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, and I have published on the intersection between social movements and political parties. My book, Student Power: Canadian Student Movements From the Sixties to Today, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2026. My current project is a political biography of the Lewis family and democratic socialism in 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.