• PhD, University of Toronto
  (history of Canadian higher education and the professoriate)

• MA, University of British Columbia
  (history of Canadian rural education)

• BA (hons.) York University
  (Canadian history)

• BA, Lakehead University
  (British history)

Research Interests

• historiographies and critical interpretive social histories of Canadian universities, the professoriate, students, and academic cultures
• histories of cultural and intellectual intersections and knowledge exchange between communities and higher education in Canada
• historical responses of higher education to ethnic, cultural, and gender diversity and racism in Canada
• post-revisionist histories of social and community power in Canadian rural education
• philosophies of history and historiography
• histories of life-writing and narratives
• histories of academic publishing and editorial cultures in Canada
• evolving institutional and social gender stratification, objectification, and sexist and discriminatory practices; visual, intuitive, discursive

Active Research Programmes

• University of Calgary Research Grants Committee, “Professors as Community Ideologues: The Professoriate and Constructions of Western Canadian Identities, 1900-1950” (Principal Investigator).

• SSHRC Standard Grant, "Picturing the Professoriate: Culture, Identity, and the Making of the Professoriate in Early Twentieth-Century Canada" (Co-Investigator).

• Historiographies and Interpretive Expressions of Racism, Discrimination, Sexism, and Genderfied Aggression in Canada, 1945-present (Principal Investigator).