Watch my talk 2024 with the Forest History Society here.

Watch my contribution to the 2025 Yale Forest Forum here.

Listen to an AI generated “podcast” on my new book here.

Here is a link to a podcast about my new book conducted with a real person!

Select research and writing:

Cutover Capitalism: The Industrialization of the Northern Forest (finalist for the George Perkins Marsh prize for best book in environmental history for 2025)

***Reviews of Cutover Capitalism by economist Zoë Plakias in H-Net and by forest historian Steven C. Beda in AHR.

 Seeing like a Peon: Warcraft and Perspective in Forest History, part of the series, Playing Inside: Board Games, Video Games, and the and the Indoors series for the Network in Canadian History & Environment.

Commentary: The fear of the ‘other,’ Albany Times Union (New York), April 6, 2025

Form contribution: “Cutover Capitalism: Connecting Labor and Nature in Forest Extraction,” Environmental History, 28, no. 4 (2023): 656-667.

Book Review: “Profit: An Environmental History” by Mark Stoll, Environmental History, 29, no. 1 (2024).

Book Chapter: “Educating the Underworked: Dudley Allen Sargent and the Power of the Rural Working-class Body in the United States, 1875-1919” in Kellie Burns and Helen Proctor eds., Curriculum of The Body and The School as Clinic: Histories of Public Health and Schooling, 1900-2020..

Book Review: “Shredding Paper: The Rise and Fall of Maine’s Mighty Paper Industry,” by Michael G. Hillard.” ILR Review 75 no. 1 (2022): 260–261.

Book Review: “What’s Not in Nature’s Metropolis Also Makes It Great” from “Nature’s Metropolis at 30,” Commonplace: The Journal of Early American Life, 12/23/2021, http://commonplace.online/article/natures-metropolis-at-30/

“The Winter Workscape: Weather and the Meaning of Industrial Capitalism in the Northern Forest, 1850‐1950,” Technology’s Stories, v. 8, no. 3: “Chill Technologies.” https://www.technologystories.org/winter-workscape/

Book Review: Persistent Callings: Seasons of Work and Identity on the Oregon Coast by Joseph E. Taylor III, Environmental History, 25, no. 3, (2020) 565–567.

Book Review: From Head Shops to Whole Foods: The Rise and Fall of Activist Entrepreneurs by Joshua Clark Davis, ILR Review, 72 no. 5 (2019) 1279–1281.

“‘These French Canadian of the Woods are Half-Wild Folk’: Wilderness, Whiteness, and Work in North America, 1840–1955.” Labour/Le Travail 77, no. 1 (2016): 121-150

Review of Curtis, Kent A., Gambling on Ore: The Nature of Metal Mining in the United States, 1860-1910. H-SHGAPE, H-Net Reviews. June, 2014

Contributor: “How Will We Write This History?” DAME, May 14, 2020, https://www.damemagazine.com/2020/05/14/how-will-we-write-this-history/

“Why do I tell the Franco-American Story?” French-Canadian Legacy Podcast Blog, March, 2020,  https://fclpodcast.com/blog/

“Logging bill can help correct a long history of injustice in Maine woods.” Bangor Daily News. May 14^th, 2019.

“Hey Snow! It’s Not You, It’s Us.” Edge Effects, January, 2019, http://edgeeffects.net/hey-snow-its-not-you-its-us/

Media Engagements

Sarah R. Champagne, “Les Canadiens français, ces migrants ‘pas tout à fait blancs’” Le Devoir, October 20, 2021 https://www.ledevoir.com/societe/641430/pas-tout-a-fait-blancs

Jesse Martineau, ” Episode 56: Louis Cyr The World’s Strongest Man with Jason Newton,” March 23, 2021, in French-Canadian Legacy Podcast, produced by Jesse Martineau and Mike Campbell, podcast, https://fclpodcast.com/2021/03/23/episode-56-louis-cyr-the-worlds-strongest-man-with-jason-newton/

Jesse Martineau, “Episode 18: Jason Newton Interview,” November 5^th, 2019, in French-Canadian Legacy Podcast, produced by Jesse Martineau and Mike Campbell, podcast, https://fclpodcast.com/2019/11/05/episode-18-jason-newton-interview/