Previously, she was the Research Director at the University of Alberta’s Parkland Institute. In 2011, she published Wet Prairie: People, Land, and Water in Agricultural Manitoba, which won the Clio Prize in the Prairie Provinces from the Canadian Historical Association, the Manitoba Day Award from the Association for Manitoba Archives, and the K. D. Srivastava Prize (co-winner) from UBC Press. She has also published articles in journals, including Urban History Review, Environmental History and the Journal of Historical Geography.