Publications
Books
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Violence of Sugar: Girmit and Canadian Business in Colonial Fiji.Forthcoming.
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2020University of Toronto Press, March 2020. 304 pp. Studies in Gender and History series. DOI: 10.3138/9781442625860City of Regina Book Award, 2021
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2011UBC Press, 2011. 320 pp. DOI: 10.59962/9780774819497Pierre Savard Award, International Council for Canadian Studies
Best Book in Canadian Studies, Canadian Studies Network
Honourable Mention, Sir John A. Macdonald Prize, Canadian Historical Association
Shortlisted, John W. Dafoe Book Prize
Refereed Articles
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2025Agricultural History 99, no. 1 (2025): 102–107. DOI: 10.1215/00021482-11470591
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2021Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies 21, no. 2 (Summer 2021): 14–27. DOI: 10.1525/gfc.2021.21.2.14
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2020Global Food History 6, no. 1 (March 2020): 41–59. DOI: 10.1080/20549547.2020.1712577 Open Access
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2018With Kiera Mitchell. The Canadian Historical Review 99, no. 3 (2018): 456–86. DOI: 10.3138/chr.2017-0108 Open AccessHonourable Mention, Hilda Neatby Article Prize
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2014Histoire sociale / Social History 47, no. 93 (2014): 111–38. DOI: 10.1353/his.2014.0002
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2011The Canadian Historical Review 92, no. 4 (2011): 581–606. DOI: 10.3138/chr.92.4.581Hilda Neatby Article Prize
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2011International Journal of Canadian Studies 43, no. 1 (2011): 165–88. DOI: 10.7202/1009459ar Open Access
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2007The Journal of Women's History 19, no. 1 (2007): 58–81. DOI: 10.1353/jowh.2007.0004
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2006Labour / Le travail 58, no. 2 (2006): 107–44. Open Access
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2005The Canadian Historical Review 86, no. 4 (2005): 641–72. DOI: 10.3138/CHR/86.4.641Republished in Joan Sangster, ed., "Women's Voices," Canadian Historical Review vol. 102, Supplement 3 (2021); and in Home, Work, and Play, 3rd ed. (Oxford University Press, 2015), 263–77.
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2003Labour / Le travail 52, no. 2 (2003): 181–206. DOI: 10.2307/25149387 Open Access
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1999"'Granting a Square Deal': The Brandon Unemployed Worker and the Political Education of Brandon's Jobless during the Great Depression"Manitoba History 36, no. 2 (1999): 37–40.
Global Food History. Published 15 November 2023. DOI: 10.1080/20549547.2023.2278391 Open Access
Refereed Book Chapters
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2013"Sexual Spectacles: Women in Canadian Department Store Magazines between 1920 and 1950"In Writing Feminist History: Productive Pasts and New Directions, ed. Catherine Carstairs and Nancy Janovicek, 135–58. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2013.
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2013"Guilty Pleasures: Consumer Culture in the Fiction of Mary Quayle Innis"In Consuming Modernity: Changing Gendered Behaviours and Consumerism, 1919–1945, ed. Cheryl Warsh and Dan Malleck, 258–73. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2013.
Public Writing
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2024British Columbia History Magazine (Summer 2024): 22–26. Commissioned and edited by Rizwaan Abbas. Open Access
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2023The Conversation, 15 March 2023. Republished in Salon, the Vancouver Sun, and other outlets. Open Access
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2021Active History and the Canadian Historical Association. 19 January 2021. Open Access
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2021Active History and the Canadian Historical Association. 26 January 2021. Open Access
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2021Active History and the Canadian Historical Association. 2 February 2021. Also available in French from the Société historique du Canada.
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2020Active History, July 2020. Updated March 2026. Open Access
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2020NiCHE, 25 June 2020. Open Access
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2020The Conversation, 11 May 2020. Republished by the University of Regina, 19 May 2020. Open Access
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2020University of Toronto Press Blog, 1 May 2020. Open Access
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2019With Kiera Mitchell. LSE Impact Blog, 18 September 2019. Republished as "Behind Every Successful Man," LSE Business Review, 21 September 2019; and by the World Economic Forum, 24 September 2019. Open Access
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2018With Andrea Eidinger. The Conversation, 16 November 2018. Republished in the National Post and Montreal Gazette, 16 November 2018. Open Access
Book Reviews
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2025Agricultural History 99, no. 1 (2025): 102–107. DOI: 10.1215/00021482-11470591
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2025Review of Lisa Pasolli and Julia Smith, eds., Rethinking Feminist History and Theory: Essays on Gender, Class, and LabourCanadian Historical Review (December 2025).
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2025Review of Sunita Narayan, Across the Kala Pani: Uttar Pradesh to FijiJournal of Pacific History 60, no. 2 (2025): 261–2. DOI: 10.1080/00223344.2024.2427570
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2023Review of David P. Thomas and Veldon Coburn, eds., Capitalism & Dispossession: Corporate Canada at Home & AbroadBusiness History Review 97, no. 3 (2023): 693–696. DOI: 10.1017/S0007680523000697
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2019Review of Bettina Liverant, Buying Happiness: The Emergence of Consumer Consciousness in English CanadaAmerican Review of Canadian Studies 49, no. 2 (2019): 365–367.
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2016Review of Douglas McCalla, Consumers in the Bush: Shopping in Rural Upper CanadaCanadian Historical Review (2016): 449–452.
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2014Review of Graham Broad, A Small Price to Pay: Consumer Culture on the Canadian Home Front, 1939–45Labour / Le Travail 74, no. 1 (2014): 357–358.
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2012Review of Kate Haulman, The Politics of Fashion in Eighteenth Century AmericaJournal of Consumer Culture (2012): 371–373. DOI: 10.1177/1469540512456935
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2011Review Essay: "Interrogating the State: Recent Writing in Canadian Women's and Gender History"Acadiensis 40, no. 1 (2011): 97–105.
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2006Review Essay: "Suburbanization and Mass Culture in North America"Labour / Le travail 57, no. 1 (2006): 135–44. Open Access