selected scholarly activity
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books
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chapters
- ‘It doesn’t bother me....’: Local neighborhoods, planners and the meaning of spatial justice in an industrial city, 1955-2000.. 81-97. 2016
- Boosting Nature. 55-85. 2016
- Choosing Nature. 221-229. 2016
- Civilizing Nature. 11-35. 2016
- Confining Nature. 138-170. 2016
- Conserving Nature. 36-54. 2016
- Figures and Tables. vii-ix. 2016
- Introduction. 3-10. 2016
- Nature History Sociey. 317-318. 2016
- Note on Sources. 299-302. 2016
- Organizing Nature. 86-113. 2016
- Planning Nature. 114-137. 2016
- Remediating Nature. 197-220. 2016
- Unchaining Nature. 171-196. 2016
- 11. “Can You Do This for My Neighbourhood?”: Public Sport History, the Environment, and Community in an Industrial City. 333-362. 2015
- A Respectable Man's World: Amateurism and Local Culture. 131-137. 2003
- Baseball, Boosters, and the Amateur Not-for-Profit Approach to Community Sport. 100-116. 2003
- Bibliography. 177-202. 2003
- Cricket and Local Culture: From Centre Stage to the Margins. 88-99. 2003
- From Holidays to Every Day: The Amateur Ascendancy in Local Sport. 60-87. 2003
- Introduction. 3-8. 2003
- Lacrosse: Idealized Middle-Class Sport for Youth. 117-130. 2003
- Notes on Methodology and Primary Sources. 139-142. 2003
- Tables, Maps, and Illustrations. vii-viii. 2003
- The 24th of May is the Queen's Birthday: Civic Holidays, Locality, and Sport. 31-59. 2003
- Tory Elites to Middle-Class Men: Changing Political, Economic, and Social Landscapes. 9-30. 2003
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journal articles
- Visualizing Don Morrow's Career. Sport History Review. 48:iii-vi. 2017
- Abandoning Nature: Swimming Pools and Clean, Healthy Recreation in Hamilton, Ontario, c. 1930s–1950s. Canadian bulletin of medical history = Bulletin canadien dhistoire de la medecine. 28:315-337. 2016
- Building and Re-building a City through Sport: Hamilton, Ontario and the British Empire and Commonwealth Games, 1930–2003. Sport in History. 34:390-410. 2014
- Remembering the Struggle for the Environment: Hamilton's Lax Lands/Bayfront Park, 1950s-2008. Left History. 13. 2008
- Blighted Communities and Obnoxious Industries: Constructing Environmental Inequality on an Industrial Waterfront, Hamilton, Ontario, 1890-1960.. Environmental History. 9:464-496. 2006
- Book Review: Water, Leisure, and Culture: European Historical Perspectives. International Review for the Sociology of Sport. 40:269-272. 2005
- The War on the Squatters, 1920-1940: Hamilton’s Boathouse Community and the Re-Creation of Recreation on Burlington Bay. Labour. 9-46. 2003
- " The Heritage of the People Closed Against Them:" Class, Environment, and the Shaping of Burlington Beach, 1870s–1980s. Urban History Review/Revue d'Histoire Urbaine. 30:40-55. 2001
- ’The pictures are great but the text is a bit of a downer…’Ways of Seeing and the Challenge of Exhibiting Critical History. Canadian Historical Review, The. 80:96-113. 1999
- Canadian sport history. Acadiensis. 28:98-102. 1998
- Let us take care of our field: The National Association for Physical Education of College Women and World War II. Journal of sport history. 25:65-86. 1998
- Dirty Spaces: Environment, the State, and Recreational Swimming in Hamilton Harbour, 1870–1946. Sport History Review. 29:59-76. 1998
- Reflections on Creating Critical Sport History for a Popular Audience:" The People and the Bay". Journal of sport history. 25. 1998
- Revivals and roller rinks: Religion, leisure, and identity in late-nineteenth-century small-town Ontario.. Journal of sport history. 24:419-420. 1997
- “Sportsmen and Pothunters”: Environment, Conservation, and Class in the Fishery of Hamilton Harbour, 1858–1914. Sport History Review. 28:1-18. 1997
- Cowgirls of the Rodeo. Pioneer Professional Athletes. Sport History Review. 26:83-85. 1995
- Idealized Middle-Class Sport for a Young Nation: Lacrosse in Nineteenth-Century Ontario Towns, 1871-1891. Journal of Canadian Studies. 29:89-110. 1994
- BLEEDING ORANGE - TROUBLE AND TRIUMPH DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS FOOTBALL - MAHLER,J, BOHLS,K. Journal of the West. 33:87-88. 1994
- SLICK - THE SILVER AND BLACK LIFE OF DAVIS,AL - RIBOWSKY,M. Journal of the West. 33:87-88. 1994
- The politics of the physical: American female physical educators and the US army air forces at war. International Journal of the History of Sport, The. 11:1-18. 1994
- ‘The 24th of may is the queen's birthday’: civic holidays and the rise of amateurism in nineteenth‐century Canadian towns. International Journal of the History of Sport, The. 10:159-192. 1993
- “Strictly Honorable Races: Woodstock’s Driving Park Association and Nineteenth Century Small Town Civic Holidays”. Sport History Review. 24:29-51. 1993
- Not Bad, Eh? Great Moments in Canadian Sports History. Sport History Review. 23:88-89. 1992
- ABEGWEIT DYNASTY - THE STORY OF THE ABEGWEIT-AMATEUR-ATHLETIC-ASSOCIATION, 1899-1954 - BALLEM,HC. Journal of sport history. 19:78-79. 1992
- Book Reviews. Sport History Review. 20:88-89. 1989
- “Aristocrats” and Their “Noble Sport”: Woodstock Officers and Cricket during the Rebellion Era. Sport History Review. 20:16-31. 1989
- Book Reviews. Sport History Review. 19:101-102. 1988
- A CRITICAL-EXAMINATION OF A SOURCE ON EARLY ONTARIO BASEBALL - THE REMINISCENCE OF FORD,ADAM,E.. Journal of sport history. 15:75-90. 1988