Associate Professor of History
Director, Centre for the Study of the United States and the American Studies Program
University of Toronto
Munk School of Global Affairs
1 Devonshire Place
Toronto, ON M5S 3K7 Canada
416-946-8011 (ph)
416-946-8915 (fax)
Featured Posts
Sex and Fidelity in the Archives [George Platt Lynes]
I’m at the Beinecke library in New Haven, reading correspondence among many of the figures in the...
Nick Matte on CTV News
Congrats to Nick Matte, PhD candidate in History, University of Toronto. He gave a great interview on...
Ken Wissoker on Academic Publishing
Sitting in on a talk Ken is giving (chief acquisitions editor, Duke UP), and he offers some useful insights...
Photo Folks to NYC
We’re heading to New York to meet with colleagues from the UK and the US, all of whom are part...
Nov. 25: "Worlds of the Contemporary Global"
Am a commentor on the following this Thursday at Munk [see http://www.munk.utoronto.ca/EventDetails...
Update on TPS
The Toronto Photography Seminar is currently revamping their website. For information regarding circulated...
News
Canadian Gay and Lesbian Archives (CLGA)
I’ve begun volunteering at CLGA, which I have been enjoying a lot. I needed some sort of activity...
The 'Public Life' of Photographs
The ‘Public Life’ of Photographs Symposium is happening May 9 - 11th 2013, sponsored by...
Toronto Photography Seminar
The Toronto Photography Seminar website is now live! The website will document various initiatives of...
CFP: Queering Photography (Abstracts Due March 30)
This Special Journal Issue will offer a new perspective on the relationship between photography and...
Queering Glamour in Interwar Fashion Photography: George Platt Lynes’ Multiple Publics
I’ll be presenting this paper at Ryerson Image Centre’s symposium on ” The ‘...
Research Trip: Models Project
I’ve headed to New Haven CT for research at the Beinecke library (at Yale) for the models project...
Congratulations!
A warm congratulations to PhD candidate Sarah Tracy, who has been selected as the 2012/2013 Chancellor...
Origins of Photography
Four of us from the Toronto Photography Seminar are at Rutgers to attend the symposium organized by...
Ariel Leutheusser Presents Research at Transecting Society Conference
Congrats to Ariel Leutheusser for presenting original research drawn at the Transecting Society conference...
Warm congratulations to Talia Linz, who’s exhibition, Age of Consent, opened in Toronto on at...
Bryan has been offered a tenure-track position at the University of Pittsburgh in their multidisciplinary...
Part of the photo folks contingent en route to NYC for trip to ICP Aperture, and Photo VII, Jan. 4&#...
Harry Ransom Center + Lynes
Off to Austin to look at the Lynes material there. And do one partner interview. Was just ‘sirred...
Nov 21 Week
This is sure to be a crazy week. Latin American History search underway; 2 candidates this week. Exciting...
ASA conference
Dan and I are off the American Studies Association annual conference tomorrow, in Baltimore. We’...