Associate Professor
PhD. University of Toronto, 2000
M.A. University of Toronto, 1995
Dip. Ed. McGill University, 1992
B.A. Harvard University, 1990
University of Guelph, Department of History, 2004-
University of British Columbia, Assistant Professor, 2002-04
University of Waterloo, Postdoctoral Fellow, 2002
Stockholm University, Postdoctoral Fellow, 2001
Post-1945 Canadian History
Gender History
History of Health and Illness
Health Food
History of Moral Regulation
Legal and Illegal Drugs
International Drug Control
I am a Canadian historian who sometimes ventures into the field of American history. My areas of interest include: gender history, the history of health and illness, and 20th century cultural and social history. I have published on the history of illegal drug use, the history of health food, doping in sport, and water fluoridation. I am currently working on: 1) an edited collection of essays on feminist history in Canada with Nancy Janovicek; 2) a book on the history of water fluoridation, and 3) articles on two popular American health reformers. - Catherine
“Food, Fear and the Environment in the Long 1960s.” In Debating Dissent: The 1960s in Canada, edited by Dominique Clement, Lara Campbell and Greg Kealey. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, forthcoming 2011.
"Cities without Cavities: Democracy, Risk, and Public Health." Journal of Canadian Studies 44, no. 2 (2010): 146-70.
co-authored with Rachel Elder. "Expertise, Health, and Popular Opinion: Debating Water Fluoridation, 1945–80." Canadian Historical Review 89, no. 3 (2008): 345-70.
Jailed for Possession: Illegal Drug Use, Regulation and Power in Canada, 1920-1961. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006.
"Roots Nationalism: Branding English Canada Cool in the 1980s and 1990s." Histoire Sociale/Social History 39, no. 77 (May 2006): 235-255.
"The Stages of the International Drug Control System." Drug and Alcohol Review 24 no. 1 (2005): 57-65.
“The Wide World of Doping: Drug Scandals, Natural Bodies and the Business of Sports Entertainment.” Addiction Research and Theory 11, no. 4 (2003), 263-281.
“Becoming a ‘Hype’: Heroin Consumption, Subcultural Formation and the Politics of Resistance in Canada, 1945-1961.” Contemporary Drug Problems 29, no. 1 (2002): 91-116.
“’The Most Dangerous Drug of All’: Images of Cocaine and African-Americans in the Progressive Era.” Left History 7, no. 1 (2001): 46-60.
“Deporting Ah Sin to Save the White Race: Moral Panic, Racialization and the Extension of Canada’s Drug Laws.” Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 16, no. 1 (1999): 65-88.
“Innocent Addicts, Dope Fiends and Nefarious Traffickers: Illegal Drug Use in 1920s English Canada.” Journal of Canadian Studies 33, no. 3 (1998): 145-162.
