Scholar - Women Also Know History

Participant Info

About Me: I received my Masters of History at Wilfrid Laurier University in 2011 and went on to receive a Masters of Photographic Preservation and Collections Management at Toronto Metropolitan University in 2015. In the same year, I won the Photographic Historical Society of Canada thesis prize for my paper, “British Official First World War Photographs, 1916-1918: Arranging and Contextualizing a Collection of Prints at the Art Gallery of Ontario.” I give lectures, host workshops, and curate exhibitions on the history of war photography (with an emphasis on photographic objects). In 2019, I was the recipient of the TMU Image Centre Elaine Ling Fellowship for my project: “‘Somewhere in France:’ Contextualizing the Image Centre’s Collection of Canadian First World War Photographs.”

I am also the author of a forthcoming biography of war photographer William Ivor Castle with Wilfrid Laurier University Press.

Recent Publications

2024: “Over the Top: How a photographer faked Canada’s most iconic battlefield images,” Canada’s History Magazine
2023: “Joan Fitzgerald – A Female Canadian Experience,” Defining Moments Canada digital profile
2017: “Beyond the Taking of Vimy Ridge: the War Photographs of William Ivor Castle,” Journal of Military and Strategic Studies (Calgary Centre for Military, Security and Strategic Studies)
April 2017: “British First World War Photographs, 1916-1918: Arranging and Contextualizing a Collection of Prints at the Art Gallery of Ontario – Part Two,” Photographic Canadiana
January 2017: “British First World War Photographs, 1916-1918: Arranging and Contextualizing a Collection of Prints at the Art Gallery of Ontario – Part One,” Photographic Canadiana
May 2016: “War Photos,” Legion magazine special collector’s issue
July 2015: “Photography on the Front Lines: Crimea and the US Civil War,” Espirit de Corps magazine

September 2015: “Photography on the Front Lines: How it Changed with the First World War,” Espirit de Corps magazine