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Fall 2009
The following study is an attempt to comprehend the impact that the Canadian-United States border along the forty-ninth parallel had on the Plains Metis between 1869 and 1885, and how members of this community continued to manipulate the border to meet their own objectives. From the 1860s to...
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2014-10-03
SSHRC Awarded IG 2015: My research project combines economic history and novel studies to analyze stories of downward mobility circulating in British culture during the second half of the eighteenth century. "Downward Mobility in the Sentimental Novel" takes as its specific object of study the...
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Fall 2017
Over the last few years, the importance of place in the creation, and continuation of, Metis communities has comprised one of my primary research interests. Tied up in this idea of place are the key questions: why did Metis individuals and families decide to stay in the borderlands in the face of...