• PhD Candidate in Health & Society, McMaster University

• MA in Sociology, University of Calgary (2019)

• BA (with Distinction) in Law and Society and International Indigenous Studies, University of Calgary (2015)

TA Experience:

January-April 2021
Teaching Assistant, McMaster University
Supervisor: Dr. Mat Savelli
HLTH AGE 2L03: Drugs, Sex & Alcohol: Society and Its Addictions

September-December 2020
Teaching Assistant, McMaster University
Supervisor: Dr. Sarah Clancy
HLTH AGE 1AA3: Introduction to Health and Society

January-April 2020
Teaching Assistant, McMaster University
Supervisor: Dr. Geraldine Voros
HLTH AGE 1AA3: Introduction to Health and Society

September-December 2019
Teaching Assistant, McMaster University
Supervisor: Dr. Sarah Clancy
HLTH AGE 1AA3E: Introduction to Health and Society

January-April 2018
Teaching Assistant, University of Calgary
Supervisor: Dr. Ted McCoy
LWSO 337: Self-Regulation

September-December 2017
Teaching Assistant, University of Calgary
Supervisor: Dr. Annette Tézil
SOCI 201: Introductory Sociology

Selected Publications:

The Elizabeth Fry Society of Saskatchewan & Clifford, A. (2020). "They Call it a Healing Lodge, but Where is the Healing?": Indigenous Women, Identity, and Incarceration Programming. Saskatoon, SK.

Henry, R. & Clifford, A.  (2018). Complexities and Concerns: Addressing Street Gangs Within A Community Engaged Model of Understanding. 54. Government of Saskatchewan.

RA Experience:

July 2020-April 2021
Research Assistant. “Educational Resource Assistant”
Principal Investigator: Dr. Mat Savelli
Department of Health, Aging & Society,  McMaster University

October 2020-March 2021
Research Coordinator. “Indigenous and Métis Perspectives on Infant Feeding in Women Living with HIV: Developing Community-Driven Consensus in Canada”
Principal Investigators: Dr. Sarah Khan; Dr. Saara Greene; Dr. Chelsea Gabel
Department of Pediatrics; Faculty of Social Work; Faculty of Social Science,  McMaster University

January 2019-July 2019
Research Assistant. “Survivance NEIHR Development Grant”
Principal Investigator: Dr. Robert Henry
Department of Sociology, University of Calgary

September 2018-December 2018
Research Assistant. “Decolonizing Sport”
Principle Investigator: Dr. Sam McKegney
Department of English, Queen’s University

July 2017-July 2018
Research Assistant. “Sites of Survivance Network”
Principal Investigator: Dr. Robert Henry
Department of Sociology, University of Calgary

Conference Presentations:

Clifford, A. (2021). Tools of Colonialism in a Carceral Setting: The Offender Intake Assessment Process, Indigenous Peoples, and Risk. Canadian Sociological Association Online Conference at Congress 2021, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta.

Clifford, A. (2021). Realities from the Inside: Safe and Secure for Who? Corrections, Covid-19, and Risk in Saskatchewan. Canadian Sociological Association Online Conference at Congress 2021, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta.

Clifford, A. (2020). Tools of Colonialism in a Carceral Setting: The Offender Intake Assessment Process, Indigenous Peoples, and Risk. Canadian Sociological Association at Congress 2020, London, Ontario, Canada. (Cancelled due to COVID-19).

Clifford, A. (2020). Security Trumps Healing - Indigenous Women’s Experiences with Ceremony in Federal Institutions on the Prairies. Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Twelfth Annual Meeting, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario. (Cancelled due to COVID-19).

Clifford, A. (2019). ‘They say it’s a Healing Lodge, but I Don’t See Much Healing’: Indigenous Women, Identity, and Incarceration Programming. 2019 UC Matariki Māori Research Symposium, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.

Clifford, A. (2019). Indigenous Women, Identity, and Cultural Programming while Navigating the Canadian Corrections System. Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Eleventh Annual Meeting, Hillcrest, Hamilton, New Zealand.

Clifford, A. & Henry, R. (2019). Reconciling Incarceration Trends: An analysis of criminal justice’s overexertion of power, control, and authority on Indigenous bodies in Canada. Canadian Sociological Association at Congress 2019, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Clifford, A. (2018). One-size-fits-all? Indigenous women’s experiences with federal corrections Aboriginal cultural programming. Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Tenth Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Invited Talks:

Henry, R. & Clifford, A. (2020). The Meaning of Values: Systemic Racism in Canada.  Association for Canadian Studies and Canadian Commission for UNESCO Online Conference: Understanding Systemic Racism in Canada: Concept and Data.

Clifford, A. (2019). Indigenous Women’s Identity on the Inside. 15^th Annual SGSC Graduate Student Research Symposium, Calgary, AB, Canada.