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Museums<\/strong><\/h3>\n

“Canada’s Superpowers: What does it mean to be Canadian?”<\/a> Published on the\u00a0Canadian Museum of History\u00a0<\/em>blog, June 2025.<\/p>\n

\u201cHockey: Challenging Canada\u2019s Game.\u201d In\u00a0Interpreting Sport at Museums and Historical Sites.\u00a0<\/i>Eds. Kathy Leann Harris and Doug Stark. New York: Rowan & Littlefield\/AASHL Interpreting History Series. 2023.<\/p>\n

\u201cGlobalization of Sports in Museums,\u201d co-authored with Bruce Kidd.\u00a0 In\u00a0Interpreting Sport at Museums and Historic Sites.\u00a0<\/i>Eds. Kathy Leann Harris and Doug Stark. New York: Rowan & Littlefield\/AASHL Interpreting History Series. 2023.<\/p>\n

Hockey: More than Just a Game<\/i>. Co-authored with Jennifer Anderson. Canadian Museum of History exhibition catalogue, 2017.<\/p>\n

\u201cControversies in Context: Communication, Hot Topics and Museums in Canada.\u201d In\u00a0Hot<\/i>Topics, Public Culture, Museums<\/i>. Eds. Fiona Cameron and Lynda Kelly, 176-93. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010.<\/p>\n

\u201cFront Page Challenge: Museums and the Media.\u201d\u00a0Muse: The Voice of Canada\u2019s Museum Community<\/i>\u00a021, no. 5 (2004): 36-39.<\/p>\n

“Re-visioning the Media, Museums and Controversy: A Preliminary Case Study.” Open Museum Journal<\/i> 6, September 2003.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Sport and Leisure<\/strong><\/h3>\n

“Five amazing facts about Trivial Pursuit: The most successful Canadian board game of all time.”<\/a> Published on the\u00a0Canadian Museum of History\u00a0<\/em>blog, September 2023.<\/p>\n

\u201cModern Gladiator: How Georges St-Pierre Has Shaped Sport.\u201d<\/a> Published on the\u00a0Canadian Museum of History\u00a0<\/i>blog, February 2019.<\/p>\n

Hockey: Challenging Canada\u2019s Game<\/em>. Co-edited with Jennifer Anderson. University of Ottawa Press, Mercury Book Series, 2018.<\/p>\n

“‘He would like to settle the matter: Behind the scenes of the Blainey vs. O.H.A. decision.”<\/a> Published on Findings\/Trouvailles<\/em>, August 2017.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018A Unifying Influence on Our Nation\u2019: Making and Remaking the Meaning of Terry Fox.\u201d\u00a0Journal of Canadian Studies<\/i>, 49, no. 3 (Fall 2015), 170-190.<\/p>\n

\u201cTerry Fox was an Activist.\u201d<\/a> Published on\u00a0ActiveHistory.ca<\/i>, April 2015.<\/p>\n

\u201cModel Athletes: Images of Women in Sport in Canada, 1950-2006.\u201d In\u00a0Canadian Woman Studies: An Introductory Reader<\/i>\u00a0(2nd Edition). Eds. Andrea Medovarski and Brenda Cranney, 478-488. Toronto: Inanna, 2006.<\/p>\n

\u201cWomen and Sport: An Examination of Advertisements between 1950 and 2002.\u201d\u00a0Canadian Woman Studies<\/i> 21, no. 3 (Spring 2002): 77-82.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Fat Activism<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Being Fat: Women, Weight and Feminist Activism<\/i>.<\/a>\u00a0University of Toronto Press, 2020.<\/p>\n

Obesity in Canada: Critical Perspectives<\/i><\/a>. University of Toronto Press, 2016. Co-edited with Deborah McPhail and Wendy Mitchinson.<\/p>\n

\u201cWeighing In: The \u2018Evidence of Experience\u2019 and Canadian Fat Women\u2019s Activism.\u201d\u00a0The Canadian Bulletin of Medical History<\/i>. 30, no. 1 (Spring 2013), 55-75.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cLet Me Hear Your Body Talk: Aerobics for Fat Women Only, 1981-1985.\u201d In\u00a0Gender, Health and Popular Culture: Historical Perspectives<\/i>. Ed. Cheryl Krasnick Warsh, 205-226. Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2011.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot Jane Fonda: Aerobics for Fat Women Only.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0In\u00a0The Fat Studies Reader<\/i>. Eds. Sondra Solovay and Esther Rothblum, 312-19. New York: New York University Press, 2009.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Stop Postponing Your Life Until You Lose Weight and Start Living Now\u2019: Vancouver\u2019s Large as Life Action Group, 1979-1985.\u201d\u00a0Journal of the Canadian Historical Association<\/i> 18, no. 1 (2007): 241-65.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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