Scholarly Journal Articles
“Mayflowers and Sleeping Johnnies: Nature-Study, Local Knowledge, and A. H. MacKay’s Phenological Research in Rural Nova Scotia, 1892–1925.” Scientia Canadensis 42, no. 1 (2020): 29–53. [Read]
“Picturing Rural Education: School Photographs and Contested Reform in Early Twentieth-Century Rural Nova Scotia.” Historical Studies in Education 24, no. 1 (2012): 49–71. [Read]
“The Afterlives of ‘Home Sweet Home,’” visual essay with photographs by Katherine Knight. Visual Communication 10, no. 3 (2011): 257-86. [Read (paywall)]
Public Scholarship
A History of the Eastern Shore Islands Storymap
Introduction to Nova Graphica: A Graphic Anthology of Nova Scotia History, ed. Laura Ķeniņš (Conundrum Press, 2020). [Link]
“Phenology and Me.” Scientia Canadensis blog, September 2020. [Read]
“a salubrious, saline exhalation: Fog and Health in Colonial Newfoundland and Nova Scotia.” The Otter (NiCHE), August 2020. [Read]
>> part of a series I guest-edit for NiCHE on Canadian coastal histories
“Ode to a Christmas Tree Baler.” The Otter (NiCHE), December 2019. [Read]
Review of It’s All Happening So Fast: A Counter-History of the Modern Canadian Environment, exhibition at the Canadian Centre for Architecture. Canadian Architect Magazine, March 2017. [Read]
“Performing Blindness: A Postcard of the Taylor Concert Company, c1910, and the Canadian History of Disability.” Findings/Trouvaille, Champlain Society, December 2015. [Read]
“Phenology and Local Knowledge in Early Twentieth-Century Nova Scotia.” The Otter (NiCHE), April 8, 2015. [Read]
“Cranberry Capers: Wild Harvesting in Nova Scotia, 1880s and 1950s.” The Otter (NiCHE), December 10, 2014. [Read]
“Sights worth looking at: Agricultural Exhibitions in Nova Scotia.” The Otter (NiCHE), August 20, 2014. [Read]
Other Writing
Book reviews in Montreal Review of Books, Journal of New Brunswick Studies, Historical Studies in Education, Material Culture Review, Acadiensis online, Labour/Le travail, Histoire sociale/Social History.
“Wild, Seabound Coast: Nova Scotia’s Eastern Shore.” Atlantic Boating Guide, 2016.
“Nova Scotia’s Eastern Shore: A Sailor’s Wilderness.” Atlantic Boating Guide, 2015.
Exhibition essay for Jaynus O’Donnell, Pioneers. The New Gallery, Calgary, AB, 2012.