Areas of interest
Americas; Indigenous Peoples; Colonialism; Religion; Environment
Biography
I am an anthropological historian of Indigenous cultures in Canada. My focus to date has been on religious and cultural transformation in British Columbia, and this interest led me to work with the Nisga’a to write a history of their encounter with Protestant mission Christianities. My dissertation, “Feasting on the Aam of Heaven: The Christianization of the Nisga’a, 1860-1920,” won the John Bullen Prize in 2014 for the most outstanding PhD thesis on an historical topic submitted at a Canadian university, and is being prepared for publication with University of British Columbia Press. I arrived at SFU in 2021 after teaching at UBC, McGill, and the University of Toronto.
Courses
Future courses may be subject to change.