I am the University Archivist at Brandon University and teach Canadian history under the auspices of the History Department. The main themes in my research and teaching concern - in no particular ranking - Canadian social history, class relations, the state, law and society, the mediations of language and the formation and agency of historical subjects individual and collective.  

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54.155 Canada To 1867

54.156 Canada Since Confederation

54.364 Canada 1867-1939

with Reinhold Kramer, When the State Trembled: How A. J. Andrews and the Citizens' Committee Broke the Winnipeg General Strike (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, forthcoming, September 2010).

with Reinhold Kramer, Walk Towards the Gallows - The Tragedy of Hilda Blake - Hanged 1899  (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2002). (reprinted University of Toronto Press, 2007). 

with Errol Black. A Square Deal for All: Historical Essays on Labour In Brandon (St. John's :  Canadian Committee on Labour History, 2000). 

with T. H. McLeod, "Samuel James McKee," in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Vol. 16, ed. John English (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, forthcoming).

“Who Killed Jackie Bates? Murder and Mercy during the Great Depression.” Canadian Historical Review, 90.3 (September 2009): p. 576-9 (Book Review).

" 'The Proudest Boast of the Englishman:' The Ideological Claims of Winnipeg ’s Citizens’ Committee of One Thousand," in Silva Rerum:  A Collection of Scholarly Papers to honour A.B. Pernal, (L'viv:  National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine , 2007)

“Brandon’s Quasquicentennial,” Manitoba History, Number 56, October 2007.

"All Hell Can't Stop Us: The On-to-Ottawa Trek and Regina Riot," book review, Saskatchewan History 57.2 (Fall 2005): 44(2).

" The Heiress vs The Establishment: Mrs. Campbell's Campaign for Legal Justice," book review, H-Canada, H-Net Reviews, January, 2005. 

" Gentlemen Appointed by the Federal Government ': The Canadian State, the Citizens' Committee of 1000, and  Winnipeg's  Seditious Conspiracy Trials of 1919-1920," Labour/Le Travail,  54 (Spring 2004).

"Canadian Marxists and the Search for a Third Way," book review, Labour/Le Travail 48 (Spring 2001).

with James Naylor, "Prairie Fire Fizzles,"  Labour/Le Travail, 45 (Spring, 2000). 

"Profiles in Dissent: The Shaping of Radical Thought in the Canadian West,"  book review,  Manitoba History,  38, Autumn/Winter, 1999-2000.

"Wrestling with Citizenship - a review essay," Canadian and International Education, 28,  2, December 1999.

" Propaganda and Censorship During the Great War," book review, Canadian Historical Review,  79,  2 ( June 1998). 

With James Naylor, " The Prairies: In the Eye of the Storm" in Craig Heron (ed.) The Workers’ Revolt in Canada 1917-1925. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998.

"'Laws Grind the Poor and Rich Men Rule the Law': Louis St. George Stubbs, the Canadian State, and the Ignominy of Judicial Insurgency," Prairie Forum,  22,  2 (Fall 1997).

"'The Manufacture of Souls of Good Quality': Reconstruction, the 1919 Winnipeg Conference on Citizenship, and the New Order After the Great War, " Journal of Canadian Studies,  31,  4 (Winter 1996-97).

"'Repressive Measures': A. J. Andrews, the Committee of 1000 and the Campaign Against Revolution After the Winnipeg General Strike," Left History  3.2 4.1 (Fall 1995 - Spring 1996).

"From the Social Gospel To The 'Plain Bread of Leninism': A. E. Smith's Journey To The Left in the Epoch of Reaction After the Great War," Labour/Le Travail,  23, Spring 1994.

with Rosa Del C. Bruno-Jofré, " To Rouse the Workers From Apathy and Indifference: the Educational Dimenion of Unionist and Political Practices in Brandon, 1900-1920 in Rosa Del C. Bruno-Jofré (ed..) Issues in the History of Education in Manitoba: From the Construction of the Common School to the Politics of Voices. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 1993.

"'Blood With the Taint of Cain': Immigrant Labouring Children, Manitoba Politics, and the Execution of Emily Hilda Blake," Journal of Canadian Studies,  28, 4, Winter 1993-94.

"'To Reach the Leadership of This Revolutionary Movement': A. J. Andrews, the Canadian State, and the Suppression of the Winnipeg General Strike," Prairie Forum,  18,  2, Fall 1993.

with Bill Morrison, "'Only Brandon men Can and will save It': Boosterism, Brandon College, and the Crisis of the Great Depression," Manitoba History,  24, Autumn, 1992.

"'We Must Stand Fast for the Sake of Our Profession': Teachers, Collective Bargaining, and the Brandon Schools Controversy of 1922," Journal of Canadian Studies,  26, 1. Spring 1991.

"'A Square Deal For All and No Railroading':Labour and Politics in Brandon 1900-1920," Prairie Forum,  15,  1, 1990.

"1919: Industrial Relations in the Wheat City in the Year of the General Strike," Manitoba History,  18, Fall, 1989.

" In the Image of Ontario: Public Schools in Brandon, 1881-1890," Manitoba History,  12, Autumn 1986.

"Forging a New Ontario on the Agricultural Frontier" Public Schools in Brandon and the Origins of the Manitoba Schools Question, 1881-1889," Prairie Forum,  11,  1, Spring, 1986.

"Prologue,"  in Mary Hume (ed.) Prospect of A City. Brandon: City of Brandon, 1981.