Ph.D. and MA, York University www.yorku.ca/uhistory
BA., McMaster University www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~history

Associate Professor (History)

Edited Collection
Katie Pickles and Myra Rutherdale eds., Contact Zones: Aboriginal and Settler Women In Colonial Canada (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2005).

Monograph
Women and the White Man's God: Gender and Race in the Canadian Mission Field (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2002).

Papers / Lectures

"'Canada Is No Dumping Ground:' Salvation Army Immigrants, Public Discourse and the Lived Experiences of Women and Children Newcomers, 1900-1930," Histoire Sociale/Social History 79 (May 2007): 75-115.

co-written with JR Miller "It's Our Country: First Nations' Participation in the Indian Pavilion at Expo '67," Journal of the Canadian Historical Association online, (Spring 2006): 148-173. http://www.erudit.org/revue/jcha/2006/v17/n2/016594ar.pdf

"Scrutinizing the 'Submerged Tenth': Salvation Army Immigrants and Their Reception in Canada," in Phillip Buckner and R. Douglas Francis (editors) Canada and the British World (Vancouver, UBC Press, 2006) 174-197.

'"She Was A Ragged Little Thing’: Missionaries, Embodiment and
Refashioning Aboriginal Womanhood in Northern Canada, 1860-1940,” in Katie Pickles and Myra Rutherdale eds., Contact Zones: Aboriginal and Settler Women in Canada's Colonial Past (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2005) 203-16.

“Introduction,” co-written with Katie Pickles in Katie Pickles and
Myra Rutherdale eds., Contact Zones: Aboriginal and Settler Women in Colonial Canada (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2005) 7-16.

"Ordering the Bath: Children, Health and Hygiene in Northern Canadian Communities," in Cheryl Krasnick-Warsh and Veronica Strong-Boag editors, Children's Health: International Historical Perspectives (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2005) 305-326.

"Mothers of Empire: Maternal Metaphors in Northern Canadian
Missions," in Alvyn Austin and Jamie S. Scott, eds., Canadian Missionaries, Indigenous Peoples: Representing
Religion At Home And Abroad (Toronto: University of Toronto, 2005)
46-66.

"'I Wish The Men Were Half As Good': Gender Constructions In The Canadian North-Western Mission Field," in Catherine Cavanaugh and Randi Warne, eds., Telling Tales: Women In Western Canada (Vancouver: University of British Columbia, 2000) 32-58.

Courses taught recently:

History 3580: Canadian History In The Twentieth Century
History 4051: Family, Work and Community
History 4545: Selected Topics In Canadian History - The History of
the Body In Canada

• Gender and Embodiment
• Native/Newcomer Relations- Aboriginal Health, The History of Medicine, Religion and Mission Histories
• Northern Canada, British Columbia - Environmental and Cultural History



 

2006-09, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Group Project, "Canadian Nursing History: The Cultures of Colonialism and Nationalism," held at the University of Ottawa

2004-07, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Standard Research Grant

2003-04, Canadian Research Chair Post-Doctoral Fellowship, University of Saskatchewan