His PhD dissertation (NYU, 2011), about encounters between Jews and Native Americans in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, won the Salo Wittmayer Baron Award for Best Dissertation in Jewish History in the Americas (2009-2012). He held a SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Toronto. He has published work on Jewish Indian-curio traders, and on the field of Canadian Jewish Studies. He is the co-editor of the journal Canadian Jewish Studies.