About

I am an architectural historian with a focus on architectural and environmental histories of settler colonialism. Most recently, I worked with Parks Canada as a historian in the History and Commemoration Branch of the Indigenous Affairs and Cultural Heritage Directorate.

Currently, I am completing a doctoral dissertation that examines architecture as a site of encounter between Indigenous Peoples and the settler colonial state, 1879 to 1967. This work has been supported by the Graham Foundation, SSHRC, Canadian Centre for Architecture, and McGill University.

I was recently honoured to have my work included in the edited volume Behind the Bricks: The Life and Times of the Mohawk Institute, Canada’s Longest-Running Residential School (University of Calgary Press, 2025). My academic work and other writing has also appeared in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, RACAR: revue d’art canadienne / Canadian Art Review, Journal of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada, Literary Review of Canada, Canadian Architect, and elsewhere.

I serve as the web editor for the Indigenous Architecture Affiliate Group of the Society of Architectural Historians and as the neighbourhood representative for the Victoria Park Area Heritage Conservation District on the Heritage Kitchener committee. I am also a past vice-president of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada.

My education includes a Bachelor of Architectural Studies (Honours), Master of Architecture, and Graduate Diploma in Cognitive Science from the University of Waterloo, as well as courses in creative writing at the University of Toronto and Quebec Writers’ Federation.