Recent Theses and Dissertations

Michael Dilella
Cuthbert and Scotland: The Realignment of Political Interests in Eleventh and Twelfth Century Britain (MRP)
James Fraser, advisor

Madison Hendricks
From “Stray Thoughts, Wild Dreams, and Fancy Sketches” to a “Condensed, Comparative Record”: Roseltha Wolverton Goble’s Changing Relationship to Diary-Writing, 1857-1919 (Thesis)
Catharine Wilson, advisor

Michael Hodgson
Shepheard’s Hotel: Representations in Print Culture, 1841-1952 (MRP)
Kevin James, advisor

Andrew Javor
Sympathetic Bystanders: The Dissemination of the Holocaust and Reactions by Gentile Britons, 1939-1945 (Thesis)
Alan McDougall, advisor

Phoenicia Kempel
La Manche sous l’Occupation: Schoolteachers and Education in Normandy, 1940-1944 (MRP)
William Cormack, advisor

Rui Li
Nationalist Propaganda And Woman Question In Manchukuo’s Early Period: Education, Mass Media, And Literature (Thesis)
Norman Smith, advisor

Dylan Parry-Lai
The Global Scot in the Antipodes: John Douglas and the Forging of Global Scottish Identities and Networks (MRP)
Kevin James, advisor

Andrew Northey
“This Cozy Biel O’ Tibbie Shiel.” Tourism Development and Rural Hospitality in the Borders of Scotland in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Thesis)
Kevin James, advisor

Henrique Silva Paiane
“Suspeitos na Fé”: Humanists at the Colégio das Artes in Coimbra, Portugal 1548-1555 (Thesis)
Susannah Ferreira, advisor

Moira Smee
Innovation in a Time of Stagnation: Poliomyelitis and the Popular Press in Manitoba and Ontario, 1927-1937 (MRP)
Catherine Carstair, advisor

Thomas Smith
Reimagining the Lord Mayor's Shows: Constructing a 3-D Model of Bower's Tomb from Anthony Munday's Chrysanaleia (Thesis)
Kim Martin, advisor

Wilda Thumm
Sporting Ladies in Scotland During World War I (MRP)
Kevin James, advisor

2022

Jose Alonzo
The Balikbayan Program and Labour Export Policy: The Socioeconomic Relationship Between The Philippine State and Filipino Diaspora (Thesis)
Kevin James, advisor

Curtis Fraser
“I Found Him Uncertain, Indecisive”: Ambiguities in the Ogé Revolt and the Struggle for Free-Coloured Equality on the Eve of the Haitian Revolution, 1789-1790 (MRP)
William Cormack, advisor

Robyn Jennings
Where Men Met: Mystical Castration, Homosociality, and the Development of Medieval Clerical Masculinity (Thesis)
Jacqueline Murray, advisor

Martin Picard
Working an Empire: Slave and Labour Laws and Organization in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Haiti and Martinique (MRP)
Peter Goddard, advisor

Michael Richardson
In Full Bloom: How Post War Japanese Coffee Technologies Rejuvenated Coffee Culture Identity Through a Pour-over Coffee Craze (MRP)
Stuart McCook, advisor

Isaac Toyin
The Role of the Commonwealth Organization in Global Governance, 1945 -2020 (Thesis)
Femi Kolapo, advisor

2021

Brenna Clark
A Regional Comparison of the Witch-hunt in the Orkney and Shetland Islands of Scotland in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Thesis)
Peter Goddard, advisor

Cassandra Dodds
Social Commentators and Advocates for Equality: Adam Smith and Jean-Jacques Rousseau on Slavery and Religious Tolerance (MRP)
Peter Goddard, advisor

Kehlar Hillyer
Fear and the Unprepared: United States Bioterrorism Policy and the 2001 Anthrax Crisis (Thesis)
Stuart McCook, advisor

Rachel Kostic
Socialist Solidarity: GDR Aid Programs in Mozambique and Angola (Thesis - History & International Development Studies)
Alan McDougall, advisor

Sandra Lucs
“…still I see a vast advantage here”: A Micro History Study of the Life of Dr. Henry Orton, 1805-1869 (MRP)
Catharine Wilson, advisor

Brittany McBride
Causes of the 1937 Prison Riot at the Ontario Reformatory, Guelph, and its Impact on Subsequent Ontario Prison Reforms (MRP)
Catharine Wilson, advisor

Desmond Oklikah
Cultural Identity and Expression among Ghanaian Immigrants in Toronto, 1967-2000 (Thesis)
Femi Kolapo, advisor

Brittney Payer
Defense Against the Not-So-Dark Arts: The Pragmatism of Felix Hemmerlin in his Tracts on Superstition and Reform (MRP)
Susanna Ferreira, advisor

Philp Rich
New Narratives of Work: Increasing Worker and Community Participation at Ontario Worker Heritage Sites (Thesis)
Alan Gordon, advisor

Hilary Sotomayor
"A Girl Worth Fighting For": Transformations of the Woman Warrior Hua Mulan (Thesis)
Norman Smith, advisor

Emma Stelter
Polishing and Tarnishing the Chain: An Examination of Mississauga Treaties around the Head of Lake Ontario, 1780-1820 (Thesis)
Brittany Luby, advisor

Alex Wall
A Distorted Mirror: Faith, Race, and Indentity in Spanish Diplomacy during the Reign of Charles V (Thesis)
Susannah Ferreira, advisor

2020

Nico Mara-McKay
Questions of Categorization: Surgical Interventions on Intersex Bodies in Late Medieval Europe (MRP)
Jacqueline Murray, advisor

Kathryn Hughes
"They Were Very Real": Indigenous Women's Responses and Resistance to Ongoing Colonial Violence in Canada (MRP)
Catherine Carstairs, advisor

Kathryn Comper
The Life of Lady Anna Mackenzie: Noblewomen, Kinship Networks and Power in Seventeenth-Century Scotland (MRP)
Susannah Ferreira, advisor

Sandra Olaya Nino
My Story, Our history: Afro-Colombians Women and Memory in the Peace Process in Colombia 2012 - 2016 (MRP)
Karen Racine, advisor

Matthew Midolo
White Privilege and the Making of Canada’s Injustice System: Setting Precedent for Inequitable Treatment in the Courtroom, Victoria BC, 1860-1873 (Thesis)
Brittany Luby, advisor

Persephone Seale
Narrative Ambiguity, Bodily Uncertainty, and Community Involvement: Infanticide in Seventeenth Century Scotland (Thesis)
Elizabeth Ewan (retired), advisor

Adrian Kawula
The Polish Military Elite and the Emergence of Modern Polish Nationalism (MRP)
William Cormack, advisor

Haley Scholz
Illuminating the ‘Querelle de la Rose’: A Comparative Study of the Representation of Women in the Illuminations of Christine de Pizan Cité des Dames and Jean de Meun’s Roman de la Rose (MRP)
Jacqueline Murray, advisor

2019

Shannon Vanderwoerd
The Human Cost of State and Industrial Values in Northern Ontario: An Examination of Uranium Mining in the Serpent River Watershed, 1950s-1990s (MRP)
Brittany Luby, advisor

Courtney Svab
At Home in an Unknown Land: Examining the Factors Affecting the Mental Health of Scottish Settlers in Lanark County, 1820-1839 (MRP)
Catherine Wilson, advisor

Kirsten Schwegler
Inspiration for Inaction? Humour, Pain, and the Bystander Effect in English-language Cartoons on the Chinese War of Resistance Against Japan, 1931-1945 (Thesis)
Norman Smith, advisor

Fergus Maxwell
Seizing the Horizon: Co-operative Tourism and the Production of Picturesque Space (Thesis)
Kevin James, advisor

David Macfarlane
King Alfred the Great and the Moral Constitution of the English People (Thesis)
Jacqueline Murray, advisor

Graham Lloyd
Workers Against the State: Anarchism, Organized Labour, and the State in Mexico, 1865-1931 (MRP)
Karen Racine, advisor

Grace Howard
Courtesans in Colonial India: Representations of British Power through Understandings of Nautch-Girls, Devadasis, Tawa’ifs, and Sex-Work, c. 1750-1883 (Thesis)
Jesse Palsetia, advisor

Vicki Hodgkinson
Divergent Rationalities and Contending Interests: Public Health in Wellington County Townships, 1882-1900 (Thesis)
Catharine Wilson, advisor

Richard Griffin
Chroniclers’ Criticisms in the Reign of King Richard I of England (1189-1199) (Thesis)
Susannah Ferreira, advisor

Caroline Floyd
A Social Network and Text Analysis of Charles Darwin’s Correspondence, 1835-1842 (Thesis)
Tara Abraham, advisor

Brendan Egan
"Bore by discent and by title of right, justly to reigne in England and in Fraunce": Literature Directed at English Kings During the Hundred Years War (Thesis)
Susannah Ferreira, advisor

Amy Doyle
O Clarim d'Alvorada and the Gendered Negotiation of Black Citizenship in Brazil (1924-1927) (Thesis)
Karen Racine, advisor

Emma Dowling
“Nothing Short of Revolutionary”: Female Lawyers in Canada 1970-1985 (MRP)
Catherine Carstairs, advisor

2018

Tammy Humphries
The Trouble with Booze: The Ontario Temperance Act, Enforcement Intent, and Realities, 1916-1927 (MRP)
Catherine Carstairs, advisor

Amy McBride
The Voices Behind Change: Women's Liberation During the 1970s at the University of Guelph (Thesis)
Linda Mahood, advisor

Rebecca Pyrah
“The Horror! The Horror!” of King Leopold II’s Congo Free State: The Relationship Between Colonial Genocide and Nineteenth-Century Literary Writing About Africa (MRP)
Femi Kolapo, advisor

Ryan Paranyi
Methodism and the Christian Gentleman in Mid-Victorian Rural Ontario (Thesis)
Catharine Wilson, advisor

Natasha Wismark
Worldly Words and Sacred Ideas: The Shifting Meaning and Usage of “Secular,” 400-1600 (Thesis)
Peter Goddard, advisor

Brin Thomson
Gender, Domestic Service and Great Households in Late Medieval and Early Modern England (Thesis)
Susannah Ferreira, advisor

Dan Holman
John Barbour’s The Bruce during the Reign of Robert II: An Exemplum for Freedom and Loyalty (MRP)
James E. Fraser, advisor

Amy Poole
“There are Few Things More Powerful than Destiny”: Gender, Power and Foresight in The Sagas of the Icelanders (Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries) (Thesis)
James E. Fraser, advisor

Heather Wilson
Which Others Dreaded to Visit”: Encountering the Remote in the Lives of St Cuthbert and St Columba (MRP)
James E. Fraser, advisor

Kelly Doig
"A Right without Access is no Right at All": The Canadian Abortion Rights Action League, 1974-1988 (MRP)
Matthew Hayday, advisor

Devon Sherwood
Like Mother, Like Daughter: Sixteenth-Century Scottish Perspectives On Marie De Guise and Mary Stuart (Thesis)
Elizabeth Ewan (retired), advisor

Joshua Doyle-Raso
Enticement to Sanitation: The Rockefeller Foundation's Anti-hookworm Campaign in Colombia, 1919-1935 (Thesis)
Stuart McCook, advisor

Abigael Krueger
Canada’s First National Internment Operation: The First World War and the “Enemy Alien” Experience in Brantford and Hamilton, Ontario (MRP)
Kris Inwood, advisor

Claire Bisset
Survival and Change on a Seventeenth-century Scottish estate: Evidence from the Wauchope Family Records, 1690-1703 (MRP)
Susannah Ferreira, advisor

Jeremy Istead
Sexual Harassment in Ontario Universities, 1980-1995 (MRP)
Catherine Carstairs, advisor

Cedric Courville
Language, Education, And Protest in Montreal, 1968-1969: An Analysis of Framing Methods in Montreal's Mainstream Press (MRP)
Matthew Hayday, advisor

2017

Jody Hodgins
The Canadian Army Veterinary Corps' Fight Against Glanders on the Front in World War One (MRP)
Alan Gordon, advisor

Kyle Pritchard
Russell: Government, Labour, and Business Progressivism in a Canadian War Industry, 1899-1920 (Thesis)
Matthew Hayday, advisor

Evan Cater
Speak for England! Labour and the Downfall of Neville Chamberlain (MRP)
Alan McDougall, advisor

Jennifer McKay
Purge or Purgatory: How the Flight of Three Veteran Communists Affected East German Politics During the Ulbricht Era (Thesis)
Alan McDougall, advisor

Katrina Gale
Repurposing the Dead: The Place of Anatomy and Dissection in Nineteenth Century Canadian Medical Education (MRP)
Catherine Carstairs, advisor

Karley McLinden
The Casualties of Empowerment: The Negative Impact of Spiritualism in Victorian England and Its Historical Representation (MRP)
Sofie LaChapelle and Linda Mahood, advisors

Marissa Gareau
Fabric Consumption, Sewing, and the Rural Household Economy: Christina McLennan’s Diary, Glengarry County, Ontario, 1881-1888 (MRP)
Catharine Wilson, advisor

Nick VanExan
Dispute Resolution in Early Medieval Ireland: Insights from Bricriu’s Feast and The Tale of Macc Da Thó’s Pig (MRP)
James E. Fraser, advisor

Jessica Lees
Conjuring the Devil: Accusations of Witchcraft and the Reclamation of Masculinity in Early Modern Scotland (MRP)
Elizabeth Ewan (retired), advisor

2016

Matthew Robertshaw
Pawòl Gen Zèl: Language Legitimation in Haiti's Second Century (Thesis)
Karen Racine, advisor

Nick Bridges
“Curious Caverns”: Cave Tourism in Nineteenth-Century Ireland (Thesis)
Kevin James, advisor

Nancy Winklemann
Challenging Assumptions of Autonomy: The Agency and Social Capital of English Medieval Noblewomen During the Twelfth to Fifteenth Centuries (Thesis)
Jacqueline Murray, advisor

Valeria Mantilla Morales
Spoonful of Spanish: Religiosity, Cuisine, and the Formation of Creole Identities (Thesis)
Karen Racine, advisor

Sara Perkins
"Africanized Colonies": The Exploration of African Slave Culture in Colonial South Carolina, 1690-1800 (Thesis)
Femi Kolapo, advisor

Patrick Leahy
Driving Forward: The Power of the Horse in Douro Township 1850-1900 (Thesis)
Catharine Wilson, advisor

Paige Walker
“Faith much Beyond her Sexe": Lady Eleanor Livingstone and Catholic Survival in post-Reformation Scotland (MRP)
Elizabeth Ewan (retired), advisor

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