Publications and Conference Papers
SELECTED PUBLISHED WORKS
i) Books (authored)
Captive Audience: How Corporations Invaded Our Schools. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2019.
Recipient of Founders’ Prize, 2018-2020 (awarded for the best book in the history of education in Canada by the Canadian History of Education Association)
Tending the Student Body: Youth, Health and the Modern University. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015. 294pp.
Recipient of Founders’ Prize, 2014-2016 (awarded for the best book in the history of education in Canada by the Canadian History of Education Association)
A Long Eclipse: The Liberal Protestant Establishment and the English-Canadian University Campus, 1920-1970. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2004. 240pp.
Recipient of Founders’ Prize, 2004-2006 (awarded for the best book in the history of education in Canada by the Canadian History of Education Association).
ii) Books (edited)
with L. Campbell and M. Dawson, Feeling Feminism: Activism, Affect, and Canada’s Second Wave. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2022.
with M. Dawson and D. Wright, eds. Symbols of Canada. Toronto, Between the Lines, 2018.
(Japanese Edition Published as Canada Through Symbols: From Maple Syrup to Anne of Green Gables / シンボルから読み解くカナダ メープル・シロップから『赤毛のアン』までTokyo: Akashi Shoten, 2022.)
with L. Campbell and M. Dawson, eds. Worth Fighting For: Canada’s Tradition of War Resistance from 1812 to the War on Terror. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2015.
with M. Dawson and S. Klausen, A Canadian Girl in South Africa: A Teacher’s Experiences in the South African War, 1899-1902. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2015.
iii) Articles and Book Chapters:
“From a ‘Disciplined Intelligence’ to a ‘Culture of Care’: Shifting Understandings of Emotions and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century Educational Discourses.” Canadian Historical Review 103, 4 (December 2022), 538-62.
“Breathe in… breathe out”: Contextualizing the Rise of Mindfulness in Canadian Schools.” Historical Studies in Education/Revue d’histoire de l’éducation 32, 2 (Fall 2020): 119-147.
with M. Dawson, “Anne of Green Gables,” in Symbols of Canada, edited by M. Dawson, C. Gidney and D. Wright, 178-187. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2018.
with M. Dawson, “National Anthem,” in Symbols of Canada, edited by M. Dawson, C. Gidney and D. Wright, 76-85. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2018.
with M. Dawson, “Tim Hortons,” in Symbols of Canada, edited by M. Dawson, C. Gidney and D. Wright, 228-237. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2018.
“‘Nutritional Wastelands’: Vending Machines, Fast Food Outlets, and the Fight over Junk Food in Canadian Schools,” Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 32, 2 (2015): 391-409.
with M. Dawson, “‘There is nothing more inclusive than O Canada’: New Brunswick’s Elementary School Anthem Debate and the Shadow of Afghanistan,” in Worth Fighting For: Canada’s Tradition of War Resistance from 1812 to the War on Terror, eds. L. Campbell, M. Dawson and C. Gidney (Toronto: Between the Lines, 2015). Pp. 229-41.
Recipient of the 2016 Canadian Association of Foundations of Education (CAFE) Publication Award.
“Shaping Student Bodies and Minds: The Redefinition of Self at English-Canadian Universities, 1900-1960,” in Bodily Subjects: Essays on Gender and Health, 1800-1960, eds. Tracy Penny Light, Barbara Brookes, and Wendy Mitchinson (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2014). Pp. 100-119.
“Feminist Ideals and Everyday life: Professional Women’s Feminism at Victoria College, University of Toronto, 1900-1940,” in Feminist History in Canada: New Essays on Women, Gender, Work, and Nation, eds. Catherine Carstairs and Nancy Janovicek (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2013). Pp. 96-117.
“The Canadian Association of University Teachers and the Rise of Faculty Power, 1951-70,” in Debating Dissent: Canada and the Sixties, eds. Lara Campbell, Dominique Clément, and Greg Kealey (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012). Pp. 67-79.
“‘Less Inefficiency, More Milk’: The Politics of Food on the University Campus, 1900-1950,” in Edible Histories, Cultural Politics: Towards a Canadian Food History, ed. Franca Iacovetta, Valerie Korinek, Marlene Epp (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012). Pp. 286-304.
Recipient of Founders’ Prize 2014, English-Language Original Chapter (awarded for the best English-language article in the history of education in Canada by the Canadian History of Education Association).
“War and the Concept of Generation: The International Teach-Ins at the University of Toronto, 1965-1968,” in Cultures, Communities, and Conflict: Histories of Canadian Universities and Wart, ed. Paul Stortz and E. Lisa Panayotidis (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012). Pp 272-94.
with Ashley Doiron and Michael Dawson, “‘The Students Swarm to these Peaceful Shores in Droves’: An Historical Overview of the Postwar Spring Break Phenomenon,” Historical Studies in Education 24, 1 (Spring 2012): 1-20.
with M. Dawson, “Persistence and Inheritance: Rethinking Periodization and English Canada’s ‘Twentieth Century’,” in Contesting Clio’s Craft: New Directions and Debates in Canadian History, ed. C. Dummitt and M. Dawson (Institute for the Study of the Americas). London: University of London, 2009. Pp 47-74.
with R.D. Gidney, “Branding the Classroom: Commercialism in Canadian Schools, 1920-60,” Histoire sociale/Social History XLI, 82 (Nov. 2008): 345-79.
Honourable Mention, (American) History of Education Society Best Article Prize Competition, 2008-9.
“Institutional Responses to Communicable Diseases at Victoria College, University of Toronto, 1900-1940,” Canadian Bulletin of the History of Medicine 24, 2 (Fall 2007): 265-90.
“Dating and Gating: The Moral Regulation of Men and Women’s Residences at University and Victoria Colleges, University of Toronto, 1920-60,” Journal of Canadian Studies 41, 2 (Spring 2007): 1-23.
“The Athletics-Physical Education Dichotomy Revisited: The Case of the University of Toronto, 1900-1940,” Sport History Review 37 (Nov. 2006): 130-49.
“The Dredger’s Daughter: Courtship and Marriage in the Baptist Community of Welland, Ontario, 1934-44,” Labour/Le Travail 54 (Fall 2004): 121-49.
“Under the President's Gaze: Sexuality and Morality at a Canadian University During the Second World War,” Canadian Historical Review 82, 1 (March 2001): 36-54.
Reprinted in People, Places, and Times: Readings in Canadian Social History, Volume 2 - Post Confederation, eds. Cynthia Comacchio and Jane Errington (Thomson Nelson: 2006): 232-44.