DEGREES
PhD, History, York University (2007 – 2011)
- Dissertation: “Rebel Youth: Young Workers, New Leftists, and Labour in English-Canada, 1964-1973.” Committee: Dr. Craig Heron (Supervisor), Dr. Paul Axelrod, Dr. Marlene Shore.
MA, History, York University (2006 – 2007)
- Major Research Paper: “‘Seemingly Onerous Restrictions’: Sedition in Ontario, 1914-1919.” Supervisor: Dr. Craig Heron; Second Reader: Dr. Paul Craven
BA, History, Queen’s University (2002 – 2006)
PUBLICATIONS
Peer-Reviewed Articles
“Coming off the Mountain: Forging an Outward Looking New Left at Simon Fraser University,” BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly, Vol. 171 (Autumn 2011): 69-91.
“‘This Board Has a Duty to Intervene,’ Challenging the Spadina Expressway Through the Ontario Municipal Board, 1963-1971,” Urban History Review/Revue d’histoire urbaine, Vol. 39, No. 2 (Spring 2011): 25-37.
“‘The Force of All Our Numbers:’ New Leftists, Labour, and the 1973 Artistic Woodwork Strike,” Labour/Le Travail, 66 (Fall 2010): 37-71.
“Sedition in Wartime Ontario: The Trials and Imprisonment of Isaac Bainbridge, 1917-1918,” Ontario History, Vol. 100, No. 2 (Autumn 2008): 150-177.
Book Chapters
W.J. Turkel and Ian Milligan, “The Challenge of ‘High-Throughput’ Computational Methods,” for Barry Rodrigue, Leonid Grinin and Andrey Korotayev, Eds. From Big Bang to Global Civilization: A Big History Anthology (Berkeley: University of California Press, forthcoming Winter 2012-13).
Book Reviews
Review of Paul Mason, Live Working or Die Fighting: How the Working Class Went Global (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2010), in Labor History, 52.3 (September 2011): 361-363.
Review of James Pitsula, New World Dawning: The Sixties at Regina Campus (Regina: Canadian Plains Research Centre, 2008), in Canadian Historical Review, 90:4 (December 2009): 818-820.
Review of Ian McKay, Reasoning Otherwise: Leftists and the People’s Enlightenment in Canada, 1890-1920 (Toronto: Between the Lines, 2008), H-Canada, H-Net Reviews. February 2009. URL: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=24198
Non-Peer Reviewed Professional Contributions
Coordinator and Copy-Editor, The Programming Historian 2 (PH2). I am responsible for copy-editing, introducing and working with technical contributors, as well as for making small code contributions. PH2 is an open access and open source introductory textbook to humanities programming.
“The Situation for Recent History Graduates: The Job Market, Rethinking the Idea of “Plan B,” and Some Ideas for the Future,” Canadian Historical Association Bulletin, forthcoming in May 2012 edition.
“‘For the Good of us All’: Commemorating the Historical Significance and Enduring Importance of the Canadian Building Trades,” a proposal prepared for the National Capital Commission on behalf of the Canadian Building Trades, AFL-CIO, April 2011.
“ActiveHistory.ca: History Matters,” Canadian Historical Association Bulletin, Vol. 36, No. 1 (May 2010): 24-26.
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2012-2014, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Government of Canada.
2011-2012, Avie Bennett Historica-Dominion Institute Scholarship in Canadian History.
2011-2012, Ontario Graduate Scholarship, Government of Ontario. [declined]
2009-2011, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Doctoral Fellowship, Government of Canada.
2010, Fieldwork Costs Fund, York University.
2009, Ramsay Cook Fellowship for Canadian History, York University.
2009-2010, Ontario Graduate Scholarship, Government of Ontario. [declined]
2009, Fieldwork Costs Fund, York University.
2009, Research Costs Fund, York University.
2007-2010, Sir John A. Macdonald Graduate Fellowship in Canadian History, Government of Ontario. [declined in 2009-2010]
2007, York Graduate Entrance Scholarship, York University.
2006, Faculty of Graduate Studies Recruitment Scholarship, York University.
2006, Frederick W. Gibson Prize in Canadian History, Queen’s University.
2006, Alexander MacLachlan Peace Prize, Queen’s University.
TEACHING POSITIONS
January 2012 – April 2012, Course Instructor, CAST/HIST/POLI 2285H: Canada in the 1960s: Irony and Identity, Department of Canadian Studies, Trent University. Responsible for weekly three-hour lecture in front of 115 students, partial marking, oversight of teaching assistant, and course administration.
September 2010 – April 2011, Teaching Assistant, HIST 1086: Vice, Deviance, Bad Behaviour, and Social Control in North America Since 1600, Department of History, York University. Conducted a weekly tutorial of 30 students, responsible for group discussions, research skills workshops, and grading.
September 2009 – April 2010, Teaching Assistant, HIST 1050: Life, Love, and Labour: An Introduction to Social and Cultural History, Department of History, York University. Conducted a weekly tutorial of 30 students, responsible for group discussions, designing essay assignments and quizzes, research skills workshops, and grading.
September 2007- May 2009, Teaching Assistant, SOSC 3210/HIST 3531: The Working Class in Canadian Society, Division of Social Science, York University. Conducted two weekly tutorials of 25 students, responsible for group discussions, research skills workshops, and grading.
RESEARCH POSITIONS
November 2011 – Present, Research Consultant/Assistant. “Translating History/Shaping Practice,” Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Knowledge Transfer project. Responsible for project assistance, presentation design, research into past practices, and other administrative support.
March – April 2011, Historical Consultant, Building Trades Canada (AFL-CIO). Responsible for preparing a National Capital Commission (NCC) submission for a monument in Ottawa.
EDITORSHIPS
Book Review Editor, Left History (Academic Journal), York University. 2009 – 2011, responsible for contacting academic publishers, finding reviewers for new monographs, coordinating and editing review essays and editing reviews.
Founding Co-Editor, Activehistory.ca Website, March 2009 – present. This is a website with the goal of recognizing the public responsibilities of the historian and to build a collegial community among active historians and other members of the community. Responsibilities included website maintenance, editing submissions, generating original content, communications, and forging the site’s mandate.
SELECTED SCHOLARLY PAPERS DELIVERED
“Mining the ‘Internet Graveyard’: Exploring Canada’s Digital Collections Projects,” Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting, University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo ON. May 2012. [Forthcoming accepted presentation]
“Digging into Music: An Interactive Textual Analysis of the Top 40 Billboard Lyrics Database,” Popular Culture Association of Canada’s Annual Meeting, Niagara Falls ON. May 2012. [available online]
“Embracing the ‘Big History’ Shift: Social Historians and Digital History (or ‘how I learned to stop worrying and love the n-gram’),” Cultural Historiography: Emergent Themes and Methods, University of Guelph, Guelph ON. March 2012.
“Youth Revolt: Class and Radicalism in English Canada’s Baby Boom Generation,” Society for the History of Children and Youth Biennial Meeting, Columbia University, New York City NY. June 2011.
“‘The Cry of Youth’: Class, Radicalism, and the Challenging of the Golden Age,” Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton NB. May-June 2011.
“Searching for Allies: The English-Canadian New Left and Broader Community Coalitions, 1968-1973,” 2010 Two Days of Canada Conference: ‘The Sixties: Canadian Style,’ Brock University, St. Catharines ON. November 2010.
“Towards a New Proletariat: Debating Class and Social Change Within the English- Canadian Student New Left,” Canadian History of Education Association Biannual Meeting, Toronto ON. October 2010.
“Growing Up on the Line: New Leftists, Youth, and Labour at the Artistic Woodwork Strike, 1973,” Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting, Concordia University, Montreal QC. June 2010.
“From the Quad to the Picket Line: Towards a Labour History of the Long Sixties,” Writing the Sixties: A Practical Symposium, Carleton University, Ottawa ON. November 2009.
“No Firm Ground: The Canadian New Left and their Conceptions of Class, 1964- 1968,” Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting, University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC. June 2008.
“Sedition in Wartime Ontario: The Trials and Imprisonment of Isaac Bainbridge, 1918-1919,” New Frontiers in Graduate History Conference, York University, Toronto ON. February 2008.
“Towards a New Proletariat: The Canadian New Left and the Working Class,” Global Sixties: New World Coming Conference, Queen’s University, Kingston ON. June 2007.
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Secretary-Webmaster, Political History Group-Groupe d’histoire politique, Canadian Historical Association, 2011-present, responsible for maintaining website, takings at meetings, and being a member of the group’s executive.
Tenure and Promotion Adjudication Committee Member, Department of History, York University, 2010 – 2011, responsible for review, discussion, and voting on files for tenure and promotion to Associate and full Professor ranks.
Treasurer, Graduate History Students Association, York University. 2009 – 2010, responsible for preparing the association’s annual budget, processing payments and deposits, and ensuring financial prudence.
Conference Co-Chair, New Frontiers in Graduate History Conference, York University. February 2009, responsible for planning and running this annual graduate conference as part of a chairing committee. New Frontiers is the largest graduate conference in Canada.
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
ActiveHistory Canadian Historical Association Committee.
Association for Computers and the Humanities.
Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing.
Canadian Committee on Labour History.
Canadian Historical Association.
Canadian Studies Network.
Society for Digital Humanities.
Society for the History of Children and Youth.
Toronto Labour Studies Group.
