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Education
Ph.D. University of British Columbia 1986
M.A. Honours, University of St. Andrews 1979
Research Areas
Historical Geography
Expansion of Europe overseas
Eastern Canada and northeastern United States
Current Research and Writing
Historical Atlas of Maine
"Geographies of the British Atlantic World" for Elizabeth Mancke, John G. Reid, and Huw Bowen (eds.), British Asia and the British Atlantic, 1500-1820: Two Worlds or One?
Surveyors of Empire: Samuel Holland, J.F.W. Des Barres, and the Making of the Atlantic Neptune
Courses
GEO 425: Historical Geography of Maine (Fall 2009)
GEO 275: Geography of Globalization (Spring 2010)
GEO 250: Early Modern North America in Atlantic Perspective (Fall 2010)
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Recent and Forthcoming Publications
"Early Modern Canada as Maritime Space" in Forum: Is There a "Canadian" Atlantic World? International Journal of Maritime History XXI, 1 (June 2009): 287-290.
Review of Miles Ogborn, Global Lives: Britain and the World 1550-1800 (Cambridge: CUP, 2008). In Journal of Historical Geography 35,3 (2009): 609-610
Review of Peter C. Mancall (ed.), The Atlantic World and Virginia, 1550-1624 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007). In International Journal of Maritime History 20, 1 (2008): 374-376.
Review of Daniel Vickers, Young Men and the Sea: Yankee Seafarers in the Age of Sail (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005). In American Historical Review 111 (2006): 1167-1168.
Co-editor with John G. Reid, New England and the Maritime Provinces: Connections and Comparisons (Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005).
British Atlantic, American Frontier: Spaces of Power in Early Modern British America (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2005).
Review of Jeremy Black, The British Seaborne Empire (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004). In Journal of British Studies 44 (2005): 842-843.
Awards and Honors
Caird Short-term Research Fellowship, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, 2007
Regional History Certificate of Merit (Atlantic Canada),
1993, Canadian Historical Association for
Nineteenth-Century Cape Breton
Commonwealth Scholarship 1979-1984

Last updated
1 October, 2009
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