I am an assistant professor of Canadian and environmental history in the Department of Humanities at Mount Royal University.
I hold a Ph.D. in Canadian and environmental history from York University...
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My dissertation is on "Automobility and Landscape Change in the British Columbia Interior, 1925-1970". The first two sections focus on the intertwined histories of two highways and the large...
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In the last few years, my "research profile" has become rather eclectic; for example, editing one collection about the first century of Parks Canada for the NiCHE series in Energy, Ecology and...
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My research is on the global environmental history of tropical crops, especially coffee. More generally, I'm interested in themes of science, agriculture, and the environment in the (very) long...
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I am interested in the intersections between environment and public memory in historical studies: how people have responded to ecological change over time, the kinds of meanings they have attached to...
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Canada Research Chair in Canadian Cultural Landscapes. The past-Director of the Centre for Canadian Studies at the University of Edinburgh, he is currently studying attempts to create utopian...
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Recently finished PhD Dissertation:
Fashioning A Freshwater Eden: Elite Anglers, Fish Culture, And State Development Of Quebec’s ‘Sport’ Fishery,†thèse de doctorat, Université du Québec Ã...
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My research and publications on the environmental history of Canada focus on Western and Northern Canada, and include studies of domestic and industrial pollution, pollution control and environmental...
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To date, my research has focused upon the politics of nature and space as evidenced in conflicts over industrial logging and aboriginal land claims in British Columbia. Currently, I am embarking upon...
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Currently working on a collaborative project on the Great Plains. Analyzing a time series of aerial photo samples taken from 50 counties across the U.S. plains, from the late 1930s to the mid-2000s...
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environmental change along the Canada/US border in recent times.
the Detroit River International Crossing IDRC) and the bio-geography of the Essex-Kent Oak Savanna
the aging process in Candu reactors...
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I study the relationship between the Lower River Lea Valley and West Ham, a suburb on the edge of London, England, in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Using GIS, I to track the changing...
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