| Degrees: | York University(MA, 2006)
University of Western Ontario(BA, 2005) |
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| Current Position: | PhD candidate Graduate Programe in History, York University: Year 3 |
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| Thesis in progress: | “Searching for a Better Way: Urban Growth and Subway Life in Toronto, 1942-1980”
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Fields: |
Canadian
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| Papers and Publications: | “‘We’ll be riding in the new subway’: Using the Past to Promote a Future of Rapid Transit Progress in Toronto, 1942-1954,” to be delivered at the Canadian Historical Association Annual Conference, Ottawa, Ontario, May 25th-27th 2009. “The Spadina Subway and Landscape Restoration in Toronto’s Cedarvale-Nordheimer Ravine,” delivered at the American Society for Environmental History Annual Conference, Tallahassee, Florida, February 26th 2009. “In Its Natural State: Toronto’s Spadina Subway and the Battle over the Cedarvale-Nordheimer Ravine, 1971-1978,” delivered at the 6th International Conference on the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T2M), Ottawa, Ontario, September 19th 2008. “‘To define a community in exile’: Producers, Readers, and War Resister Communication in AMEX Magazine, 1968-1977,” delivered at New Worlds Coming: The Sixties and the Shaping of Global Consciousness, Kingston, Ontario, June 15th, 2007. “‘Not Ordinary Immigrants?’: American Vietnam War Resister Conceptions of Canadian History, Politics, and Society in AMEX Magazine, 1968-1970,” delivered at 11th Annual New Frontiers in Graduate History Conference, Toronto, Ontario, February 16th, 2007.
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Courses taught recently: |
2008-2009: CNDS 1920, Introduction to Canadian Studies (Teaching Assistant)
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Research Interests: |
20th-century North American history, technology and communications (focus on transportation), urban history, environmental history, uses of the past
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Awards/Grants:
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Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council – Canadian Graduate Scholarship (Doctoral) (2006-2009) Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council – Canadian Graduate Scholarship (Masters) (2005-2006)
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