“Contours of the Flesh: The Semiotics of Pain” (Working Title): In the Eurowest pain is discursively framed as something that elides discourse and therefore is understood to be outside language. In this framing, pain, as outside language, is given asocial and ahistorical status understood as it is to be beyond human construction. Indeed played out in systems of belief and practice, pain acts as a medium for reciprocal relations with the metaphysical other since it too is understood as originating and sharing a part in the “authentic” or “real” from which the metaphysical, and therefore truth, is understood to emerge. Understood as part of this domain pain is located in close relation with truth, and therefore understood to be a means to truth; hence torture to secure the truth. This book, then, seeks to make visible the discursive formation of pain, its social and political roots, and its historical contingencies.

Co-applicant, ALL Rise Project Inc. 2015-2016. Community check-up: Identifying barriers to economic participation of Aboriginal Women in Urban Settings. Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada. This project now completed was a participatory action research project analyzing the systemic causes and barriers of employment of Indigenous women in Regina.

Rural and Northern Community Response To Intimate Partner Violence. 2016 Stops to violence fall member gathering, Wanuskewin, SK. Oct 14, 2016

Ancient Spartan Masculinity and pain. Religious Studies Student Symposium, University of Manitoba, April 27, 2016
With Mary Hampton, “Rural and Northern Community Response to Intimate Partner Violence.” Community-Based Research Showcase, November 6, 2015 Regina SK.

With Kaitlyn Giles. Focus groups: Sharing and intersecting narratives of intimate partner violence in Saskatchewan. RESOLVE Research Day October 22, 2015, Regina, SK