She earned her PhD in History from York University, and her MA and BA from the University of Western Ontario. She is the author of From Battlefields to Blood: The Canadian Red Cross Society, 1885-1970 (MQUP 2016) and co-editor of A Sisterhood of Suffering and Service: Women and Girls of Canada and Newfoundland in the First World War (UBC 2012). Her current project looks at rural women’s WWI voluntary work. She is a past Associate Editor of the Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, a founding member of the Canadian Network in Humanitarian History, and co-editor of the Canada’s First World War series on ActiveHistory.ca.