I am an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Saskatchewan and Co-Editor of Historical Methods. My research sits at the intersection of environmental history and digital humanities, exploring how nineteenth-century London's rapid growth transformed environments across the British world system.
My book, West Ham and the River Lea (UBC Press, 2017), examined the local environmental and public health consequences of industrialization in East London. Since then, I've expanded this work to trace global commodity chains—following tallow from London's soap factories to grasslands around the world, and timber from railway construction sites back to the forests of the Ottawa Valley. This research explores the concept of "ghost acres": the distant lands that sustained industrial cities.
I am a member of the Historical GIS Lab, where we build spatial databases and develop digital methods for historical research. Current projects include mapping settler colonialism on the Canadian prairies, creating virtual reality experiences for public history, and documenting Saskatchewan's experience of the COVID-19 pandemic through the Remember Rebuild community archive.
I am severely dyslexic. I advocate for neurodivergent students and speak openly about my experience in my teaching, research, and service work.