Graduate Students
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Abubakar Abdulkadir Dissertation Title: "The 'Emergence' of the Verse Tradition in Mauritania: Intellectual History and the Culture of Islamics Scholarship in the "Land of Million Poets"." My research - which focuses on Mauritania's scholarly and literary traditions within Islam, Arabic poetry, intellectual religious thought, and examination of scholarly libraries and archives - brings to the fore Saharan perspectives on knowledge production and transmission. |
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Emad Afkham Dissertation Title: The Popular Resistance among German Peasant in the Late 16th Century |
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Jane Allred DissertationTitle: Indology, Grammar and Philosophy of Language in Pre-modern South Asia |
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Kyla Bansemer Thesis Title: Early Modern Alchemy in England |
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Samantha Blais Struggling to Survive: Health Impacts of Hydroelectric Development in Northern Manitoba's Indigenous Communities, 1954-2018: Dissertation Title My research analyses the health impacts of hydroelectric development on Misipawistik Cree Nation, Pimicikamak Cree Nation, Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation, O-Pipon-Na-Piwin Cree Nation, Tataskweyk Cree Nation, Fox Lake Cree Nation, and Norway House Cree Nation in northern Manitoba. By examining the impacts of mega-hydroelectric developments in northern Manitoba and focusing on the social determinants of health, meaning the social, economic, cultural and political inequities that impact the health of communities and individuals specifically in Indigenous communities, I will investigate how hydroelectric development has caused the public health crisis that these communities have struggled with for more than half a century. I will also explore what historical dynamics enabled hydroelectric development to occur and continue with little to no consultation in northern Manitoba despite the enormous health impacts. |
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Michael Boire Thesis Title: The Development of the Profession of Engineering in Alberta |
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Mark Bretherton Project Title: At the Peak of the Roman Empire |
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Gino Canlas Dissertation Title: Negotiating Identities in in Thessslian Sacred Spaces (800 BC to AD 100) My research is the first diachronic synthesis of the archaeological evidence for all known sanctuaries in Thessaly from the Archaic to the Roman periods. I examine these sanctuaries as agents in the "operational acts of identification" performed by the inhabitants of Broader Thessaly (i.e., Thessaly and adjacent regions). Previous scholars have noted that Thessaly is not the region of Greece one would visit to see "monumental" sanctuaries, but my dissertation demonstrates that Thessalians did indeed invest heavily in their sanctuaries but preferred to do so by monumentalizing their modesty and imagined antiquity, as a way to express both regional and panhellenic affiliation simultaneously (as contrary as that may seem). |
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Deepro Chakraborty |
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Olivia Cotton Cornwall |
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Katerina Doige |
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Rowan Drisner |
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Karen Englander |
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Kate Fenton Dissertation Title: The Aphrodite of Aphrodisias: Negotiating Meaning in the New Cult Image I am interested in the visual language of art produced in the Augustan age, in which social and political influences were propagated non-verbally. My doctoral research project examines how the cult image of the Aphrodite of Aphrodisias underwent a deliberate redefinition and conscious redesigning in the early Imperial period and how this cult image may have functioned to express Augustan ideas of social and political change. |
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Chris Fortin Thesis Title: German Occupaction Policy during the Second World War |
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Michael Gillingham Thesis Title: Face to Face with the Absolute Other: Religion and Alterity in Irish Literature |
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Solomon Hajramezan Thesis Title: History of Spaceflight, Space Exploration and Technology Imagining Space |
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Duncan Halden |
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Cole Hakins Thesis Title: Across the Great Water: Tobacco, Wampum, and Haudenosaunee Diplomacy in Early Modern London, 1650-1725 My research focuses on the physical and material movement of North America Indigenous peoples and goods to Britain from 1650-1925. Particularly, I examine how transoceanic expressions of Haudenosaunee diplomacy, such as wampum and tobacco, were understood and used by British diplomats and wider society in London and the Americas. Broadly speaking, I am interested in Atlantic history, cultural exchange, and material culture. |
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Brayden Hirsch |
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Sarah Hollaender (Nash)
Doctor of Philosophy - Classical Archaeology Dissertation Title: Mythological Portraits of Roman Individuals as Hercules and Omphale I am broadly interested in Graeco-Roman visual culture, mythological narratives, and issues of gender and sexuality. My doctoral research project examines the diverse connotations of Graeco-Roman historical figures associated with Hercules and queen Omphale of Lydia. |
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Shu-Chen Hsu-Hsiung Dissertation Title: Chinese Christianity Globalized: the transnational movement of Watchman Nee and Witness Lee and its relationship with the modern Chinese states: 1922-1997 My research interets include the fields of Christianity in China, modern East Asian history, and the globalization of religion. My subject is a Chinese Christian movement variously named as the "Little Flock," the "Local Church," or the Lord's recovery. |
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Nicole Hudye |
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Alla Hurska |
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Samantha Kallen Project Title: Canada and the Cold War My general topics of interest include 19th and 20th century Western Canadian history, and Cold War history. In combining these interests, the topic of my Master's thesis project is Alberta in the Cold War, in particular, Alberta civil defense and the construction of bomb shelters. I plan to explore multiple questions over the course of my research, such as how the Cold War affected Alberta, why were bomb shelters constructed, and how were bomb shelters a manifestation of cold War reality or consciousness. |
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Bryan Kapitza Project Title: Successful Government Involvement in the Private Sector: the case of Alberta Energy Company |
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Aditi Khare Dissertation Title: Industralisation/De-Industralisation of Indian Textile Industry under Early British Colonial System, 1750-1850 |
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Iaroslav Kovalchuk Dissertation Title: Sovietizations of Western Ukraine: The Communists Party in Galicia and Transcarpathia My dissertation project compares the establishment of the Communist Party of Ukraine in the two West Ukrainian regions, Galicia and Transcarpathia, which became the new western borderlands of the Soviet Union after World War Two. I see my study as a culturally and socially informed research of the central political institution of the Soviet system, the Party. In general, I am interested in the 20th-century history of the socialist regimes, their legitimacy, and how they connected with society. |
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Ana Kupinska Dissertation Title: Between Glory and Sorrow: building of the national history narrative in post-maiden Ukraine |
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Steven Langois |
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Amber Latimer Dissertation Title: Deconstructing Religious Meaning: an examination of the chi-rho nd staurogram in fourth-century art I am interested in the study of late antiquity and, in particular, the rise of Christianity after Constantine I's conversion at the start the fourth century C.E. I plan to conduct my research on the use of Christian symbols and iconography in art, with a focus on how pagan and Christian images co-existed during this period of religious change. |
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Hsiao-Hsuan Lee Dissertation Title: Women and Family History in China |
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Inez Lightning Project Title: The Company of Young Canadians and Indigenous Communities in Alberta, 1964-1976 |
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Hereward Longley Dissertation Title: Indigenous Communities and the Environmental History of the Oil Sands Industry, 1960 to 2014 Post-Second World War environmental and Indigenous histories of hydrocarbon extraction and industrial development in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. With focus on the oil sands industry and the Athabasca River Valley, my research measures political and economic histories of resource extraction against social and environmental change. |
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Claudia Lonkin Project Title: Belarusian Culture History |
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Jason Lundgren |
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David Macmullin |
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Jilene Malbeuf Project Title: An Evaluation of the Role of Tragedy in Athenian Society in Light of Philosophical Criticism |
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Shaun McKinnon
Programme: Doctor of Philosophy - Classical Archaeology Supervisor: Dr Steven Hijmans Dissertation Title: Christian Stones Speak: Visual meanings and communication from early Christian sarcophagi My thesis research revolves around early Christian art and archaeology, with a specific focus on constructions of visual meanings in early Christian sarcophagi. Beyond this research, I am interested in the broader political, cultural, and religious changes that occurred throughout the Roman world during the third century CE, as well as archaeological methods and theory, spatial/urban studies, and geoarchaeology. I am an active field archaeologist, having conducted fieldwork in Canada, Greece, Israel, and Romania, and my current position is fieldwork supervisor on the Apulum Roman Villas Project (ARVP), a multiyear excavation of an elaborate villa complex in Transylvania, Romania. |
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Laura McLean Project Title: The Eternal Holy Grail: Magical Cups as an Indo-European Tradition My project looks at the Indo-European origin of the 'Holy Grail' legend both on a diachronic linguistic and a comparative mythological level across several different Indo-European cultures. |
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Bethany McMillan Thesis Title: Early Nineteenth Century European Fur Trade Perspective of Indigenous Perceptions of the Rocky Mountains |
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Marcus Meissner Project Title: "From the Edge of Empire": Transformation or Decline? Revisiting Abou Al-Haj |
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Elton Menard Project Title: Securing Markets,: Constructing Free Trade and the Cobden-Chevalier Network |
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Ian Miller Dissertation Title: Morphophonology and Semantics of Latin Diminutives I have a general interest in the reading, writing and speaking of Latin and Classical Greek. Neo-Latin (i.e. Latin used from the Renaissance to the modern day) and the Latin from the Late Roman Republic especially interest me. My research, general speaking, focuses on the phonetic development involved in these languages. In my doctoral dissertation I will investigate the morphophonology and semantics of proper Latin diminutives and other words which have only the appearance of proper Latin diminutives. |
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Frederick Mills Dissertation Title: Cultural Diplomacy and Soft Power Instruments of Conduct of Soviet Middle Eastern Policy, 1955-1964 |
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Kristina Molin Cherneski Dissertation Title: Keeping oneself to oneself: Privacy in 19th-Century Britain My research explores the changing meanings and manifestations of privacy in 19th-century Britain. I am interested in tracing how the idea of personal privacy was shaped by social forces like urbanization, industrialization and expanding government, as well as by individual concerns and cultural factors like gender, race and class. |
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Sofia Ortiz ThesisTitle: Post-revolutionary Yucatan's Focus on Indigenous Women, Gender and History from Below |
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Francois Pageau DissertationTitle: From Turlupins to Vaudois: Heresy and Witchcraft in Arras, 1420-1460 |
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Sean Patterson Thesis Title: Post-maiden Historical Narratives amongst Ukrainian and Russian-Canadian Newcomers |
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Andreea Resmerita Thesis Title: Destabilizing Dissidence: The Romanian Communist Party's Response to Radio Free Europe Broadcasts, 1980-1989 |
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Madhusudan Rimal Dissertation Title: A Textual & Historical Study of the Laṅkāvatāra: A Sanskrit Manuscript of Buddhist Medicine |
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Terri Rolfson Thesis Title: Women and the Labour of Laundry in the English Eighteenth Century My research is centred on the significance of female laundry labour in eighteenth century England in terms of gendered economic agency, materiality and transmitted social values. I am broadly interested in the material culture of non-elite women and what it can tell us about their social and economic contributions and limitations. |
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Craig Roper Thesis Title: Compare and Contrast the Enactment and Effects of Residential Schooling in Alberta and Western Australia |
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Merlin Rosser |
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Catherine Saffran Project Title: Imperial Masculinity during the British Empire |
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Ashley Sims Dissertation Title: Furnishings and Finery: a Scottish Merchant Household in an Age of Global Exchange, c.1634-1674 |
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Kaitlyn Skinner Project Title: Women in Mythology (Nera) and Popular Culture |
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Bradley Smith Dissertation Title: Russian/Soviet European Cultural Diplomacy |
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Karin S. Tate Dissertation Title: Urban Space and Power Relationships in Ancient Rome: Women as Builders during the Imperial Period I am researching the archaeological evidence for structures commissioned, renovated, or rebuilt by women in Italy during the first three centuries of the Roman empire. The epigraphic evidence is well-known, though so far little has been done to explore the physical structures and, most important to my study, their relationship to other structures in their urban settings. I am interested in studying Roman social relationships as expressed in the built environment, women's networks, and the economic, socio-political, and religious contributions of women under the empire. |
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Konstantin Tebenev Dissertation Title: German Journeymen Associations and the Rise of Misogyny in Fifteenth-Seventeenth Centuries |
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Claire Thomson Doctor of Philosophy: "The Lakota look at the land and see a relative": Lakota Land, Movement, Kinship, Community in the Canada-U.S. Borderlands, 1870-1960 |
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Sharon Venne |
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Suzanna Wagner Master of Arts- History Supervisor: Dr. Susan L. Smith
Thesis Title: Nursing on the Eastern Front: Canadian First World War Experiences
My research focuses on Canadian military nursing during the First World War. Through letters and diaries, I am investigating the contributions and experiences of the some 3000 nursing sisters of the Canadian Army Medical Corps who served in Canada, England, France, Belgium, Greece and Egypt. I am especially interested in the diversity of the Great War's Eastern theatre where climate and active fighting impacted the availability of supplies, medical treatment and living conditions to different degrees in Greece and in Egypt.
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Meaghan Walker |
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James White Dissertation Title: Ring of Flesh: Late Medieval Devotion to the Holy Foreskin I study the interactions between gender and the body in late medieval Christianity, with a particular focus on the intersections between lay and learned belief. Specifically, I focus on the ways that people during the late Middle Ages responded to the devotion to Jesus's foreskin. In short, as a Jewish boy, Jesus was circumcised, according to the book of Luke. During the late Middle Ages, when Christians practiced affective piety and emphasized Jesus's body and humanity, many Christians began to venerate Jesus's foreskin, believed to be the only part of his body left on earth. I consider the viewpoints of both foreskin devotees, with a particular focus on Catherine of Siena and Agnes Blannbekin, and theologians who opposed devotion to the Holy Foreskin because it called into the question priestly authority, the Eucharist, and the idea of bodily resurrection. Additionally, my work examines the interface between medieval Judaism and medieval Christianity.
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Natasha White |