2022- Narrative Co-editor, The Trumpeter: Journal of Ecosophy

2019- Member, Editorial Advisory Board, The Trumpeter: Journal of Ecosophy

2016 Immediate Past President, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment

2015 President, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment

2014 Vice President, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (President Elect)

2013- Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism

2013- Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities

2013- Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment

2012- Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Environmental Humanities

2012-13 Immediate Past President, Association for Literature, Environment and Culture in Canada

2011-12 President, Association for Literature, Environment and Culture in Canada

2010-13 Executive Council Member, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment

2010-11 Vice President, Association for Literature, Environment and Culture in Canada

2020 Faculty of Environmental Studies Dean’s Research Award

2017 York University Research Leader

2016 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Fellowship

2016 Lansdowne Visiting Scholar, University of Victoria

2004/2013 Canada Research Chair, Tier II

2011 FES Dean’s Teaching Award nominee

2010 FES Dean’s Teaching Award nominee

2000 Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship, University of Oregon

Ph.D., Sociology, York University, 1996

M.A., Sociology, York University, 1988

B.A. (First Class Honours), Sociology, University of Victoria, 1987