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RESEARCH INTERESTS
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Editor (withValerie J. Korinek), Finding a Way to the Heart: Feminist Writings on Aboriginal and Women’s History in Canada, University of Manitoba Press, April 2012.
“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
2020-2021
HIST 2010/NATV 2012 Indigenous History of Canada
HIST 4120/7760 History of Indigenous Rights2019-2020
HIST 1270 New Directions in History: Inquiries into the Power Relations of the Modern World
HIST 2010/NATV 2012 Indigenous History of Canada
HIST 3780 Studies in Canadian History: Residential Schools2018-2019
HIST 2280 Aboriginal History of Canada
HIST 3780 History of Residental Schools
HIST 4120/7760 History of Aboriginal Rights2017-2018
HIST 1270 Inquiries into the Power Relations of the Modern World
HIST 2280 Aboriginal History of Canada (winter term)2016-2017
HIST 2280 Aboriginal History of Canada
HIST 4120/7760 History of Aboriginal Rights