Jake Breadman is a fourth-year PhD candidate in the Department of History at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. He is broadly interested in Canadian history, specifically environmental history and Indigenous history. His dissertation explores environmental history in the context of the War of 1812, specifically how environmental factors determined the course of the conflict around the Great Lakes.

He has worked in public history since 2013. For the last two summers, he worked at Bellevue House National Historic Site in Kingston, where John A. Macdonald lived from 1848 to 1849.