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Benjamin Isitt, PhD
Faculty of Law, University of Victoria
PO Box 2400, STN CSC, Victoria, BC V8W 3H7
Email. [email protected] | Tel. 250.882.9302
Citizenship. Canada and United Kingdom
EDUCATION
Doctor of Philosophy Law University of Victoria 2018
Bachelor of Laws Law University of London 2010
Doctor of Philosophy History University of New Brunswick 2008
Master of Arts History University of Victoria 2003
Bachelor of Arts (Honours) History University of Victoria 2001
MAJOR FIELDS OF SCHOLARLY INTEREST
Law of Employment and Labour; Social Movements and States; Canadian History, Contact to
the Present; British Columbia and Canada in Global Context; Public Commemoration and
Digital Scholarship; Migration, War, and Empire; Environment and Natural Resources
EMPLOYMENT
City of Victoria City Councillor 2011-Present
Simon Fraser University, Labour Studies Sessional Lecturer 2015-2016
University of British Columbia, History Assistant Professor (Limited Term) 2010-2011
University of Victoria, History Assistant Professor (Limited Term) 2008-2010
BC Ministry of Advanced Education Research Officer 2007-2008
University of New Brunswick, History Sessional Lecturer 2007
University of New Brunswick, VP Research Research Assistant 2003-2005
University of New Brunswick, History Doctoral Candidate 2003-2008
University of Victoria, History Teaching Assistant 2002
Spring Ridge-Fernwood Heritage Group Research Assistant 2001-2003
Martlet Newspaper News Editor 2000-2001
Victoria Cool Aid Society Housing Support Worker 1998-2001
MEMBERSHIP AND OFFICES HELD IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
Canadian Association for Work and Labour Studies, Member 2014-Present
Canadian Committee on Labour History, Secretary 2011-Present
Canadian Committee on Labour History, Member 2002-Present
Pacific Northwest Labour History Association, Member 2002-Present
Canadian Law and Society Association, Member 2011-Present
Canadian Historical Association, Member 2003-Present
Canadian Committee on Public History, Member 2010-Present
Network in Canadian History and Environment, Member 2011-2013
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BC Studies Association, Member 2009-2011
Labor and Working Class History Association, Member 2004-2010
SCHOLARSHIPS, FELLOWSHIPS, HONOURS, AND AWARDS
A. MAJOR RESEARCH GRANTS, SCHOLARSHIPS & FELLOWSHIPS
2016 Aid to Scholarly Publications Grant (Disabling Barriers, with Malhotra); $8,000
2011-2014 SSHRC Standard Research Grant (co-applicant with R. Malhotra); $69,800
2011-2014 University of Victoria Doctoral Fellowship; $63,500
2012 Canada Council grant (French edition, From Victoria to Vladivostok); $20,000
2011 University of Victoria Howard Petch Research Fellowship; $7,500
2011 Aid to Scholarly Publications Grant (Militant Minority); $8,000
2010 Aid to Scholarly Publications Grant (From Victoria to Vladivostok); $8,000
2008-2010 SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship; $81,000
2009 SSHRC Research Development Initiatives grant (recommended); $40,000
2004-2007 SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS) Doctoral Fellowship; $105,000
2003-2004 University of New Brunswick PhD Graduate Arts Assistantship; $20,000
2001-2003 University of Victoria Master of Arts Fellowship; $24,800
1996 McGill University President’s Scholarship (declined); $16,500
1996 Queen’s University Sesquicentennial Scholarship (declined); $16,500
B. WRITING AWARDS
2017 International Labor Communications Association, Best Labour History Award
2008 Labour History Dissertation Prize (UK) (Honourable Mention)
2006 Labor & Working-Class History Association, Best Graduate Research Prize; $750
C. OTHER GRANTS AND AWARDS
2017 University of Victoria Graduate Travel Grant; $600
2015 University of Victoria Graduate Travel Grant; $600
2015 University of Victoria Faculty of Law Travel Grant; $300
2014 University of Victoria Graduate Travel Grant; $600
2013 University of Victoria Faculty of Law Fieldwork Grant; $4,000
2012 Far Eastern Federal University Visiting Scholar Grant; $1,000
2011 University of British Columbia Faculty Travel Grant; $800
2010 SSHRC General Research Grant; $4,000
2010 Universität Heidelberg Travel Grant; $700
2010 University of Victoria Travel Grant; $750
2009 University of Victoria Travel Grant; $750
2009 University of Victoria Travel Grant; $750
2009 University of Victoria Office of Community-Based Research Travel Grant; $250
2008 SSHRC Postdoctoral Prize nominee (top 5% of applicants)
2008 Gregg Centre for the Study of War & Society Travel Grant; $3,000
2008 British Columbia Institute for Co-operative Studies Research Stipend; $4,000
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2007 West Coast Environmental Law Research Grant; $2,000
2007 University of New Brunswick H.H. Stuart Graduate Research Grant; $1,000
2007 Canadian Historical Association Travel Grant; $600
2006 University of New Brunswick H.H. Stuart Graduate Research Grant; $1,000
2006 Security and Defence Forum Travel Grant; $1300
2005 University of New Brunswick H.H. Stuart Graduate Research Grant; $1,000
2004 UNB Graduate Student Association Travel Grant; $300
2004 Security and Defence Forum Travel Grant; $800
2004 University of New Brunswick H.H. Stuart Graduate Research Grant; $1,000
2003 Association for Canadian Studies in the United States Travel Grant; $400
2003 University of Victoria Graduate Travel Grant; $750
2002 University of Victoria Graduate Travel Grant; $500
2001 Sam and June Macey Graduate Student Award; $1000
1999 Allan and Elizabeth McKinnon Scholarship; $1000
1996 Jack Wallace Memorial Award; $500
1996 Youth Community Action Award; $200
1996 Baha’i Victoria Scholarship; $250
1996 University of Victoria Entrance Scholarship; $2,000
1996 Province of British Columbia Scholarship; $2,000
SCHOLARLY AND PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS
A. BOOKS
Isitt, Benjamin, co-authored with Ravi Malhotra. Able to Lead: The Legal Politics of
Disablement and the Political Life of E.T. Kingsley. Under contract with UBC Press.
Isitt, Benjamin, edited volume with Ravi Malhotra. Disabling Barriers: Social Movements,
Disability History, and the Law. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2017.
Isitt, Benjamin. Duty with Dignity: The Professional Employees’ Association in British
Columbia, 1974-2014. Victoria: Professional Employees Association, 2014.
Isitt, Benjamin. Militant Minority: British Columbia Workers and the Rise of a New Left, 1948-
1972. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011.
Isitt, Benjamin. From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition, 1917-19.
Vancouver: UBC Press, 2010. Translated by Les Presses de l’Université Laval (French)
and Dal’nauka (Russian).
B. BOOK CHAPTERS
Isitt, Benjamin. “‘No Unity of Policy or Command’: Canada and the Allied Occupation of
Vladivostok, 1918-1919.” Revolution and Civil War in the Russian Far East, edited by
Willard Sunderland and David Wolff. Bloomington, IN: Slavica, 2018. Forthcoming.
Isitt, Benjamin. “Court Martial at Vladivostok: Mutiny and Military Justice during the First
World War.” Canadian State Trials, Volume 4, edited by Barry Wright, Eric Tucker, and
Susan Binnie. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015: 172-216.
Isitt, Benjamin. “The Siberian Intervention.” The Encyclopedia of War, edited by Gordon Martel.
Oxford: Wiley & Sons, 2011.
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C. ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN REFEREED JOURNALS
Isitt, Benjamin. “Early Socialism in Canada: The Ethnic and International Impulse.” American
Review of Canadian Studies, 43, no. 4 (Winter 2013): 512-528. With Nelson Wiseman.
Isitt, Benjamin. “On the Borders of Bolshevism: Class, Race, and the Social Relations of
Occupied Vladivostok, 1918-19.” Comparativ, 22 (October 2012): 71-85.
Isitt, Benjamin. “Confronting the Cold War: The 1950 Vancouver Convention of the CCF.”
Canadian Historical Review, 91, no. 3 (September 2010): 465-501.
Isitt, Benjamin. “Elusive Unity: The Canadian Labor Party in British Columbia, 1924-1928.” BC
Studies, 163 (Fall 2009): 33-64.
Isitt, Benjamin. “Social Democracy in Twentieth Century Canada: An Interpretive Framework.”
Canadian Journal of Political Science, 40, no. 3 (September 2007): 567-589. With
Nelson Wiseman.
Isitt, Benjamin. “Searching for Workers’ Solidarity: One Big Unionism and the Victoria General
Strike of 1919.” Labour/Le Travail, 60 (Fall 2007): 11-44.
Isitt, Benjamin. “The Hospital Employees Union Strike and the Privatization of Medicare in
British Columbia, Canada.” International Labor and Working-Class History, 71 (Spring
2007): 91-111. With Melissa Moroz.
Isitt, Benjamin. “Mutiny from Victoria to Vladivostok, December 1918.” Canadian Historical
Review, 87, no. 2 (June 2006): 223-264.
D. RESEARCH NOTES
Isitt, Benjamin. “Fellow Traveller: A British Columbia Fisherman Writes Home from the Eastern
Bloc, 1952.” Labour/Le Travail, 63 (Spring 2009): 105-130.
E. PUBLISHED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Isitt, Benjamin. “Canada and the Russian Revolution of 1917.” The Great Russian Revolution of
1917 in the Fate of Countries and Peoples of the World. Vladivostok: Institute of
History, Archeology and Ethnography of the Peoples of the Far East, Far Eastern Branch
of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2017.
Isitt, Benjamin. “Canada and the Allied Occupation of Vladivostok, 1918-1919.” Civil War and
Military Intervention in the Russian Far East Conference, edited by Svetlana Dudarenok.
Vladivostok: Far Eastern Federal University, 2012.
Isitt, Benjamin. “From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition, 1917-1919.”
Sibir' v pyeriod grazhdanskoy voyni, edited by Sergei P. Zviagin. Kemerovo: Kemerovo
State University, 2010.
F. THESES AND DISSERTATIONS
Isitt, Benjamin. “Patterns of Protest: Property, Social Movements, and the Law in British
Columbia.” Ph.D. Dissertation in Law and Society, University of Victoria, 2018.
Supervisor: Rebecca Johnson.
Isitt, Benjamin. “Tug-of-War: The Working Class and Political Change in British Columbia,
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1948-1972.” Ph.D. Dissertation in History, University of New Brunswick, 2008.
Supervisor: Gregory S. Kealey.
Isitt, Benjamin. “The Search for Solidarity: The Industrial and Political Roots of the Co
operative Commonwealth Federation in British Columbia, 1913-1928.” M.A. Thesis,
University of Victoria, 2003. Supervisor: Eric W. Sager.
Isitt, Benjamin. “Battling Bolshevism from Victoria to Vladivostok: The Canadian Siberian
Expeditionary Force and Class Warfare in Canada, 1918-1919.” B.A. Honours Thesis,
University of Victoria, 2001. Supervisor: Eric W. Sager.
G. MAGAZINE AND NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
Isitt, Benjamin. “Canada and the Bolshevik Revolution.” CCPA Monitor, 24, no. 5 (January /
February 2018): 43-48.
Isitt, Benjamin. “Labour Pride: Unions and the Movement for LGBT Rights.” The Professional,
43, no. 2 (July 2017): 14-18.
Isitt, Benjamin. “Working with Diverse Abilities: Inclusiveness in the Labour Force and
Society.” The Professional, 43, no. 1 (April 2017): 14-17.
Isitt, Benjamin. “Raising the Floor: The Minimum Wage and What It Means to You.” The
Professional, 42, no. 2 (June 2016): 16-19.
Isitt, Benjamin. “Paid Parenting: Winning Maternity and Parental Leave Benefits.” The
Professional, 42, no. 1 (March 2016): 8-11.
Isitt, Benjamin. “Unlearned lessons of the First World War.” Times Colonist. 1 May 2010.
Isitt, Benjamin. “Ghosts of elections past still haunt BC.” Times Colonist. 5 April 2009.
Reprinted in BC Commentary, 12, no. 2 (Spring 2009): 11-12.
Isitt, Benjamin. “Make housing the priority for federal ‘shovel-ready’ dollars.” Vancouver Sun. 3
February 2009. Reprinted in Island Tides, 12 February 2009 and Columbia Journal 14,
no. 1 (May 2009): 8.
Isitt, Benjamin. “The Siberian Expedition.” Legion Magazine 83, no. 6 (November/ December
2008): 60-63.
H. RESEARCH REPORTS
Isitt, Benjamin, with Ray Travers. The Future of Forests and Communities on Vancouver Island.
Victoria: Island Forest Futures, 2016. 53 pp.
Isitt, Benjamin. Housing for All: The Social Economy and Homelessness in British Columbia’s
Capital Region. Victoria: Canadian Social Economy Research Partnerships, 2008. 60 pp.
Isitt, Benjamin. Higher Learning in a Changing World: Environmental Scan for British
Columbia. Victoria: BC Ministry of Advanced Education, 2008. 246 pp.
Isitt, Benjamin. Urbanization on the Western Frontier: Langford’s Bear Mountain and the
Blurring of Public and Private Interests. Victoria: West Coast Environmental Law, 2007.
30 pp.
I. BOOK REVIEWS
Isitt, Benjamin, Review of Stefan Epp-Koop, We’re Going to Run this City: Winnipeg’s Political
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Left after the General Strike (Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2015), in
Canadian Historical Review, 98, no. 3 (Fall 2017): 813-815.
Isitt, Benjamin. Review of Gordon Hak. The Left in British Columbia: A History of Struggle
(Vancouver: Ronsdale, 2013), in Labour/Le Travail, 76 (Fall 2015): 215-217.
Isitt, Benjamin. Review of Michel S. Beaulieu, Labour at the Lakehead: Ethnicity, Socialism,
and Politics, 1900-35 (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2011), in Histoire sociale / Social
History, 46, no. 92 (November 2013): 533-535.
Isitt, Benjamin. Review of Reinhold Kramer and Tom Mitchell. When the State Trembled: How
A.J. Andrews and the Citizens’ Committee Broke the Winnipeg General Strike (Toronto:
University of Toronto Press, 2010), in Labour/Le Travail, 70 (Fall 2012): 273-275.
Isitt, Benjamin. Review of Joan Sangster. Transforming Labour: Women and Work in Postwar
Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010), in Left History, 16, no. 1 (Spring
2012): 146-148.
Isitt, Benjamin. Review of Andrew Parnaby. Citizen Docker: Making a New Deal on the
Vancouver Waterfront, 1919-1939 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008), in
British Columbia History, 42, no. 1 (Spring 2009): 21-22.
Isitt, Benjamin. Review of Gordon Hak. Capital and Labour in the British Columbia Forest
Industry, 1934-74 (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2007). H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and
Social Sciences. (October 2008).
Isitt, Benjamin. Review of Roger Stonebanks. Fighting for Dignity: The Ginger Goodwin Story
(St. John’s: Canadian Committee on Labour History, 2004), in Labour/Le Travail, 55
(Spring 2005): 249-251.
J. ONLINE / WEB PROJECTS
Able to Lead: E.T. Kingsley Digital Archive < www.abletolead.ca > 2015.
This SSHRC-funded website complements the scholarly monograph I am co-authoring
with University of Ottawa professor Ravi Malhotra, providing a digital archive of rare
materials relating to the social history of British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest,
including the only complete online print run of the Western Clarion newspaper and other
primary documents relating to industrialization, labour relations, and social change in the
early twentieth century.
Canada’s Siberian Expedition < www.siberianexpedition.ca > 2010.
This Virtual Exhibition and Digital Archive engages non-scholarly audiences in the
history of Canada’s Siberian Expedition, a forgotten moment in the history of Canada,
Russia, and the world. Fully trilingual in English, French, and Russian, it combines an
engaging interpretive narrative with teaching resources and a Digital Archive that
preserves and shares 2,200 previously unpublished archival photographs and documents.
Project Partners: University of Victoria Humanities Computing & Media Centre,
University of Victoria Dean of Humanities, University of Victoria Special Collections,
Centre for Research on Canadian-Russian Relations, Arseniev State Museum of
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Primorsky Region, Far Eastern Federal University Centre for Canadian-Americans
Studies (Vladivostok).
Canadian Social History Archive. In Progress.
This Digital Archive provides public access to rare archival documents from private
family collections and also preserves – and provides access to – digital copies of oral
history interviews relating to the social history of Canada. Teaching modules are being
developed for middle school, secondary school, and university/college educators and
students. Project Partners: Canadian Committee on Labour History.
Canada’s Geographic Heritage. In Progress.
An interactive tool that engages Historical GIS, linking a comprehensive database based
on Historical Sites and Monuments Board of Canada locations with multimedia on
Canada’s natural and human heritage.
K. RESEARCH CONTRACTS / CONSULTING
Professional Employees Association 2013-Present
British Columbia Labour Heritage Centre 2014-Present
Red Storm Productions 2010-2012
British Columbia Institute for Co-operative Studies 2008
West Coast Environmental Law 2007
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
A. COMPREHENSIVE DOCTORAL TEACHING FIELDS
Major Field Legal History of Employment and Labour Relations (Dr. Judy Fudge)
Major Field Canadian History: Contact to the Present (Dr. Margaret Conrad)
Minor Field Comparative Labour & Working-Class History (Dr. Gregory S. Kealey)
Minor Field Political Parties, Party Systems, and Social Democracy (Dr. Karen Murray)
B. TEACHING DUTIES
2015-2016 Simon Fraser University, Labour Studies Program
Courses Taught:
LBST 330: Special Topics in Labour Studies: Studying Labour through Film
2010-2011 University of British Columbia, Department of History
Courses Taught:
History 303: The Canadian West
History 402: Problems in International Relations: History of the Peace Movement
History 490: Seminar for History Majors: Labour and the Left in BC
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2008-2010 University of Victoria, Department of History
Courses Taught:
History 132: Canada Since 1867
History 358: British Columbia Since 1945: Power and Protest
History 469: Social Movements in World History
2007 University of New Brunswick, Department of History
Course Taught:
History 3332: The Canadian Worker Since 1914
2002 University of Victoria, Department of History
Teaching Assistant:
History 131: Canada To 1867
C. GRADUATE STUDENT SUPERVISION
2014 University of Victoria School of Indigenous Government Supervisor (S. Eriksen)
2010 University of Victoria Department of History, Thesis Defence Chair (P. Craib)
D. OTHER TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2013-Present University of Victoria Continuing Studies, Lecturer
Course Taught:
From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition
2002-Present University of Victoria Speakers’ Bureau, Volunteer Public Lecturer
Topics Offered:
Social Movements and the Law
Social Democracy in Canada and Beyond
The Canadian Left: Then and Now
Housing for All: Ending Homelessness in BC’s Capital Region
Understanding Local Government
J.S. Woodsworth and the Social Gospel Tradition in Canada
A Peoples’ History of Victoria and Canada
From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition
Journey Along the Trans-Siberian Railroad
The Colonization of Vancouver Island
2008-2011 University of Victoria, University 201 (Adult Education), Volunteer Lecturer
Topics Offered:
Labour History and Labour Movements
Social Movements in Canada and the World
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES
2011-Present Victoria Colloquium in Political, Social and Legal Theory
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2013 Presentation Foundations Workshop, University of Victoria
2011 Network in Canadian History and Environment Summer School, St. Andrews, NB
2010 Effective Graduate Supervision Workshop, University of British Columbia
2010 Designing Evaluation Methods Workshop, University of British Columbia
2010 Oral History and Digital Storytelling Workshop, Concordia University
2009 Facilitating Tutorial Discussion Workshop, University of Victoria
2008-2009 Dean of Humanities Professional Development Workshop, University of Victoria
2009 Essentials For Career Success Seminar, University of Victoria
2007 Intensive Summer Teaching Institute, University of Victoria
SERVICE
A. ACADEMIC SERVICE
2011-Present Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, International Council of Experts
2012-Present Labour/Le Travail, Peer Reviewer
2008-Present BC Studies journal, Peer Reviewer
2010-Present Canadian Historical Review, Peer Reviewer
2002-Present University of Victoria Speakers’ Bureau, Volunteer Lecturer
2014-2016 Canadian Committee on Public History, Member, Public History Prize Committee
2010-2013 Canadian Committee on Public History, Chair, Public History Prize Committee
2011-2012 University of Victoria Faculty of Law, Doctoral Representative, Faculty Council
2012 Social History/Histoire Sociale, Peer Reviewer
2010-2011 University of British Columbia Department of History, Colloquium Committee
2011 Journal of Canadian Studies, Peer Reviewer
2008-2010 University of Victoria Housing & Homelessness Research Group, Member
2009 University of Victoria Peer Helping Program, Mentor
2009 University of Victoria Social Justice Studies Curriculum Development Workshop
2008 Canadian Journal of Political Science, Peer Reviewer
2008 Canadian Committee on Labour History, Eugene Forsey Prize Committee
2008 Canadian Association for Studies in Co-operation, Scholarship Committee
2008 Simon Fraser University Faculty of Education, Compassionate Canada Mentor
2008 University of Victoria “University 201” Adult Education Course, Instructor
2004 University of New Brunswick Senate, Senator (Alternate)
2004 University of New Brunswick Student Conduct Review Committee, Graduate Rep
2003-2004 University of New Brunswick Graduate Student Council, History Department Rep
2001-2003 University of Victoria Students’ Society, Director-at-Large
B. PUBLIC SERVICE
2011-Present City of Victoria, Councillor
2011-Present Capital Regional District, Director
2011-Present Greater Victoria Regional Water Supply Commission, Commissioner
2014-Present Island Corridor Foundation, Director
2013-Present Social Environmental Alliance, Chair
2014-2016 Greater Victoria Harbour Authority, Director
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2014-2016 Victoria Parks and Recreation Foundation, Director
2013-2014 Capital Region Housing Corporation, Secretary-Treasurer
2011-2014 Provincial Capital Commission, Director
2009-2012 Victoria-Khabarovsk Association, Vice-President/Director
2007-2009 Spring Ridge Community Housing Trust, President
2006-2009 City of Victoria Environment and Shoreline Advisory Committee, Member
2005-2008 Fernwood Community Association, Director
2006-2007 Canadian Community Housing Foundation, Research Director
2003-2006 New Democratic Party of Canada, Federal Council Member
2003-2006 New Democratic Youth of Canada, Policy Director
1998-2001 Community Race Relations Association of Greater Victoria, Volunteer
OTHER RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS
A. INVITED LECTURES
2018 “Whose History? The Politics of Renaming and De-Statueing.” Invited address on
IdeaFest panel. University of Victoria, Victoria, BC. March.
2017 “The Hot Origins of Canadian-Russian Relations.” Invited address to the “1917 and
Today: Putin, Russia, and the Legacy of Revolution” Conference. University of Victoria
Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies. Victoria, BC. October.
2017 “The Politics of Place Names.” Invited address to the City Talks Lecture Series.
University of Victoria Department of Geography. Victoria, BC. September.
2017 “Responses to the Russian Revolution in the Pacific Northwest.” Keynote address to the
Pacific Northwest Labor History Association annual conference. Vancouver, BC. May.
2017 “Sustainability in Local Government.” Invited Lecture to University of Victoria
Sustainability Field School. Victoria, BC. May.
2017 “Geographic Enigmas: Micro-States, Enclaves, and other Oddities of Modern Europe.”
Invited Lecture to University of Victoria History 300A. Victoria, BC. February.
2016 “The Bengal Lounge and Echoes of British Imperialism in Victoria.” Panel discussant at
The City Talks lecture series, Victoria, BC. September.
2015 “The Grace Islet Controversy and Decolonization of Land Development Practices in
British Columbia.” Invited lecture to the BC Archaeological Society. University of
Victoria. Victoria, BC. May.
2015 “Sustainability in Local Government.” Invited Lecture to University of Victoria
Sustainability Field School. Victoria, BC. May.
2015 “Geographic Enigmas: Micro-States, Enclaves, and other Oddities of Modern Europe.”
Invited Lecture to University of Victoria History 300A. Victoria, BC. March.
2014 “Political History of Canada Since 1867.” Invited lectures to the School of Humanities
and School of International Relations, Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok,
Russia. February.
2014 “From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition.” Invited lecture at the
Arseniev State Museum of Primorsky Region, Vladivostok, Russia. February.
2014 “British Columbia Labour History and the Professional Employees’ Association.” Invited
lecture to the 40th Anniversary Education Conference of the Professional Employees’
Association. Victoria, BC. January.
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2013 “Geographic Enigmas: Micro-States, Enclaves, and other Oddities of Modern Europe. ”
Invited Lecture to University of Victoria History 300A. November.
2012 “From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition.” Invited Lecture to the
Russian Academy of Science, Institute of History, Ethnography and Archeology,
Vladivostok, Russia. October.
2012 “Social Movements and the Political Process in Canada.” Invited Lecture at Far Eastern
Federal University, School of Humanities, Vladivostok, Russia. October.
2012 “Canada and the International Relations System.” Invited Lecture at Far Eastern Federal
University, School of International Relations. Vladivostok, Russia. October.
2012 “Canada in the Asia-Pacific Region.” Invited Lecture at Far Eastern Federal University,
School of International Relations. Vladivostok, Russia. October.
2012 “From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition.” Invited Lecture at Far
Eastern Federal University, School of Humanities, Vladivostok, Russia. October.
2011 “Journey Along the Trans-Siberian Railroad: A Canadian Historians’ View.” Keynote
address to Victoria-Khabarovsk Association Annual Meeting. Victoria, BC. May.
2011 “Canada’s Workers and Political Change: A Historical Assessment.” Invited workshop
on The Politics of Labour in Canada. York University, Toronto, Ontario. 14 April.
2011 “From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition, 1917-19.” Western Front
Association Pacific Coast District Annual Meeting. Victoria, BC. 5 March.
2010 “From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition, 1917-19.” Department of
History Colloquium Series Lecture. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC. 18
November.
2010 “From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition, 1917-19.” Department of
History Guest Lecture. Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC. 16 November.
2010 “From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition, 1917-19.” Gregg Centre
for the Study of War and Society invited lecture, University of New Brunswick,
Fredericton, New Brunswick. 29 October.
2010 “Canadian Military History: The State of the Field.” Invited lecture sponsored by the
Canadian War Museum and UBC Press. Ottawa, Ontario. 28 October.
2010 “From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition, 1917-19.” Invited lecture
sponsored by the Department of History. Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario. 28
October.
2010 “From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition, 1917-19.” Historians’
Craft invited lecture sponsored by the Department of History. York University, Toronto,
Ontario. 27 October.
2010 “Canada’s Siberian Expedition Virtual Exhibition.” Invited lecture sponsored by the
Department of History and the William Ready Division of Archives and Research
Collections, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. 27 October.
2010 “From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition, 1917-19.” Invited lecture
sponsored by the Department of History. University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario. 27
October.
2010 “From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition, 1917-19.” Global Fridays
Distinguished Lecture Series. University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George,
BC. 5 February.
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2010 “Journey Along the Trans-Siberian Railroad: A Canadian Historian’s View.” Co-
sponsored by History, Geography, Natural Resources programs. University of Northern
British Columbia, Prince George, BC. 4 February.
2010 “From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition.” History 180 War and
Society class. University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, BC. 4 February.
2010 “Canada and the First World War.” Joseph Mairs Memorial. Ladysmith, BC. 23 January.
2009 “Canada and Russia in the World Today.” Institute of Foreign Relations, Far Eastern
National University, Vladivostok, Russia. 2 October.
2009 “The Canadians in Vladivostok, 1919.” Centre for Canadian-American Studies, Institute
of History, Far Eastern National University, Vladivostok, Russia. 2 October.
2009 “Canada’s Siberian Expedition, 1918-1919.” Far Eastern State Humanitarian University,
Khabarovsk, Russia. 30 September.
2009 “Canadian-Russian Relations Today.” Institute of History and International Relations,
Kemerovo State University, Kemerovo, Russia. 29 September.
2009 “Canada and the Russian Revolution: The Siberian Moment, 1918-1919.” Keynote
address to Siberia During the Civil War Conference. Kemerovo State University,
Kemerovo, Russia. 28 September.
2009 “From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition.” Keynote address to
Victoria-Khabarovsk Association Annual General Meeting. Victoria, BC. 2 April.
2008 “Canadian Workers and the First World War: Lessons for Today.” Ninety Years After the
War to End All Wars Conference. Vancouver, BC. November.
2008 “Housing for All: The Social Economy and Homelessness in British Columbia’s Capital
Region.” British Columbia Institute for Co-operative Studies and Canadian Social
Economy Hub. University of Victoria. October.
2006 “Mutiny from Victoria to Vladivostok, December 1918.” North American Labor History
Conference. Detroit. October 2006. Invited lecture as recipient of Labor and Working-
Class History Association Best Graduate Research Prize.
B. CONFERENCE PAPERS
2017. “Property, Precarity, and Protest in Canadian History.” Canadian Association for Work
and Labour Studies annual meeting. Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario. May.
2016. “Bolivia of the North? Aligning Labour, Ecological, and Indigenous Interests on British
Columbia’s Resource Frontier.” Canadian Association for Work and Labour Studies
annual meeting. University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta. June.
2016. “WSANEC Oral History Project.” Qualicum History Conference. Parksville, BC. January.
2015. “Property, Indigenous Protest, and the Law in British Columbia.” Canadian Law and
Society Association annual meeting. Ottawa. June.
2015. “The Historical Geography of Property, Protest, and the Law in British Columbia.”
Qualicum History Conference. Parksville, BC. January.
2014. “Miners, Managers, and Magistrates during the Vancouver Island War, 1912-1914.”
Pacific Northwest Labor History Association conference. Cumberland, BC. June.
2014. “The Right to Sleep: The Charter, Poor Peoples’ Movements, and Tenting as Political
Protest.” Canadian Law and Society Association annual meeting. University of Manitoba,
Winnipeg, Manitoba. June.
2014. “Able to Lead: The Legal Politics of E.T. Kingsley.” Canadian Law and Society
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Association annual meeting. University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba. June.
2014. “Obeying a Higher Law: Workers and the Courts in British Columbia.” Canadian
Association of Work and Labour Studies annual meeting. Brock University, St.
Catharines, Ontario. May.
2014. “Eugene Kingsley and the History of People with Different Abilities in North American
Social Movements.” Canadian Historical Association annual meeting. Brock University,
St. Catharines, Ontario. May.
2014. “Occupied Space: Property, Indigenous Protest and the Changing Legal Technology
of Coercion in British Columbia.” Qualicum Conference. Parksville, BC. January.
2013. “Eugene Kingsley’s Political Path in the Pacific Northwest.” North American Labor
History Conference. Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. October.
2013. “Crises of Legitimacy: Social Movements and the Law.” Law on the Edge International
Conference. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC. July.
2013. “Law, Disability, and History: The Police Life of E.T. Kingsley.” Law on the Edge
International Conference. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC. July. With
Ravi Malhotra.
2013. “From Workplace Injury to Radicalism: Eugene Kingsley’s Political Path in the Pacific
Northwest.” Pacific Northwest Labor History Association Conference. Portland, Oregon.
May.
2013. “Piercing the Bubble Law: The Legal Politics of Reproductive Choice.” Qualicum
History Conference, Parksville, BC. February.
2012 “Canada and the Allied Occupation of Vladivostok.” Civil War and Military Intervention
in the Russian Far East conference. Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, Russia.
October.
2012 “The Changing Legal Technology of Coercion and Social Movement Protest in British
Columbia.” University of Victoria Graduate Law Conference. University of Victoria,
Victoria, BC. October.
2012 “Crises of Legitimacy: Judging Social Movements in British Columbia.” Canadian Law
and Society Association Annual Meeting. University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario.
May.
2011 “Mystery Pickets and the Rank-and-File Challenge to Postwar Industrial Legality.”
Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting. University of New Brunswick,
Fredericton, New Brunswick. May.
2011 “The NDP at Fifty: A Historical Assessment.” Society for Socialist Studies Annual
Conference. University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick. June.
2010 “On the Borders of Bolshevism: Race, Class, and the Social Relations of Occupied
Vladivostok, 1919.” Heidelberg Universität Workshop on Bordertowns in Northeast
Asia. Heidelberg, Germany. November.
2010 “‘Out of the Kitchen, Into the Fight’: The Women’s Auxiliary of the United Fishermen
and Allied Workers’ Union.” Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting.
Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec. May.
2010 “From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition.” 21st Annual Military
History Colloquium. Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, May.
2009 “Housing for All: The Social Economy and Homelessness in British Columbia’s Capital
Region.” Symposium on Challenges to Affordable and Sustainable Housing. University
of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC. October.
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2009 “Canada and the Russian Revolution: The Siberian Moment, 1918-1919.” Siberia During
the Civil War Conference. Kemerovo State University, Kemerovo, Russia. September.
2009 “Contested Place: The Case of Langford’s Bear Mountain Development.” BC Studies
Conference. University of Victoria, Victoria, BC. May.
2009 “Tug-of-War: Rethinking Postwar Labour Relations.” New Voices in Labour Studies
Conference. Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario. March.
2009 “Canada and the Russian Revolution: The Siberian Moment.” World History and
Historical Materialism Conference. University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba. March.
2008 “Moscow on the Fraser: The Communist Party in Cold War British Columbia.” Canadian
Historical Association Annual Meeting. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.
June.
2008 “Fellow Traveller: A British Columbia Communist Fisherman Travels Through the
Eastern Bloc, 1952.” Pacific Northwest Labour History Association Conference.
Vancouver, BC. June.
2008 “‘An Elementary and Progressive Break from Capitalist Politics’: The Cold War and the
1950 Vancouver Convention of the CCF.” Qualicum Conference. Parksville. January.
2007 “Tug-of-War: Working-Class Agency and Political Change in Cold War British
Columbia.” Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting. University of
Saskatchewan, Saskatoon. May.
2007 “The Hospital Employees Union Strike and the Privatization of Medicare in British
Columbia.” Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting. Minneapolis. March.
2007 “British Columbia Workers Respond to the Cold War, 1948-1956.” Qualicum History
Conference. Parksville, BC. January.
2006 “Mutiny from Victoria to Vladivostok, December 1918.” North American Labor History
Conference. Wayne State University, Detroit. October.
2005 “Working-Class Women and Political Action in British Columbia, 1948-1972.”
Labouring Feminism & Feminist Working-Class History in Canada & Beyond
Conference. University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario. October.
2005 “The Growth of the General Strike Idea in British Columbia: Industrial Solidarity in
Historical Perspective.” Pacific Northwest Labour History Association. Vancouver. June.
2004 “A History of Higher Education in British Columbia.” CUPE British Columbia Education
Conference. Vancouver. November.
2004 “Socialism Postponed: The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation in British Columbia,
1941-1952.” North American Labor History Conference. Wayne State University,
Detroit, Michigan. October.
2003 “British Columbia Labour and the Development of Social Democracy in Canada.”
Association for Canadian Studies in the United States (ACSUS) Biennial Meeting.
Portland, Oregon. November.
2003 “Canada’s One Big Union and the First World War.” North American Labor History
Conference. Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. October.
2003 “Between Syndicalism and Social Democracy: The Political Organization of BC Labour,
1919-1932.” Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting. Dalhousie University,
Halifax. May.
2003 “Disciplinary Boundaries and the Fragmentation of Historical Knowledge: The Case of
BC Labour History.” Mapping Knowledge Conference. University of Victoria, Victoria.
February.
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2003 “From Syndicalism to Social Democracy.” Qualicum History Conference. Qualicum
Beach, BC. January.
2002 “Battling Bolshevism from Victoria to Vladivostok.” Pacific Northwest Labour History
Association Conference. Vancouver. June.
2002 “Young Workers: What Were They Thinking?” Pacific Northwest Labour History
Association Conference. Vancouver. June.
2002 “Battling Bolshevism from Victoria to Vladivostok.” Qualicum History Conference.
Qualicum Beach, BC. January.
C. CONFERENCE DISCUSSANT/MODERATOR
2015 “Gregory Kealey’s Contribution to Labour and Working-Class History.” Panel discussant
at Canadian Historical Association annual meeting, Ottawa, Ontario. May.
2014 “Law, Disability, and the History of North American Social Movements.” Co-organizer
of the “Law, Disability and the History of North American Social Movements” mini-
conference at the Canadian Law and Society Association annual meeting. University of
Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba. June.
2013 “Social Democracy and British Columbia’s Working Class.” Organizer and Moderator
for Canadian Committee on Labour History Annual Workshop, co-sponsored by the
University of Victoria Social Justice Studies Program, and the Society for Socialist
Studies. Victoria. June.
2012 “Private Lives and Politics.” Panel chair at Qualicum History Conference. Parksville, BC.
January.
2011 “The Rise and Fall of Canada’s Postwar ‘Golden Age.’” Panel chair at Canadian
Historical Association Annual Meeting. University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New
Brunswick. May.
2011 “The Canadian Federal Election.” Panel moderator at St. John’s College, University of
British Columbia, Vancouver, BC. April.
2011 “War, Disaster, and Peace in Europe.” Panel chair at Qualicum History Conference.
Parksville, BC. January.
2011 “Canada and the World.” Panel chair at Qualicum History Conference. Parksville, BC.
January.
2010 “Approaches to Housing Research.” Chair and moderator for Tele-Learning Session
involving 50 scholars, housing practitioners, and students. Canadian Social Economy
Research Partnerships. Various campuses across Canada. February.
2010 “Labour and Politics in British Columbia.” Panel chair at Qualicum History Conference,
Parksville, BC. January.
2009 “The Student Movement in the 1960s.” Panel chair at Qualicum History Conference,
Parksville, BC. January.
2009 “The Left in Western Canada.” Panel chair at Qualicum History Conference, Parksville,
BC. January.
D. PUBLIC LECTURES
2017 “From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau
lecture at Royal United Services Institute, Victoria, BC. April. Forthcoming.
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2018 “Housing for All: The Growth of Non-Market Housing in British Columbia’s Capital
Region.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau lecture at Stelly’s Secondary School, Saanichton, BC.
February.
2018 “Housing for All: The Growth of Non-Market Housing in British Columbia’s Capital
Region.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau lecture at Kiwanis Club of Greater Victoria, Victoria,
BC. January.
2018 “A People’s History of Victoria and Canada.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau lecture at George
Jay Elementary School, Victoria, BC. January.
2017 “Youth and the Power of Social Change.” Public lecture at the Youth Political Commons
Conference, Esquimalt, BC. November.
2017 “Canada and the Bolshevik Revolution.” Public lecture at the 100th Anniversary of the
Russian Revolution event, Vancouver, BC. November.
2017 “Canada and the Bolshevik Revolution.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau lecture at the
Perspectives on the Russian Revolution event, Victoria, BC. November.
2017 “The Struggle for Social Justice in Victoria.” Interactive historical tour and bicycle ride
with the Greater Victoria Cycling Coalition, Victoria, BC. September.
2017 “From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau
lecture at Victoria Golden Rods and Reels Society, Victoria, BC. April.
2017 “Understanding Local Government.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau lecture at Margaret Jenkins
School, Victoria, BC. April.
2017 “A People’s History of Victoria and Canada.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau lecture at
RON Talks, Saanich, BC. March.
2016 “A People’s History of Victoria and Canada.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau lecture at
James Bay Community Project, Victoria, BC. November.
2016 “Understanding Local Government.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau lecture at James Bay
Community School, Victoria, BC. October.
2016 “Understanding Local Government.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau lecture at Monterey Middle
School, Oak Bay, BC. October.
2016 “The Future of Forests and Communities on Vancouver Island.” Public presentation,
Victoria, BC. September.
2016 “The Future of Forests and Communities on Vancouver Island.” Public presentation,
Sooke, BC. September.
2016 “Understanding Local Government.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau lecture at Victoria High
School, Victoria, BC. February.
2016 “Housing for All: The Growth of Non-Market Housing in British Columbia’s Capital
Region.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau lecture at Glenlyon Norfolk School, Oak Bay, BC.
February.
2015 “Understanding Local Government.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau lecture at Gordon Head
Elementary School, Saanich, BC. October.
2015 “Understanding Local Government.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau lecture at Maria Montessori
Academy, Saanich, BC. October.
2015 “Understanding Local Government.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau lecture at Arbutus Middle
School, Saanich, BC. June.
2015 “Understanding Local Government.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau lecture at Reynolds
Secondary School, Saanich, BC. June.
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2015 “The Struggle for Social Justice in Victoria.” Interactive historical tour and bicycle ride
with the Greater Victoria Cycling Coalition, Victoria, BC. May.
2015 “Housing for All: The Growth of Non-Market Housing in British Columbia’s Capital
Region.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau lecture at Healthy Housing Forum, Esquimalt, BC.
April.
2015 “From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau
lecture at William Head Correctional Institute. Metchosin, BC. February.
2014 “Canada’s Siberian Expedition.” UVic Continuing Studies Lecture. Victoria, BC.
October.
2014 “Revolution and Military Intervention in the Middle East.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau
lecture at Vancouver Island Air Crew Association. Esquimalt, BC. September.
2014 “A People’s History of Victoria and Canada.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau lecture at
Monterey Middle School. Oak Bay, BC. April.
2014 “A People’s History of Victoria and Canada.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau lecture at
Campus View Elementary School. Saanich, BC. March.
2013 “Canada’s Siberian Expedition.” UVic Continuing Studies Lecture. Sidney, BC.
November.
2013 “Revolution and Military Intervention in the Middle East.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau
lecture at Cadboro Bay Seniors’ Club. Victoria, BC. October.
2013 “From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition, 1917-19.” Guest lecture to
Russian 161 (Culture of the Russian Revolution), University of Victoria, Victoria, BC.
October.
2013 “Mutiny from the Willows Camp.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau lecture at Oak Bay Heritage
Group. Victoria, BC. October.
2013 “From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition, 1917-19.” UVic Speakers’
Bureau lecture at Vancouver Island Aircrew Association. Victoria, BC. February.
2013 “A People’s History of Victoria and Canada.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau lecture at Jeksen
Aerie Assisted Living Housing. Langford, BC. January.
2012 “Housing for All: The Social Economy and Homelessness in British Columbia’s Capital
Region.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau lecture at the Cridge Club. Victoria, BC. May.
2012 “A People’s History of Victoria and Canada.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau lecture at the
Victoria Stroke Recovery Association. Saanich, BC. May.
2012 “A People’s History of Victoria and Canada.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau lecture at Willows
Elementary School. Oak Bay, BC. April.
2012 “Revolution and Military Intervention in the Middle East.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau
lecture at William Head Correctional Institution. Metchosin, BC. March.
2012 “Revolution and Military Intervention in the Middle East.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau
lecture at Jewish Community Centre. Victoria, BC. February.
2012 “A People’s History of Victoria and Canada.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau lecture at
Doncaster Elementary School. Victoria, BC. February.
2012 “From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition, 1917-19.” UVic Speakers’
Bureau lecture at Beechwood Village Seniors’ Group. Sidney, BC. January.
2012 “Revolution and Military Intervention in the Middle East.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau
lecture at Garden City United Church Dinner Club, Saanich, BC. January.
2011 “A People’s History of Victoria and Canada.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau lecture at Douglas
House Senior’s Group. Victoria, BC. November.
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2011 “From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition, 1917-19.” UVic Speakers’
Bureau lecture at James Bay Community Project. Victoria, BC. November.
2011 “British Columbia Workers and Political Change.” World Peace Forum Teach-In.
Vancouver, BC. November.
2011 “From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition, 1917-19.” UVic Speakers’
Bureau lecture at Berwick House Seniors’ Group. Saanich, BC. October.
2011 “J.S. Woodsworth and Canada’s Social Gospel Tradition.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau
lecture at Cadboro United Church Breakfast Club. Victoria, BC. October.
2011 “Howard Zinn and the Practice of Peoples’ History.” Public discussion organized by the
People’s Co-op Bookstore, Rio Theatre, Vancouver, BC. July.
2011 “From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition, 1917-19.” Public lecture
at Mondragon Bookstore and Café. Winnipeg, MB. June.
2011 “Militant Minority.” Public presentation at Moka House Café. Victoria, BC. June.
2011 “Revolution and Intervention in the Arab World and Middle East.” Public lecture at
World Federalists Association. Victoria, BC. April.
2010 “Canada’s Military: Past, Present, and Future.” Panel presentation at BC Government
Employees’ Union Hall. Victoria, BC. November.
2010 “From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition, 1917-19.” Public lecture
to Island Solidarity Centre. Victoria, BC. November.
2010 “From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition, 1917-19.” Public lecture
at Greater Victoria Seniors’ Association. Victoria, BC. November.
2010 “Canada’s Siberian Expedition: The Website and the Book.” Public presentation at
University of Victoria Department of History, Department of Germanic and Slavic
Studies, Humanities Computing Centre, and Special Collections. Victoria, BC.
November.
2010 “My Siberian Expedition.” Public presentation at UBC Press Book Launch. University of
British Columbia, Vancouver, BC. November.
2010 “From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition, 1917-19.” Public lecture
at St. John’s College, UBC. Vancouver, BC. November.
2010 “From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition, 1917-19.” Public lecture
sponsored by the Société d'histoire et de généalogie de Rivière-du-Loup. Rivière-du-
Loup, Quebec. October.
2010 “From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition, 1917-19.” Guest lecture to
Russian 161 (Culture of the Russian Revolution), University of Victoria, Victoria, BC.
October.
2010 “Journey Along the Trans-Siberian Railroad.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau lecture at Rods
and Reels Club. Victoria, BC. April.
2010 “From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau
lecture at Cadboro Bay United Church Group. Saanich, BC. April.
2010 “A Peoples’ History of Victoria and Canada.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau lecture at the
Cridge Club. Church of our Lord. Victoria, BC. April.
2010 “From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau
lecture at Time Out for Women Group, Cadboro Bay United Church. Saanich, BC.
March.
2010 “From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau
lecture at Oak Bay United Church Men’s Club. Victoria, BC. March.
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2010 “Journey Along the Trans-Siberian Railroad.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau lecture at
Glenwarren Lodge. Victoria, BC. January.
2010 “Journey Along the Trans-Siberian Railroad.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau lecture at Time
Out for Women Group, Cadboro Bay United Church. Saanich, BC. January.
2009 “From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau
lecture at William Head Correctional Institute. Metchosin, BC. December.
2009 “From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau
lecture at Peninsula Stroke Recovery Club. Saanichton, BC. November.
2009 “From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau
lecture at Cridge Club. Church of our Lord. Victoria BC. November.
2009 “J.S. Woodsworth and Canada’s Social Gospel Tradition.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau
lecture at James Bay United Church Dinner Club. Victoria, BC. November.
2009 “From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau
lecture at Norgarden Seniors’ Home. Sidney, BC. November.
2009 “Housing for All: The Social Economy and Homelessness in British Columbia’s Capital
Region.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau lecture at G.R. Pearkes Community Centre. Saanich,
BC. October.
2009 “A Peoples’ History of Victoria and Canada.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau lecture at
Doncaster Elementary School. Saanich, BC. March.
2009 “From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau
lecture at James Bay United Church Group. Victoria, BC. February.
2009 “From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition.” The History
Undergraduate Society guest lecture. University of Victoria, Victoria, BC. January.
2009 “Journey Along the Trans-Siberian Railroad.” Historical Works in Progress Lecture,
University of Victoria, Victoria, BC. January.
2009 “From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau
lecture at Amica House. Sidney, BC. January.
2008 “A People’s History of Canada.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau lecture at Berwick House.
Saanich, BC. November.
2008 “From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau
lecture at the Kinsmen-40 Club. Saanich, BC. November.
2008 “Journey Along the Trans-Siberian Railroad.” University of Victoria Russian Club guest
lecture, Victoria, BC, November.
2008 “From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau
lecture at Priory Hospital. Langford, BC. October.
2008 “The Conquest of New France.” History 130: Canada to 1867, University of Victoria.
October.
2008 “From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau
lecture at Kiwanis Club of Victoria. Victoria, BC. September.
2008 “Labour and Politics in Canada.” University 201 continuing education lecture. University
of Victoria. March.
2008 “Canadian Labour History: An Introduction.” University 201 continuing education
lecture. University of Victoria. March.
2008 “May Day Then and Now.” lecture delivered at May Day Celebration. Victoria. May.
2007 “A History of Higher Education in British Columbia.” Lecture at CUPE British Columbia
Education Conference. Vancouver. November.
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2005 “The British Columbia Left.” Lecture at Power of Community Conference. James Bay
Community School, Victoria. November.
2003 “The Canadian Left: Then and Now.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau lecture at the Kiwanis
Club of Greater Victoria. Victoria. April.
2003 “A People’s History of British Columbia and Canada.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau lecture at
Amica Seniors’ Home. Victoria. March.
2003 “The Canadian Left: Then and Now.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau lecture at the Victoria
Humanists. Victoria. February.
2002 “The Colonization of Vancouver Island.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau lecture at Beacon Villa.
Sidney, BC. November.
2002 “A People’s History of British Columbia and Canada.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau lecture at
Glengarry Seniors. Victoria. October.
E. MEDIA AND FILM
2018 Director and Writer. Canada’s Siberian Expedition. Documentary film under production
in English and French. www.SiberianExpedition.ca/film
2018 On-Air Commentator. “Whose History? The Politics of Renaming and De-Statueing.”
CBC Radio All Points West. 7 March.
2018. Commentator. “Change urged to Victoria street named for ‘racist' figure.” CBC News
Online. 16 January.
2018 On-Air Commentator. “Debating Commemoration and Street Names.” CBC Radio On
the Island. 16 January.
2017 On-Air Commentator. “Coalition Government for BC?” CBC Radio On the Island. 12
May.
2017 “RON Talks.” Saanich News (Saanich, BC), 22 February.
2015 Commentator. “Walk This Way: New Books by Dan Rubinstein and Peter Kavanagh
Celebrate One of Life’s Great Pleasures.” Globe and Mail (Toronto). 24 April.
2014 On-Air Commentator. “From Victoria to Vladivostok.” CFAX 1070 Talk Radio. 11
March.
2014 Commentator. “V muzee Arsen’eva prezentovali knigu o žizni kanadskih soldat vo
Vladivostoke” [Arseniev Museum presents book about life of Canadian soldiers in
Vladivostok]. Vladivostok News. 19 February.
2014 Commentator. “Iz Viktorii vo Vladivostok. Neizvestnye stranit͡ sy istorii” [From Victoria
to Vladivostok: Unknown pages of history]. Utro Vostoka (Vladivostok), 19 February.
2014 Commentator. “Sredi interventov v Primor’e byli kanadskie soldaty.” [Among the
invaders in Primorye were Canadian soldiers]. APR Press (Vladivostok). 19 February.
2014 Commentator. “Knigu kanadskogo pisatelja o Vladivostoke 1917-19 godov predstavjat v
stolice Primor’ja.” [Book of Canadian author on Vladivostok to be presented in the
capital of Primorye]. Vladivostok News. 18 February.
2013 On-Air Commentator. “Jack Munro’s legacy.” CBC Radio All Points West. 15
November.
2012 Commentator. “Doktor filosofii iz Kanady obeshhaet cherez god predstavit' v DVFU
svoju knigu o grazhdanskoj vojne” [Canadian historian promises to present civil war
book at FEFU within a year]. Far Eastern Federal University News Service (Vladivostok,
Russia). 1 November.
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2012 On-Air Commentator. “Place-names and decolonization in Victoria.” CFAX 1070
Radio. 9 October.
2012 On-Air Commentator. “Labouring British Columbia.” TheCityFM Radio, Vancouver. 4
September.
2011 Review of Militant Minority. “Labour played key role in province’s development,”
Times Colonist (Victoria), 24 December 2011.
2011 Commentator. “Victoria mutiny of 1918 revived in call for justice.” Times Colonist
(Victoria). 22 December 1918.
2011 On-Air Commentator. “Mutinerie en Victoria.” Radio-Canada Television. 21 December.
2011 On-Air Commentator. “Mutiny Remembered.” CTV News Vancouver Island. 21
December.
2011 Media interview on mutiny commemoration. CBC Radio Victoria. 21 December.
2011 Media interview on mutiny commemoration. CFAX 1070 Radio. 21 December.
2011 Media interview on mutiny commemoration. Vancouver Co-op Radio. 21 December.
2011 Media coverage. “Memory of mutineers honoured at downtown gathering.” Victoria
News. 21 December 1918.
2011 Media interview on Jack Layton. CKNW News Radio Vancouver. 28 August.
2011 Media interview on Militant Minority. CFAX 1070 Morning Show, Victoria, BC. 28
June.
2011 On-Air Commentator on Canada Post labour dispute. CBC Radio One “All Points West”
Afternoon Show. 23 June.
2011 Historical Consultant. History of Working People in British Columbia. Documentary
film produced by Erik Paullson, Red Storm Productions for the BC Knowledge Network.
2011 Historical Consultant. “The Siberian Bullet.” History Detectives. Public Broadcasting
System (PBS). New York, New York. January-February.
2010 Media Coverage. “Siberian Expedition to Battle Bolsheviks Began in Victoria.” Times
Colonist (Victoria). 28 November.
2010 Media Coverage. “Mutiny Suppressed, a Siberian Expedition Goes Bust.” Globe and
Mail (Toronto). 10 November.
2010 Media interview on From Victoria to Vladivostok . CBC Radio One. “All Points West”
Afternoon Show. 8 November.
2010 Media Coverage. “Who’s Who British Columbia.” BC Bookworld (Vancouver). Spring.
2010 Commentator. “Workin’ in a Coal Mine.” Monday Magazine (Victoria). 30 April.
2010 Commentator. “Labour Martyr to be Remembered.” Cowichan Valley Citizen (Duncan).
22 January.
2010 Consultant. Ginger. Feature-length film under production by director Bryan Skinner.
Victoria. In Progress.
2009 On-Camera Commentator. Voice of BC television show. Shaw Television. 26 November.
2009 On-Camera Commentator. Voice of BC television show. Shaw Television. 22 October.
2009 Commentator. “Pro ‘Krasnyh,’ ‘Belyh,’ i ‘Lishnih’ Kanadcev” [About Reds, Whites, and
“Superfluous” Canadians]. Kuzbass newspaper (Kemerovo, Russia). 30 September.
2009 Consultant and Researcher. The Edge of the World: BC’s Early Years. Documentary film
produced by Erik Paullson, Red Storm Productions for the BC Knowledge Network.
2009 Commentator. “Janki v Ulan-Udje” [Yankees in Ulan-Ude]. Nomer Odin newspaper
(Irkutsk, Russia). 15 April.
2008 Commentator. “Academics Link Unions to Anti-War Failings.” Georgia Straight
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(Vancouver). 16 October.
2008 Commentator. “Sleazy Sprawl: New Report Alleges Conflicts of Interest, Backroom
Dealings at Bear Mountain.” Martlet (Victoria). 17 January.
2008 Consultant and On-Camera Commentator. Under the Garden City: The Search for
Victoria’s Secret Tunnels. Canada Council film directed by John McFetrick. Victoria.
2004 Consultant and On-Air Commentator. A Prayer for Oliver Mowat. CBC Radio
Documentary Feature. By Jacques Poitras. Fredericton, New Brunswick. July.
2002 On-Air Commentator. Through the Eyes of Fernwood. Village 900 Radio Feature.
Victoria. April.
2001 Commentator. “Labour Issues Loom Large for Incoming Liberal Cabinet.” Vancouver
Sun. 6 June.