Publications
Complete scholarly record. Publications by topic are in Research.
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Refereed Articles ·
Refereed Book Chapters ·
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Exhibitions and Public Engagement ·
Book Reviews
Books
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Indenture and Canadian Sugar in Fiji: People, Power, and Profit across the British Empire.Forthcoming.
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2020University of Toronto Press, March 2020. 304 pp. Studies in Gender and History series. DOI: 10.3138/9781442625860 · Table of contents (PDF)City of Regina Book Award, 2021
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2011UBC Press, 2011. 320 pp. DOI: 10.59962/9780774819497 · Read sample (PDF)Pierre 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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2023Global Food History 10, no. 1 (2024): 68–86. DOI: 10.1080/20549547.2023.2278391 Open Access
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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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1999Manitoba History, no. 36 (Autumn/Winter 1998–99): 37–40. Open Access
Refereed Book Chapters
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2013In Feminist History in Canada: New Essays on Women, Gender, Work, and Nation, ed. Catherine Carstairs and Nancy Janovicek, 135–58. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2013. Full text (PDF)
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2013In Consuming Modernity: Gendered Behaviour and Consumerism before the Baby Boom, ed. Cheryl Krasnick Warsh and Dan Malleck, 258–73. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2013. Full text (PDF)
Essays
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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. Republished as “Canadian Sugar Was Built on Violence,” with a new author’s note, in NiCHE, 21 September 2026. Open Access
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2020Active History, July 2020. Revised and condensed, October 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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2020“Illness, Shortages, and Inflation: Going Shopping in Pandemic Times”University 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
Writing About Teaching
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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.
Exhibitions and Public Engagement
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2025“Echoes of Home: Tracing Girmitiya History.”Exhibit, Surrey City Hall, Surrey, British Columbia, June 2025. Presented by The Nameless Collective and No Ties 1879. Contributed research findings on the Vancouver-Fiji Sugar Company’s plantations at Navua, Fiji, and images from the City of Vancouver Archives.
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 106, no. 4 (2025): 636–637. DOI: 10.3138/chr.106.4.br10
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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 97, no. 3 (2016): 449–452. DOI: 10.3138/chr.97.3.br05
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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 12, no. 3 (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