I’ve started this blog to start posting some of my thoughts about urban environmental history. The main focus of my research is on West Ham in East London at the turn of the 20th century. I am also very interested in the history of Toronto, where I live and study, and Vancouver, where I grew up.
As of the fall of 2009 I am in the fifth year of my PhD in the History Department at York University in Toronto.
My CV:
Education:
2005- PhD Candidate (ABD), York University, Toronto Canada
2003-2004 – MA History, Tri-University Program, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo Ontario
1998-2003 – BA Honours History with a Minor in Politics, Bishop’s University, Lennoxville Quebec
Dissertation in Progress:
“Suburban and Industrial Growth in the Lower Lea River Valley: An Environmental History of West Ham from 1855 to 1935”
Supervisor: Dr. Stephen Brooke
Committee Members: Dr. Colin Coates and Dr. Bernard Lightman
Papers Presented:
2009 – “The Lea: A Suburban Industrial River” presented at The Industrialization of Rivers in Comparative Perspective Conference, Trois-Rivières
2009 – “Environment and Health in West Ham, 1895-1910” presented at the World
Congress of Environmental History, Copenhagen
2009 – “Sewage and Industrial Waste: Pollution and the River Lea in East London and
West Ham from 1866-1899” presented at the American Society of Environmental History
Conference, Tallahassee
2008 – “The Overuse of the River Lea and the Politics of Water Famine in West Ham,
1898” presented at the Canadian History Association Conference, Vancouver
2008 – “On the edge of London: the multiple and changing boundaries which shaped
West Ham’s development 1890-1910” presented at the American Society of
Environmental History Conference, Boise
2008 – “West Ham’s Hybrid Landscape” presented at New Frontier in Graduate History
Conference, York University
2006 – “Tom Mann’s Sober Epiphany” presented at New Frontier in Graduate History
Conference, York University
2005 – “Representations of the Dockers’ Strike of 1889 in The Times of London”
presented at the Tri-University Graduate History Conference, Wilfrid Laurier University
Organizational Experience:
2009 – Present – Founding Member of ActiveHistory.ca
2008 – Co-organiser of the Active History: History for the Future Symposium, to be held at Glendon College, York University, September 28 and 29, 2008
2007 – Co-organizer of the 11th Annual New Frontiers in Graduate History Conference at York University
2006 – Assisted Dr. Colin Coates in organizing the Network in Canadian History & Environment’s summer school, York University
Awards:
2009-2010 – Ontario Graduate Scholarship
2008-2009 – St. George’s Society Ontario Graduate Scholarship
Academic Employment:
2008- Present – Teaching Assistant, British History, York University
2006 – 2008 – Manuscript Assistant, ISIS, the Journal of the History of Science Society, York University
2005-2006 – Graduate Assistantship, York University
2003-2004 – Teaching Assistant and Marking Assistant, Wilfrid Laurier University
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