Academic CV (Abridged)

Education:

University of Saskatchewan (PhD, History, 2016)

Dissertation: Controlling Contagion: Policing and Prescribing Sexual and Political Normalcy in Cold War Canada (PhD Dissertation, University of Saskatchewan), June 2016.

University of Alberta (MA, History, 2008)

Thesis: The Consumption of Science and Technology: Canadian Atomic Culture in the Cold War (MA Thesis, University of Alberta), April 2008.

University of Alberta (BA, History, 2006)

Selected Publications:

Book Chapters:

“‘The Most Common Deviation’: The Problem of Pathologizing Homosexuality and the Fear of Masculine Weakness at the Toronto Forensic Clinic,” in Cold War Workers: Labour, Family, and Community in a Nuclear State, edited by Isabel Campbell (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, Forthcoming 2025).

“Operation Profunc: The Cold War Plan to Intern Canadian Communists,” in The Bridge in the Parks: The Five Eyes and Cold War Counter-Intelligence, edited by Dennis Molinaro (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021).

Articles:

“Dale and the Bomb: Exploring the Nuclear Future and Cold War Anxiety in 1950s Canadian Children’s Literature,” Journal of Canadian Studies (53, 2 Spring, 2019): 270-295.

“Operation ‘Lifesaver’: Canadian Atomic Culture and Cold War Civil Defence,” Past Imperfect, (14, 2008): 46-85.

Book Reviews:

“Independent Scholars Meet the World: An Invitation to Academia.” Canadian Journal of History. (Summer, 2021)

“Gregory S. Kealey, Spying on Canadians: The Royal Canadian Mounted Police Security Service and the Origins of the Long Cold War.” Labour/Le Travail. (Fall, 2018)

“Donald G. Mahar, Shattered Illusions: KGB Cold War Espionage in Canada.” Canadian Journal of History. (September, 2018)

“American Psychiatry Scholarship: The Pendulum Maintains its Momentum,” with Lucas Richert. Medical History 58, 4, 614-618. (October, 2014)

Public History:

Documentary Interview: Absolutely Canadian: Living without Menace, director Ted Stenson, Rat Ball Films. (Broadcast September 2022, CBC Alberta and British Columbia, CBC Gem).

Poster: “Poster #32: Operation Profunc: Police Surveillance and Democratic Socialism in Cold War Canada,” Remember | Resist | Redraw, Graphic History Collective. (Summer 2021).

Web-based publication: “Rats and Communism: Protecting Alberta from Invasion in the Early Cold War,” The Otter ~ La Loutre (September 2016).

Current Projects:

Research stage: a history of Alberta’s Rat Control Program, post-war to present day.