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History of health and disease in Canada and the modern world, 20th century health activism and politics, transnational social movements, working class history, history of Winnipeg
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Imagining Winnipeg: History through the Photographs of L.B. Foote. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, September 2012.
Magda Fahrni and Esyllt Jones (editors), Epidemic Encounters: Influenza, Society, and Culture in Canada, 1918-1920. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2012.
"Spectral Influenza: Winnipegs Hamilton Family, Interwar Spiritualism, and Pandemic Disease," in Magda Fahrni and Esyllt Jones (editors), Epidemic Encounters: Influenza, Society, and Culture in Canada, 1918-1920. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2012.
Esyllt Jones and Adele Perry (editors), People's Citizenship Guide: a response to conservative Canada. Winnipeg: Arbeiter Ring Publishing, 2011.“Nothing Too Good for the People: Urban Space, Local Democracy and London’s Interwar Health Centre Movement,” Social History of Medicine (2011). First published online March 3, 2011.
“Disease as Embodied Praxis: Epidemics, Public Health and Working-Class Resistance in Winnipeg, 1906-1919,” in Sarah Carter, Alvin Finkel and Peter Fortna, eds., The West and Beyond. Edmonton: Athabasca University Press, 2010.
"Politicizing the Labouring Body: Working Families, Death and Burial in Winnipeg’s Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919.” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History in the Americas 3, 3 (2006).“‘Cooperation in All Human Endeavour’: Quarantine and Immigrant Disease Vectors in the 1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic in Canada.” Special Issue on Immigration and Health, Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 22, 1 (2005).
Prairie Metropolis: New Essays on Winnipeg Social History, edited with Gerald Friesen, University of Manitoba Press, 2009
Influenza 1918: Disease, Death, and Struggle in Winnipeg, University of Toronto Press, 2007
COURSES TAUGHT
2020-2021
HIST 3574 Disease and Society in the Modern World2019-2020
HIST 2286 Modern Canada
HIST 4680/7640 Social History of Health & Disease in Modern Canada2018-2019
HIST 2286 Modern Canada
HIST 3574 Disease and Society in the Modern World
HIST 3800 History of Winnipeg2017-2018
HIST 1270 New Directions in History: Inquiries into the Power Relations of the Modern World
HIST 3800 History of Winnipeg2016-2017
HIST 2288 History of Social Movements in Canada