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Peer-Reviewed Articles:

2023 “Wild Smoke: Managing Forest Pollution in Northern British Columbia since 1950,” Environment and History. Fast track. https://doi.org/10.3197/096734023X16702350656924

2021 (with John Sandlos) “Dust versus Dust: Aluminum Therapy and Silicosis in the Canadian and Global Mining Industries,” Canadian Historical Review 102, issue 1 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.3138/chr-2019-0049).

2015 “”Into that Country to Work:” Aboriginal Economic Activities during Barkerville’s Gold Rush.” BC Studies 185 (Spring 2015), 109-136. Runner-up: BC Studies Prize.

2012 ““A Business Proposition:” Naturalists, Guides and Sportsmen in the formation of the Bowron Lakes Game Reserve, 1900-1939.” BC Studies 175, 9-34.

2023 “Living with Smoke: Lessons from the Chinchaga Fire,” graphic novel produced in collaboration with Petroglyph Studios. The novel is also archived on this website, in the Forest Fire tab.

Published Editorials:

2022 “Catastrophic Rhetoric: False Enchantments and ‘Unprecedented’ Disasters in British Columbia’s Punishing 2021,” Active History, 4 April 2022 and Syndemic Magazine 4 February 2022.

2021 (with Dave Jorgenson) “Breaking Cycles of Harm in Canada’s Natural Resource Communities,” Mining Watch Canada, 15 November 2021.

2021 “Smoke seasons aren’t new but our efforts to control wildfires are — and should change,” The Conversation. 19 August 2021.

2017 “Silicosis’s Toxic Legacy Offers Deadly Lessons for Today,” The Conversation. 6 July 2017. Also published by The National Post.

Digital Articles:

2022 (Editor) Fire Stories: Encountering Wildfire in the Archives and on the Land. A Network in in Canadian Histories for the Environment (NiCHE) series. 26 August – 5 October.

2021 Smoke Seasons: Tracing Transient Smoke in Norway and Canada. The Otter. Network in Canadian Histories of the Environment (NiCHE). 10 May. 

2021 Writing Health History During a Global Pandemic (with John Sandlos). The Otter. Network in Canadian Histories of the Environment (NiCHE). 10 May.

2020 (with Tina Adcock) “Rhizomes: An Interview with Mica Jorgenson.” The Otter. Network in Canadian Histories of the Environment (NiCHE). 15 December.

2019 “Fire Break? Environmental History and the 2019 Wildfire Season.” The Otter. Network in Canadian Histories of the Environment (NiCHE). 23 October.

2017 “Mining History and Hope.” The Otter. Network in Canadian Histories of the Environment (NiCHE). 21 June.

2017 “Porcupine Postcards: Intimate Networks and the Great Fire of 1911.” Au dela des frontiers: La Nouvelle histoire du Canada / Beyond Borders: The New Canadian History. Wilson Institute for Canadian History. 5 June. 

2016 “Mined Earth: Global Gold Rushes and Canadian Nature.” Seeds: New Research in Environmental History. NiCHE and Edge Effects. 3 October. 

Media Appearances:

2018 “Historian Speaking about Gold Mining’s Impact on People, Landscapes.” Frank Peebles, Prince George Citizen. 22 February.

2012 “First Nations History of Barkerville.” Radio Interview. CBC Daybreak North. 7 May.

2022 “Smoke Seasons: Living with Wildfire since 1900. Historians for Planetary Futures. 12 April.

2021 “Smoke Seasons: Forest Fires and Slow Violence in the 20th Century. Sciences-Po. 10 December.

2018 “Gold and Muskeg: Discovering Northern Canada’s late nineteenth century Mineral Rushes.” Keynote. Northern British Columbia History Conference. 24 February.

2018 “Undercover Underground: Environmental History and a Man of Mystery on Ontario’s 1920s Mining Frontier.” McMaster History Speaker Series. 18 January. 

2016 “Negotiating Gold-Bearing Land: The Nineteenth Century Gold Rushes.” Wilson Brownbag Workshop. Department of History, McMaster University. 10 November.

2016 “Ecologies of Gold: Mapping Global Mining in the Nineteenth Century.” Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship, McMaster University. 3 November.

2015 “Megaprojects.” Seminar Facilitation for History 4KO3: Environment and Environmentalism in Modern North America. 3 June. 

2015 “Parks and Conservation.” Seminar Facilitation for History 4KO3: Environment and Environmentalism in Modern North America. 13 May. 

2012 “Bismark and the Unification of Germany.” Guest Lecture for History 191: The West and the World since 1660. 29 February.

2010  “City Parks in Prince George.” Public History Lecture delivered as part of the “Cultural Collisions in the Early Prince George Region” colloquium, Prince George Railway and Forestry Museum, Prince George, 8 June.

2023 Bureaucratic Burning: Beginning an Environmental History of Prescribed Fire in Norway. European Society for Environmental History. 24 August.

2022 P83 – Sensing Smoke: Boreal Fire in Canada and Scandinavia in the Twentieth Century. Nordiska historikermötet, Gothenburg Sweden. 9 August.

2022 (speaker and panel coordinator) World Fire: Combustion Across Borders & Home Fires: Wildfire, Resilience, and Re-growth in North America with Alex Zahara, Tim Ingelsbee, Sasha White, Daniel May, & Steven Pyne. American Society for Environmental History. 24 March.

2021 Making Sense of the World: Science, Technology & the Senses. Joint session for the Society for the History of Technology and the History of Science Society. 19 November.

2021 Smoke Seasons: Transient Wildfire Smoke from North America to Northern Europe, 1911-1961. Uncommon Senses III. 7 May.

2021 I Have Bad News: A Letter to Arthur Kirk, Forest Ranger. Postcards for Unstable Times, European Society for Environmental History. April 21.

2021 Beyond Borders: Considering Borders and Boundaries in the Canadian North. Canadian Historical Association (accepted roundtable canceled due to Covid-19).

2020 Notes from the Negotiation Table: Natural Resources and Indigenous Rights in British Columbia, 1858-the present. American Society for Environmental History (accepted paper canceled due to Covid-19). 

2019 “Environmental History of Mining Part I: A Roundtable on the State of Mining History in North America.” American Society for Environmental History. 13 April.

2018 “In Defense of Unscientific Instinct: International Expertise and Environmental Problems in Northern Canada, 1909-1929.” Mining History Association. 8 June.

2018 “Mine Ecology: Mapping Transnationalism in a Frontier Resource Industry, 1909-1929.” Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship Graduate Resident Colloquia. 20 March. 

2018 “Catastrophic Connections: Mining Disasters and International Answers at the Porcupine Camp, 1909-1929.” American Society for Environmental History. 15 March.

2017 “The Past and Future of Environmental History.” Roundtable (with Stephen Bocking, Jennifer Bonnell, Joanna Dean, Matthew Evenden, Dan McFarlane, James Murton, and Jonathan Peyton). Canadian Historical Society. 30 May.

2017 “Mapping the Mines: Spatial and Network Analysis of the 19^th Century Gold Rushes,” McMaster History Graduate Conference. 13 May.

2017 “A Succession of Surprises: International Geology and the 1909 Porcupine Gold Rush,” American Society for Environmental History. 1 April.

2016 “Families in the Forest: Vacations, Camping, and Outdoor Recreation at Algonquin in the Interwar Years.” Canadian Historical Society. 30 May 2016 – 1 June 2016. Also presented at the McMaster Graduate History Conference, 14 May.

2016 “New Histories of Extraction: Mines, Communities, and the Environment.” Roundtable (with Arn Keeling, Kent Kurtis, Lianne Leddy, John McNeill, John Thistle, George Vrtis). American Society for Environmental History. 1 April.

2012 “Indigenous Participation in the Cariboo Gold Rush at Barkerville, 1858-1900.” Barkerville Symposium, Barkerville. 7 June. 

2012 ““The Savage Nature of the Indian:” Indigenous People and the Courts in Barkerville during the Cariboo Gold Rush 1858-1871.” Qualicum History Conference, Parksville. 28 January 2012. Also Presented at the 7^th Annual UNBC Graduate Conference, 1 March.

2011 “Naturalists Guides, and Hunters: The Bowron Lakes Game Reserve and Utilitarian Conservation 1900-1939.” “Sustainability and Change: Studies in BC’S Past, Present, and Future Communities,” University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna. 7 May.

2011 “Indigenous Participation in Cariboo Gold Rush Economy and Society.” Qualicum History Conference, Parksville. 29 January. Also presented at “Sailing in Unfamiliar Waters:” Celebrating Diversity in Research, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, 15 March.

Review Essays:

2018 “Witnessing Collapse in Miniature: Three Case Studies in Extraction and Environmental History,” Left History 22 (No. 1): 137-147.

Book Reviews:

2018 Review of Norman B. Keevil, Never Rest on Your Ores: Building a Mining Company, One Stone at a Time (Montreal & Kingston, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017) in Ontario History 110(2)(Fall): 241-243.

2017 Review of John McNeil and George Vrtis (eds), Mining North America: An Environmental History since 1522 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2017) in The Otter (29 November)

2017 Review of Paula Butler, Colonial Extractions: Race and Canadian Mining in Contemporary Africa (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015) in The Canadian Historical Review 98(1):174-175.

2017 Review of John Sandlos and Arn Keeling (eds), Mining and Communities in Northern Canada: History, Politics, and Memory (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2015) in Journal of Historical Geography 55 (January): 105-106.

2016 Review of John Thistle, Resettling the Range: Animals, Ecologies, and Human Communities in Early British Columbia (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2015) in The Otter (25 April).

2015 Review of Kathryn Bridge, ed., New Perspectives on the Gold Rush (Victoria: Royal British Columbia Museum, 2015) in BC Studies188 (Autumn): 164-166.

2015 Review of Courtney Mason, Spirits of the Rockies: Reasserting an Indigenous Presence in Banff National Park (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014) in Canadian Historical Review 96 (2): 303-304.

2014 Review of Richard Wright, Barkerville and the Cariboo Gold Fields (Victoria: Heritage, 2012); Art Downs, Cariboo Gold Rush: The Stampede that Made BC (Victoria: Heritage, 2013); and Agnes Laut, The Cariboo Trail: A Chronicle of the Gold-Fields of British Columbia (Victoria: TouchWood, 2013) in BC Studies 180 (Winter): 154-156.