PhD Candidate Kelsea Perry
Congratulations to PhD Candidate Kelsea Perry who has been awarded a UBC Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award. The Award is given annually to 19 graduate teaching assistants in recognition of the valuable role that TAs play to create a positive learning environment for our students. The Department of Sociology would like to also thank Kelsea for her outstanding teaching, research, and service to the community.
Perry’s primary research interests include security & surveillance, including cyber-security, corrections, and social control; inequalities, especially as perpetuated by the criminal justice system; as well as textual and media analysis and the expression of power through texts. Her recent projects range from feminism in video game communities to job burnout and the use of emotional labour in correctional officer work. Her dissertation maps networks of human and non-human actors as connected by the COVID-19 virus.
