Publications

Serious writing doesn’t have to be dry and boring! As an author, I aim to produce work that is informative and analytical but also lively, engaging, and reader-friendly. My publications are characterized by vibrant description, accessible prose, and even (when my editors permit it!) the occasional dash of humour. 

To download pdf copies of my most recent scholarly publications, please visit my profile on Academia.edu.

“Decolonizing Cottage Country,” Active History, 22 February 2018.

Review of Na Li, Kensington Market: Collective Memory, Public History, and Toronto’s Urban Landscape, in American Review of Canadian Studies, Vol. 47 No. 3 (2017): 325-26.

“Engineering a Green Future,” Interfaces Magazine, Vol. 13 (Fall 2017): 4-7.

“The Religious and Nationalist Origins of Canadian Thanksgiving,” Toronto Star, 9 October 2017, A15.

“Remembering ‘The Dawning Age of Leisure’: Visions of Work, Time, and Technology During Canada’s Long 1960s,” Left History, Vol. 21 No. 1 (Spring/Summer 2017): 83-95.

“‘Righteousness Exalteth the Nation’: Religion, Nationalism, and Thanksgiving Day in Ontario, 1859-1914,” in Celebrating Canada, Volume I: Holidays, National Days, and the Crafting of Identities, Matthew Hayday and Raymond Blake, eds., (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016).

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“Profiting from Renewal,” Interfaces Magazine, Vol. 12 (Fall 2016): 29-30.

“Ghosts of Cottage Country Past,” Spacing Magazine, Issue 39 (Spring 2016): 54.

“A Little Place in the (Next) Country: Negotiating Nature and Nation in 1970s Ontario,” Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol. 47 No. 3 (Fall 2013): 42-66.

“‘Roughing it in Comfort’: Family Cottaging and Consumer Culture in Postwar Ontario,” Canadian Historical Review, Vol. 94 No. 2 (June 2013): 234-62.

Review of Sharon Wall, The Nurture of Nature: Childhood, Antimodernism, and Ontario Summer Camps, 1920-55, in Oral History Forum, Special Issue (2010).

“Cars and Cottages: The Automotive Transformation of Ontario’s Summer Home Tradition,” Ontario History, Vol. 100 No. 1 (Spring 2008): 26-56.

“Architecture and Procedure as Influences on Parliamentary Rhetoric,” Canadian Parliamentary Review, Vol. 20 No. 4 (Winter 1997-1998): 10-14.

“The Road to Stability: The Rise of Provincial Political Parties in British Columbia,” The Seed, Vol. 1 No. 1 (Autumn 1997): 15-33.