Publications

Peer-Reviewed Publications

• “Teachers amongst their own people:” Kanyen’kehá:ka (Mohawk) women teachers in 19th Century Tyendinaga and Grand River, Ontario.” Historical Studies in Education, Volume 29, No. 1 (Spring) 2017L 32-56. https://educ.ubc.ca/special-issue-historical-studies-in-education-spring-2017/

•  “'Our Strength comes from the Land':  the Hybrid Culinary Traditions of the Six Nations of Grand River.” Cuizine: The Journal of Canadian Food Cultures. Fall, 2015. http://cuizine.mcgill.ca/

•  “‘True to my own noble race:’ Six Nations Women Teachers at Grand River in the early Twentieth Century.” Ontario History. CVII, No. 1 (Spring) 2015: 5-35. https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/onhistory/2015-v107-n1-onhistory03913/1050677ar/abstract/

•  “'Fit for the Table of the Most Fastidious Epicure': Culinary Colonialism in the Upper Canadian Contact Zone.” In Edible Histories, Cultural Politics: Towards a Canadian Food History, edited by Franca Iacovetta, Marlene Epp and Valerie Korinek. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012, 38-69.

•  “'In Defense of the Empire’: The Six Nations of the Grand River and the Great War.” In Sisterhood of Suffering and Service: Canadian and Newfoundland Women and the First World War, edited by Sarah Glassford and Amy Shaw: University of British Columbia Press, 2012, 29-50. 

• Norman, Alison. "'A Higly Favoured People:' the Planter Narrative and the 1928 Grand Historic Pageant of Kentville Nova Scotia." Acadiensis XXXVIII, No. 2 Summer/Autumn (2009), 116-140. 

Book Reviews

• “Review Catharine Parr Traill’s The Female Emigrant’s Guide: Cooking with a Canadian Classic edited by Nathalie Cooke and Fiona Lucas. Ontario History. Volume 110, Issue 2, Fall 2018, p. 244–245.
•  “Review: Separate Beds: A History of Indian Hospitals in Canada, 1920s-1980s.” Maureen Katherine Lux. Canadian Historical Review. Volume 98, Number 3, September 2017, pp. 609-611.
• “Review: Written as I Remember It: Teachings (??ms ta?aw) from the Life of a Sliammon Elder.” Elsie Paul, Paige Raibmon, and Harmony Johnson. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2014. Historical Studies in Education/Revue d’histoire de l’éducation. Volume 28, Number 2, Fall 2016: 151-153. 
• “Review: Great Lakes Indian Accommodation: Resistance During the Early Reservation Years, 1850-1900." Edmund Jefferson Danziger, Jr. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2009. The Canadian Historical Review. Volume 92, Number 4, 2011: 726-728.
• “Review: Culinary Landmarks: A Bibliography of Canadian Cookbooks." Elizabeth Driver. Toronto:  University of Toronto Press, 2008. The Canadian Historical Review. Volume 90, Number 3. September, 2009: 554-556.
• “Review: In the Days of Our Grandmothers: A Reader in Aboriginal Women’s History in Canada.” Edited by Mary-Ellen Kelm and Lorna Townsend.  Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2006. The Canadian Historical Review. Volume 89, Number 2. June, 2008: 276-77.
• “Review: Sisters in Two Worlds: A Visual Biography of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill.” Michael Peterman, Doubleday Press, 2007. Canadian Women’s Studies. Volume 27, Number 1, 2009. 
• “Review: Women and Power in Native North America.” Edited by Laura F. Klein and Lillian A. Ackerman. University of Oklahoma Press, 2000. Pioneer America Society Transactions.” Volume 27 & 28, Fall 2007.
• Review: Contact Zones: Aboriginal and Settler Women in Canada's Colonial Past.” Edited by Katie Pickles, and Myra Rutherdale. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2005. Ontario History. XCIX, no. 1 (2006), 117-119. 
•  "Review: Seven Eggs Today: The Diaries of Mary Armstrong, 1859 and 1869.” By Jackson W. Armstrong, and “The Life Writings of Mary Baker McQuesten: Victorian Matriarch. By Mary J. Anderson.” Both Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Life Writing Series, 2004. Ontario History XCVII, no. 1 (2005).

Other Publications

•  "A Short History of Treaty Nomenclature in Ontario." With Daniel Laxer and Jean-Pierre Morin. November 5, 2018. http://activehistory.ca/2018/11/a-short-history-of-treaty-nomenclature-in-ontario/ 
• “Six Nations Soldiers and British Women’s Activism during and after the First World War.” October 17, 2017.  http://activehistory.ca/2017/10/this-injustice-will-do-canada-harm-in-the-eyes-of-the-world-six-nations-soldiers-and-british-womens-activism-during-and-after-the-first-world-war/ 
• “(Re)naming and (De)colonizing the (I?)ndigenous People(s) of North America – Part I and Part II.” With Kathryn Labelle, Brittany Luby. November 7 and 8, 2016.  http://activehistory.ca/2016/11/renaming-and-decolonizing-the-indigenous-peoples-of-north-america-part-ii/ 
• “Transitions Q&A: Alison Norman.” http://www.universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/from-phd-to-life/transition-q-a-alison-norman/ November 25, 2015.
• “Inside Toronto’s secret history warehouse.” blogTO.com. April 4, 2015.  https://www.blogto.com/city/2015/04/inside_torontos_secret_history_warehouse/ 
• “A brief history of post-war feminism in Toronto.” blogTO.com. March 15, 2015.   https://www.blogto.com/city/2015/03/a_brief_history_of_post-war_feminism_in_toronto/ 
• “A brief history of the women’s movement in Toronto.” blogTO.com. March 8, 2015.  https://www.blogto.com/city/2015/03/a_brief_history_of_the_womens_movement_in_toronto/ 
•  “A Guide to Indigenous Toronto.” BlogTO.com. January 25, 2015.   https://www.blogto.com/city/2015/01/a_guide_to_indigenous_toronto/ 
• “Still Insufficient: Childcare in Canada.” With Lisa Pasolli, ActiveHistory.ca. October 7, 2013.  http://activehistory.ca/2013/10/still-insufficient-child-care-in-canada/ 
• “The Origins of the Labour Day Parade.” BlogTO.com. September 6, 2010.  https://www.blogto.com/city/2010/09/the_origins_of_the_labour_day_parade/ 
• “Toronto Museum Project has right idea, but remains a work in progress.” BlogTO.com. March 6, 2010.  https://www.blogto.com/tech/2010/03/toronto_museum_project_has_the_right_idea_but_remains_a_work_in_progress/ 
• "Results of the Survey of Canadian Graduate Students and Pregnancy/Childcare Concerns." CHA Bulletin 34, no. 3 (2008): 6-9.
• “The Grand Historic Pageant of the 1928 Kentville Summer Carnival.” The King’s Historical Society Newsletter, January 2007.
• "A Brief History of an Annapolis Valley Kitchen." Culinary Chronicles, The Newsletter of the Culinary Historians of Ontario, No. 47, Winter 2006, 3-5.
• "A Genealogical Journey in Nova Scotia." The Nova Scotia Genealogist.XXIII, no. 1 (2005): 19-25.
• This Little Piggy Went to Market and Came Home with a Full Basket: Fundraising for Historical and Heritage Organizations and Institutions. Toronto: The Ontario Historical Society, 2000.