Students

Postdoctoral Supervision

• Rachel Corbman: "Conferencing on the Edge: A Queer History of Feminist Field Formation,1969-1989"; Current position: Assistant Professor, Arizona State University

• Cait McKinney: "Domesticating Machines: Women's Textile Labor in Mid-Century Computing History"; Current position: Associate Professor, Simon Fraser University

Doctoral Supervision

• Sophia Fisher: sex work and technology; Current position: PhD student 

• Andrew Wiebe: "Lii Lozh di Kaastor"; Current position: PhD candidate 

• Atticus Hawk: "Harm Reduction As The Commons of Care: Three Case Studies in Toronto"; Current position: PhD candidate  

• Camille Intson: "Gay Dreams and Feeling Machines: Queer Mediating Technologies in Performance;" Current position: Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, University of Toronto

• Margaret MacDonald: "Platform Perversions: Pornhub, MindGeek, and the Platformization of Streaming Pornography"; Current position: PhD candidate (Co-supervision with David Nieborg)

• Emily Maemura, "Understanding Data and Their Categories: An Infrastructural Account of Web Archive Data"; Current position: Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Karen McEwen: "Actuarial Bodies: Data, Value, and Fairness in Insurance and Workplace Wellness Programs": Current position: KMD Editing

• Adam Pugen: "The Intellective Touch: A Phenomenology of Digital Modernism"; Current position: Assistant Professor, St. Thomas University (Houston)

• Quinn Dupont: "An Archeology of Cryptography: Rewriting Plaintext, Encryption, Ciphertext"; Former position: Assistant Professor, University College Dublin. Current position: Research Scientist, York University (co-supervision with Brian Cantwell Smith).

• Rebecka Sheffield: "The Emergence, Development, and Survival of Four Gay and Lesbian Archives"; Former position: Assistant Professor, Simmons College; Current Position: Senior Manager, Collections Development and Management, Archives of Ontario

Doctoral Committee Memberships

• Reese Carr (Women and Gender Studies): queer kinship, data, and state control. Current Position: PhD student

• Dalia Hatalova (Cinema): censorship and moving images. Current Position: PhD student

• Nathan Clark (Art History): Multi-media art, queer studies, phenomenology. Current Position: PhD student

• Ellen Forget (Information): "Accessible Innovations in Contemporary Independent Publishing: How Disabled Readers Access Books"; Current position: PhD Candidate

• Anna Kalinowski (Information): "Time to Die...Again: A Scoping Review on the Use of Time, Repetition and Death in Digital Games"; Current position: PhD Candidate

• Madison Trusolino (Information): "Punching Up: Women and LGBTQ+ Comedians’ Experiences of Work and Resistance"; Current position: Postdoctoral Fellow at Dalhousie University 

• Angela Fazekas (Women and Gender Studies): "Creative Becomings: Explicit Fanfiction, Reinventing Adolescence, and Queer Relationality";  Current position: Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, University of Toronto 

• Trish Adamson (Information): "Power of Attorney in Ontario"; Current position: academic editor

• Daniel Laurin (Cinema Studies): "Straight Guys: Heterosexual Masculinities in Gay Male Pornography and New Authenticities"; Current position: PhD Candidate

• Beyhan Farhadi (Geography): "Learners in a Digital Age: A Comparative Study of E-learners in the Toronto School Board." Current position: Assistant Professor, University of Toronto 

• Mathew Gagne (Anthropology): "Gay Sex and Digital Media in Beruit: The Social and Erotic Life of Information." Current position: Assistant Professor, Dalhousie University 

• ginger coons (Information): "Something for Everyone: Using Digital Methods to Make Physical Goods"; Current position: Research Fellow, Digital Culture Research Centre, University of the West of England

Doctoral Committee Internal Appraisals

• Suzanne van Genus (Religion), Internal Appraiser, 2022. “Seductive Methods: Sexual Success in the Computational Imagination.” Current position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton University

• Allison Leadley (Drama), Internal Appraiser, 2020. “Step Right Up: (Re)imagining the Freak Show in Contemporary Performance and Disability.”

• Justin Douglas (History): "Manufacturing Debt: A History of the Bank Credit Card Infrastructure"; Current position: Public Service Commission of Canada

• Ashley Scarlett (Information): "On the Matter of the Digital in Contemporary Media Art"; Current position: Assistant Professor, Alberta College of Art and Design

Master's Thesis Supervision 

• Kit Haehnel: "Intimate Monsters: On Disorder, Trans* Embodiment, and Futurity"

• Cassidy Latimer: "Telling the History of Female Sexuality in Greco-Roman History Exhibitions by Synthesizing Critical Fabulation and Museum Interpretation"

• Caitlin McCurdy: "Ancient Egyptian Erotic Artifacts and Their Implications for Erotohistoriography." 

• Ferrin Evans: "'Next Stop Sayville': Queer Risk, Loss, and Desire on Fire Island During Pandemic." 

• Aaron Dishy: "Swallowing Misandry: A Survey of the Discursive Strategies of r/TheRedPill on Reddit" 

Master's Committee Memberships

• Chelsea Russell: "Monsters and Machines: Reframing Horror Video Games through Representations of Technology."   

• Nicole Ritchie: "Queering Museums: Questions of Space, Affect, and Nonnormativity"

• Benjamin Walsh: "Information Out in the Cold: Exploring the Information Practices of Homeless Queer, Trans, and Two-Spirit Youth in Toronto"

• Hailey Siracky: "Spiritual Journal Keeping: An Ethnographic Study of Content, Materials, Practice, and Structure"