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 |