Education
PhD, Religious Studies McMaster University | 2025 |
| MA, Religious Studies McMaster University | 2016 |
| BA, Religion and Culture/International Development Studies University of Winnipeg | 2012 |
teaching experience
| The Human Person: Philosophical Issues St. Joseph’s College, University of Alberta | 2025 – 2026 |
| Introduction to Christianity St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan | 2026 |
| Mysticism University of Waterloo | 2023 |
| The Bible and Film McMaster University | 2023 |
TA Experience
| The Human Person (Grader) | Winter 2024, Fall 2025 |
| Health, Healing, and Religion | Fall 2023 |
| Death and Dying: Comparative Views | Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2013 |
| Cults, Conspiracies, and Close Encounters | Winter 2022, Fall 2019 |
| Love | Winter 2021 |
| Spirits, Ghosts and Demons | Spring 2021, Fall 2020 |
| What on Earth is Religion? | Spring 2020, Winter 2020, Winter 2019 |
| Sport and/as Religion | Fall 2018 |
| Images of the Divine Feminine | Fall 2014 |
| Health, Aging and Society (Grader) | Winter 2013 |
Publications
“‘A little pile of inert matter’: Manual Labour, the Body’s Pain, and Liberation in Work,” in Simone Weil on Work, Oppression, and Emancipation: Critical Perspectives, eds. Pascale Devette, Sophie Bourgault, and Milan Bernard. London: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming.
“Labout of Love: Simone Weil Weil’s Kenotic Spirituality of Work,” in Messianic Imagination: Politics, Theology, and Literature (festschrift for P.Travis Kroeker), eds. Joseph R. Wiebe, Paul G. Doerksen, Maxwell Kennel, and Grant Poettcker. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2025.
Co-authored with Travis Kroeker. “Eros, Eating, Attention: The Ethics of Incarnation in Augustine and Simone Weil,” in Augustine & Ethics, eds. Sean Hannan and Kim Paffenroth. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2024.
“Sacramental Vision in Annie Dillard’s Holy the Firm,” Literature and Theology 34/1 (2020), 64-82.
awards
| Mary Margaret Scammell Travel Scholarship | 2023 |
| Junior Weillienne Scholar’s Grant | 2023 |
| SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship | 2021 – 2023 |
| Student Essay Prize, Canadian Society of Patristic Studies | 2020, 2021 |
| Ontario Graduate Scholarship | 2019 |
| Graduate Scholarship, McMaster University | 2018 |
| Ogilvie Graduate Scholarship, McMaster University | 2018 |
| Entrance Scholarship, McMaster University | 2018 |
| Graduate Scholarship, McMaster University | 2013 |
| Religious of the Sacred Heart Scholarship, University of Winnipeg | 2012 |
| Charles Newcombe Scholarship, Religion & Culture, University of Winnipeg | 2010 |
| R. Fletcher Argue Scholarship, University of Winnipeg | 2008, 2009 |
| Esau Family Scholarship, University of Winnipeg | 2009 |
academic service
| Graduate Student Representative, Graduate Affairs Committee, McMaster University | 2021 – 2022 |
| Co-President, Graduate Student Association of Religious Studies, McMaster University | 2019 – 2021 |
| Graduate Student Representative, Chair Selection Committee, McMaster University | 2020 – 2021 |
| Graduate Student Representative, Faculty Department Meetings, McMaster University | 2019 – 2020 |
| Union Steward, McMaster University | 2018 – 2019 |
research interests
Christian mysticism
Christian ethics
Religion and literature/film
Religion and ecology