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EDUCATION
M.A. University of Toronto B.A. University of Toronto |
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
“First Nations Perspectives and Historical Thinking in Canada,” in Annis May Timpson, ed., First Nations, First Thoughts - New Challenges (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2009), 21-50.
“A Persistent Antagonism: First Nations and the Liberal Order,” in Jean-François Constant and Michel Ducharme, eds., Liberalism and Hegemony. Debating the Canadian Liberal Revolution (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009), 298-321.
“‘Living the same as the white people’: Mohawk and Anishinabe Women’s Labour in Southern Ontario in the 1920s and 30s,” Labour/Le Travail 61 (Spring 2008), 41-68.
“‘A better citizen than lots of white men’: First Nations Enfranchisement: an Ontario Case Study, 1918-1940,” Canadian Historical Review 87:1 (March, 2006), 29-52.
“Intimate Surveillance: Indian Affairs, Colonization, and the Regulation of Aboriginal Women’s Sexuality,” in Contact Zones: Aboriginal and Settler Women in Canada's Colonial Past, eds. Katie Pickles and Myra Rutherdale (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2005), 160-78.
“‘Nothing left for me or any other Indian’: the Georgian Bay Anishinabek and Inter-War Articulations of Aboriginal Rights,” Ontario History, vol. XCVI, no. 2 (Autumn 2004), 116-42.
A Fatherly Eye: Indian Agents, Government Power, and Aboriginal Resistance in Ontario, 1918-1939 (Oxford University Press, 2003).
“Work Hard and Be Grateful: Native Soldier Settlers in Ontario After the First World War,” in Franca Iacovetta and Wendy Mitchinson, eds., On the Case: Explorations in Social History (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998), 181-203.
“Man on the Spot: John M. Daly, Indian Agent in Parry Sound, 1922-1939,” Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, 1994, 63-86.
(with Mary-Ellen Kelm) “Desperately Seeking Absolution: Native Agency as Colonialist Alibi?” Canadian Historical Review, vol. LXXV, No.4 (December 1994), 543-56; re-printed in Ken Coates and Robin Fisher, eds., Out of the Background. Readings in Canadian Native History, Second Edition (Toronto: Copp Clark Ltd., 1996), 210-22.
COURSES TAUGHT
2011-2012
HIST 2280 Aboriginal History in Canada
HIST 4120/7760 History of Aboriginal Rights2010-2011
HIST 2280 (Term 2) Aboriginal History in Canada
HIST 3780 Studies in Canadian History I: Race & Immigration in Canadian History
HIST 4400/7700 (Term 2) Historical Method & Historiography
2009-10
HIST 2280 Aboriginal History of Canada
HIST 4400/7700 Historical Method & Historiography
2008-09
HIST 4400/7700 Historical Method and Historiography
2007-08
HIST 3730 (T1) History of Western Canada2006-07
HIST 2280 Aboriginal History of Canada