Publications and Conference Papers
Selected Publications
MONOGRAPH
The Racial Mosaic: A Pre-history of Canadian Multiculturalism. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021.
EDITED COLLECTION
(With David Veltman) Biography Across the Digitized Globe: Essays in Honour of Hans Renders. Brill, 2025.
ACADEMIC ARTICLES
“Through the Eyes of a Guard: Watson Kirkconnell and Great War Internment in Canada.” Canadian Military History 34, no. 1 (2025).
“‘One of the Cultural Minorities’? Indigenous Peoples and the Creation of Official Multiculturalism.” Canadian Historical Review 106, no. 1 (March 2025): 57–82.
“Whiteness in Canada: History, Archives, Historiography.” Canadian Historical Review 105, no. 1 (March 2024): 74–95.
“Ethnicity to Equity? Official Multiculturalism and Racial Discrimination in Canada,
1971-79.” In “Review, Assessment, and Perspective on Fifty Years of Canadian Multiculturalism (1971-2021),” ed. Françoise Le Jeune and Laurence Cros. Special issue, Études canadiennes/Canadian Studies 95 (December 2023): 43–72.
“Historicizing Multiculturalism.” In “Multiculturalism @ 50 and the Promise of a Just Society,” edited by Will Kymlicka. Special issue, Canadian Issues/Thèmes canadiens (Fall/Winter 2021): 10–14.
“‘Anglo-Canadian Futurities’: Watson Kirkconnell, Scientific Racism, and Cultural Pluralism in Interwar Canada.” Settler Colonial Studies 10, no. 2 (2020): 234–56.
“The Biographical Turn and the Case for Historical Biography.” History Compass 16, no. 1 (January 2018).
BOOK CHAPTERS
“Biography Across Borders: Broadening Biography Studies.” In Biography Across the Digitized Globe: Essays in Honour of Hans Renders, edited by David Veltman and idem. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2025.
(With David Veltman.) “Turn Every Electronic Page? Biographers Confront the Digital Turn.” In Biography Across the Digitized Globe: Essays in Honour of Hans Renders, edited idem. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2025.
“Historical Biography in Canada: Historians, Publishers, and the Public.” In Different Lives: Global Perspectives on Biography in Public Cultures and Societies, edited by Hans Renders and David Veltman, 21–40. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2020.
Selected Talks
“‘Getting it all together’: Ukrainian Canadian (Student) Activists, 1970s–90s.” Paper presented at “The ‘There’ Here: How Diasporas Shaped Canada – Avie Bennett Historica Canada Conference,” York University (18–19 September 2025).
“The ‘New SUSK’: Ukrainian Canadian Students Lobby for Multiculturalism, 1968–71.”
Paper presented at the Canadian Historical Association, Annual Meeting, McGill University, 17–19 June 2024.
“Eugenic Roots? Scientific Racism and Canadian Multiculturalism.” Public lecture presented under the auspices of CRASH (Canada Region Anti-eugenics Scholarship Hub), Saint Mary’s University, 2 April 2024.
“‘The End of Multiculturalism’? A History of the Present.” Invited public lecture, Centre for Canadian Studies, Mount Allison University, 29 January 2024.
“Life and Times? The Challenge of Biographical Periodization for Longer Historical Studies.” Paper presented (virtually) at the International Auto/Biography Association’s XII World Conference, University of Turku (Finland), 16 June 2022.
“A Vertical, Racial, and Religious Mosaic? The Role of Religion in Early Cultural Pluralism.” Paper presented at the Canadian Sociological Association Annual Meeting (virtual),
16 May 2022.
“A ‘red tile in the Canadian mosaic’? Indigenous Peoples and J.M. Gibbon’s Cultural Pluralism.” Book talk given at Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies (virtually), 21 April 2022.
“Multiculturalism as/and/or Reconciliation?” Paper presented at the “Reconciling Multiculturalism in Today’s Canada” international symposium, University of Alberta (virtual), 26 November 2021.
“The Pre-history of Canadian Multiculturalism, 1920s–1940s.” Paper presented at the “Multiculturalism @50: Diversity, Inclusion, and Eliminating Racism” conference (virtual), Metropolis Canada’s 4th Annual Forum on Measuring Identities, 6–8 October 2021.
“‘The Better Eugenic Types’: Scientific Racism and the Histories of Immigration and Multiculturalism in Canada.” Paper presented at the “Canadian Legacies of Eugenics” symposium, University of Saskatchewan (virtual), 15 June 2021.
“‘Chasing More Precise Details’: Canadian Multiculturalism in the 1970s.” Paper presented at “Between Postwar and Present Day: Canada 1970-2000” conference, University of Guelph (virtual), 6–8 May 2021.
“The Writing of Historical Biography in a Multicultural Canada.” Paper presented at the “Different Lives: Global Perspectives on Biography in Public Cultures and Societies” conference, University of Groningen (the Netherlands), 19–21 September 2018.
“A Question of Parentage: Watson Kirkconnell and Canadian Multiculturalism.” Paper presented at the Canadian Historical Association, Annual Meeting, University of Regina, 27–31 May 2018.