Kody Muncaster
BPhil (Leadership Studies, University of New Brunswick)
MA (Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, Western University)
MA (Buddhist Studies, University of South Wales)
Dissertation Topic: Queering Suicide: Why Necropolitical Archives of Trauma and Resilience in AIDS Activism Matter.
Areas of Interest
Queer and trans health promotion and policy; HIV/AIDS; HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP); Hepatitis C (HCV); HPV; Mpox (formerly monkeypox); Fibromyalgia; clinical trial management; public health; suicide prevention; complex trauma, PTSD, and resilience; grief counselling; intimate partner and domestic violence; harm reduction; critical disability studies; anti-oppression; equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI); health and social policy analysis; employment equity research; leadership development and management; socially engaged Buddhism; mindfulness meditation and yoga; Buddhist psychology and spiritual care; feminist pedagogy.
Qualitative and quantitative research methodologies; monitoring and evaluation (EDI practices and healthcare); community-based research; health research; knowledge translation; applied research; project management; collaborative research with NGOs.
Major Grants, Academic Awards and Honours
2023 York University Junior Faculty Research Grant – Co-Applicant (CAD 5,000)
2021 Canada Graduate Scholarship - Doctoral SSHRC (CAD 105,000)
2021 Ontario Graduate Scholarship – Doctoral (won and declined for SSHRC)
2020 Ontario Graduate Scholarship - Doctoral (CAD 15,000)
2019 Gilead Sciences Viral Hepatitis Community Grant (CAD 4,500)
2018 Libro Credit Union Grant for LGBTQ Support Services (CAD 7,200)
Publications
Book
Muncaster, K. (forthcoming). Queer Engaged Buddhism: Trans(forming) Buddhist Studies. Under contract with Sumeru Press.
Journal Articles
Muncaster, K. (2023). Teaching Queer Trauma: Applying Meditation as a Pedagogy of Compassion. Feminist Pedagogy: Original Teaching Activities 4(1) 1-6.
Crespi, A., Van Uum, R., Lathouris, H., Masterman, C., Muncaster, K., Gaete, K., Capraru, C., Shah, H., Feld, J.J., Biondi, M.J. (2023). Increasing Linkage to Hepatitis C Care Following Trauma-Informed Rehabilitation: An Education and Quality Improvement Project Among Women. Drug and Alcohol Review. 42(6) 1-11.
Muncaster, K. (2023). Systemic Activism: Uneasy Coalitions During the Canadian AIDS Pandemic of the 1980s and 1990s. Journal of History 58(1) 82-100.
Muncaster, K., & Dylan, A. (2021). Buddhism and Social Work: A Primer. Canadian Journal of Buddhist Studies: News and Views 16(1) 236-239.
Dylan, A., & Muncaster, K. (2021). The Yamas and Niyamas of Ashtanga Yoga: Relevance to Social Work Ethics. Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Social Work: Social Thought 40(1) 1-23.
Muncaster, K., Rowett, J., & Domene, J. (2017). Mindfulness in Education: Narratives of Students Who Have Completed a Mindfulness Course. Antistasis: An Open Education Journal 7(1) 143-152.
Book Chapters
Muncaster, K. (2023). Queerly Mad: Cripping Grief and Post-Traumatic Fibromyalgia Syndrome. In S. Chatterjee., & P.H. Lee. (Eds.). Plural Feminisms: Narrativising Resistance as Everyday Praxis. Bloomsbury Academic.
Muncaster, K. (2022). Towards a Queer Buddhist Hermeneutics: Reparative Readings of Queer and Trans Buddhist Histories. In Admans, J., & Valentin, D. (Eds.). Beyond Worship: Meditations on Queer Worship, Liturgy, and Theology. (pp. 115-132). Riverdale Avenue Books.
Muncaster, K. (2021). PrEP Will Not Save Us: The Ghosts of AIDS and Suicide. In M. B. Sycamore (Ed.). Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing up with the AIDS Crisis (pp. 296-301). Arsenal Pulp Press.
Encyclopedia Entries
Muncaster, K. (2021). Cisheteropatriarchy. In K. Strunk., & S. Shelton (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Queer Studies in Education. Brill.
Muncaster, K. (2021). Homonationalism. In K. Strunk., & S. Shelton (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Queer Studies in Education. Brill.
Professional Reports and Policy Briefs
Muncaster, K. (2020). Peer Employment in the Peel Region: A Framework for Enhancing Collaboration and Optimizing Peer Work in the HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ, Mental Health, and Harm Reduction Sectors. Brampton, Ontario: Moyo Health & Community Services.
Muncaster, K. (2018). Accessing HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis. London, Ontario: Regional HIV/AIDS Connection.
Tufford, L., Smallboy, B., Enright, S., Muncaster, K., Cockburn, K., & Lynch., K. (2017). Barriers and Challenges for Both the Aboriginal Communities and Organizations Seeking Aboriginal Employees in Northern Ontario Final Report. Fredericton, New Brunswick: Human Resources Research Institute.
Muncaster, K., Daley, T., Colford, D., & Pelletier N. (2016). Enhancing Youth Engagement in Canada’s Commitment to the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of the Child. Fredericton, New Brunswick: Child and Youth Advocates Office of New Brunswick.
Non-refereed Research Articles, Op-eds, and Blog Posts
Biondi, M., & Muncaster, K. (2021) HIV Prevention During the COVID-19 Pandemic: How it Started, How it’s Going. Canadian AIDS Treatment Information Exchange (CATIE), (Available in English and French).
Muncaster, K. (2016). Mindful Self-Compassion for Queer Trauma. Toronto, Ontario: Our Agenda Program of the Gay Men’s Sexual Health Alliance of Ontario.
Muncaster, K. (2015). Cross-Cultural Lessons in Disability Education: A Critical Perspective from a Canadian Teaching Mindfulness & Self-compassion at a German Special Needs School. Neider-Ramstadt Diakonie, (Available in English and German).
Presentations, Workshops, and Guest Lectures
Crespi, A., Van Uum, R., Lathouris, H., Masterman, C., Muncaster, K., Gaete, K., Capraru, C., Shah, H., Feld, J.J., Biondi, M.J. (forthcoming). Increasing Linkage to Hepatitis C Care Following Trauma-Informed Rehabilitation: An Education and Quality Improvement Project Among Women. Canadian Society of Internal Medicine Conference.
(Invited) Muncaster, K. (Feb 6, 2024). HIV/AIDS, Criminalization, and Intimate Partner Violence. Guest Lecture to GSWS 1023 Gay Life and Culture course. Western University, London, Ontario.
(I) Muncaster, K. (Nov 13, 2023). Queer Approaches to Trans(forming) Buddhist Studies. International Queer Buddhist Conference.
Biondi, M., Van Uum, R., Crespi, A., Lathouris, H., Masterman, C., Muncaster, K., Gaete, K., Capraru, C., & Feld, J. (submitted). Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections are increasing among women who use drugs and are of childbearing age in Canada. Canadian Society of Medicine Conference.
(I) Muncaster, K. (April 29, 2023). Queer and Trans Buddhism: Implications for Culturally Relevant Social Work Practice. Conference on Social Work and Spirituality: Interfaith Forum to Address SSHRC’s Future Challenges. Fredericton, New Brunswick.
(I) Muncaster, K. (April 19, 2023). Innovations in Pharmacological HIV Prevention: Implications for Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, and Outreach Workers. Presented online at Call Auntie Clinic.
(I) Muncaster, K. (Feb 13, 2023). Post-Exposure Prophylaxis In-Your-Pocket (PIP) for Pharmacological HIV Prevention. Presented online at Gay Men’s Sexual Health Alliance.
(I) Muncaster, K. (Feb 7, 2023). Current Challenges in HIV/AIDS for Queer Health. Guest Lecture to GSWS 1023 Gay Life and Culture course. Western University, London, Ontario.
(I) Muncaster, K, (Oct 22, 2022). Queer Trauma and the Trans-Sattva: Non-Binary Gender Euphoria and the Buddhist Teachings on Non-Duality. International Queer Buddhist Conference.
Crespi, A., Lathouris, H., Muncaster, K., Van Uum, R., Masterman, C., Gaete, K., Capraru, C., Shah, H., Feld, J.J., & Biondi, M.J. (2022) Increasing linkage to HCV care following trauma-informed rehabilitation: An education and quality improvement project among women. International Network on Health and Hepatitis in Substance Users. Published Conference Abstract.
(I) Muncaster, K. (July 18, 2022). Post-Exposure Prophylaxis In-Your-Pocket (PIP): The New Prevention Tool Joining PrEP, PrEP On Demand, PEP, and U=U in Combatting HIV in Toronto. Presented online at Maggie’s: Toronto’s Sex Workers Action Project.
(I) Muncaster, K. (March 13, 2022). Rainbow Tonglen: Queer Compassion and Queer Suffering. Presented online at Rainbodhi LGBTQIA+ Buddhist Community.
(I) Muncaster, K. (March 6, 2022). Panelist on Compassionate Queers: Buddhists Making a Difference. Presented online at Rainbodhi LGBTQIA+ Buddhist Community.
Muncaster, K. (Oct 23, 2021). Queering Engaged Buddhism: Chenrezig, Tonglen, and Compassionate Social Justice. Presented online at the Inaugural International Queer Buddhist Conference.
Muncaster, K. (May 31, 2021). Grind(r)ing out gay citizens: HIV PrEP, biopolitics, and slut-shaming. Presented online at Women's and Gender Studies et Recherches Féministes Association Conference.
Muncaster, K. (June 1, 2021). Necropolitics, AIDS, and queer male suicide: who is grieving us? Presented online at Sexuality Studies Association Conference.
(I) Muncaster, K. (October 28, 2021). #TruvadaWhore: Gay, bisexual, and queer men’s slut shaming of HIV PrEP use on Grindr. Guest lecture to GSWS 3153F Bad Girls: Dissident Women in Popular Culture course. Western University, London, ON.
(I) Muncaster, K. (October 20, 2021). HIV/AIDS and Canadian human rights. Guest lecture to WSFR 1024 Human Rights course. Western University, London, ON.
(I) Muncaster, K. (February 11, 2020). HIV/AIDS and human rights. Guest lecture to WSFR 1024 Human Rights course. Western University, London, ON.
(I) Muncaster, K. (October 28, 2019). Real-world experience of point-of care HCV testing in bathhouses in London, Ontario. Presented at Viral Hepatitis and Gay Men’s Health. Regional HIV/AIDS Connection, London, Ontario.
(I) Muncaster, K. (October 18, 2019). Enhancing HIV PrEP access through creative collaboration. Presented at Gay Men’s Sexual Health Alliance Symposium: Strengthening the Core. Gay Men’s Sexual Health Alliance, Toronto, Ontario.
(I) Muncaster, K., Biondi, M. (September 19, 2018). Women and HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in Ontario: getting the word out. Presented at Women’s Bodies, Women’s Lives: HIV and Wellness Symposium. Regional HIV/AIDS Connection, London, Ontario.
Muncaster, K., & Rowett, J. (February 3, 2017). Narratives of students who have completed a course in mindfulness at the University of New Brunswick. Presented at Mindfulness and Contemplative Practices in Education Conference, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB.
Muncaster, K., & Rowett, J. (July 9, 2016). Mindfulness in education: Narratives of university students who completed a course on mindfulness. Presented at the Atlantic Education Graduate Student Conference, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB.
(I) Muncaster, K., Daley, T., Colford, D., & Pelletier N. (March 22, 2016) Community development & youth engagement at the Child and Youth Advocates Office of New Brunswick. Presented at the Social Impact Symposium, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB.
(I) Muncaster, K. (March 8, 2016). Using self-compassion as a tool in your mindfulness practice. Guest lecture to RSS 4097 Mindfulness course. University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB.
(I) Muncaster, K. (March 4, 2015). Mindfulness and self-compassion as a tool for enhancing emotional well-being and self-care. Guest lecture to RCLP 4001 Foundations of Mindfulness course. University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB.
