Academic Background
Fellowships
Canadian War
Museum Research Fellowship, 2007-08, 2009-10
R.B. Byers Postdoctoral Fellowship (National Defence), 2005-06
Monographs and Edited Collections
Chariots of Mars:
Mechanization and Logistics in Canada’s Overseas Forces, 1914-19. In
preparation, under contract with University of Toronto Press.
Shoestring
Soldiers: The 1st Canadian Division at War, 1914-15. Toronto: University of Toronto
Press, 2008.
Co-editor, with
Geoffrey Hayes and Mike Bechthold, Vimy Ridge: A Canadian Reassessment. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier
University Press, 2007.
Articles
“Side-Steppers and Original-Firsts: Canadian Identity and Imperial
Solidarity in the Great War,” Canadian Military History,
Vol 20, No 3,
Summer 2011.
“Farm
Tractors, Occupational Therapy, and Four-Wheel Drive: Transforming a Military Vehicle
Into a Cultural Icon,” Bulletin of
Science, Technology & Society, Vol
30, No 3, June 2010, pp. 164-67.
“‘A Unique Art’: Canadian Anti-Gas Respirator Production in the Second World War,” Canadian Military History, Vol 18, No 4, Autumn 2009, pp. 51-64.
“On the Threshold of Modernity:
Canadian Horsepower on the Western Front, 1914-18,” Journal of the Society for Army
Historical Research, Spring 2009, pp. 59-83.
“The Illustrated London News
and Military Technology of the Great War” Material Culture Review/Revue de la culture matérielle, No 67, Spring 2008, pp. 45-63.
“From Kingston to Cairo: A Medical Officer’s Haversack and the Story of
No. 5 Stationary Hospital, 1915-16,” Stand
To! The Journal of the Western Front Association, No 82, April/May 2008,
pp. 27-30.
“Opening the North: Technology, Training and the Fort Churchill Joint Services
Experimental Test Station, 1946-64,” Canadian Army Journal, Vol 10, No 4, Winter 2008, pp. 74-95.
Recent Conference
Papers
“The Roads of France: Supply and Transport in the Canadian Expeditionary
Force, 1915-1917,” Army Historical Workshop: “Innovation and Problem Solving in
the Canadian Army,” Fort Frontenac, June 2011.
“‘The Roads to Vimy’: Supply and Transportation
Infrastructure at the Battle of Arras,” 22nd Military History Colloquium,
University of Waterloo, May 2011.
“Crossing the Threshold: Horses, Mechanization, and the First World War,”
Horse Symposium, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Ottawa, October 2010.
“‘Tanks are no bogey for the infantry…’: Allied and German Approaches to Anti-Tank Defence, 1916-18,” 21st Military History Colloquium, Wilfrid Laurier University, April 2010.
