Co-organizing this multistage research collaboration about discourses of renewable energy. Our first meeting, in Banff, resulted in a podcast series, Volatile Trajectories. We will be meeting in Toronto October 2023 to write a short book.

Organizer, After Oil 3

Expert contributor to the experimental storytelling workshop, We Did It! in November 2023, which produced future stories about a successful energy transition in Canada. To learn more: www.wedidit2050.ca.

Expert, We Did It!

Editor, Energy Humanities (2020-present)

A sustainability thought leadership website that publishes commentary by academic and policy experts from around the world. This is an ongoing digital publishing project that also includes video interviews with established and emerging voices in energy, culture, and sustainability.

Project Manager and Executive Committee, Critical Digital Humanities Initiative (2021)

A $2.4 million Digital Humanities research and training network at the University of Toronto. Funded by UofT’s Institutional Strategic Initiative, the network aims to modernize humanities graduate student training and to make UofT a world leader in Digital Humanities.

Organizer, Energy In/Out of Place (2020)

A weeklong virtural workshop (June 15-19, 2020) about how forms of energy shape places around the world and local potential for energy transition. Co-organized with Anne Pasek and Emily Roehl, the workshop gathered research teams from North America and India to present new multimedia works on different forms of energy in six locales. Workshop contributions are now being edited into an art book.

Virtual mentorship program for high school students from across the world as they learned about the relationship between energy systems and society. Students worked together in the 2019-2020 school year to understand the dynamics of energy transition and express their views through art, video, and writing.

Book Editor & Researcher (2009-2019)

Completed extensive editorial work for Imre Szeman’s, On Petrocultures: Globalization, Culture, and Energy (2019). Completed significant editorial and research work for several other books and projects, including The Bloomsbury Companion to Marx, Energy and Culture: Art and Theory on Oil and Beyond, and The Traffic in Babies: Cross Border Adoption and Baby-Selling between the United States and Canada.

Contributor & Grant Writer, After Oil School 2: Solarity (2019)

A group of scholars and artists gathered at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal (May 2019) to imagine and discuss a possible “solar future.” Publications from AOS3 included a special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly and Solarities: Seeking Energy Justice.

Curriculum Researcher & Post-secondary Program Evaluator (2016, 2022)

Collaborated in 2016 with Professor Mairi Cowan (University of Toronto, Mississauga) to design and conduct a faculty survey on skills development in undergraduate history education. Wrote a research report that made several recommendations to the history department on the skills that first year history undergraduate students need to develop to succeed.

Contributor, After Oil School (2015)

A group of scholars and artists gathered at the University of Alberta in August 2015 to discuss the process of energy transition to achieve a world “after oil.” Over three days of intensive discussion and writing, we collectively authored After Oil.

Organizer, Professors & Publics Roundtable (2015)

In 2015, a panel of scholars came together at Hart House, University of Toronto, to debate the role of political activism in academic scholarship. Co-organized with Lindsey Sidders, the roundtable was graciously hosted by Paul Kennedy of CBC Radio’s Ideas program.

Associate Editor, Past Tense (2012-2014)

In 2012, a group of graduate researchers at the University of Toronto established Past Tense: Gradute Review of History. The purpose of the online journal is to provide peer review and publishing experience to emerging researchers in history and related fields.