Recent Theses and Dissertations
Ph.D. Dissertations
* since 2013
2024
Thomas Littlewood
Public Commemorations and Personal Memories: Canadian Commemoration of the Second World War
Matthew Hayday and Geoff Hayes, advisors
2023
Brandon Mendonca
From Nature to Newsrooms: Canadian Farm Writing as a Professional Project
Catharine Wilson (retired), advisor
2021
Sarah Shropshire
Sun Science: Environmental Health, Medical Specialization and Body Politics in 20th-century Canada
Catherine Carstairs, advisor
Mary Anne Gonzales
Charitable Communities: Beguines and Charity in Later Medieval Douai, 1218-1360
Elizabeth Ewan (retired) and Peter Goddard, advisors
Chelsea Larsson
Violence, Legal Culture and Social Control: The Records of Scotland's Justiciary Court, 1493-1558
James Fraser and Elizabeth Ewan (retired), advisors
2019
Erin Schuurs
Stompin’ Grounds: Imagining Rural Canada and the Creation of Canadian Country Music
Catharine Wilson (retired), advisor
Mark Sholdice
The Ontario Experiment: Hydroelectricity, Public Ownership, and Transnational Progressivism, 1906-1939
Alan Gordon, advisor
Jianda Yuan
More Complicated than Treason or Obedience: Rectifying Historical Narratives of Manchukuo's Top-Level Chinese-Speaking Officials, 1931-1937
Norman Smith, advisor
Shayna Devlin
Whatever the World Admires in a Prince: Robert Stewart Duke of Albany, Power, Politics, and Family in Late Medieval Scotland
Elizabeth Ewan (retired) and Susannah Ferreira, advisors
2018
Theodore (Ted) Cogan
Sharing the Nation’s Heart Globally? Foreign Aid and the Canadian Public, 1950-1980
Matthew Hayday, advisor
Marian Toledo Candelaria
From Reformed Barbarian to Saint-King: Literary Portrayals of King Malcolm III Canmore (r. 1058-93) in Scottish Historical Narratives, c. 1100-1449
Elizabeth Ewan (retired), advisor
2017
Jacqueline McIsaac
Writing with Light: Rural Ontario's Glass Plate Photography and Visions of Rural Land, 1851-1920
Alan Gordon, advisor
Caitlin Holton
Masculine Identity in Medieval Scotland: Gender, Ethnicity, and Regionality
Elizabeth Ewan (retired), advisor
Marc-André Gagnon
À Mon Drapeau: Je Jure D’Être Fidèle”: Le Mouvement des Sociétés Saint-Jean-Baptiste, 1947-1984
Matthew Hayday, advisor
Alice Glaze
Women’s Networks of Family, Work, Support and Slander in Canongate, 1600-1660
Elizabeth Ewan (retired), advisor
Anne Vermeyden
Hybridization and Uneven Exchange: The Transnational Popularization of Belly Dance in Toronto, Canada, 1950-1990
Femi Kolapo and Renée Worringer, advisors
2016
Marjorie Hopkins
Humanism as Civic Project: The Example of the Collège de Guyenne
Peter Goddard, advisor
Jodey Nurse-Gupta
Food, Flowers, and Fancywork: Fashioning, Negotiating, and Expanding the Roles of Women in Ontario Agricultural Societies and Fairs, 1846-1980
Catharine Wilson (retired), advisor
Nicholas Van Allen
On the Farm, in the Town, and in the City: Nineteenth-Century Networks and Spaces in Rural Middlesex County, Southwestern Ontario
Catharine Wilson (retired), advisor
Sierra Dye
'Devilische Wordis': Speech as Evidence in Scotland's Witch Trials, 1563-1736
Elizabeth Ewan (retired), advisor
2015
Elaine Young
Placing Battlefields: Ontario's War of 1812 Niagara Frontier, 1885-1930
Alan Gordon, advisor
2014
Rochelle Pereira-Alvares
Mickeys, Minis and Pints: An Investigations of the Marketing and Advertising Initiatives of Seagram and Hiram Walker, 1950-1969
Catherine Carstairs, advisor
Katie McCullough
Building the Highland Empire: The Highland Society of London and the Formation of Charitable Networks in Great Britain and Canada, 1778-1857
Graeme Morton, advisor (now at University of Dundee)
2013
Patricia Bowley
A Century of Soybeans: Scientific Research and Mixed Farming in Agricultural Southern Ontario, 1881-1983
Stuart McCook, advisor
Suzette Blom
Implications of Jewish Divorces that Became Causes Célèbres: The Reform of Jewish Status and Juridical Centralization
William Cormack, advisor
Lisa Cox
Reasonable Tact and Diplomacy: Disease Management and Bovine Tuberculosis in North America, 1890-1950
Stuart McCook, advisor
Daniel MacLeod
Servants to St. Mungo: The Church in Sixteenth-Century Glasgow
Elizabeth Ewan (retired) and Peter Goddard, advisors
Sharon Weaver
Making Place on the Canadian Periphery: Back-to-the-Land on the Gulf Islands and Cape Breton
Douglas McCalla (retired) and Catharine Wilson (retired), advisors
Jason Wilson
King Alpha's Song in a Strange Land: Jamaican Migrant and Canadian Host in Toronto's Transnational Reggae Music Scene, 1973-1990
Catharine Wilson (retired), advisor
Masters - Major Research Papers and Theses
* advised by current faculty, since 2016
2024
Austin Foster
Portraits Of Empire: British Imperial Portraiture And Roman Iconography As Expressions Of British Self-perceptions, Ideology, And Policy (Thesis)
Jesse Palsetia, advisor
Aidan Hughes
More than Muscle: Steroid Handbooks and Bodybuilding Subculture, 1981-1989 (Thesis)
Catherine Carstairs, advisor
Gavin Hughes
The Glasgow Restaurant and Hotel Licensed Trade Defense During the First World War (Thesis)
Kevin James, advisor
Jake McIvor
Boys and Their Toys: The History of Gender and Geoengineering (Thesis)
Catherine Carstairs, advisor
Norah Newman
Forgotten Paradise: Damascus Water Engineering and Management from Antiquity to the End Of the Umayyad Period (Thesis)
Renee Worringer, advisor
2023
Sarah Campbell
The Changing State of (Female) Play: Expansion, Continuities, and Rebuilding in Women and Girls’ Sport in Nazi and Occupied Germany, 1933-1949 (Thesis)
Alan McDougall, advisor
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 (retired), 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 (retired), 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 (retired), 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 (retired), 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 (retired), 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 (retired), 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)
Catharine Wilson (retired), 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 (retired), 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 (retired), 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 (retired), 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 (retired), 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 (retired), 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 (retired), advisor
Paige Walker
“Faith much Beyond her Sexe": Lady Eleanor Livingstone and Catholic Survival in post-Reformation Scotland (MRP)
Elizabeth Ewan (retired), advisor