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Fathers in Multiple Roles: Assessing Modern Canadian Fatherhood as a Masculine Category’ in Christopher J. Greig and Wayne J. Martino, eds., Canadian Men and Masculinities: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (Toronto: Canadian Scholar’s Press, 2012), 76-98

‘Three Faces of Fatherhood as a Masculine Category: Tyrants, Teachers, and Workaholics as “Responsible Family Men” During Canada’s Baby Boom’ in What is Masculinity? Historical Dynamics from Antiquity to the Contemporary World (Basingstoke, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), 323-48

‘Just Nostalgic Family Men? Off-the-Job Family Time, Providing, and Oral Histories of Fatherhood in Postwar Canada, 1945-1975,’ Oral History Forum d’histoire orale, Special Issue: Remembering Family, Analyzing Home: Oral History and the Family, Vol. 29 (2009): 1-25

Creating Postwar Canada:  Community, Diversity, and Dissent, 1945-1975, eds. Magda Fahrni and Robert Rutherdale (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2009)

'New "Faces" for Fathers: Memory, Life-Writing, and Fathers as Providers in the Postwar Consumer Era,' in Creating Postwar Canada

Hometown Horizons:  Local Responses to Canada's Great War (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2004)

'The Home Front' (First and Second World Wars) and 'Manhood and Masculinities,' in the Oxford Companion to Canadian History (Toronto:  Oxford University Press, 2004), 290-91 and 383

'Send-offs During Canada's Great War:  Interpreting Hometown Rituals in Dispatching Home Front Volunteers,' Histoire sociale/Social History 36 (November 2003):  425-64   

“Fatherhood, Masculinity, and the Good Life During Canada's Baby Boom, 1945-1965.’  Journal of Family History 24 (July, 1999):  351-373.  Reprinted in Readings in Canadian History:  Post-Confederation, 6e, eds., Douglas R. Francis and Donald B. Smith (Toronto:  Nelson Thompson, 2006), 481-97 

‘Fatherhood and Masculine Domesticity During the Baby Boom: Consumption and Leisure in Advertising and Life Stories’ in Family Matters:  Papers in Post-Confederation Canadian Family History, eds., Lori Chambers and Ed Montigny (Toronto:  Canadian Scholars Press, 1998):  309-33

‘Fatherhood and the Social Construction of Memory:  breadwinning and male parenting on a job frontier, 1945-1966’ in Gender and History in Canada, eds., Joy Parr and Mark Rosenfeld (Toronto:  Copp-Clark, 1996):  357-75

'Canada's August Festival:  Communitas, Liminality and Social Memory,' Canadian Historical Review 77 (June 1996):  221-49

Recent Conference Papers

‘Eric Hobsbawm, Tony Judt and a Retrospective Approach to “Better Times” during Canada’s Long 1960s.’ Presented at the Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting, University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, May 2012

‘Assessing Three Mythical Memories of Parenthood in English Canada in the 1950s: “The Lost Man,” “Momism,” and “Family Togetherness.”’ Presented at the Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting, University of New Brunswick and St. Thomas University, Fredericton, New Brunswick, 30-31 May and 1 June, 2011

‘Growing up to Become Fathers after World War Two: A Life-Stories and Generational Approach to Family Men’s Drive for Security as Providers from the Great Depression to the Baby Boom Era.’ Presented at the British Association for Canadian Studies, 36^th Annual Conference, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, 4-6 April 2011

‘Transcultural Contexts, Indigenous Language, and Translating the Life Stories of Poogleedee (James Sewid) and לAẋuẃ (Agnes Alfred) of the Pacific Northwest Coast K^wak^wakәẃak^w Peoples.’ Presented at the Translation/transmissibility and Transcultural Communication in the Humanities Conference, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, 10-11 May 2010

‘Fathering Across the “Generation Gap? Fathers, Daughters, and Sons in Canada’s Baby Boom’ and panelist and speaker for ‘Conflicting Paths, Contrasting Cultures: Comparative Approaches to Intergenerational Relationships Between Children, Youth, and Parents.’ Both at the 87 the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Historical Association, University of British Columbia, 2-4 June 2008

‘A Shared Endeavour?  Memory, Meaning, and Using Oral Histories of Canada’s Post-war Boom Era Fathers.’  Presented at ‘Sharing Authority:  An International Conference on Oral History,’ Concordia University, Montreal, 7-10 February 2008

‘Masculine Domesticity and Fatherhood in Canada’s Postwar Suburbs.’ Presented as part of a research forum, ‘Postwar Suburbs: Domesticity, Social Conformity, and Diversity,’ organized by the Canadian Historical Association, 85^th Annual Meeting, York University, Toronto, May, 2006

‘Canadian Fathers in Canadian Communities:  Fatherhood during Canada’s Baby Boom.’ Presented at  Eleventh Biennial Maple Leaf and Eagle Conference on North American Studies, Renvall Institute for Area and Cultural Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland May, 2006

‘Biography, Cultural Boundaries, and a Family Man:  Assessing the Life-Writing Process’ Presented at the  2005 Annual Conference of the American Society for Ethnohistory, Santa Fe, New Mexico, November, 2005

‘Fatherhood and Automobiles in Postwar Canada:  Family Men, Family Cars, and Re-Making Masculine Domesticity, 1945-1965.’  Presented at the Car in History:  Business, Space, and Culture in North America Conference, Department of History and The Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto, May 2005