Research Interests

• Intellectual History, history and theory of historical representation
• “historical distance” and the relationship between revolutions and European historical thought in the Renaissance, Enlightenment, and the late-twentieth century

Recent Publications

(ed. with Gordon Schochet) Questions of Tradition: Exploring the Concept of Tradition Across the Disciplines. University of Toronto Press, 2004.

Society and Sentiment: the Genres of Historical Writing in Britain 1740-1820, Princeton University Press, 2000.

Awards

2007 Visiting Fellow, Australian National University, Humanities Research Centre

2006-07 Research Achievement Award, Carleton University

2005-08 SSHRCC Research Grant