Water Discolouration: Due to high water draws, Halifax Water has issued a notice that tap water may be discoloured. It is recommended you run the cold water until it runs clear. Halifax Water is flushing the system to resolve the issue. We will provide updates when available.
AB (Princeton), MA (Michigan), PhD (Johns Hopkins)
Early modern Anglo-American history, Comparative European colonization, Material culture, Landscape history, Visual culture
“Sugar Machines: Picturing Industrialized Slavery,” American Historical Review (2016)
Imperial Landscapes: Britain’s Global Visual Culture, 1745-1820. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2011
The Invention of Comfort: Sensibility and Design in Early Modern Britain and Early America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001
“The Sensibility of Comfort,” American Historical Review (1999)
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Fellowship, 2001-02
John Carter Brown Library, Mellon Fellowship, 2002
Yale Centre for British Art, Visiting Scholar, 2000
Royal Historical Society, Fellow
George Munro Professor of History and Political Economy, 1999-2005
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, James L. Clifford Article Prize, 1999
Huntington Library, Mayers Fellowship, 1999
Winterthur Museum, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1996
National Humanities Center, Fellowship, 1995-96
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Research Grant, 1991-94, 1995-98, 2000-03, 2003-08, 2011-14
Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Center, Residency, 1990
American Council of Learned Societies, Fellowship, 1989-90
École Normale Supérieure (Paris), Professeur invité, 1986
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Leave Fellowship, 1979-80
Canada Council, Research Fellowship, 1974-75