His teaching and research are focused on the environmental and social history of the Atlantic Provinces with an emphasis on rural working people and First Nations. He recently published “A ‘Very Determined Opposition to the Law’: Conservation, Angling Leases and Social Conflict in the Canadian Atlantic Salmon Fishery, 1867-1914”, Environmental History (July, 2004). He has co-edited a new book about life and work in rural New Brunswick in the early 20th century, War on the Home Front: The Farm Diaries of Daniel MacMillan, 1914-1927 (Goose Lane Editions, 2006).