Graduate history dissertations in progress

Graduate

Dissertations in Progress

Name

Thesis Title

Supervisor

Rowena Alfonso “Race and the Rust Belt: African Americans in Buffalo, 1950-1976” R. Halpern
Julie Anderson “Literacy and the Use of Documents in the Duchy and Principality of Benevento, 700-900” N. Everett
Dale Barbour “Love on the Boundary between Culture and Nature: The Changing Role of Toronto’s Waterfront in the 20th Century” S. Penfold
Deborah Barton “From Dictatorship to Democracy? German Women Journalists, 1933–55” D. Bergen
Susan Benson-Sokmen “Refusing to Stay Put: The Revolutionary Legacies of Kurdish Feminism” J. Hanssen/S. Mojab
Anthony Cantor “Our Conservatories? Music Education, Social Identities and Cultural Politics in Germany and Austria, 1840-1933” J. Retallack
Sandy Carpenter “Moving Relics, Moving Power: Sacred Space and the Peace of God in Southern France at the Turn of the Eleventh Century” I. Cochelin
Rebecca Carter-Chand “Doing Good in Bad Times: The Salvation Army, the Quakers, and the Seventh-Day Adventists in the Nazi Era” D. Bergen
Stephanie Cavanaugh “Lives in Exile: Castilian and Granadan Moriscos in Valladolid, 1570-1614” M. Meyerson
Véronique Church-Duplessis “Aristocrats into Modernity? French Émigrées and the Refashioning of Noble Idenities” J. Mori
Stephanie Corazza “Child Welfare Workers and Holocaust Rescue in France” D. Bergen
Brandon Corcoran “O’Connellism in North America: Irish Emancipation and Repeal societies in Canada and the United States, 1825-1847″ D. Wilson
Courtney Dahlke “Deploying the Distant Past at the Monastery of Saint Denis” A. Murray
Bret Edwards “A New Global ‘Aereality’: Canada and the Jet Age, 1957-2001” B. Edwards
J. Evans “Telling Stories of Food, Community and Meaningful Lives in Post-1945 North Bay, Ontario” F. Iacovetta
Bethan Fisk “Spiritual Deliverance: Political Religiosities of African Descent in Colonial New Granada and Jamaica” M. Newton
Jennifer Hayter “Questions of Rights, Race and Regenerated Identities: Being Métis in Sault Ste. Marie, 1850-1993” H. Bohaker
Amy Huras “The Problem of Castilianisation in Peru, 1550–1850” K. Mills
Duc Huynh “Cao Dai Crossroads: Vietnamese Religious Movements during the French Colonial Period” N. Tran
Kirsten James “Perfume in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France: Global Trade and a New Culture of Scent” J. Mori
Elizabeth Jewett “Behind the Greens: Understanding Landscapes of Golf in Canada, 1873–1929” L. Macdowell
Brendan Kelly “Marcel Cadieux, the Department of External Affairs, and Canadian International Relations: 1941-1970” R. Bothwell
Stefanie Kennedy “To Bear the Marks of Servitude: Deformity, Disability, and the Politics of Freedom in the World of Atlantic Slavery” M. Newton
Benjamin Landsee “Revolutionary Inheritances: Race, Nation and Haitians in Cuba and Haiti, 1930-1960s” M. Newton
Brett Lintott “The Mediterranean Double-cross System in the Second World War” D. Smyth
Vojin Majstorovic “The Red Army in Yugoslavia, 1944-1945” L. Viola
Meaghan Marian “The Clinical Encounter: Chinese and Western Epistemologies in Hong Kong, 1842-1911” T. Lam
Ryan Masters “Rough Justice: Law, Race and Violence in German East Africa” D. Bergen
Vanessa McCarthy “Negotiating Marginality: Prostitutes in Counter-Reformation Bologna” N. Terpstra
Jonathan McQuarrie “From Farm to Firm: Canadian Tobacco, 1870-1950” S. Penfold
Ben McVicker “Afgantsy: The Social, Political, and Cultural Legacy of a Forgotten Generation” L. Viola
Peter Mersereau “Mobilizing Light and Shadow: Nationalism, Political Culture and Early German Film” J. Jenkins
Noula Mina “Remembering the Homeland: Greek Immigrant Memory and Commemoration” F. Iacovetta
Shannon Nash “Through the Shadows: The Myth and Reality of Sleeper Cells” W. Wark
Michael Newmark “A Socio-Political History of the Republic of Krakow” P. Wróbel
Tina Jiwon Park “Canadian-Korean Relations from the 1880s to the 1980s” R. Bothwell
Kristina Pauksens “Sovietization of the Baltic Peasants: Collectivization, Dekulakizations and Mass Deportations in the Latvian SSR” J. Kivimäe
Richard Pilkington “A ‘Time When Principles Make Best Politics’? The Western Response to ‘Genocide’ in East Pakistan” R. Pruessen
Julia Rady-Shaw “The Protestant Churches and the Challenges of Post-War Life in Ontario, 1945-1956” M. McGowan
William Riddell “Race, Labor, and Imperial Identities: California and the Emergence of America’s Pacific Empire” R. Halpern/D. Bender
Colin Rose “Homicide in Bologna, 1550-1700” N. Terpstra
Sheyfali Saujani “Making Multiculturalism Effective” I. Radforth
Kathryn Segesser “Abnormal Eating in Eighteenth Century America and England” E. Shorter
Louis Shwartz “The Age of Angels, c. 1150-1300: the Spirits’ Dominance of Medieval Intellectual Culture” J. Goering
Lindsay Sidders “Nahua Indigeneity, Franciscan Pedagogy, and the Works of Bernadino de Sahagun, Mexico City 1521-1600” K. Mills
Laura J. Smith “Settlers and Unsettlers: Irish Catholicism on the British North American Frontier, 1791–1845” M. McGowan
Slawomir Sokolowski “Economic and Cultural Integration in the Early Modern Northern European Context. Baltic Zone, 1560-1655” J. Kivimäe
David Sworn “Life Insurance and the Financial Management of the American Family, 1900-1950” E. Brown
Sarah Tracy “Flavor of the Century: Science, Industry, and the Rise of MSG in North America” M. Murphy
Matthew Vallieres “The Paris Peace Negotiations ‘Beyond Vietnam’: Franco-American Relations during America’s Withdrawal from Vietnam, 1969-1973” R. Pruessen
Michael Webb “Interwoven Texts: Connections Among Monasteries in Charente during the Central Middle Ages” I. Cochelin
Caleb Wellum “Energizing the Right: Economy, Ecology and Culture in the 1970s American Energy Crisis” E. Brown
Michael Wilcox “The Christian Brothers in Toronto, 1880-1980” M. McGowan

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