RESEARCH

Housing and the Politics of Urban Development

“Civil Places: Canada’s Reform Era of Urban Planning as a Civil Sphere Movement,” in The Civil Sphere in Canada, edited by Jeffery Alexander and Mervyn Horgan. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2025.

– Winner, Student Paper Award, Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association (2019)


Consumption, Art, and Gentrification

“What’s Gained, What’s Lost? The Paradox of Using Land Value Capture to Fund Art Spaces in Vancouver,” City, Culture and Society, 2025.

“‘Ethical’ Gentrification as a Pre-Emptive Strategy: Social Enterprise, Restaurants and Resistance to Neighborhood Change in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside,” in A Recipe for Gentrification: Food, Power and Resistance in the City, edited by Alison Hope Alkon, Yuki Kato and Joshua Sbicca, New York University Press, 2020.

Omnivorous Gentrification: Restaurant Reviews and Neighborhood Change in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver,” City & Community, 2014.

Winner, Student Paper Award, Consumers and Consumption Section of the American Sociological Association (2015)

Foodies Remaking Cities,” (with Amy Hanser) Contexts, 2014.