About
I am a self-employed, independent scholar with a PhD (History) from Canada’s York University, with a long history of trade and academic publishing. Education
PhD (History), York University, Canada, 2015
Dissertation: “Stone of Power: Dighton Rock, Colonization, and the Erasure of an Indigenous Past”
Dissertation prize, York University.
Canadian Association of Graduate Studies Prize for distinguished dissertation in Humanities, Social Sciences, and Art History (2016)
Postdoctoral fellow, University of Waterloo, 2015-17 Publications
The Place of Stone: Dighton Rock and the Erasure of America’s Indigenous Past. University of North Carolina Press, 2017
Beardmore: The Viking Hoax that Rewrote History. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2018.
Jackson’s Wars: A.Y. Jackson, the Birth of the Group of Seven, and the Great War. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2022. Upcoming Talks and Conferences
Edward S. Rodgers Lecture in Anthropology, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, October 21, 2018. Memberships
Canadian Historical Society
Champlain Society