Completed Research Projects
For more complete access to theses please visit the Library and Archives Canada and also Trent's Archives
2025 - THESES
Heidi Burns
Intergenerational Mnoomin (Wild Rice) Gathering and Well-being
Supervisor: M. Skinner
Toban Leckie
Towards A Culturally-Sustainable Indigenous Tourism Model: The Destination Deline Pilot Project
Supervisor: H. Nicol
Angela Slater-Meadows
Working-While-Parenting at Trent - A Photovoice Study of Trent Working-Parent Experiences
Supervisor: K. Buccieri
2025 - MAJOR RESEARCH PAPERS (MRPs)
Ashley Thompson
Threads of Resilience: Transmitting Haudenosaunee Knowledge, Culture, and Language Through Beadwork
Supervisor: B. Wall
2024 - THESES
Sharon Beaucage-Johnson
The Depiction of Indigenous Women in Crime Fiction Written by Non-Indigenous Authors
Supervisor: H. Nicol
Kiana Cress
The influence of the Education System on Indigenous Identities, Cultures, and Languages: A Qualitative Study Using Sharing Circles
Co-supervisors: D. Lavell-Harvard & C. Gilmer
Nicholas Van Beek
Trace of Blood: Sainte-Marie Among the Hurons After the Truth & Reconciliation Commission
Supervisor: J. Conolly
Jacob Van Haaften
Understanding Anishinaabeg Connection with Creation in Curve Lake First Nation: A Case Study of Decolonized Nature Connection and Indigenist Mixed Methods Research
Supervisor: C. Furgal
2024 - MAJOR RESEARCH PAPERS (MRPs)
Ethan Boyer
Incorporating Indigenous Land-based Pedagogy Into Canadian Education: An Analysis of the Role of Land-based Pedagogy in Reconciliation and Resurgence Based Education
Supervisor: B. Wall
Janette Corston
Being and Becoming: An Indigenous Ojibway Woman's Journey
Supervisor: K. Pendleton Jimenez
Alison Scholl
Two Cultures, One Land: A Case Study Of The Trent Lands & Nature Areas Plan And The Michi Saagiig Anishnaabeg
Supervisor: D. Newhouse
Jacob Vickery
The Finger Weaving Framework: A Metis System of Analysis
Supervisor: J. Pind
2023 - THESES
Megan Hill
Queer Crip Generativity
Supervisor: M. Chazan
Evan Jamieson-Eckel
Navigating Erasure: Exploring the Limits and Potential of Indigenous Studies Within The Settler Colonial Academy Through Haudenosaunee Critical Self-Reflexivity
Supervisor: D. Newhouse
Jessica Scott
Exploring Access to the Arts for People with Disabilities in Peterborough-Nogojiwanong
Supervisor: N. Changfoot
2023 - MAJOR RESEARCH PAPERS (MRPs)
Megan Maceiras
Educational, Empowering and Inspiring: How Indigenous Women are Fighting Against The Crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and Advocating For Safety in Sex Work
Supervisor: N. Nichols
Luka Stojanovic
Counternarratives of Chronic Pain & Policy Possibilities: Exploring Complex Embodiment, Disability, and Sexuality in the Video Work of Panteha Abareshi
Supervisor: N. Changfoot
2022 - THESES
Alicia Carefoote
How Did We Get Here? Exploring the Socio‐Political Influences in Canadian Penitentiaries: 1800‐1955
Supervisor: P. W. Lackenbauer
Noodinong-Bemosed Christianson
Urban Anishinaabekwewag: (Re)Claiming our Traditional Roles and Responsibilities in Urban Spaces
Supervisor: J. Argue
Annie MacKillican
Oil is Thicker Than Justice: Environmental Violence in Lubicon Lake and the Alberta Tar Sands
Supervisor: J. Miron
2021 - THESES
Sandra Lamouche
Ê-Nitonahk Miyo-Pimâtisiwin (Seeking the Good Life) Through Indigenous Dance
Supervisor: M. Mumford
Dominique O'Bonsawin
Anishinaabemowin Teacher Perspectives of Indigenous Language Instruction in Nogojiwanong Public Schools
Supervisor: M. Lacombe
Madeline Porter
Examining Strategies of New Public Management in Homelessness Policy
Supervisor: K. Buccieri
2021 - MAJOR RESEARCH PAPERS (MRPS)
Kristin Jones
Evolution of an Issue: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
Supervisor: P. W. Lackenbauer
Marissa Magneson
My Methodology Mocassins: Walking in the Footsteps of My Ancestors
Supervisor: J. Argue
Jessa McAuliffe
The Challenges for Trans* Access to Civil Justice
Supervisor: M. Rahman
Malika Whelan
“Illegitimate & Unworthy” Survivors: Canada's Failure to Protect Indigenous Women and Girls Against Sexual Violence
Supervisors: H. Nicol & D. Lavell-Harvard
2020 - THESES
Juanita Spears
Finding Cowboy Joe: The Search for Canadian Authored Diverse LGBTQ2S Picture Books to Help Counter Heteronormativity in the Elementary Classroom
Supervision Committee: K. Pendleton Jimenez, B. Niblett
2020 - MAJOR RESEARCH PAPERS (MRPs)
Olivia de Brabandere
The Persistence of Colonial Ideology in Canadian Resource Extraction Projects
Supervisor: D. Newhouse
Emma Hughes
Save Pigeon Lake: A manifestation of settler colonialism in a contemporary context
Supervisor: S. Rutherford
Justin Thompson
Legislated Criminality: Examining the Indian Act, Gbaakodiigamig, and the Persistence of Incarceration
Supervisor: J. Miron
2019 - THESES
Erin Clancy
“It's like getting a new car without the manual”: Exploring Teacher Perceptions of Capacity to Implement Ontario’s Revised Curriculum on Indigenous Histories, Cultures, And Perspectives
Supervision Committee: B. Niblett, L. Davis
Cathy Dueck
Indigenous Knowledge in Contemporary Public Education: Issues and Guidelines for Educators
Supervision Committee: P. Elliott, S. Bocking, L. Davis
Mason Godden
That '70s Strike Support: Labour, Feminism, and the Left in Three Ontario Strikes, 1972-1979
Supervision Committee: J. Sangster, B. Palmer, D. Anastakis
Demi Mathias
Canoeing Through Resurgence: Wiigwaas Jiimaan and Cultural Resurgence Within N'Daki Menan
Supervision Committee: D. Newhouse, P. Sherman, S. Plain
Mykelle Pacquing
An Application of Virgilio Enriquez's Indigenization Method on Filipino-Canadian Discourse
Supervision Committee: D. McCaskill, D. Newhouse
2019 - MAJOR RESEARCH PAPERS (MRPs)
Kelsey Darnay
Exploring Gladue and its Relationship to the Overrepresentation of Indigenous People Incarcerated in Canada
Supervision: J. Miron
Pamela Forgrave
Veteran or Victims?: Veterans Affairs Canada Confronts GBA+
Supervision: J. Sangster
Gaurav Purohit
Partnership between First Nations and Government/Private Sector for Infrastructure Development
Supervision: D. Newhouse
2018 - THESES
Sean Antaya
Struggling for a New Left: The New Tendency, Autonomist Marxism, and Rank-and-File Organizing in Windsor, Ontario during the 1970s
Supervision Committee: B. Palmer, D. Anastakis
Ulrike Fliesser
Tourism Around Yellowknife: A Brilliant Development
Supervision Committee: H. Nicol, R. Picton
Keith McIntyre
The Experience of Being Jewish in a Small Jewish Community: A Qualitative Approach
Supervision Committee: M. Rahman, F. Baban, D. Handlarski
Emily Yamashita
Building Individuals, Building the Economy: Labour Force Development in Canada's Territorial North
Supervision Committee: H. Nicol, C. Bruce, W. Lackenbauer
2018 - MAJOR RESEARCH PAPERS (MRPs)
Karli Robertson
Reflections of Truth: Turning the Colonial Mirror
Supervision: M. Lacombe
2017 - THESES
Melissa Baldwin
'This is where the poetry comes out': Examining the Peterborough Poetry Slam as resistant space-making
Supervision Committee: M. Chazan, S. Chivers
Caileigh Morrison
My Canadian Story: Multiculturalism and Meaning-Making in Local Archives
Supervision Committee: J. Harrison, M. Eamon, D. Bhandar
Yasmin Juliet Strautins
Representations of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women in Canadian Art
Supervision Committee: J. Sangster, S. Bailey
Matt Tallon
The Relationship of Policy Aims and Implementation: Ontario Coordinated Care Planning for People with Mental Health and Addiction Issues
Supervision Committee: P. Ballantyne, N. Changfoot
2017 - MAJOR RESEARCH PAPERS (MRPs)
Julia Anderson
The Physics of Power: Development, neoliberalism and CSOs in Canadian Aid
Supervision Committee: J. Harrison
Rebecca Lyon
The Importance of Indigenous Language Policy in Canada
Supervision Committee: D. Newhouse
Gabriel Karenhoton Maracle
The War Chief and His Men: The Emergence of the Mohawk Warrior Society
Supervision Committee: D. Newhouse
2016 - THESES
Kaitlyn Brillinger
Growth and Revitalization in Peterborough Ontario: Myth or Reality?
Supervision Committee: H. Nicol, R. Picton
Evan Brockest
Dissent Denied: Public Order Policing and the Criminalization of Protest at the 2010 Toronto G20
Supervision Committee: B. Palmer, J. Greene
Junyi Chen
Reconceptualizing Immigration in Canada: Toward a new Understanding of the Transnational through a focus on Chinese Canadians
Supervision Committee: M. Rahman, G. Balfour, B. Stoyles
Sarah Jessup
Workplace Bullying in Ontario Healthcare Settings: Examining the Relationship Between Bullying, Gender, and Policy
Supervision Committee: J. Sangster, D. Anastakis, M. Hobbs
Schoots-McAlpine, Martin
Class Struggle, The Communist Party, and the Popular Front in Canada, 1935-1939
Supervision Committee: B. Palmer, J. Miron
2015 - THESES
Megan Kathleen Hull
Imagining a National Research Centre: Decolonization, Commemoration, and Institutional Space
Supervision Committee: J. Harrison, J. Milloy, M. Eamon
Jesse Lever
Tłı̨chǫ, Co-management and the Bathurst Caribou Herd, 2009-2011
Supervision Committee: J. Harrison, A. Legat
Kimberly Wilson
Rights, Resources, and Resistance: Pan-Indigenous Political Organizations in Northeastern Alberta, 1968-1984
Supervision Committee: S. Bocking, J. Sangster
2015 - MAJOR RESEARCH PAPERS (MRPs)
Lisa Beaucage
Northern Ontario's Ring of Fire: The Inconsistent Policies Surrounding Aboriginal Rights and the Canadian Government's Failure to Effectively Engage
Supervision Committee: J. Milloy
Maya Gunnarsson
Representations of Tina Fontaine and Rinelle Harper in the Globe and Mail and the National Post
Supervision Committee: M. Mumford
Jade Huguenin
Metis Community Development in Penetanguishene: A Study on Metis Epistemology and Cultural Understandings of Place
Supervision Committee: J. Milloy
2014 - THESES
Robert Benjamin Fawcett
Exploring Indigenous Contributions to (Indigenization of) the City of Saskatoon's Strategic Plan 2012-2022
Supervision Committee: J. Greene, R. Walker, D. Newhouse
Bryan William Ernest Jordan
Unexpected Journeys: Unmasking Home While Abroad
Supervision Committee: J. Harrison, R. Wright
Robert C. Savelle
A Sustainable Development: The Case for Community-Based Research in the Durham Region
Supervision Committee: T. Whillans, B. Hickie, P. Lapp
Kaitlyn Watson
Ontario's Aboriginal Education Strategy: Successes and Areas for Improvement
Supervision Committee: J. Milloy, J. Harrison
2014 - MAJOR RESEARCH PAPERS (MRPs)
Kris Millett
Project Traveller and the Criminalization of Somali Canadian Youth
Supervision Committee: G. Balfour
Laura Emily Stanley
"You Won't Hear Our Songs On Your Radio": Canadian Indie Musicians in The Digital Age
Supervision Committee: R. Wright
2013 - THESES
Meghan Buckham
Barriers and Facilitators to Indigenous Knowledge Incorporation in Policy Making: The Nunatsiavut Case
Supervision Committee: C. Furgal, H. Nicol, R. Paehlke
Blair Cullen
Local Immigration Partnerships: A Case Study of Regional Governance of Durham Region, Ontario
Supervision Committee: M. Skinner, R. Dart, J. Green
Agata Durkalec
Understanding the Role of Environment for Indigenous Health: A Case Study of Sea Ice as a Place of Health and Risk in the Inuit Community of Nain, Nunatsiavut
Supervision Committee: C. Furgal, M. Skinner
Katharine Maye Gentle
Impacting Children: Post 9/11 Canada and the Case of Omar Khadr
Supervision Committee: D. Bhandar, J. Greene
Neil Hannam
The Peterborough Young Women's Christian Association: Fundraising and Feminism, 1960-1983
Supervision Committee: J. Struthers, G. Balfour, M. Hobbs
2013 - MAJOR RESEARCH PAPERS (MRPs)
Lynda Langford
Climate Change Adaptation in the Greater Peterborough Area
Supervision Committee: S. Hill
James David Lisowski
Media Narratives and Red Power: The Interrelationships Between Media, Mohawk Militancy and the Canadian State in the 2007 National Day of Action
Supervision Committee: B. Palmer
Jesse Allan Munroe
Governing Exhibition City: Manifestations of Order at the Toronto Industrial Exhibition and the Canadian National Exhibition, 1900-1914
Supervision Committee: K. Walden
Timothy J. Querengesser
The boundaries of unity: Implications of proposed reforms to the Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act on the future boundaries of the Northwest Territories
Supervision Committee: H. Nicol
2012 - THESES
C. Andrew Cragg
Neoliberalising Immigration in Canada: The Pilot Project for Occupations Requiring Lower-Levels of Formal Training and the Expansion of Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker Program
Supervision Committee: J. Greene, J. Sangster
T. Adrian Foster
Cultural Climate Change: A History of Aboriginal Arts Organizations in Toronto, 1970-2010
Supervision Committee: D. Newhouse, D. McCaskill
Regina Hartwick
Am I Omàmìwininì Enough? Understanding the Implications of Colonial Discourse and Political Policy in the Kichi Sìbì.
Supervision Committee: N. McLeod, M. Lacombe
Danielle Paige Jeancart
Imposed Identities: The Colonial Construction of Indigenous Masculinity
Supervision Committee: N. McLeod, G. Johnston
Judith A. Mason
The Mill at Clarington: Curating Place in the Environmental Work of Four Artists
Supervision Committee: J. Bordo, M. Lacombe
2012 - MAJOR RESEARCH PAPERS (MRPs)
Rosalyn Yake
The Phantom Public: The CBC's Coverage of Aboriginal Band Elections
Supervision Committee: K. Walden, D. McCaskill
Brittany Young
Youth Boot Camps: A Transformative Space for Aboriginal Youth
Supervision Committee: J. Harrison, P. Sherman
2011 - THESES
Carling C. Beninger
The Anglican Church of Canada: Indigenous Policies, 1946-2011
Supervision Committee: J. Milloy, B. Hodgins
Jessica Ellison
Negotiating the Complexities of Place: Peggy's Cove, tourism and SwissAir 111
Supervision Committee: J. Harrison, C. Dummitt
Elizabeth Evans
The Green Energy and Green Economy Act: Barriers and Opportunities for Renewable Energy Co-Operaties in Ontario
Supervision Committee: S. Hill, J. Harrison, T. Hutchinson
Rachel V. Herron
Rural Experiences of Aging and Care
Supervision Committee: M. Skinner, S. Chivers, J. Struthers
Tara Bernadette Michaud
Resisting the Liminal: Métis Narrative Traditions and Transitions
Supervision Committee: N. McLeod, B. Macdougall
Judith Rebecca Mintz
Helpers and Demons: Binary Representations of Early 20th Century Midwives, Doctors and Childbirth in Ami McKay's The Birth House
Supervision Committee: S. Chivers, J. Sangster, J. Struthers
Kelly Monique Pineault
Shifting the Balance: Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Activism in the Company of Young Canadians, 1966-1970
Supervision Committee: J. Sangster, J. Milloy, B. Palmer
Caitlin B. Radmore
The New "White Man's Burden": Legal and Press Media Discourses on Ms. G., A Vilified Indigenous Mother
Supervision Committee: J. Sangster, G. Balfour, C. Williams
Lynette Schick
Dominant Addiction Discourses: Making the 'Addicted' Woman
Supervision Committee: G. Balfour, R. Coughlan
James Wilkes
Decolonizing Environmental ‘Management’: A Case Study of Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug
Supervision Committee: C. Furgal, P. Sherman, D. Longboat
2011 - MAJOR RESEARCH PAPERS (MRPs)
Grace Henry-Caron
"(In)Formal Education": Redefining, Reconceptualizing and Repositioning First Nations' Education in Ontario
Supervision Committee: J. Milloy, P. Sherman
Diane Therrien
"This land is their land": Newcomer Perceptions of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada
Supervision Committee: L. Davis, D. Newhouse
2010 - THESES
Natasha Beeds
A Cartography of Nêhiyawi-Mâmitonêyihcikan (Cree Csiousness / Thinking): Edward Ahenakew & The Âtayôhkêwina (Sacred Stories)
Supervision Committee: D. Newhouse, P. Sherman, G. Johnston
Georgia Grace Carley
"Reporting Diplomacy: Eighteenth-Century London Newspapers and British Perception of the Indigenous Peoples of North America"
Supervision Committee: K. Siena, Janet Miron, John Milloy
Laurie Davey-Quantick
Broadening the Perspective on Canadian Small Business and Community Relationships
Supervision Committee: R. Dart, J. Bishop, H. Nicol
Katelyn Friendship
The Role of Indigenous Knowledge in Environmental Health Risk Management in the Yukon
Supervision Committee: C. Furgal, D. Longboat, D. Holdsworth
Evan J. Habkirk
"Militarism, Sovereignty, and Nationalism: Six Nations and the First World War"
Supervision Committee: J. Milloy, B. Hodgins
Colin James Charles Meyette Hoag
A Digital Analog? A Study of Canadian Climate Change Policy Networks
Supervision Committee: S. Hill, R. Dart, R. Paehlke
Julia Lane
Embodying Environments: Interdisciplinary & Cross-Cultural Possibilities for Environmental Education in Ontario
Supervision Committee: D. Berrill, M. Mumford, D. Longboat, S. Hill
Paul C.M. McCarney
Indigenous Jurisdiction in Ontario: Land and Resource Development in Ardoch Algonquin First Nation Territory
Supervision Committee: S. Hill, L. Simpson, D. Longboat
Douglas James Nesbitt
The 'Radical Trip' of the Canadian Union of Students, 1963-69
Supervision Committee: B. Palmer, K. Walden, R. Wright
Patrick Scott
"From 'Real Canada' to 'Not Even a Real Country': Canadian Identities as Produced through Comedy"
Supervision Committee: S. Chivers, M. Epp, K. Walden
Alexandra M. Thomson
"SEEING THE HOMELAND AND THE TREES? First Nations/Environmentalist Rlations in N'Daki Menan/Temagami 1986-1994"
Supervision Committee: B. Hodgins, L. Davis
Celine Mackenzie Vukson
Tlicho Oral History: Gowhae`hdo?o?` godii` of the Lost Hunter
Supervision Committee: N. McLeod, P. Sherman, C. Furgal
Simon Wallace
Strange Days Indeed: The Confused Politics of Conflict in Upper Canada’s 1830’s
Supervision Committee: B. Palmer, K. Walden
2010 - MAJOR RESEARCH PAPERS (MRPs)
Melissa Dodson
Women's Representation: A Case Study Utilizing Karen Beckwith's Numbers and Newness Theory
Supervision Committee: N. Changfoot, D. Bhandar
Debra Gentle
Why are We Waiting? An Institutional ethnography of Adoption Policy in Ontario
Supervision Committee: J. Struthers, M. Hobbs
Zachary Parrott
The Land is Wild?: Identity, Music, and the Nationalistic Force in CBC Radio 3
Supervision Committee: R. Wright, A. O'Connor
Ainslee Rogers
The Healing Lodge: Continuing the Colonization Process of Federally Sentenced Aboriginal Women through Neo-liberal Penal Reforms
Supervision Committee: G. Balfour, P. Sherman
Karen Watts
Aboriginal Perspectives on Native Identity
Supervision Committee: D. Newhouse, M. Lacombe
2009 - THESES
Aimee Agnes Blyth
A Rural Renaissance: Working Towards a Sustainable Community-Based Food System in the Kawartha Bioregion of Ontario, Canada
Supervision Committee: J. Wadland, P. Andree, Tom Hutchinson
Erin Clow
Stories of Microcredit: A Case Study of the Saint John Community Loan Fund and Paro Centre for Women's Enterprise
Supervision Committee: C. O'Manique, R. Dart, P. Shaffer
Maggie Embury
Rediscovering and Re-Imaging Indigenous Environmental Education Outdoors
Supervision Committee: N. McLeod, P. Sherman, B. Hodgins
Amanda Louise Jendrick
Completely Normal Chaos: The Kashechewan Crisis and the Public Normalization of Risk on Indigenous Reservations
Supervision Committee: D. Holdsworth, S. Hill, C. Furgal
David Hugill
Mediated Complicity: Sex Work, the State and Missing Women in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
Supervision Committee: G. Balfour, W. Matthews, J. Sangster
Kathryn McLeod
From Topography to Technology: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Downsview Park's Heritage
Supervision Committee: S. Wurtele, T.H.B. Symons, S. Bocking
Michael Reid
Understanding Children's aid: Meaning and Practice in Ontario Children's Aid Societies, 1893-1912
Supervision Committee: J. Struthers, J. Milloy, M. Hobbs
2009 - MAJOR RESEARCH PAPERS (MRPs)
Lianne Irish
Closing the Border: The CCF-NDP and Free Trade, 1932-1988
Supervision Committee: D. Anastakis, J. Sangster
Christine Sy
Indigenous Women's Work in Canada and United States, 1624-1997: A Transnational Historical Synthesis
Supervision Committee: C. Williams, D. Newhouse
Nicole Williams
The Ontario Nurses' Association: Using the Policy-Making Process
Supervision Committee: N. Changfoot, M. Hobbs
2008
Tim Brubacher
Beyond Good Intentions: Critical Race Theory and the Role of Non-Indigenous Allies
Supervision Committee: D. Newhouse, L. Davis, T.H.B. Symons
Stacy Douglas
Settling Pasts and Settling Futures: Negotiating Narratives of Nation at the 4th Line Theatre Production Company
Supervision Committee: D. Bhandar, V. Hollinger, S. Chivers
Patricia Life
Decline and Progress: The portrayal of age in fiction by Mordecai Richler and Robertson Davies
Supervision Committee: S. Katz, M. Peterman, S. Chivers
Paula Madden
Indigenizing Africans - Disappearing Indians: Black/Mi'kmaq Relations in Nova Scotia
Supervision Committee: J. Wadland, D. Bhandar, J. Struthers
Christine McLaughlin
The McLaughlin Legacy and the Struggle for Labour Organizations: Community, Class, and Oshawa's UAW Local 222, 1944-49
Supervision Committee: B. Palmer, J. Sangster, D. Anastakis
Jonathan Rose
Without Reservation: The Chatham-Kent Community Network & Caldwell First Nation Land Dispute
Supervision Committee: L. Davis, B. Hodgins, J. Milloy
Cori Simpson
''In the Eyes of the State': Memories of Indian Agents, Agency and Resistance in Kahnawake
Supervision Committee: J. Milloy, J. Struthers, J. Sangster
Natalie Waldbrook
Voices from the North: Women's Experiences with Housing and Homelessness in the City of Greater Sudbury, Ontario
Supervision Committee: S. Wurtele, M. Hobbs, M. Skinner
2007
Jodi Aoki
Private to Public: Frances Stewart, Ellen Dunlop, and the Production of Our Forest Home
Supervision Committee: M. Peterman, B. Dodge, J. Sangster
Ryan Bowie
Development And Aboriginal Peoples: Case Study Of The Victor Diamond Project
Supervision Committee: S. Bocking, J. Wadland, L. Davis
Emily Bruusgaard
Covert Threads: The Subversive Language of Textile in Laura Goodman Salverson's The Viking Heart and Martha Ostenso's Wild Geese
Supervision Committee: S. Bailey, S. Chivers, J. Wadland
James Ellison
Les Belles Soeurs by Michel Tremblay
Supervision Committee: L. Conolly, V. Hollinger, S. Berard
Mathieu Feagan
Meanings of Nature and Urban Greenspace: History, Policy and Grassroots Perspectives
Supervision Committee: S. Bocking, J. Wadland, R. Dart
Catarina Kleven
External Identity Classification: Its Effects on Saami Identity in Sweden, with a Comparison to First Nations People in Canada
Supervision Committee: B. Hodgins, C. O'Manique, J. Milloy
Geoffrey Korfman
The Wilde West: Homosexual Behaviour in the Court Records of Saskatchewan, 1895 to 1930
Supervision Committee: J. Sangster, B. Dodge, B. Palmer
Armand La Barge
The Honourable Billa Flint -- The King of North Hastings: A Biographical Study of the Life of Senator Billa Flint (1805-1894)
Supervision Committee: J. Wadland, B. Hodgins, J. Milloy
Kevin Plummer
Hugh Whitney Morrison's Experiences as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, 1930-1933: Performing Canadian Identities Abroad
Supervision Committee: K. Walden, J. Harrison, Suzanne Bailey
2006
Zoe Aarden
"Sexing The Indian": Scholarship's Role In The Consolidation Of Colonial Structures Of Gender And Sexuality
Supervision Committee: P. Kulchyski, J. Harrison, E. Stavro
Riley J. Cartmill
Re-Writing the Self: Beyond the Limits of Sex with Elizabeth Smart's By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
Supervision Committee: M. Lacombe, S. Bailey, S. Chivers
Paula R. Drew
The Reconstruction Of Sainte Marie: Social, Political, And Religious Influences On An Archaeological Interpretation
Supervision Committee: B. Hodgins, S. Jamieson, R. Dart
Pia Grayman
A Sense Of Danish Identity In New Denmark, New Brunswick
Supervision Committee: M. Lacombe, J. Struthers, S. Wurtele
Laura Hall
Decolonizing Development: Haudenosaunee Approaches To 'Appropriate Economy'
Supervision Committee: J. Milloy, L. Simpson, M. Smith
Stephen Horner
Asserting Indigenous Values Within Capitalism: Economics, Institutions And The Importance Of Narrative
Supervision Committee: D. Newhouse, S. Choudhry, R. Anderson (Univ. Regina)
William Knight
"Our Sentimental Fisheries”: Angling and State Fisheries Administration in Ontario
Supervision Committee: S. Bocking, T. Whillans, A. Brunger
Sally Mennill
Place, Identity, Limitations: Representations Of Ice In Contemporary Canadian Literature
Supervision Committee: J. Wadland, M. Lacombe, B. Palmer
Svitlana Pcholkina
Construction And Disruption Of Cottage Idylls: Kushog Lake Case Study
Supervision Committee: J. Harrison, S. Bocking, A. Law
Grace Poulin
Invisible Women: WWII Aboriginal Servicewomen In Canada
Supervision Committee: J. Sangster, M. Hobbs, L. Davis
Erin Stewart Eves
The Australian Controversy And The Canadian Compromise: A Comparative Historiographical Analysis Of Aboriginal History Texts Written In 20th Century Australia And Canada
Supervision Committee: J. Milloy, B. Hodgins, D. Standen
Susan Thompson
How The Nonprofit Sector Adopts Neoliberal Discourse To Attack Undesirable Social Policy: The Case Of Welfare Reform
Supervision Committee: M. Quaid, R. Dart, J. Struthers
2005
Caroline Archambault
Awareness To Action; WUSC, Young Canadians Engaging In International Development And The Fostering Of Global Citizenship
Supervision Committee: D. Sheinin, E. Helleiner, D. Morrison
Janice Barry
Collaborative Decision-Making And Persistent Land Use Conflicts: The Kawartha Highlands Case Study
Supervision Committee: S. Bocking, R. Dart, B. Hodgins
John Boyko
Into The Hurricane: The Campaign Against Socialism And The CCF In Canada, 1943-1949
Supervision Committee: J. Sangster, J. Struthers, J. Driscoll
Selena Crosson
Pilgrim Sisters: Exploring Female Friendship In Upper Canada In The Life Of Frances Stewart (1794-1872)
Supervision Committee: M. Peterman, M. Lacombe, M. Hobbs
Valerie Galley
Indigenization As Neoliberal Rule: The Case Of The Canadian Aboriginal Head Start Initiative
Supervision Committee: S. Katz, J. Milloy, J. Wadland
Lynn Gehl
Towards An Indigenous Understanding Of Government-Imposed Essentialized Discourses Of Identity For Aboriginal People
Supervision Committee: M. Dockstator, D. Bhandar, E. Manitowabi
Wendy Hicks-Casey
Grassroots Democracy: The Implications Of NAFTA Chapter 11 For Ontario Municipal Policy
Supervision Committee: E. Helleiner, J. Clapp, R. Paehlke
Katherine J. Johnston
Benefitting Whom? A Critical Analysis Of Canada's National Child Benefit Strategy
Supervision Committee: J. Struthers, M. Hobbs, S. Wurtele
Michael Johnny
Policy Implications For Native Literacy In Ontario
Supervision Committee: J. Milloy, D. McCaskill, Ms. P. George (Consultant)
Lynda Mannik
Transcultural Views Of Canadian Indian/Cowboy Performances At The Royal Easter Show In Sydney, 1939
Supervision Committee: K. Walden, J. Harrison, J. Struthers
Tricia Longboat
More Than Words: Cayuga Immersion Programming In Six Nations
Supervision Committee: M. Dockstator, P. Kulchyski, D. Berrill
Angela Piggott
Shaw Before The "Shaw": Bernard Shaw's Plays In Canada Pre-World War I
Supervision Committee: L. Conolly, M. Peterman, V. Hollinger
David Tough
The Politicas Of Sara Jeannette Duncan's The Imperialist
Supervision Committee: M. Peterman, J. Driscoll, J. Struthers
2004
Renee Bedard
An Anishinaabekwe Writes History: An Alternative Understanding Of Indigenous Intellectual And Historical Traditions
Supervision Committee: L. Simpson, E. Manitowabi, M. Lacombe
Eleanor Charlton
Manitoulin Island, 1862: Anishnaabe Strategies Of Resistance And Survival
Supervision Committee: J. Milloy, D. Standen, Bruce Hodgins
Sandra Ignagni
Processing Discontent: Women's Organizing And The Newfoundland Fishermen, Food And Allied Workers Union, 1971-1987
Supervision Committee: M. Hobbs, J. Struthers, J. Sangster
Christopher Mather
Richard Birdsall And Pioneer Survey
Supervision Committee: J. Wadland, A. Brunger, T. Whillans
Allison Maureen Sauer
This Is What Democracy Looks Like? A Critical Examination Of Exclusion And The Anti-Globalization Movement
Supervision Committee: L. Simpson, J. Milloy, D. Bhandar
Heather Yanique Shpuniarsky
The Struggle Between The Nishnaabe And The Haudenosaunee In The Late Seventeenth Century
Supervision Committee: D. Newhouse, D. McNab, D. Williams
Danielle Soucy
From Marshall To Mayhem: Mi'kmaq E'pijig/Women Of Esgenoopetitj/Burnt Church Resistance And Change For Tomorrow
Supervision Committee: J. Milloy, L. Simpson, Gkisedtanamoogk
Erin Whitmore
Inhabiting Ecocriticism: Canadian Women Writers Write Environmentalism
Supervision Committee: M. Lacombe, J. Wadland, M. Hobbs
2003
Gerald Cantello
The Roles Played By The Canadian General Electric Company's Atomic Power Department In Canada's Nuclear Power Program: Work, Organization And Success In APD, 1955-1995
Supervision Committee: D. McCalla, D. Sheinin, G. Taylor
Amy Chamberlin
Contemporary Indigenous Literatures: Writing Oral Traditions
Supervision Committee: S. Kane, K. Ladner, J. Wadland
Brendan Edwards
Paper Talk: Print Culture, Libraries And Aboriginal People In Canada Before 1960
Supervision Committee: D. Standen, J. Milloy, P. McNally (McGill Univ.)
Nicholas Alexander Hamilton
An Ecoclinical Analysis Of Margaret Atwood's Surfacing
Supervision Committee: M. Peterman, M. Lacomb, J. Wadland
Adene Kuchera
Building Community: Aboriginal Urban Housing In Canada
Supervision Committee: J. Struthers, S. Wurtele, B. Kinoshameg
Catherine M. McCready
Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit: 'Living Policy' And The Development Of Responsible Governance In Nunavut
Supervision Committee: D. Holdsworth, S. Wurtele, C. Eddy
Alfred Metallic
Mi'gmawei Mawiomi: Ta'n Teliassumsin Aq Assumsultigw Listugujeweigatic (Mi'gmaq Politics)
Supervision Committee: E. Johnson (Univ Of Cape Breton), K. Ladner, J. Milloy
Falina Norred
Performing Place: Landscape As Site Of Disturbance
Supervision Committee: J. Bordo, C. Eddy , M. Lacombe
Daniel Edward Shaule
The Disputed Boundaries Of The 1923 (Williams) Treaties
Supervision Committee: D. Newhouse, M. Dockstator, D. McNab
Michelle Francesca Simone
Back To The Basics: Student Achievement And Schoolyard Naturalization
Supervision Committee: J. Conley, D. Berrill, S. Wurtele
2002
Jennifer Blomqvist
Exploring The Interface Between Corrections And Culture: A Case Study Of Correctional Reform In The Northwest Territories
Supervision Committee: D. McCaskill, L. Davis, M. Dockstator
David Laurence Dunne
The Bowhead Whale Hunt At Kekerten, Nunavut Territory (July 1998), As Related In The Three Styles Of Writing Arising From A Condition Of Inarticulacy
Supervision Committee: J. Bordo, C. Eddy, J. Moss
Spencer J. Harrison
The Queer Project: The Distance Between History And Truth
Supervision Committee: C. Eddy, S. Kane, K. Walden
Mary Jane McCallum
To Make Good Canadians: Girl Guiding In Indian Residential Schools
Supervision Committee: J. Milloy, M. Blyth, J. Sangster
Dan Nelson
Faith Enough To Move Mountains: The Dorlands And The Quakers Of Upper Canada, 1784-1955
Supervision Committee: T. Symons, A. Schrauwers (London School Of Economics), D. McCalla, J. Zavitz-Bond, Archivist
Daphne Taylor-Garcia
Life Forms And Cultural Grammars: A Wittgensteinian Investigation In Postcolonial Theory
Supervision Committee: P. Kulchyski, P. Bandyopadhyay
2001
Jessa Chupik-Hall
"Good Families Do Not Just Happen": Indigenous People And Child Welfare Services In Canada And Australia 1950-1965
Supervision Committee: J. Milloy, J. Struthers, T. Buti, Murdoch (Univ., Australia)
Thelma Davidson
Former Soviet Jews In Toronto: Post Collapse Of The Soviet Union
Supervision Committee: A. Heitlinger, O. Andriewsky, A. Pickel
Helen Bajorek Macdonald
The Power Of Polonia: Post-WWII Polish Immigrants To Canada: Survivors Of Deportation & Exile In Soviet Labour Camps
Supervision Committee: J. Struthers, C. Verduyn, S. Arat-Koc
Tullia Marcolongo
'Playing By The Rules': Environmental Justice And Land Use Planning In Ontario:The Lands For Life Case Study
Supervision Committee: Robert Paehlke, S. Bocking, R. O'Sullivan
Ruth Ritchie
The Existence Of Child Labour In Peterborough County, 1871-1901
Supervision Committee: J. Struthers, D. Sheinin, J. Milloy, J. Sangster
Aluki (Kotierk) Rojas
Iglumi Isumatait: A Reinterpretation Of The Position Of Inuit Women
Supervision Committee: P. Kulchyski, C. Eddy, O. Eegeesiak
Peggy O'Reilly-Shaughnessy
Friction Within The Machine: Aboriginal Prisoners Behind The Wall
Supervision Committee: P. Kulchyski, J. Milloy , J. Sangster
Chet Singh
The Politics Of Human Rights Organizational Change And Development: A Post-Secondary Case Study
Supervision Committee: J. Struthers, D. Berrill, D. Dippo
2000
Kathryn Elizabeth Barber
Community, Neighbourhood, Culture And Power: Meanings Of Diversity In Central West End, Toronto
Supervision Committee: J. Struthers, S. Arat-Koc, S. Wurtele
Art Beaver
Dancing The Rice: Aboriginal Self-Government Is The Community Reclaiming Traditional Cultural Values
"Mnoomini-Gaawin: Nishinaabe Gimmaawin Na Dani-Daapinaawaa Nishinaabe Oodenoo"
Supervision Committee: P. Kulchyski, J. Milloy, D. Newhouse
Laura Black
"This Isn't One To Be Told In The Third Person": Social Activism In The Poetry and Prose Writing Of Bronwen Wallace
Supervision Committee: C. Verduyn, M. Hobbs, G. Johnston
Neal Burnham
Environmental Assessment On The Canadian Frontier: Resource Decision-Making At Great Whale, Quebec And Voisey's Bay, Labrador
Supervision Committee: R. Paehlke, P. Adams, S. Bocking
Cailin Clarke
Trent University Nature Areas: Educational And Interpretive Uses
Supervision Committee: J. Marsh, R. Jones, K. Mcpherson (Provincial Natural Heritage Educ. Coordinator)
Morgan K. Gay
Organized Labour And The Quebec State: Neo-Corporatism, Nationalism And Trade Union Consensus: 1988-1998
Supervision Committee: C. Huxley, D. Standen, J. Struthers
Kerry Lynn Lake
Evolving Landscapes And Landmarks: Grain Elevators And Lighthouses At Risk
Supervision Committee: S. Wurtele, J. Marsh, T. Symons
Steven Martyn
Integrated Land Use In The Southern Algonquin Bioregion: The Madawaska Forest Garden Project
Supervision Committee: J. Wadland, T. Whillans, H. Lickers
Rhonda Paulsen
Displaced Culture: Re-Defining Tradition Within Two Pedagogical Paradigms
Supervision Committee: D. McCaskill, D. Berrill, S. Katz
Andrea Williams
Sioux Lookout District First Nations Education: Factors Influencing Secondary School Success
Supervision Committee: D. McCaskill, A. Law, J. Cutfeet
1999
Allan Chamberlain
Aquaculture Training In Ontario: An Assessment Through Video Interviews Of Students At Sir Sandford Fleming College, Lindsay And At The Rainy Lake Ojibway Education Authority, Manitou Rapids
Supervision Committee: T. Whillans, J. Milloy, D. McCaskill
Paul John Scott Ellerman
An Examination Of The State Of Historical Re-Enactments In Canada
Supervision Committee: T. Symons, J. Marsh, J. Jennings
David Paul King
The History Of The Federal Residential Schools For The Inuit Located In Chesterfield Inlet, Yellowknife, Inuvik And Churchill, 1955-1970
Supervision Committee: J. Milloy, P. Kulchyski, A. Tagak, Sr.
Susan Margaret Knabe
Moral Pan(Dem)Ic: Deviance And Disease In Canadian Medical Discourses On Aids, 1981-1990
Supervision Committee: R. Dellamora, K. Walden, B. Marshall, V. Hollinger
Sheldon Krasowski
"A Nuimay" (The Prayer People) And The Pagans Of Walpole Island First Nation: Resistance To The Anglican Church, 1845-1885
Supervision Committee: D. Newhouse, J. Milloy, P. Kulchyski
Jeralyne Karen Manweiler
Seeing Is Believing? Historical Connections Between The Pictured Landscape And Tourism In The High Eastern Arctic
Supervision Committee: J. Wadland, B. Hodgins, S. Grant
D'Arcy Rheault
Mino-Bimaadiziwin (The Way Of A Good Life)
Supervision Committee: E. Manitowabi, B. Loucks, P. Bourgeois
Sheena Symington
The Environmental And Social History Of The O'Donnell Roast Yard And Townsite Near Sudbury, Ontario
Supervision Committee: T. Hutchinson, R. Paehlke, S. Bocking
Bernadette Wabie
Aboriginal Women And Community Development: Consistency Across Time
Supervision Committee: D. Newhouse, P. Kulchyski, E. Manitowabi
Beverley Winny
Canadian Fiction For Adolescents From 1970-1990: The Rise Of The Aboriginal Voice And The Decolonization Of The Curriculum Of Ontario
Supervision Committee: J. Wadland, S. Kane
1998
Shanna Balazs
Aboriginal Involvement Within Selected Canadian Museums: Developing A Model For The Canadian Canoe Museum
Supervision Committee: J. Harrison, P. Bourgeois, B. Hodgins
Libby Birch
Picking Up New Threads For Kathleen Mavourneen: The Irish Female Presence In Nineteenth-Century Ontario
Supervision Committee: M. Lacombe, I. Mclachlan, M. Peterman
Anne Burbidge
What New Right? The 1995 Immigration Policy Of The Reform Party Of Canada
Supervision Committee: J. Struthers, S. Arat-Koc, B. Hodgins
Tanya Coulter
When Words Are Returned: Approaching Traditional And Contemporary Oral Narrative Integration In Whitehorse Primary Curriculum
Supervision Committee: S. Kane, M. Simpkins, S. Williams
Heather Dunlop
The Role And Image Of Wilderness And The Aborigine In Selected Ontarian Shield Camps
Supervision Committee: B. Hodgins, B. Dodge, J. Wadland
Kevin Fitzmaurice
To Reconcile Serious Difference: A Comparative Discourse Analysis On Aboriginal-State Relations Surrounding Land And Natural Resources: Co-Management Regimes In Ontario And The System Of Cooperation And Consultation In Sweden
Supervision Committee: D. Newhouse, M. Blyth, B. Hodgins
Dominic Hardy
Drawn To Order: Henri Julien's Political Cartoons Of 1899 And His Career With Hugh Graham's Montreal Daily Star, 1888-1908
Supervision Committee: J. Wadland, M. Lacombe, K. Walden
Elizabeth Hayes
The Italian Immigrant Woman In Post WWII Canada: Overt And Covert Stories
Supervision Committee: C. Verduyn, S. Arat-Koc, M. Peterman
Jackie Hookimaw-Witt
Keenebonanoh Keemoshominook Kaeshe Peemishikhik Odaskiwakh - [We Stand On The Graves Of Our Ancestors] Native Interpretations Of Treaty #9 With Attawapiskat Elders
Supervision Committee: P. Kulchyski, B. Hodgins, J. Milloy
Jeannette Menzies
Beyond The Postcard: Rethinking Heritage And Place In Yoho National Park, B.C.
Supervision Committee: T. Symons, J. Harrison, J. Wadland
Julie Rouse
Who Is The Northern Woman? Feminism And Place In The Northern Woman Journal: 1974-1980
Supervision Committee: M. Lacombe, M. Hobbs, B. Marshall
Doreen Small
Picturing Grand Manan: Nineteenth-Century Painting And The Representation Of Place
Supervision Committee: J. Wadland, B. Hodgins, M. Lacombe
Robin Smith
"Hishuk Ish Ts'awalk - All Things Are One": Traditional Ecological Knowledge And Forest Practices In Ahousaht First Nation's Traditional Territory, Clayoquot Sound, B.C.
Supervision Committee: J. Wadland, S. Bocking, N. Turner
Janice Warfield
Environmental Impacts And Recreational Conflicts On Multiple-Use Trails: A Case Study Of The Ganaraska Forest, Ontario
Supervision Committee: J. Marsh, J. Fisher , J. Wadland
Erin Windatt
Voluntary Pollution Prevention Initiatives And Their Application To Small And Medium Sized Enterprises
Supervision Committee: R. Paehlke, S. Bocking, D. Torgerson
1997
Peter Andree
Strategies For Agricultural Sustainability Employed By Farmers In The Kawartha Bioregion Of Ontario, Canada
Supervision Committee: R. Paehlke, T. Hutchinson, L. Slavin
Dawn Berry Merriam
The Evolution Of A District Health Council Into A Regional Planning Body: The Haliburton, Kawartha And Pineridge District Health Council
Supervision Committee: J. Struthers, R. Bowles, J. Muldoon
Richard Hagg
The Recreational Use, And Management Of The Mountain And Keele Rivers, Sahtu Region, Northwest Territories
Supervision Committee: J. Marsh, F. Helleiner, B. Hodgins
Allen Macpherson
Recreational Trails In Ontario: Historical Development And Policy Options
Supervision Committee: J. Marsh, F. Helleiner, J. Wadland
Bina Mehta
From Nairobi To Knob Hill Farms - Our Dialogues In Exile: Stories Of East African Gujarati Women In Ontario
Supervision Committee: J. Struthers, S. Arat-Koc, D. Berrill
Michele Proulx
The Uranium Mining Industry Of The Bancroft Area: An Environmental History And Heritage Assessment
Supervision Committee: J. Wadland, T. Whillans, B. Hodgins
Alicia Schutt
The Bruce Trail, Ontario: Users And Their Economic Impact
Supervision Committee: J. Marsh, H. Kitchen, J. Winters
Maureen Wideman
A Community Development Approach To Heritage Tourism In Small Towns: A Case Study Of Millbrook, Ontario
Supervision Committee: J. Marsh, J. Wadland, L. Waldbrook
1996
Leanne Burney
Sustainable Development And Civil Disobedience: The Politics Of Environmental Discourse In Clayoquot Sound
Supervision Committee: D. Torgerson, S. Bocking, R. Paehlke
Jennifer Gillard Della-Casa
The Author As Activist: Marian Engel And The Writers' Union Of Canada
Supervision Committee: C. Verduyn, M. Peterman, J. Wadland
Kenneth Wayne Hil
Life Stories Of Other Aboriginals: Toronto
Supervision Committee: J. Milloy, G. Conchelos, B. Hodgins
Susan Jane Hynds
"In A Circle Everybody Is Equal": Aboriginal Women And Self-Government In Canada, 1869-1995
Supervision Committee: P. Kulchyski, E. Manitowabi, D. Sheinin
Peter Labor
The Alexander Mackenzie Voyageur Route: A Community Perspective On Waterways And The Development Of A Trans-Canada Heritage Route
Supervision Committee: J. Jennings, B. Hodgins, J. Marsh
Gurpreet Kaur Sodhi
Ignored Are The Wives And Children: Voices From Band Councils And Native Organizations During The Special Joint Committee Of 1946-1948 And The Standing Committee On Bill C-31
Supervision Committee: P. Kulchyski, J. Milloy, S. Williams
John Taylor
Non-Aboriginal Teachers Working In Aboriginal Communities: The Need For Training
Supervision Committee: D. Newhouse, R. Bowles, C. King
James Michael Thoms
Illegal Conservation: Two Case Studies Of Conflict Between Indigenous And State Natural Resource Management Paradigms
Supervision Committee: D. McCaskill, B. Hodgins, J. Marsh
Laura A. Zink
"A Good Future For Our Children": Struggling To Create A Bi-Cultural Society In The Yukon Territory 1960s To The Present
Supervision Committee: B. Hodgins, J. Milloy, D. Morrison