Indigenous Voice: Reconciliation, Felt Knowledge, and Settler Denial” Canadian Journal of Native Studies. 36.2, 2017.
“Intra-American philosophy in practice: Indigenous Voice, Felt Knowledge, and Settler Denial.” The Pluralist. 12.1, Spring 2017.
“Trusting your Gut: Concerns about panic attacks and racialized vision.” Revue horizon sociologique. 6, Fall 2012.
“Relational Ontology and the Rational State in Spinoza.” Pensées Canadiennes: Canadian undergraduate journal of philosophy. 9, Spring 2011.
“Vulnerability and Control of One’s Own Right: Spinoza on the exclusion of Servants and Women in a Democracy.” Philosophic Fragments: McGill University’s undergraduate journal of philosophy. 27, Spring 2011.
“Guilty Bodies: The Creation of the Feminine Subject in Assault Prevention Literature.” Intersections Journal: McGill University’s Women’s Studies Interdisciplinary Journal. 3, Spring 2011.
BOOK REVIEWS
Book Review for “In This Together: Fifteen Stories of Truth & Reconciliation,” Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail (ed.). Canadian Journal of Native Studies, 39.2, 2021.
“Towards a Critical Teaching of Canadian History.” Intersections Journal: McGill University’s Women’s Studies Interdisciplinary Journal. 3, Spring 2011.
DOCTORAL THESIS
“Unable to Hear: Settler Ignorance and the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission.” Doctoral thesis presented to the Department of Philosophy and the Graduate School of the University of Oregon, September 2018.
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