Cultural and environmental historian of northern and western Canada
Agricultural History has just published my review of Andrew Watson’s Making Muskoka: Tourism, Rural Identity, and Sustainability, 1870–1920 (UBC Press, 2023). This book seriously fanned my love for rural history as a historical subfield. I also really appreciated how it reframes sustainability as a subject for historical inquiry.
Click here to read the (paywalled) review.
Back in November, I gave a book talk about A Cold Colonialism at the Department of History, Classics, and Religion at the University of Alberta. CJSR FM, the U of A’s indie campus radio station, recorded the talk live and condensed it into a 30-minute spot on the second episode of their new podcast, Brains on Campus. This was such a cool opportunity (and a cool way to give something back to my alma mater).
You can listen to the episode here!
Many thanks to Lianne C. Leddy for her thoughtful and perceptive review of A Cold Colonialism for The Otter~La loutre, NiCHE’s blog. You can read it here.
My latest H-Environment Roundtable Review centres on Lianne C. Leddy’s Serpent River Resurgence: Confronting Uranium Mining at Elliot Lake (University of Toronto Press, 2022). It features commentaries by Jessica Urwin, Joseph Masco, Robynne Mellor, and Nick Estes as well as my introduction and a response by Leddy.
You can check the roundtable out here!
A Cold Colonialism has received its first review (hooray)! Tyler McCreary’s review (which is paywalled) appears in Canadian Geographies.
NiCHE’s blog, The Otter~La loutre, has just published my review of Matthew S. Wiseman’s Frontier Science: Northern Canada, Military Research, and the Cold War, 1945–1970 (University of Toronto Press, 2024). Wiseman has dug some fascinating, if sobering, stories on this subject out of the archives. I also appreciated how adroitly the book bridged between military history, the history of science, and Cold War history.
Click here to read the review.
I was delighted to speak about A Cold Colonialism recently in The Greenhouse Environmental Humanities Book Talk series. It was a pleasure to chat with hosts Dolly Jørgensen and Finn Arne Jørgensen of The Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities.
You can watch the talk on Vimeo here, or listen to a podcast version of it here!