Academic Writing

Monograph

Wet Prairie: People, Land and Water in Agricultural Manitoba. UBC Press, Nature/History/Society Series. June 2011. (publisher’s page)

Peer-reviewed articles

“Natural and unnatural complexities: flood control along Manitoba’s Assiniboine RiverJournal of Historical Geography vol. 36, no. 1 (January 2010): 57-67.

Watersheds: Conceptualizing Manitoba’s Drained Landscape,” Environmental History vol. 12, no. 4 (October 2007): 796-819.

“The Great Transformation? Wetlands and Land Use in Manitoba,” Journal of the Canadian Historical Association 15 (Winnipeg 2004): 29-47.

‘Practical Results’: The Riel Statue Controversy at the Manitoba Legislative Building.” Manitoba History 42 (Fall 2001/Winter 2002): 30-38.

In Press

“To Harmonize Human Activity with the Laws of Nature: Applying the Watershed Concept in Manitoba.” In Urban Rivers: Re-Making Rivers, Cities and Space in Europe and North America, edited by Stéphane Castonguay and Matthew D. Evenden (University of Pittsburgh Press).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Review essays and book reviews

Review of M. J. Morgan. Land of Big Rivers:  French and Indian Illinois, 1699-1778 (Carbondale:  Southern Illinois University Press, 2010) Environmental History. Forthcoming.

Review of Kenichi Matsui. Native Peoples and Water Rights: Irrigation, Dams, and the Law in Western Canada. Native and Northern Series. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2009. H-Water, H-Net Reviews, September 2010.

Review of Joachim Radkau, Nature and Power: A Global History of the Environment (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009). Environment and Society: Advances in Research. Volume 1, 2010.

Review of Murray Knuttila and Bob Stirling, The Prairie Agrarian Movement Revisited. Great Plains Quarterly. Spring 2010 Vol. 30 No. 2, 150.

Review of James Murton, Creating a Modern Countryside: Liberalism and Land Resettlement in British Columbia, H-Canada, H-Net Reviews, January, 2008.

Review of Leonard, David W. The Last Great West: The Agricultural Settlement of the Peace River Country to 1914 (Calgary: Detselig, 2006). Canadian Historical Review 88 (4): 653-655.

Review of Campbell, Claire Elizabeth. Shaped by the West Wind:  Nature and History in Georgian Bay (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2005). Environmental History vol. 12, no. 4 (October 2007).

Trajectories in Rural History: A Review of The Trajectories of Rural Life: New Perspectives on Rural Canada,” Manitoba History 48 (Fall 2004/Winter 2005): 49-51.