My research lies in environmental history and water history and focuses on the history and politics of large rivers, particularly in Canada. Representative publications include Fish versus Power: An Environmental History of the Fraser River (Cambridge UP 2004), The River Returns: An Environnmental History of the Bow (MQUP 2009), co-authored with Christopher Armstrong and H.V. Nelles, and Allied Power: Mobilizing Hydro-Electricity during Canada’s Second World War (Toronto UP 2015). Recent work focuses on the environmental history of hydro-electricity during the Second World War and the politics of pure water in Vancouver.

2022

Evenden, M. 2022. Water Purity. Health, and Expertise: Debating Fluoridation in Vancouver during the 1950s. Canadian Journal of Health History 39 (2): 311-339. doi: https://doi.org/10.3138/cjhh.2022-546-092021

Parrinello, G. Serneri, S. N. Bhattacharyya, D. Morgan, R. A. Ross, C. Pietz, D. and M. Evenden. Rethinking the Entangled History of Water and Power. Contemporanea XXV (2): 319-344. doi: 10.1409/103867

2021

Evenden, M. 2021. Stowaway Beetles: Carl Lindroth, the Ballast Theory and Trans-Atlantic Science in the Cold War. Environmental History 26(3): 508-532.

2020

Cohn, J. Evenden, M. and Landry, M. 2020. Water powers: the Second World War and the mobilization of hydroelectricity in Canada, the United States, and Germany. Journal of Global History 15(1): 123-147. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1740022819000366

2019

Evenden, M. 2019. Debating water purity and expertise: the chlorination controversy in Vancouver during the Second World War. Journal of Historical Geography 65: 85-95. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2019.06.007