About

I am a Professor in the Department of General Education and Department of Humanities at Mount Royal University. My research and teaching focus on social movements, left politics, and gender. Trained as a historian, I have studied student movements, feminism and women’s movements, Indigenous movements, economic movements, environmental movements, and the counterculture. I have published on Sixties student movements in English Canada and the intersections between social movements and political parties, especially the New Democratic Party (NDP), and am writing a history of Canadian student movements for Palgrave Macmillan. My current project examines the Pro-Palestinian encampments erected at University of British Columbia, University of Toronto, University of Ottawa, and McGill University in Spring 2024 and locates them within the long history of student activism in so-called Canada.

I also organize and lead international field schools to Honduras and Ecuador and the Galapagos and have developed a Community Service Learning course that seeks to connect universities with community organizations. I have published articles related to these initiatives and to the concept of Global Citizenship.

I am affiliated with Informed Opinions, am a regular on the Alberta Advantage podcast, am the “resident expert” on the Forgotten Corner podcast, and am a member of the Board of Directors for Harbinger Media Network. I have a B.A. (History and Political Science) and M.A. (History) from the University of Regina and a PhD (History) from the University of Alberta.