Historian. Novelist. Greedy Woman.

Professor of history at the University of Victoria in British Columbia. Author of five books. Lustful Appetites: An Intimate History of Good Food and Wicked Sex (2024). A Second Chance for Yesterday (2023). Unspeakable: A Life Beyond Sexual Morality (2020). Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America (2014). Reign of Terror in America: Visions of Violence from Anti-Jacobinism to Antislavery (2009).