I am a historian of North American environmental history, and assistant professor of history at the University of Northern British Columbia. I hold a BA (Hons) and MA in History from the University of British Columbia, and an MPhil and PhD from Columbia University. I was also a fellow at the Smithsonian Institution, the American Philosophical Society, and the Consortium for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine during my doctorate, among others. I thank these institutions, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, for their crucial support of young researchers!

I find almost any aspect of human history interesting, and that is also one of the great things about history: One never stops learning. I try to convey this enthusiasm to my students.

Research-wise, I gravitate toward non-traditional topics but I approach them with an old school insistence on empiricism through heavy archival research. Indeed, one of the best parts of this job is exploring archives all over the world in search of what really happened in the past and why.
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