Bonnie-Estelle Trotter-Simons

Teaching Fellow
School of Social and Cultural Studies

• bonnieestelle.trottersimons@vuw.ac.nz

Teaching

• SOSC 102 - 2025 Doing Sociology
  as Coordinator and Lecturer
  SOSC 305 - 2025 Social Organisation
  as Coordinator and Lecturer

Qualifications

BA(Hons), MA, PhD (Wgtn)

PhD Thesis: Trotter-Simons, B-E. (2023). Music as Critical Social Theory: Developing Intersectional Feminist Praxis Through Music in Aotearoa (New Zealand). Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington.

MA Thesis: Trotter-Simons, B.-E. (2018). Critical Perspectives on Gender Norms and Relationships in Aotearoa New Zealand. Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington.

Research specialties

Intersectionality and music, critical race theory, decoloniality, feminist theory, gender studies, gender and race in Aotearoa, critical music studies, affect theory, and praxis.

Publications

de Saxe, J. G., & Trotter-Simons, B.-E. (2021). Intersectionality, Decolonization, and Educating for Critical Consciousness: Rethinking Praxis and Resistance in Education. Journal of Thought, 55(1/2), 3–20.

Memberships, appointments and other work

Associate Editor: New Zealand Sociology

Awards

Runner-up prize for Best Student Abstract at the 2022 SAANZ conference.