Associate Professor
On Leave
July 01, 2022 to June 30, 2023
Sidney Smith, Room 2086, 100 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3G3
Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Cross-Appointments
Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
Fields of Study
- Economy, Technology and Society
- Empires, Colonialisms and Indigeneity
Areas of Interest
Environment; Animal History
Biography
Journal Articles:
"Green Mountain Merinos: Sheep Breeding in Nineteenth-Century Vermont," Vermont History 85, 1 (2017): 1-19
"From Colonial Animal to Imperial Edible: Building an Empire of Sheep in New Zealand, c. 1880-1900," (Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 35: 1 (2015): 117-136
"Breed, Culture, and Economy: The New Zealand Frozen Meat Trade, 1880-1914" Agricultural History Review 10: 2 (2012): 288-308. Chapters in Edited Volumes: "Nature and the Refrigerating Machine: The Politics and Production of Cold in the Nineteenth Century," in Cryopolitics: Frozen Life in a Melting World, edited by Emma Kowal and Joanna Radin, MIT Press, 2017.
Education
PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MA, University of Western Ontario
BA, McGill University
Publications
- The Herds Shot Round the World Native Breeds and the British Empire, 1800–1900 (The University of North Carolina Press : 2017)