Board Members

Visual Sociology is, in my opinion and in my way, the kind of bricollage theorycrafting Claude Levi-Strauss wrote about. I like thinking of sociologists as part of society, instead of just standing aside and theorising. I want to immerse into society, be society, and do sociology as our activist predecessors like Hine did.

I was many things before I became an academic: social worker, youth anti-oppression organizer, teacher, filmmaker. I was always looking for the “right” vocation, the one that would allow me to stand and critique society while not forcing me to chose among my range of interests and passions. 

I have been an active member of the IVSA since 2007 and an Executive Board member since 2008. In this time, I have developed an appreciation of the IVSA's history and capacity to support scholarship amongst a broad range of members. I joined the University of South Australia in 2002, holding research and teaching positions in the schools of Education and Natural and Built Environments. 

I am a Ph.D. student in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University. I am pursuing an interdisciplinary Doctorate in Design and Social Science. Prior to perusing my PhD, I received a Masters of Design in New Product Innovation – Industrial Design – from Arizona State University and a Masters in Industrial Design from SPA in New Delhi, India.