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Professional Experience
Current
Program Lead, Alberta Museums Association
Previous
Project Assistant – Chop Suey on the Prairies exhibit, Royal Alberta Museum
Exhibit Coordinator – Sam Steele: Journey of a Canadian Hero, Bruce Peel Special Collections Library University of Alberta
Researcher – Otto Schaeffer Collection, Canadian Circumpolar Institute
Editor, Past Imperfect, History and Classics Graduate Student Journal
Teaching Assistant, University of Alberta, Carleton University
Research Assistant, University of Alberta, Carleton University
Interpretative Guide & Researcher, Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies
Education
2008-2012 University of Alberta
Doctoral Candidate, History (Withdrew)
Trees, Tar Sands, and Environmentalism: Research, Education, Activism and Western Canadian Universities in the Twentieth Century
2006-2008 Carleton University
Masters of Arts, Public History
Completed major research paper titled “Picturing Winter in the Rockies: Public, Private, and Archival Imaginings of Banff, Alberta in the 1920s.”
2004-2006 Carleton University
Bachelors of Arts, Highest Honours, History
2002-2004 University of Calgary
Bachelors of Arts, History, transferred studies to Carleton University
Publications
“‘We Want Your Pictures So Kodak As you Go’: Promoting Winter Recreation in Banff in the 1920s.” Past Imperfect, 15(2009): 6-35.
“The Banff Photographic Exchange: Albums, Youth, Skiing and Memory Making in the 1920s.” The West and Beyond: Historians, Past, Present, and Future. Athabasca University Press, (2010).
Presentations
March 2010 The Past is Not Yet Written: University of Alberta History and Classics Graduate Students’ Association Conference
“Chinook! Wind and Winter in Southern Alberta”
April 2009 World History Forum, Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta
“Questioning the Master Narrative; or Making World History Textbooks Useful,”
February 2009 Questions of Authority; University of Alberta History and Classics Graduate Students’ Association Conference
“The Visual and the Material: Photographic Albums in the Archive”
June 2008 Western Canadian Studies Conference, University of Alberta
“Imagining Place in Winter: Photographic Albums and Growing Up in Banff, Alberta in the 1920s”
February 2008 Canadian Museum of Civilization Brown Bag Series
“Imagining A Place in Winter: Photographic Albums and Growing Up in Banff, Alberta in the 1920s”
March 2007 Underhill Graduate Student Colloquium, Carleton University
“Winnipeg and Jewish Refugees”
