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Taylor Prize, Association of Canadian Archivists<br>2007 Carleton University Teaching Achievement Award<br>2006 Jason A. Hannah Medal, Royal Society of Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Select Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cStill Photographs, Publicity, and the Making of Cecil B. DeMille\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Ten Commandments&nbsp;<\/em>(1956),\u201d&nbsp;<em>Film History: An International Journal<\/em>&nbsp;34.4 (2022): 1-29.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPlacing the Photograph: Digital Composite Images and the Performance of Place,\u201d in David Dean, ed.&nbsp;<em>Companion to Public History<\/em>&nbsp;(Wiley, 2018), 333-347.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBranding the Bay\/la Baie: Corporate Identity, the Hudson\u2019s Bay Company, and the Burden of History in the 1960s,\u201d&nbsp;<em>Canadian Historical Review<\/em>&nbsp;96, 2 (June 2015): 223-256.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPublic history and the fragments of place: archaeology, history and heritage site development in southern Alberta,\u201d&nbsp;<em>Rethinking History&nbsp;<\/em>15, 2 (June 2011): 241-266.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPicturing Communism: Yousuf Karsh, Canadair, and Cold War Advertising,\u201d&nbsp;<em>The Cultural Work of Photography in Canada<\/em>, ed. Carol Payne and Andrea Kunard (McGill-Queen\u2019s University Press, 2011).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(co-edited with John C. Walsh)&nbsp;<em>Placing Memory and Remembering Place in Canada<\/em>. UBCPress, 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(co-edited with John C. Walsh)&nbsp;<em>Home, Work, and Play: Situating Canadian Social History<\/em>. 2nd ed. Oxford, 2006, 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(co-authored with Matt Dyce), \u201cVisualizing Space, Race, and History in the North: Photographic Narratives of the Athabasca-Mackenzie River Basin,\u201d in&nbsp;<em>The West and Beyond<\/em>, ed. Alvin Finkel, Sarah Carter, and Peter Fortna. Athabasca University Press, 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Colonial Legacies of the Digital Archive: the Arnold Lupson Photographic Collection,\u201d&nbsp;<em>Archivaria<\/em>&nbsp;(Special issue on photographs and archives) 65 (2008), 3-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Lord for the Body: Religion, Medicine and Protestant Faith Healing in Canada, 1880-1930<\/em>. McGill-Queen\u2019s University Press, 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Recent Graduate Supervisions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Doctoral<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nicholas Hrynyk, \u201c\u2019Pin the Macho on the Man,\u2019: Mediations of Gay Male Masculinity in&nbsp;<em>The Body Politic<\/em>, 1971-1987.\u201d Ph.D., 2018. (co-supervised)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sara Spike, \u201cModern Eyes: A Cultural History of Vision in Rural Nova Scotia, 1880\u20131910,\u201d Ph.D., 2016. Awarded Carleton University Senate Medal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Susan L. Joudrey, \u201cHidden Authority, Public Display: Representations of the First Nations Peoples at the Calgary Stampede, 1912-1970,\u201d Ph.D., 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Masters<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Holly Benison, \u201cThe Backwoods Kitchen: An Exploration of 19<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;Century Canadian Culinary History on YouTube,\u201d Masters Research Essay in Public History, April 2023. 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