Book
- Winning Women’s Hearts and Minds: Selling Cold War Culture in the US and USSR. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, February 2023. University of Toronto Press
Articles, Chapters, and Forthcoming Publications
- “Cold War Rivalries: The US, USSR and Consumer Politics.” The Routledge History of Global Consumption. New York: Routledge. Forthcoming, 2026.
- “Hosting in the Heart of Moscow: Selling Citizen Diplomacy and Consumer Culture to Russian Women through the American National Exhibition, 1959.” Journal of Russian American Studies 10.1 (May 2026), 26-49.
- “Winning Women’s Hearts and Minds: Selling Cold War Culture in the US and the USSR.” H-Diplo Roundtable XXVI-26. February 28, 2025.
- “Winning Women’s Hearts and Minds: Selling Cold War Culture and Consumerism.” Media Report to Women 52.1 (Winter 2024), 12-20.
- “Containment Culture: The Cold War in the Ladies’ Home Journal, 1946 to 1959.” In Activism in Modern United States Print Culture, edited by Rachel Schreiber. Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing, 2013.
- • “Journalism,” “Make-up,” and “Malls and Shopping Centers.” In Encyclopedia of Women and American Popular Culture, edited by Gina Misiroglu. New York: Facts on File, Inc., 2013.
Opinion Pieces and Contributions
- “Trump Desecrates the Kennedy Center.” Toronto Star. December 30, 2025.
- “Charlie Kirk: A Turning Point in Campus Culture Wars?” Toronto Star. September 17, 2025.
- “The Kennedy Center Under Trump: A Cultural Shift that Challenges Artistic Freedom.” Toronto Star. July 4, 2025.
- “Why Donald Trump’s “Shift” at McDonald’s Was A Dangerous Stunt.” Toronto Star, October 20, 2024.
- “Overturning Roe v. Wade Can Act as an Opportunity for Women Votes.” Toronto Star, May 6, 2022. Toronto Star
- “Abortion Caught in Fight Between States’ Rights and Federal Rights.” Toronto Star, December 6, 2021. Toronto Star
- “That’s Dr. To You: Reclaiming Our Titles.” University Affairs, March/April 2021. University Affairs
- “A City Upon a Hill, That We Must Continue to Climb.” The Hamilton Spectator, January 24, 2021. Hamilton Spectator
- “Attack on Jill Biden is Rooted in Misogyny.” The Hamilton Spectator, December 17, 2020. Hamilton Spectator
- “Joe Biden Needs to Have an FDR Moment.” The Hamilton Spectator, December 13, 2020. Hamilton Spectator
- “Kamala Harris’s Win is a Victory for all Women.” The Hamilton Spectator, November 11, 2020. Hamilton Spectator
- “A Hamilton Museum Should Be All About its People and Culture.” The Hamilton Spectator, October 9, 2020. Hamilton Spectator
- “Donald Trump’s Third Term Rhetoric is No Joke.” The Hamilton Spectator, September 17, 2020. Hamilton Spectator
- “A Second ‘Year of the Woman’ Will Lead to Powerful Changes.” The Hamilton Spectator, February 7, 2019. Hamilton Spectator
- “Trump and the Presidential Records Act.” The Hamilton Spectator, June 21, 2018. Hamilton Spectator
- “Women Should Be Asking: What Can We Do Now?” The Hamilton Spectator, November 28, 2016. New Hamburg Independent
- “Where Are All the Women?” The Hamilton Spectator, November 2, 2010.
Book Reviews
- Review of A New Type of Womanhood by Natasha Kirsten Kraus and In Black and White by Lily Hardy Hammond and Elna C. Green, ed. Atlantis: A Women’s Studies Journal, 34.2, 2009.
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