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I have been fortunate in my career to be able to practice curiosity-driven research — and hence, my research has been diverse. In my early career, I edited the writing of Joseph Johnson, an eighteenth-century Mohegan man for whom Christianity was guide, burden, and anticolonial tool. After that, my observations about the limited way copyright law seemed to construe and constrain cultural practice led me to work in that area for about a decade. Throughout, I’ve been fascinated by the United States before the Civil War, in whose literature and media I see both contrasts and continuities with today’s issues such as fake news, racial violence, ideologies of class and gender, information overload, and contestations over urban space. The Sir John A. Macdonald bicentennial in 2015 led me to critique the colonial lens through which the history of Kingston continues to be represented, and I began researching and teaching the Indigenous and treaty history of the area, resulting through a sort of trilogy of articles listed below. I have also researched Kingston’s working class and immigrant history through the Swamp Ward and Inner Harbour History Project which produced public-facing research outcomes such as walking tours, photography exhibits, , and . With film-maker Dorit Naaman, curator Erin Sutherland, and others, I am midway into a SSHRC-funded project titled “A Totem Pole on a Pile of Garbage: Contending with Environmental and Colonial Violence in Kingston, Ontario.” This is both a hyper-local project focusing on Kingston’s Belle Park, and an entry point for thinking about processes and relationships whose enormity may otherwise be overwhelming. It is based in Community-based and Research-creation methodologies. See .