• 2005
  Ph.D., American Studies
  University of New Mexico  
  
• 1992
  M. A., American History
  State University of New York at Albany
  
• 1989
  B. A., History
  University of Winnipeg
  

• 2016 – present

  Professor, Toronto Metropolitan University Department of History
  Teaching international relations and global studies.

• 2007 - 2016
  Associate Professor, Toronto Metropolitan University Department of History
  Tenured appointment teaching international relations and global studies.

• 2006 - 2007
  Assistant Professor, Nipissing University Department of History
  Tenure–stream appointment teaching American survey, social and cultural, and foreign policy courses.

• 2005 - 2006
  Visiting Professor, Nipissing University Department of History
  One-year appointment teaching classes in US history, including general surveys and classes in cultural and social history.

• January - June 2005
  Lecturer, Toronto Metropolitan University Department of History
  Taught US survey and international relations classes for the Department of History and Diploma in Arts program. 

•  2003 - 2004
  Visiting Professor, University of Toronto Department of History
  One-year appointment teaching five sections of US history, including second-year general surveys (1607-present) and third-year readings classes in the history of American slavery and the Civil Rights Movement, in classes ranging from 20 to 270 pupils; supervised seven teaching assistants.

• 2001 - 2003
  Full-time History Instructor, Central New Mexico Community College, Albuquerque
  Taught five sections per semester in US history, the history of New Mexico, and Western and world civilizations.

• 1991 - 2001
  Part-time History Instructor, Central New Mexico Community College, Albuquerque
  Taught one-to-four sections per semester in US history, the history of New Mexico and the American West, and western and world civilizations.

• 2000 - 2001
  Teaching Assistant, University of New Mexico Department of American Studies
  Formulated exams, graded papers, and tutored undergraduate students enrolled in classes on jazz and American culture and Black film.

• 1993 - 1994
  Teaching Assistant, University of Manitoba Department of History
  Formulated exams, graded papers, and tutored undergraduate students enrolled in classes in American foreign policy.

• 1990 - 1992
  Teaching Assistant, State University of New York at Albany
  Formulated exams, graded papers, and tutored undergraduate students enrolled in surveys of US history and foreign policy; conducted review seminars for foreign exchange students enrolled in undergraduate history courses.

University-level Courses Taught (more than 70 sections in total):

• US Foreign Policy
• US History to 1865
• US History, 1865-present
• The US Civil War
• US Culture and Society in the Cold War
• Introduction to Global Studies
• Jazz in American Culture
• Slavery in the Americas
• Canada-US Relations since WWII
• History of New Mexico
• The Uneasy Peace: The Cold War
• From War to War: International Relations, 1900-1945
• Western Civilization to 1648
• Western Civilization, 1648-present
• World Civilizations
• Understanding International Relations

Teaching Awards:

• Dean’s Teaching Award, recognizing continuing teaching excellence and achievement in instruction, Toronto Metropolitan University, 2010.

Books

• Four Days in Hitler’s Germany: Mackenzie King’s Mission to Avert a Second World War. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019.

• Living With War: Twentieth-Century Conflict in Canadian and American History and Memory. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016.
• Canada and the United Nations: Legacies, Limits, Prospects. Montreal/Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016. Co-edited with Colin McCullough.
• Warming Up to the Cold War: Canada and the United States’ Coalition of the Willing, from Hiroshima to Korea. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009.

Articles and book chapters

• “The Very Double Life of Mackenzie King’s Foreign Policy,” in Patrice Dutil, ed., Statesmen, Strategists & Diplomats: Canada’s Prime Ministers and the Making of Foreign Policy, UBC Press, 2023, pp. 121-144.

• “One Fuhrer, Two Kings: A Canadian Prime Minister in Nazi Germany and the Dilemma of Responsibility,” in Alexander Freund, ed., Being German Canadian: History, Memory, and Generations. University of Manitoba Press, 2021, pp. 54-78.
• “A Shared Dilemma: Locating Race in Canadian and American War Stories,” Left History19, 2 (2016), 41-68.
• “Empire and Cultures of Militarism in Canada and the United States,” American Review of Canadian Studies, 43, 1 (March 2013): 30-48.
• “Glad Adventures, Tragedies, Silences: Remembering and Forgetting Wars for Empire in Canada and the United States,” International Journal of Canadian Studies / Revue internationale d’études canadiennes, 45-46 (2012): 441-465.
• “‘A Day of Monumental Chaos’ … For Trade? Canada, the United States, and the Disparate Meanings of 9/11,” in Banu Baybars Hawks and Lemi Baruh, eds., If It Was Not for Terrorism: Crisis, Compromise, and Elite Discourse in the Age of “War on Terror.” Cambridge Scholars Press, 2011, pp. 117-129.
• “The Canada-United States Border, Hemispheric Security and the Media: From Cold War to War on Terror,” in Nolen Gertz, ed., War Fronts: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on War, Virtual War and Human Security. Interdisciplinary Press, 2010, pp. 55-65.
• “Canada, the United States, and the National (In)Security State: Fear, Culture, and National Identity,” in Banu Baybars Hawks & Lemi Baruh, eds., Societies Under Siege: Media, Government, Politics, and Citizens’ Freedoms in an Age of Terrorism, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, 2010, pp. 35-40.
• Contributing Author (essays about Barney Frank, Bernhard Goetz, Robert Mapplethorpe and Ron Sider), Encyclopedia of the Culture Wars, Roger Chapman, ed. New York: ME Sharpe, 2009.
• “‘Which Kind of Imperialism?’ Early Cold War Decolonization and Canada-US Relations,” Canadian Review of American Studies 37, 3 (2007): 403-430.
• "The Debate over Black Nationalism in Charles Johnson's Middle Passage," The Griot, 12 (Fall 1993): 63-67.

Book reviews

• Review of Mark Zuehlke, Tragedy at Dieppe: Operation Jubilee, August 19, 1942, Ontario History CV, 2 (Autumn 2013), 244-246.
• Review of Brian Bow, The Politics of Linkage: Power, Interdependence, and Ideas in Canada-US Relations, Canadian Public Policy 37, 1 (March 2011):130.
• Review of Penny Von Eschen, Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War, Journal of Cold War Studies 13, 4 (Fall 2011), 235.
• Review of Nikhil Pahl Singh, Black is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy, Canadian Journal of History 41 (Autumn 2006): 406-408.