She studies the history of the modern Canadian North, especially travel and sojourning in the region. Her current book manuscript examines the culture of northern Canadian exploration in roughly the first half of the twentieth century. Her other current research interests include the history of fur trapping by sojourners in the western Canadian Arctic and Subarctic; the histories of northern field science, travel, and tourism; and American military understandings of northern environments in the mid-twentieth century. She is the co-editor (with Peder Roberts) of a forthcoming special forum on northern environmental history in the Journal of Northern Studies. She sits on the advisory board of Scientia Canadensis, and is involved in an editorial capacity with two Canadian historical blogs, The Otter ~ La Loutre (Network in Canadian History and Environment) and Findings/Trouvailles (The Champlain Society).