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Cutover Capitalism: The Industrialization of the Northern Forest (finalist for the George Perkins Marsh prize for best book in environmental history for 2025)
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 14th, 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 5th, 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/