Student Reseach Projects
Current Research Projects
Jennifer Avis: "Identifying Attitudes Toward "Spousal-Rape" in Eighteenth-Century England," supervised by Jennine Hurl-Eamon.
Carol Butler: “The ‘Irish Problem' in Canada,” supervised by Keith Walden.
Christopher Cook: "Politics and Education: International Schools in Latin America," supervised by David Sheinin.
Matthew Davidson:
"An Unhealthy Concern:
Public Health in Haiti and the American Occupation, 1915-1934" supervised by David Sheinin.
C. Michelle Desveaux:
"The Role of Historical Methodology in the Delegitmization of Indigenous Oral Histories," supervised by John Milloy.
Clare Glassco: "The Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program," supervised by Joan Sangster.
Mary Ellen Godfrey: "Canada's First Military Nurse: Georgina Fane Pope," supervised by Janet Miron.
Julia Grummitt: “Camilo Jose Vergara: American History, 20th Century Urban History, and American Cultural Studies," supervised by Finis Dunaway.
Jeffrey Fitzgerald: “Political Imprisonment in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, 1965-1979,” supervised by Tim Stapleton.
Lucas Frise: “The domestic and international factors influencing the key players in the Roosevelt administration with reference to the U.S. Army Appropriation Bill of 1901.” supervised by Robert Wright.
Pauline Harder: "The 1901 Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, NY," supervised by David Sheinin.
Steven Martin: “Land-people-power dynamics through a Canadian paradigm, the evolution of the Canadian-Aboriginal relationship, and the question of a people’s relationship to land in a paradigm of realpolitik competition between states and actors,” supervised by John Milloy.
Naida Harris Morgan: "Self and ascribed identity in sixteenth century ego-documents," supervised by Ivana Elbl.
Cindy Ellen Morgan: "Music and Emotions in Medieval Spain," supervised by Ivana Elbl.
Zo Nissen: "The Omnibus Bill Towards a 'Just Society': Canadian Criminal Code Revisions, 1967-1969," supervised by Robert Wright.
Erin Parks: "Women in the Tower of London," supervised by Fiona Harris Stoertz.
Christopher L. Parsons: “This is Our China Town:” I Wor Kuen and American Radicalism in the Shadow of the 1960s," supervised by Bryan Palmer.
Ryan Perks: “How the French IV Republic envisaged Postwar Reconstruction, and how this project was realised,” supervised by Antonio Cazorla-Sanchez.
Kagiso Puso: “Debates about bogadi (bride wealth) in Botswana during the Colonial era,” supervised by Tim Stapleton.
Jason Radman: "American Influence on Candian-Cuban Relations," supervised by Robert Wright.
Andrew J. Rowley: "The Canadian Media Response to the Cuban Revolution," supervised by Robert Wright.
Andrea Samoil: “ Canadian labour history,” supervised by Brian Palmer.
Sister María de la Parousía: “The Impact of the Bible on medieval culture and society, and Biblical symbolism used in religious art,” supervised by Fiona Harris-Stoertz.
Deborah Shore: "Sexuality, Gender and Social Class in Eighteenth Century British Pornography," supervised by Kevin Siena.
Sean Springer: "The Eugenics Movement and Western Canadian Native Peoples," supervised by Joan Sangster.
Maegon Young: "Politics and Settlement in Western Canada: Ukrainian, Doukhobor and British Immigrants and the Case of Arran, Saskatchewan 1899-1930," supervised by Olga Andriewsky and Joan Sangster.
Completed Research Projects
Kristoffer Archibald: "Presenting the Polar Bear: Artic Images and the Creation of a Charismatic Species in Postwar North America,"
supervised by Finis Dunaway, Thesis 2009.
Alicia Bertrand: "The Downfall of the Royal African Company on the Atlantic African Coast in the 1720s," supervised by Arne Bialuschewski,Thesis 2011.
Julie Bonello: "The Development of Early Settler Identity in Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1914 ," supervised by Tim Stapleton, Major Research Paper 2009.
Jason Caron: "Communist China in Canadian-American Relations, 1957-63," supervised by Dimitry Anastakis, Major Research Paper 2009.
Christopher Evelyn: "The Reagan Administration's Motivations for Intervening in Grenada," supervised by David Sheinin, Thesis 2010.
Erika Fyfe: "The Halifax Methodist/Wesleyan Female Benevolent Society: Religious Volunteerism and Poor Relief in Nineteenth Century Halifax, Nova Scotia ", supervised by Carmen Nielson,Major Research Paper 2008.
Cristy Ironside: "Women Under the Swastika: Victims or Perpetrators," supervised by Carolyn Kay, Major Research Paper 2011.
Amber Johnson: "From Ringwork to Stone Fortification: Power and the Evolution of Anglo-Norman Castles in North-Eastern Ireland,"
supervised by Ivana Elbl, Thesis 2011.
Katrina Keefer:"The Ideology of the Greco-Roman World and its Effect on W.E.B. DuBois: A Study of Subversive Themes in African American History ," supervised by David Sheinin,Thesis 2009
Paul Keelan: "A Treatise on Female Ruin: Thelyphthora and its Controversy," supervised by Kevin Siena,Major Research Paper, 2010.
Derek Lipman: "Connecticut Cold Warrior: Senator Thomas J. Dodd, the U.S., and the World, 1945-1971," supervised by David Sheinin,Thesis 2010.
Eduardo Mateo Carrasco: "The Franco Regime and the Independence of Spanish Morocco (1945-56)", supervised by Antonio Cazorla Sanchez, Thesis 2011.
Devon McKinnon: "Nation-Building in the Guatemalan Countryside," supervised by David Sheinin,Thesis 2010.
Bradley Melle: "North American Evangelical Perceptions of Africans in Colonial Northern Nigeria, 1890-1939," supervised by Tim Stapleton, Thesis 2011.
Kailey Miller:"Following the American Lead: Canada's Diplomacy towards Cuba in the Prerevolutionary Period, 1939-1959," supervised by Robert Wright, Thesis 2011.
Tonia Misevski: "German Resistance to Nazismm," supervised by Carolyn Kay, Major Research Paper 2010.
Boipelo Oitsile: "Botswana and the Liberation Struggle in South Africa and Zimbabwe: The Government and People against White Racist Rule," supervised by Tim Stapleton, Thesis 2010.
Rebecca Osawa: "Emotional Intelligence (EI) in the Life and Career of Lady Margaret Beaufort (1443-1509)", supervised by Ivana Elbl, Thesis 2010.
Steven Radonjic: "Narratives of Victimhood: National Identity and the Historiography of the Second World War in the Yugoslav Republics of Serbia and Croatia," supoervised by Olga Andriewsky, Major Research Paper 2008.
David Rosborough: "The Role of Technology in the Colonial Conquest of Zimbabwe 1890-97" supervised by Tim Stapleton, Thesis 2011.
Peter Sorensen: " 'Are There No Social Rules in Our Home?': Fear, Anger, Power and the Aztec Empire",
supervised by David Sheinin, Thesis 2011.
Heather Taylor: "Succumbing to History: How Specific Government Policies Have Contributed to the Decline in Native Health in Canada since 1940," supervised by John Milloy and Bruce Hodgins, Major Research Paper 2008.
Christopher Wright: "Transnational Aborigional History," supervised by John Milloy, 2010.
