Sarah Elvins is Professor of History at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada, where she teaches American History, food history, and cultural history.  She is the author of Sales and Celebrations:  Retailing and Regional Identity in Western New York, 1920-1940 (University of Ohio Press, 2004) and a range of articles on the history of retailing, department stores, food advertising, the use of alternative currency in the Great Depression, cross-border shopping, and abortion.  She  published an article with historian Katherine Parkin on the business of abortion travel in Enterprise and Society.  An article she wrote on cross-border shopping and smuggling between the U.S. and Canada was awarded the Best Article Prize by the Canadian Business History Association.  She received her PhD from York University in Toronto and before her previous position taught American history at the University of Winnipeg and the University of Notre Dame.