I am an Associate Professor of History at the University of Saskatchewan and Co-Editor of Historical Methods. My work is driven by a dual commitment: advancing digital methodologies and HGIS, while ensuring those tools remain firmly rooted in historical practice. I build and apply digital approaches to engage with the big questions of our time — urban environments, environmental justice, public health, global commodities, and settler colonialism.

My first book, West Ham and the River Lea (UBC Press, 2017), examined the local environmental and public health consequences of industrialization in East London. I've since followed those consequences outward — tracing tallow from London's soap factories to grasslands around the world, and timber from railway construction sites back to the forests of the Ottawa Valley. This is the research programme I call ghost acres: the distant lands that sustained industrial cities.

At the Historical GIS Lab, I build spatial databases and text-mining pipelines, map settler colonialism on the Canadian prairies, make virtual-reality experiences for public history, and help document Saskatchewan's experience of the pandemic through the Remember Rebuild community archive.

I am severely dyslexic and advocate for neurodivergent students in my teaching, research, and service work.