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Ph.D. Dissertations

For more complete access to Dissertations please visit the Library and Archives Canada and Trent's Archives.

2025


Lauren Baranik

An Assessment of YESAB: Impact Assessment, Treaty Implementation and Indigenous Governance in the Yukon
Committee: H. Nicol, F. Dunaway, M. O'Donoghue, L. McCartney

Peggy Shaughnessy

Echoes of Injustice: Regulating Indigenous Masculinity through Canadian Legal and Colonial Systems
Committee: J. Miron, S. Pasternak, H. Nicol

Lisa Trefzger Clarke

Widening the Lens: Feminist Learning in Counselling and Psychotherapy
Committee: K. Pendleton Jimenez, L. Boucher, D. Handlarski

2024


John Bessai

Art as a Public Service: The National Film Board of Canada's Role in Shaping Democratic Dialogues and Societal Transformation
Committee: H. Nicol, S. Bailey, W. Lackenbauer

Holly Karennenhá:wi Brant

Lifting up the Voices of Tyendinaga’s Health Care Professionals 
Committee: H. Nicol, M. Brant Castellano, K. Graham (Carleton)

Sarah Cullingham

“Let’s Do Something Really Revolutionary”: Towards Care-full Relations of Cannabis Access in Ontario Post-Legalization
Committee: M. Skinner, N. Changfoot, A. McClelland (Carleton)

2023


Helen Knibb

”To Handle Wool Properly”: On Growing an Ontario Wool Culture
Committee: S. Rutherford, J. Dean (Carleton), T. Hutchinson, N. Klenk (Toronto)

Michelle McDonald

"I Want To Do So Much More, But I Just Don't Know What To Do: Intermediate Teachers' Interactions With The Out Doors in Winter
Committee: K. Pendleton Jimenez, D. Patrick (Carleton), B. Niblett

Hendrick Warnar

Aboriginal Adult Education and Training: The History of Hydro Development in Manitoba and the Establishment of Atoskiwin Training and Employment Centre in Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation
Committee: S. Hill, S. MacKinnon (Winnipeg), D. Newhouse, F. Abele (Carleton)

2022


Laura Poulin

Rural Older Adult Transitions in Care
Committee: M. Skinner, D. Patrick (Carleton), M. Fox (York)

2021


Anne Showalter

Memorable Movie Watching: Viewer Ruminations about Memory in Four Canadian Films and their IMDb User Reviews
Committee: S. Chivers, M. Steffler, A. Loiselle (Carleton)

2020


Amber Johnson

“The Darkest Tapestry”: Indian Residential School Memorialization at the Keeping Place at Fort Qu’Appelle, Saskatchewan
Committee: *J. Milloy, H. Shewell (Carleton), J. Bordo

Katharine Viscardis

The History and Legacy of the "Orillia Asylum for Idiots:" Children's Experiences of Institutional Violence."
Committee: *J. Miron, L. Iannacci, D. Marshall (Carleton)

2019


Eyitayo Aloh

Laughing to be Citizens: Multiculturalism, Humour, Belonging and the Cultural Productions of Sub-Saharan African Immigrants to Canada
Committee: *S. Bailey, H. Hodges, A. Trepannier (Carleton)

Stephanie Dotto

From Toronto to Africville: Youth Performing History as Resistence
Committee: *J. Harrison, P.Litt (Carleton), M. Kazubowski-Houston 

Matthew Hayes

A History of Canada’s UFO Investigation, 1950-1995
Committee: *C. Dummitt, E. Jones-Imhotep (York University), P. Hodgins (Carleton)

Lauren Hill

The Hoop Dance Project: Searching for Truth and Reconciliation in an Ontario Elementary School Classroom
Committee: *K. Pendleton Jimenez, M. Mumford, A. Arraiz-Matute, A.J. Ryan (Carleton)

2018


Karen Everett

Securitization, Borders and the Canadian North: A Regional Approach
Committee: *H. Nicol, M. Geiger (Carleton), C. Leuprecht

Kingsley Hurlington

Something Out of Nothing?: Place-based Resilience in Rural Canadian Youth
Committee: *M. Skinner, S. Hill, D. Patrick (Carleton)

Mary Anne Martin

“At least I can feel like I’ve done my job as a mom”: Mothers on low incomes, household food work, and community food initiatives
Committee: *P. Andree (Carleton), M. Hobbs, E. Power

2016


Sean Carleton

Colonialism, Capitalism, and the Rise of State Schooling in British Columbia, 1849-1900
Committee: *B. Palmer, J. Milloy, J. Sangster, H. Shewell (Carleton)

Julia Smith

Union Organizing in the Canadian Banking Industry, 1940–1980
Committee: *J. Sangster, B. Palmer, R. Warskett (Carleton)

2015


David Rapaport

Rewiring the State: The Privatization of Information Technology in the Ontario Public Service (1972-2003)
Committee: *D. Anastakis, J. Bishop, M. Francoli (Carleton)

2014


James A. Onusko

Growing Up in Postwar Suburbia: Childhood, Children and Adolescents in Canada, 1950-1970
Committee: *J. Sangster, K. Walden, M. Steffler, D. Marshall (Carleton)

Amy Twomey

Pursuing Different Paths in Long-Term Care: Manitoba, Ontario and the Politics of Commercialization
Committee: *J. Struthers, H. Armstrong (Carleton), S. Chivers

2013


Meaghan Beaton

Commemoration, Identity, and Cultural Capital in Nova Scotia During Canada's 1967 Centennial Celebrations
Committee: *K. Walden, D. Muise (Carleton), D. Anastakis, S. Wurtele

Jo Anne Colson

Canadian Refugee Policy: the Politics of the Frame
Committee: *D. Torgerson, J. Struthers, Melissa Autumn White (Carleton)

Caitlin Gordon-Walker

Unity in Diversity: The Limits of Multiculturalism and Museums in Canada
Committee: *J. Harrison, D. Bhandar, R. Phillips (Carleton)

Andy Hanson

Not in Their Classrooms: Class Struggle and Union Strength in Ontario's Elementary Teachers' Unions, 1970-1998
Committee: *B. Palmer, M. Hobbs, R. Warskett (Carleton)

John Edward Marris

Pausing Encounters with Autism and Its Unruly Representation: An inquiry into method, culture and academia in the making of disability and difference in Canada
Committee: *S. Chivers, M. Epp, P. Rankin

2012


Kristi Allain

'The Way We Play': An Examination of Men's Elite-Level Hockey, Masculinity and Canadian National Identity
Committee: *A. Heitlinger, P. Gentle (Carleton), B. Marshall, M.L. Adams (Queen's)

Catherine Louise (Casey) Ready 

An Uneasy Alliance: Negotiating Feminism in New-Neoliberal Times - A study of the negotiation of a feminist agenda in the violence against women work of three Ontario YWCAs, 2003 – 2008 
Committee:*J. Struthers, D. White, C. Lundy (Carleton)

2010


Edward (Ted) McCoy 

The Rise of the Modern Canadian Penitentiary, 1835-1900
Committee: *B. Palmer, G. Balfour, D. Marshall (Carleton)

Margaret Quirt 

Citizenship Identity in the History and Literature of English-Speaking Canada 1947-1967 
Committee:*J. Struthers, S. Chivers, D. Stasiulis (Carleton)

2009


Molly Blyth 

"Tricky Stories are the Cure":  Comtemporary Indigenous Writing in Canada
Committee:  *A. Ryan (Carleton), G. Johnston, J. Wadland 

Caroline Seck Langill 

Shifting Polarities:  Canadian Electronic Media Art and Institutional Space, 1970-1990
Committee:  * V. Hollinger, J. Harrison, D. Nemiroff (Carleton) 

Rebecca Miriam Pollock 

The Role of Unesco Biosphere Reserves in Governance for Sustainability:  Cases from Canada 
Committee:  R. Paehlke, J. Wadland, J. Meadowcroft (Carleton)

2007


Donica Belisle

Rise of Mass Retail:  Canadians and Department Stores, 1890 - 1940
Committee:  *B. Palmer, J. Sangster, B. McKillop (Carleton)

Mark Dickinson

"Notes to a Poetics of Earth"
Committee:  *S. Kane, G. Johnston, B. Johnson (Carleton) 

2006


Brian Thorn 

"Visions of the New World Order":  Women and Gender in Radical and Reactionary Movements in Post-World War II Western Canada
Committee:  *B. Palmer, J. Sangster, P. Rankin (Carleton) 

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