Welcome


Welcome to my academic website. 

I teach Latin American and Caribbean History at Lakehead University and I also specialize in the history of International Development. Most of my work focuses on issues of immigration, racism, labour and the post-colonial world. One of my current projects concerns shifting economies in resource dependent communities in Canada, Finland and Uruguay. Have have published several books and articles. You can find out more about these elsewhere on this website. You might start with the page on the menu called Detailed Information.

I addition to doing the things history professors usually do, I am also an accomplished filmmaker. I have worked on dozens of films over the years and I have made several of my own. My latest is Under the Red Star, a feature-length docu-drama about Finnish Radicalism in Canada prior to World War Two. Have a look at the short trailer below to get an idea about the film and its quality.


I am also interested in ways to use film as a teaching tool. To this end, I have put together a Vimeo Channel called A Question of Development. I use the site in my course on the history of international development. I also make use of it when I speak to students or community audiences about my work. This is also a companion to some of my writing and to "Citoyens du Monde," a six-part documentary film series on research for development that I was involved in making. The idea of this channel is to provide easy access to ideas about some of the challenges of development. I then take the audience back to the historical underpinnings of a given issue. You can visit my international development channel by clicking here.

You can find out more about me by exploring the rest of this website. You can find copies of some of my writing as well as links to some of my film and new media work. To find out the latest news, click on the headlines on the right. Feel free to write me if you have any questions about the things I have posted on this website.