Articles, chapters, & reviews

Journal articles

“A Modern Grammar of Exploration.” Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 56, no. 1 (February 2026): 64–69.

“Canadian History Blogging: Reflections at the Intersection of Digital Storytelling, Academic Research, and Public Outreach.” Journal of the Canadian Historical Association 27, no. 2 (2016): 1–39. Co-authored with Keith Grant, Stacy Nation-Knapper, Beth Robertson, and Corey Slumkoski.

“The Maximum of Mishap: Adventurous Tourists and the State in the Northwest Territories, 1926–1948.” Histoire sociale/Social History 44, no. 99 (2016): 431–52.

“Nations, Natures, and Networks: The New Environments of Northern Studies.” Journal of Northern Studies 9, no. 1 (2015): 7–11. Co-authored with Peder Roberts.

“Northern Nations, Northern Natures.” Environment and History 20, no. 2 (2014): 313–16. Co-authored with Peder Roberts.

Auktoritet och expertis: Forskning, lokal kunskap och politik i Kanadas nordområden.” [“Expert authority in the early twentieth-century Canadian Arctic.”] Polarår: Ymer 2009: 105–27. Published as Christina Sawchuk.

“An Arctic Republic of Letters in Early Twentieth-Century Canada.” Nordlit, no. 23 (2008): 273–92. Published as Christina Sawchuk.

Book chapters

“Scientist Tourist Sportsman Spy: Boundary-Work and the Putnam Eastern Arctic Expeditions.” In Made Modern: Science and Technology in Canadian History, edited by Edward Jones-Imhotep and Tina Adcock, 60–83. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2018.

“Introduction: Science, Technology, and the Modern in Canada.” In Made Modern: Science and Technology in Canadian History, edited by Edward Jones-Imhotep and Tina Adcock, 3–36. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2018. Co-authored with Edward Jones-Imhotep.

“Many Tiny Traces: Antimodernism and Northern Exploration Between the Wars.” In Ice Blink: Navigating Northern Environmental History, edited by Stephen Bocking and Brad Martin, 131–77. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2017.

“Toward an Early Twentieth-Century Culture of Northern Canadian Exploration.” In North by Degree: New Perspectives on Arctic Exploration, edited by Susan A. Kaplan and Robert McCracken Peck, 109–41. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2013.

Encyclopedia articles

“Northwest Passage.” Encyclopedia of Sustainability, vol. 8, The Americas and Oceania: Assessing Sustainability, edited by Sara Gabrielle Beavis, Michael Dougherty, and Tirso Gonzales, 210–14. Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing Group, 2012.

Book reviews

Review of John Sandlos and Arn Keeling’s The Price of Gold: Mining, Pollution, and Resistance in Yellowknife. Canadian Historical Review. Manuscript submitted.

Review of Edward Armston-Sheret’s On the Backs of Others: Rethinking the History of British Geographical Exploration. Histoire sociale/Social History. Manuscript submitted.

Review of Adrian Howkins and Peder Roberts, eds., The Cambridge History of the Polar Regions. H-Sci-Med-Tech/H-Net Reviews, March 2026.

Review of Andrew Watson’s Making Muskoka: Tourism, Rural Identity, and Sustainability, 1870–1920. Agricultural History 100, no. 1 (2026), 146–48.

Review of Matthew S. Wiseman’s Frontier Science: Northern Canada, Military Research, and the Cold War, 1945–1970The Otter~La loutre (blog), Network in Canadian History and Environment, December 10, 2025.

Review of Andrew Stuhl’s Unfreezing the Arctic: Science, Colonialism, and the Transformation of Inuit LandsH-Environment Roundtable Reviews 9, no. 1 (2019): 4–10.

Review of Shelley Wright’s Our Ice Is Vanishing/Sikuvut Nunguliqtuq: A History of Inuit, Newcomers, and Climate Change. H-Environment/H-Net Reviews, September 2015.

Review of William F. Althoff’s Arctic Mission: 90 North by Airship and SubmarineIsis 105, no. 1 (2014): 242–43.

Review of Laurel Sefton MacDowell’s An Environmental History of Canada and Neil S. Forkey’s Canadians and the Natural Environment to the Twenty-First CenturyCanadian Historical Review 94, no. 4 (2013): 631–34.

Review of Janice Cavell’s Tracing the Connected Narrative: Arctic Exploration in British Print Culture, 1818–1860Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada 47, no. 2 (2009): 253–55.

Review of John Sandlos’s Hunters at the Margin: Native People and Wildlife Conservation in the Northwest TerritoriesCanadian Historical Review 90, no. 1 (2009): 182–84. Published as Christina Sawchuk.

Review of Graeme Wynn’s Canada and Arctic North America: An Environmental History. H-Canada/H-Net Reviews, January 2008. Published as Christina Sawchuk.

Review of William Barr’s Arctic Hell-Ship: The Voyage of the HMS Enterprise 1850–1855. Arctic 61, no. 1 (2008): 105–6. Published as Christina Sawchuk.

Review of William Barr’s Red Serge and Polar Bear Pants: A Biography of Harry Stallworthy, R.C.M.P. Canadian Historical Review 87, no. 1 (2006): 158–60. Published as Christina Sawchuk.