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Current Positions

• Associate Professor, Department of Communication, Media, and Film, University of Calgary
• Adjunct Associate Professor, Education, Leadership, Policy, and Governance, Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary

Education

• PhD, University of Toronto
  (history of Canadian higher education and the professoriate)
• MA, University of British Columbia
  (history of rural education in Canada)
• BA (hons.) York University
  (Canadian history)
• BA, Lakehead University
  (British history)

Research Interests

• Cultural, Social, Political, and Intellectual History and Theory of Education and Universities
• History of Ethnicity, Race, and Gender in Higher Education
• Visual Images and Media in Historical Cultures
• Canadian Immigration
• History of Refugee Academic Émigré’s and Researchers in Canada
• History of Editing and Publishing Cultures
• Rural and Community History

Areas of specialization

• Canada
• History of Education; postcolonial educational theory
• Diversity, Ethnicity, Race, Immigration, and Multiculturalism
• Cultural Theory and Theories of History
• Social and Cultural History
• Historiography and Interpretive Historical Methodologies
• Interdisciplinary Studies, Knowledge Construction, and Theory

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