I regularly teach courses at the undergraduate and graduate level in Canadian social and cultural history, state formation and governmentality, the history of cartography, and public history. My graduate supervisions reflect a similar breadth, although since 2010, an increasing proportion of my work as a supervisor has been in public history.
PHD Supervisions
Current Amie Wright, “When Canada Campaigned Against Comic Books: Censorship, Child Health, and Citizenship in the Postwar Period (1945-1970)”
Current Trisha Turner, “Commemorating and Constructing “the Métis” in 1967 and 2017″
2021 Breanna Lester, “Lest We Commemorate: Assembling Canada’s Great War Centenary, 2014-2018”
2021 Rick Duthie, “‘One Day Stronger’: A Public History Theatrical Experiment about Remembered Sudbury Strikes, 1958-2010” (co-supervised with David Dean)
2018 Romalie Murphy, “Colonising Space and Producing Territory: John and Elizabeth Simcoe and Water, Power, and Empire in Upper Canada, 1791-1796”
2013 David Banoub, “The Patronage Effect : Civil Service Reforms, Job-Seeking, and State Formation in Victorian Canada”
2012 Jessica Dunkin, “Canoes and Canvas: The Social and Spatial Politics of Leisure in Late Nineteenth-Century North America”
2007 Stacey Zembrzycki, “Memory, Identity, and the Challenge of Community Among Ukrainians in the Sudbury Region, 1901-1939” (co-supervised with Marilyn Barber)
MA Supervisions
Current Kari Valmsted, M.A. in Public History (co-supervision with Paul Litt),
Current Hannah Pinilla, M.A. in Public History (co-supervision with Sonya Lipsett-Rivera)
Current Harris Barnard-Davidson, M.A. in Public History, coursework stage
2023 Kirstan Schamuhn, “Starting with the Small: Decolonizing Collections Management Policies for Small and Mid-Sized Alberta Museums,” Sample Collections Policy and Major Research Essay in Public History (co-supervision with James Opp)
2023 Sara Nicholls, “ ‘Doing the Local’: Public Histories, Curriculum, and Games-Based Learning in Kingston, Ontario,” Major Research Essay in Public History
2022 Chloe Dennis, “Re-Visiting Beechwood Cemetery and Encountering the Past,” Historical virtual tour and Major Research Essay in Public History
2022 Danielle Mahon, “Making Walking Africville: Co-production and Intimacy in Public History,” Historical Audio Walking Tour and Major Research Essay in Public History
2022 Meranda Gallupe-Paton, “Memories of Mechanicsville: A Personal Public History,” Podcast Series and MRE in Public History, Major Research Essay in Public History
2022 Emmanuelle Masclet, “Grosse Île and the Marine Hospital for Emigrants in Quebec City: Perspectives from Government and Non-Government Institutions during the Typhus Epidemic of 1847,” Major Research Essay in History (co-supervision with Roderick Phillips)
2022 Eliza Hinton, “Margaret Carr’s “Cooking Chat”: Health, Economy, and Food Writing in Toronto, 1951-1966,” Major Research Essay in History
2021 Fiona Lane, “Appleton for the Teacher: Developing New Educational Programming Materials for the North Lanark Regional Museum,” Education Materials and M.A. Major Research Essay in Public History
2021 Jenna Emslie, “Remember Us: Designing a Video Game through a Public History Lens,” Game Design Document and Major Research Essay in Public History (co-supervision with Shawn Graham)
2020 Stephanie Lett, “Garnet’s Journey: Developing New aids for Teaching the Topic of Residential Schools to Ontario High School Students,” Education Guide and Major Research Essay in Public History (co-supervision with Michel Hogue)
2020 Marissa Foley, “Reclaiming Jamesville,” Podcast Series and M.A. Major Research Essay in Public History
2019 Cassandra Marsillo, “Exhibiting the Yellow Line: Italo-Canadian Oral Histories from Montreal’s Backyards and Schoolyards,” Museum Exhibit, Website, and M.A. Major Research Essay in Public History
2018 Adam Mahoney “Voicing the Silence: Curating the History of Slavery in New Brunswick,” M.A. Major Research Essay in Public History
2018 Rebecca Sykes, “Kitchen Table Conversations: Halal Foodways and Foodscapes of the Turkish Muslim Community in Ottawa,” M.A. Major Research Essay in Public History
2018 Jennifer Halsall, “Rooted in Land: Community, Memory, and Placemaking in Ottawa’s Greenbelt,” Website and M.A. Major Research Essay in Public History (co-supervision with Bruce Elliott)
2018 Kira Smith, “The Red Chair: Reflections on Writing Patient Centered Fiction of the Brockville Asylum,” Novella and M.A. Major Research Essay in Public History (co-supervision with James Miller)
2018 Kirsten Widdes, “Dedicted Shoppers: Examining Teenage Consumer Culture in Postwar Canada, 1947-1972,” M.A. Major Research Essay
2017 Sarah Mulvihill, “Reclaiming Propaganda, Reviving Victory: Victory Gardens in the 21st Century,” M.A. Major Research Essay in Public History,
2017 Phoebe Mannell, “Far From the Sea: An Exploration of 3D Photogrammetry Capabilities in Museum and Heritage Settings,” Digital Exhibit and M.A. Major Research Essay in Public History
2017 Ruthanne Edward, “The Fight for Pay Equity,” Oral Storytelling Performance and M.A. Major Research Essay (co-supervision with David Dean)
2017 Kelsea McKenna, “Growing Up in Ajax, Ontario: Memories of Childhood in a Transforming Postwar Community, 1945-1975,” M.A. Major Research Essay
2017 Elise Bigley, “Creativity, Community, and Memory Building: Interned Jewish Refugees in Canada During and After World War II,” M.A. Thesis (co-supervision with James Opp)
2016 Kathleen Ogilvie, “The Banks of Newfoundland: Kenneth Peacock and the Newfoundland Folk Music Revival,” M.A. Major Research Essay in Public History
2016 Bradley Wiebe, “Histories of Parliament Hill: Re-Placing Memory, Digital (Hi)Storytelling, and Public History,” Podcast Series and M.A. Major Research Essay in Public History
2015 Alisha Seguin, “Remembering the Civil Service: Work and Life Stories of Indigenous Labourers in the Canadian Federal Civil Service,” M.A. Thesis
2015 Allison Smith, “Mary Ann Shadd Revisited: Echoes from an Old House,” Documentary Film and M.A. in Public History Research Essay (co-supervision with James Miller)
2015 Sara Nixon, “The Grimsby Timescapes App: Encountering the Past on Main Street,” M.A. Major Research Essay in Public History, with Mobile Computing App (co-supervision with Dr. James Opp)
2015 Cameron Steacy, “Shifting Perspectives within a Heritage District: The Process of National Historic Designation at Thousand Island Park, 1974-1982,” M.A. Major Research Essay in Public History (co-supervision with Dr. James Opp)
2015 Connie Gunn, “The Women’s Canadian Historical Society of Ottawa: Constructing a Public Memory and Preserving History in a Changing City, 1898-1932,” M.A. Thesis (co-supervision with Joanna Dean)
2014 Tyler Sinclair, “Sightlines and Cross-Flows: The Planning and Construction of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway between 1890-1920,” M.A. Major Research Essay (co-supervisor with Andrew Johnston)
2014 Laura Lutes, “Building Society and Governing Intimacy: Gender, Law, and Constructions of Sexuality and Courtship in Late- Nineteenth Century British Columbia,” M.A. Thesis
2014 Michael Chiarello, “Mapping the Liberal Impulse: The Primacy of Cartography in the Hudson’s Bay Company’s Imperial Project, 1749- 1857,” M.A. Thesis
2013 Crystal Kuhn, “Apron Strings and Asphalt Shingles: Women Buying and Building Suburban Houses in Toronto, 1945-1960,” M.A., Major Research Essay
2013 Jillian Baldwin, “Remembering Together: Canadian Commemoration Policy, Aboriginal Perspectives in the War of 1812 Bicentennial and National Recognition Ceremony, and the Potential of Sharing Authority,” M.A. Major Research Essay in Public History
2013 Peter Holdsworth, “Networks of Commemoration: Gender, Class, and the Remembrance of General Brock, 1880-1912,” M.A. Major Research Essay in Public History (co-supervised with Dr. Shawn Graham)
2010 Tom Bigelow, “Re-Imag(in)ing The Image Mill: Québec City’s 400th and Remembering in the New Media,” M.A. Major Research Essay in Public History
2010 Sebastian Major, “Reflections from the Bay: Publics, Memories and Historical Narratives of Georgian Bay,” M.A. Major Research Essay in Public History
2009 Peter Anderson. “Seeing the Ends of History Education in Ontario’s Public Schools, 1905-1919,” M.A. Major Research Essay in Public History
2009 Michael Gagne, ““Harmonious Decoration”: Building and Representing ‘Identities’ at the Grand-Pré Memorial Park, 1907-1957,” M.A. Major Research Essay in Public History (co-supervision with Del Muise)
2009 Christie McGuire, “The Art of Memory: The Historical Representation and Public Memory of the 1973 coup d’état in Chilean Communities in Ontario,” M.A. Major Research Essay in Public History (co-supervision with Sonya Lipsett-Rivera)
2008 Jessica Dunkin, “The Stories We Tell: Locating Nature, Gender and Place in the Poetry of Mary Edgar and Glen Bernard Campers,” M.A. Major Research Essay
2007 Karen Gabert, “Locating Identity: The Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village as a Public History Text,” M.A. Research Essay in Public History (co-supervised with Bruce Elliott)
2006 Allison McDonald, “The ‘Civilized Indian’ and the ‘Modern Farmer’ at the Fair: Making and Re-Making Identities in Regina, 1895” M.A. Research Essay in Public History
2005 Emily Hines, “Navigating Cultural Distance: Kwakwa ka’wakw efforts to protest the anti-potlatch law and repatriate the ‘Potlatch Collection’” M.A. Research Essay in Public History (co-supervised with David Dean)
