Associate Professor
Ph.D.: University of Ottawa, 2003
M.A.: University of Ottawa, 1999
B.A.: University of Toronto, 1998
Language Policy
Canada Day/Dominion Day Celebrations
Nationalism and Identity Politics
Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations
Areas of Research for Graduate Supervision
Canadian Political History
Quebec and French Canada
Public Policy
Social Movements

Books
co-edited with Michael D. Behiels, Contemporary Quebec: Selected Readings and Commentaries (Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2011)
Mobilizations, Protests and Engagements: Canadian Perspectives on Social Movements, co-edited with Marie Hammond-Callaghan (Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 2008)
Bilingual Today, United Tomorrow: Official Languages in Education and Canadian Federalism. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2005.
Articles
“Fireworks, Folk-dancing, and Fostering a National Identity: The Politics of Canada Day,” Canadian Historical Review 91, no. 2 (June 2010): 287-314.
“Bilingualism versus Unilingualism: Federal and Provincial Language Education Policies in Quebec, 1960-1985,” in Contemporary Quebec: Selected Readings and Commentaries, edited by Michael Behiels and Matthew Hayday (Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, forthcoming).

“Variety Show as National Identity: CBC Television and Dominion Day Celebrations, 1958-1980,” in Communicating in Canada's Past: Approaches to the History of Print and Broadcast Media, edited by Gene Allen and Daniel Robinson (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009), 168-193.
“From Repression to Renaissance: French-language rights in Canada before the Charter,” in‘True North Strong and Free’? A History of Human Rights in Canada, edited by Janet Miron (Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press, 2009), 182-200.
“La francophonie canadienne, le bilinguisme et l’identité canadienne dans les célébrations de la fête du Canada.” In Entre lieux et mémoire: L’inscription de la francophonie canadienne dans la durée, edited by Anne Gilbert, Michel Bock, and Joseph-Yvon Thériault (Ottawa: Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa, 2009).
“L’expertise au service de la cause: La mobilisation de l'expertise pédagogique pour les communautés francophones minoritaires, 1960-1985.” In Légiférer en Matière Linguistique: Pour qui? Pourquoi? Comment?, edited by Marcel Martel and Martin Pâquet (Québec: Presses de l’Université Laval, 2008), 295-316.
“Mad at Hatfield's Tea Party: Federalism and the Fight for French Immersion in Sackville, New Brunswick, 1973-1982.” In Mobilizations, Protests and Engagements: Canadian Perspectives on Social Movements, edited by Marie Hammond-Callaghan and Matthew Hayday (Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 2008), 145-163.
“The Canadian Government and the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism: A New Direction for Official Languages in Education,” Canadian Issues (June 2003): 16-18.
“Worlds Apart in Acadie: Official Languages Programs in Education in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, 1968-1984,” Journal of the Canadian Historical Association 13 (2002): 238-257.
“Pas de Problème: The Development of French-Language Health Services in Ontario, 1968-86.” Ontario History 94, no. 2 (Autumn 2002): 183-200.
“Confusing and Conflicting Agendas: Federalism, Official Languages and the Development of the Bilingualism in Education Program in Ontario, 1970-1983,” Journal of Canadian Studies 36, no. 1 (June 2001): 55-79.
SSHRC Standard Research Grant, 2008-2011



