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Her professional background includes researching and producing Heritage Minutes for Historica Canada, marketing, and event management. She is the founder of Livy Consulting, a company that provides detailed historical research reports to film production companies.
Joanne is a research fellow at the North American and Arctic Defence Security Network (NAADSN) and a member of the Canadian Defence and Security Network (CDSN). In these roles she has moderated panels and written op-eds.
Joanne's work has been supported by multiple award wins including the competitive Donald S. Rickerd Fellowship in Canadian-American Studies (2022, 2023, & 2024) as well as the John K. Hulston Scholarship (2023) for her research at the Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Libraries.
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She enjoys freelance writing and has recently had publications in Chatelaine (October 2023) and The Hub (December 2023, June 2024).
Conference Presentations
- Association for Canadian Studies in the United States (ACSUS) Conference, Canada: Near and Far, Washington, DC, "More than just a Northern Neighbour: Developing Canada's Defence Relationship with the United States -1948-1956," November, 2023.
- 34th Canadian Military History Colloquium, The RCAF at 100, Waterloo, ON, "Louis St. Laurent and the RCAF: Canadian Defence Policy Objectives in the Early Cold War," May, 2024.
- The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) Conference, Toronto. "Uncle Louis + Ike: Building the Canada-US Defence Relationship in the 1950s," June, 2024.
