Research Interests

My research focuses on legal battles between the Communist Party of Canada and the Canadian state in the Interwar period. I am specifically interested in the strategies that both the party and the state utilized in order to further their agendas, and the public’s responses at different junctures. My thesis will center on the trial of the eight Communist Party leaders in 1931 as a case-study through which to analyze these battles.

Working Thesis Title

An Unlawful Organization? Section 98, the Communist Party of Canada, and the Battle for Legality in the Interwar Period.

Publications

“‘To the disgust of the whole of the northern districts’: The Placentia Railway Question and Regionalism in Newfoundland, 1884-1889,” Newfoundland & Labrador Studies, Volume 28, Number 1 (Spring, 2013): 28-62.

Conference Papers

“Public Work or Development Tool? Region, Class, and the Placentia Railway Question, 1884-1889.” North American Labor History Conference (Detroit, Michigan) October, 2013.

“‘A Phenomenon of Ruling-Class Power and Hypocrisy’: The State, the Communist Party of Canada, and the Battle for Legality, 1931-1936.” Qualicum History Conference (Parksville, BC) January, 2014.

Awards

Joseph‐Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship (SSHRC) – 2013

SFU Graduate Fellowship – 2013

Bobbie Robertson Scholarship in History (Memorial University of Newfoundland) – 2011

Dr. Louise Whiteway Prize in Newfoundland History (Memorial University of Newfoundland) – 2010

Teaching Assistantships

History 101: Canada before Confederation (Fall 2012)

History 102W: Canada since Confederation (Spring 2013 & 2014)

History 104: History of the Americas from Colonization to Independence (Summer 2013)