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Here is a selection of my publications. Click here<\/a> to read some of these in full.
<\/strong>Podcasts and videos on my research<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Watch my talk 2024 with the Forest History Society here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Watch my contribution to the 2025 Yale Forest Forum here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Listen to an AI generated “podcast” on my new book here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is a link <\/a>to a podcast about my new book conducted with a real person!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Select research and writing:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Cutover Capitalism: The Industrialization of the Northern Forest <\/a><\/em>(finalist for the George Perkins Marsh prize for best book in environmental history for 2025) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

***Reviews of Cutover Capitalism<\/em> by economist Zo\u00eb Plakias <\/a>in H-Net and by forest historian Steven C. Beda <\/a>in AHR.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 <\/strong>Seeing like a Peon: Warcraft and Perspective in Forest History<\/a><\/em>, part of the series, Playing Inside: Board Games, Video Games, and the <\/em><\/a>and the Indoors<\/em> series<\/a><\/em> for the Network in Canadian History & Environment<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Commentary: The fear of the \u2018other,\u2019 Albany Times Union <\/a>(New York), April 6, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Form contribution: “Cutover Capitalism: Connecting Labor and Nature in Forest Extraction,” Environmental History<\/em>, 28, no. 4 (2023): 656-667.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book Review: \u201cProfit: An Environmental History\u201d by Mark Stoll, Environmental History<\/em>, 29, no. 1 (2024).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/em>..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book Review: \u201cShredding Paper: The Rise and Fall of Maine\u2019s Mighty Paper Industry,\u201d by Michael G. Hillard.\u201d ILR Review<\/em> 75 no. 1 (2022): 260\u2013261.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book Review: \u201cWhat\u2019s Not in Nature\u2019s Metropolis Also Makes It Great\u201d from \u201cNature\u2019s Metropolis at 30,\u201d Commonplace: The Journal of Early American Life, <\/em>12\/23\/2021, http:\/\/commonplace.online\/article\/natures-metropolis-at-30\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The Winter Workscape: Weather and the Meaning of Industrial Capitalism in the Northern Forest, 1850\u20101950,” Technology’s Stories<\/em>, v. 8, no. 3: “Chill Technologies.” https:\/\/www.technologystories.org\/winter-workscape\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book Review: Persistent Callings: Seasons of Work and Identity on the Oregon Coast<\/em> by Joseph E. Taylor III, Environmental History<\/em>, 25, no. 3, (2020) 565\u2013567.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book Review: From Head Shops to Whole Foods: The Rise and Fall of Activist Entrepreneurs<\/em> by Joshua Clark Davis, ILR Review<\/em>, 72 no. 5 (2019) 1279\u20131281.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“\u2018These French Canadian of the Woods are Half-Wild Folk\u2019: Wilderness, Whiteness, and Work in North America, 1840\u20131955.” Labour\/Le Travail<\/em> 77, no. 1 (2016): 121-150<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

“Why do I tell the Franco-American Story?” French-Canadian Legacy Podcast Blog<\/em>, March, 2020,  https:\/\/fclpodcast.com\/blog\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Logging bill can help correct a long history of injustice in Maine woods.” Bangor Daily News<\/em>. May 14th<\/sup>, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Hey Snow! It\u2019s Not You, It\u2019s Us.” Edge Effects<\/em>, January, 2019, http:\/\/edgeeffects.net\/hey-snow-its-not-you-its-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Media Engagements<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Sarah R. Champagne, \u201cLes Canadiens fran\u00e7ais, ces migrants \u2018pas tout \u00e0 fait blancs\u2019\u201d Le Devoir<\/em>, October 20, 2021 https:\/\/www.ledevoir.com\/societe\/641430\/pas-tout-a-fait-blancs<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jesse Martineau, ” Episode 56: Louis Cyr The World\u2019s Strongest Man with Jason Newton,” March 23, 2021, in French-Canadian Legacy Podcast<\/em>, 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\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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