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Abigail Afriyie

The Queloides Art Project in Formation of the Cuban Identity: The Place of Afro-Cuban Religions in the Cuban Republic through Art
Supervised by David Sheinin, Major Research Paper 2023.

Lucas Alexiou

"Breaking in the Saddle: The Experience of the Reform Party of Canada’s Populist Reboot and Challenge Politics During the Late Twentieth Century"
Supervised by Robert Wright, Major Research Paper 2021.

Kristoffer Archibald

"Presenting the Polar Bear: Mass Media Images, the Arctic, and the Creation of a Charismatic Species in Postwar North America"
Supervised by Finis Dunaway, Thesis 2009.

Michelle Arentsen

"The Lives of Young Delinquents: Relationships of Power in the Royal Philanthropic Society"
Supervised by: Jennine Hurl-Eamon, Thesis 2019.

Adam Arko

Turnout: How the First World War Railroaded Policy
Supervised by: Christopher Dummitt, MRP 2023

Sabrina Arnold

"Prepared for the Next War? U.S. Attaché Reports, Military Innovation and the Spanish Civil War"
Supervised by: Antonio Cazorla-Sanchez, Thesis 2018.

Jared Asser

"Hearing the Invisible Empire: Music and Hatred in Progressive Era Indiana"
Supervised by: David Sheinin, Thesis 2020.

Jennifer Avis

"A Crime That Wants A Name': Wife-Rape In Eighteenth-Century England"
Supervised by Jennine Hurl-Eamon, Thesis 2012.

Cory Baldwin

The Branding of the Prime Minister: ‘Uncle Louis’ and Brand Politics in The Elections of Louis St. Laurent 1949-1957
Supervised by: Christopher Dummitt, Thesis 2017.

Simon Bayani

"Civil Aviation and Scheduled Air Services in Colonial  Botswana, 1935-1966: A History of Underdevelopment"
Supervised by Tim Stapleton, Thesis 2017.

Alicia Bertrand

"The Downfall of the Royal Africa Company in the 1720s on the Atlantic African Coast"
Supervised by Arne Bialuschewski, Thesis 2011.

Lilja Best

"Hive Mind: Economic Entomologists and the Redefinition of Entomology in Nineteenth Century Canada"
Supervised by Stephanie Rutherford, Major Research Paper 2025.

Matthew Bezic

"Enlisting Famine: Three Cases of Weaponized Famine on Civilian Populations during the Second World War"
Supervised by Antonio Cazorla-Sanchez, MRP 2021

Julie Bonello

"The Development of Early Settler Identity in Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1914"
Supervised by Tim Stapleton, Major Research Paper 2009.

Juan Borgatello

From Discrimination to "Good Racism”. Hated and Loved Afro-descendants in Buenos Aires (1880-1930)
Supervised by David Sheinin, Thesis 2022.

Justin Brodie

Interpretive Imagery: Use of the Haitian Revolution as a Warning in Nineteenth Century European Engravings
Supervised by David Sheinin, MRP 2022.

Emmett Brownscombe

"The Effects of Ideological Conformity on Foreign  Policymaking: A study of Ronal Reagan's Central American Policy"
Supervised by David Sheinin, Thesis 2016.

Craig Burke

Creating the Greatest in Public History: The History of the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville, Kentucky (1992-2005) 
Supervised by David Sheinin, Thesis 2025

Sarah Campbell

"A Political Failure, A Social Success: A Study of Social Fascism and the British Union of Fascists"
Supervised by Robert Wright, MRP 2023

Jason Caron

"Communist China in Canadian-American Relations, 1957-63"
Supervised by Dimitry Anastakis, Thesis 2009.

Sister María de la Parousía (Miranda Clemens)

"That They Might Sing the Song of the Lamb: The Spiritual Value of Singing the Liturgy for Hildegard of Bingen"
Supervised by Fiona Harris-Stoertz, Thesis 2014.

Brandon Collins

"In Defence of the Volk: The Judiciary and the Volksgemeinschaft during the Nazi Era"
Supervised by: Antonio Cazorla-Sanchez, Major Research Paper 2020.

Christopher Cook

"Sponsoring Private Schools in an Informal Empire: The United States and the Inter-American Schools Service"
Supervised by David Sheinin, Thesis 2013.

Kylie Coulson

Intelligence at D-Day: How Signals Intelligence Informed Operation Overlord
Supervised by: Robert Wright, Major Research Paper, 2019.

Jason Crozier

Entertain Me: The History of Commodified Racism and the Exploitation of African Americans in Professional Wrestling
Supervised by David Sheinin, Thesis 2022.

Jeryn Daly

"Women in Fiction and World War II"
Supervised by Joan Sangster, Major Research Paper 2013.

Matthew Davidson

"Empire and its Practitioners: Public Health in Haiti during the American Occupation, 1915-1934"
Supervised by David Sheinin, Thesis 2014.

Jackson Desgagne

"Christians at Mosque, Muslims at Church: A Major Research Paper on the History of Religious Tolerance in Sierra Leone"
Supervised by Katrina Keefer and David Sheinin, Major Research Paper 2020.

Catherine Michelle Desveaux

"Not Simply Academic: The Marginalization of Indigenous People and Indigenous Histories through the Purpose and Definition of History in Early 20th Century Canada"
Supervised by John Milloy, Thesis 2013.

James Dilworth

"A World Restored: Henry Kissinger and the Step-by-Step Process that Saved the Middle East"
Supervised by David Sheinin, Major Research Paper 2016.

Krystle Dinunzio

"Press Rhetoric and Human Rights in the Carter Era: 1977-81"
Supervised by: David Sheinin, Thesis 2018.

Daniel Dishaw

"Seeing Beyond the Shah: The Ambassadorship of James George in Iran"
Supervised by Robert Wright, Major Research Paper 2015.

Matthew Douglas

"The Fishing Guide"
Supervised by David Sheinin, Major Research Paper 2025.

Ian Ellis

"Profoundly Misunderstood: Nuclear Energy in Ontario, 1940s-1980s"
Supervised by Robert Wright, Thesis 2024.

Leah Ensing

"Cooperation and Conflict: Christian and Muslim Group Identity and Accommodation between the Second and Third Crusades, 1145-1192"
Supervised by Fiona Harris-Stoertz, Thesis 2014.

Christopher Evelyn

"The Reagan Administration's Motivations for Intervening in Grenada (October 25, 2983)"
Supervised by David Sheinin, Thesis 2010.

Kyle Frattasio

The Internationalized Crusade: Examining the International Catholic support of the Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War. The cases of Ireland and the USA
Supervised by Antonio Cazorla-Sanchez, Thesis 2022.

Carlisle Froese

"Controlling the Feminine Body in Public: An Examination of Didactic Literature from the Reign of Charles VI of  France and its Focus on Movement"
Supervised by Fiona Harris-Stoertz, Thesis 2017.

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 2009.

Nathan Gardiner

"Hitting the Mark: Iroquoian Acquisition and Usage of Firearms, 1640-1649"
Supervised by Tim Stapleton, Major Research Paper 2015.

Clare Glassco

"In Canada's Good Name: Confronting Canada's Seasonal Agriculture Worker's Program in its Historical Context"
Supervised by Joan Sangster, Thesis 2012.

Julia Grummitt

"American Acropolis, American Ruins: Camilo José Vergara's Repeat Photography as Imagistic History"
Supervised by Finis Dunaway, Thesis 2013.

Logan Hallard

"Canada's Cold War Politics: A Middle Power and it's Sovereignty"
Supervised by Robert Wright, Major Research Paper 2020.

Devon Harding

"The Pervert’s New Statesman: Justice Weekly, Advocacy, and Sexuality in Post-War Canada"
Supervised by: Christopher Dummitt, Thesis 2019.

Jamila Haruna

Labour, Migration and Resistance: The Legacy of INTERCEDE in Domestic Workers Advocacy in 1980s Ontario.
Supervised by David Sheinin, Thesis 2025.

Alex Heigh-Roper

Social Permeability in the Viking Age: An Explanatory Solution to the “Shieldmaiden” Question in Great Heathen Army Burials in England (870s)
Supervised by: Fiona Harris-Stoertz, Major Research Paper 2020.

Melissa Hennig

"The Material Worlds of the Idle and the Industrious: Eighteenth-Century Middling Reform-Minded Representations of Plebeian Children"
Supervised by: Jennine Hurl-Eamon, Thesis 2019.

Elitsa Hristova

"Finding New Roads Towards Peace: The Report of the Carnegie Commission on the Balkan Wars, 1912-1913"
Supervised by Olga Andriewsky, Thesis 2016.

Andrew Hoyt

Ecology, Settler Colonialism, and the Environments of the American Midwest: The Science and Politics of Ecological Restoration Since 1950
Supervised by Stephen Bocking, Thesis 2023.

Cristy Ironside

"Women Under the Swastika: Victims or Perpetrators"
Supervised by Carolyn Kay, Major Research Paper 2011.

Alexis Johnson

"Breaking Bread: Socialization and the Ritualization of Power, Prestige, and Social Norms through Food in High Medieval England"
Supervised by Ivana Elbl, Thesis 2025.

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.

Cameron Kirkey

A Comparative Analysis of the Motives Behind Official Development Assistance: Explaining Decisions by Canada and the United States to Provide Foreign Aid to West Africa During the Ebola Crisis of 2013-16
Supervised by Robert Wright, MRP 2022.

Jessica Klauke

"The Media and the Somalia Affair: How to Maintain a National SymbolA
Supervised by: Robert Wright, Major Research Paper 2019.

Hannah Laginski

"Edmund Spenser's View of the Present State of Ireland (1596/1633): Group Beliefs in the Service of Propaganda"
Supervised by Ivana Elbl, Major Research Paper 2024.

Derek Lipman

"Connecticut Cold Warrior: Senator Thomas J. Dodd, the U.S., and the World, 1945-1971"
Supervised by David Sheinin, Thesis 2010.

Morganna Malyon

"They Were There to Protect the Interests of the Prisoner, but also to Protect the Interests of the Community" A case study of changing concerns about the family, social provisioning, and domestic violence on the Canadian Prairies during World War I
Supervised by Joan Sangster, Major Research Paper 2017.

Ewan Martel

The Rise of Property and the Death of the Moral Economy: Enclosure and Social Unrest in Late-Eighteenth Century England
Supervised by David Sheinin, Thesis 2023.

Steven Martin

"The Commonality of Enemies: Carlism and Anarchism in Modern Spain, 1868-1937"
Supervised by Antonio Cazorla-Sanchez, Thesis 2014.

Eduardo Mateo Carrasco

"The Franco Regime and the Independence of Spanish Morocco (1945-56)"
Supervised by Antonio Cazorla Sanchez, Thesis 2011.

Shannon McCarthy

"Queen of Canada? The 1964 Royal Visit and Canadian National Identity"
Supervised by Christopher Dummitt, Major Research Paper 2017.

Michael McGill

"Signalling Beliefs in Ogilby’s Africa:  Representations of Religion and Group Identities in West-Central Africa"
Supervised by: Ivana Elbl, Thesis 2020.

Matthew McKeown

"Boxing and the Third Place: Mapping Community and Urban Revitalization in Early Twentieth Century Winnipeg"
Supervised by David Sheinin, Thesis 2024

Devon McKinnon

"Nation-Building in the Guatemalan Countryside"
Supervised by David Sheinin,Thesis 2010.

Erin McMorrow

"Witches and Bawds as Elderly Women in England, 1680-1730"
Supervised by Jeannine Hurl-Eamon, Thesis 2016.

Alexander McPherson

"In The Wilderness at Fohrenwald: Jewish Refugees in Occupied Upper Bavaria, 1945-47"
Supervised by Carolyn Kay, Thesis 2016.

Zachary Meier

Developers and Retrievers: Collective Memory in Holocaust Survivor Memoirs
Supervised by Robert Wright, MRP 2022.

Bradley Melle

"North American Evangelical Perceptions of Africans in Colonial Northern Nigeria, 1890-1939"
Supervised by Tim Stapleton, Thesis 2011.

Adam Milburn

"Athletes and Warriors: France at the Barcelona 1936 People’s Olympiad"
Supervised by Antonio Cazorla-Sanchez, 2022

Isaac Miller

"Reshaping the Terms of Debate: An Examination of the Historiography of the Reagan Era"
Supervised by Bryan Palmer, Thesis 2014.

Kailey Miller

"Following the American Lead: Canada's Diplomacy towards Cuba in the Prerevolutionary Period, 1939-1959"
Supervised by Robert Wright, Thesis 2011.

Melissa Miller-Gerrard

"Legal Innovations, Archival Justice, Guatemalan National Memory, and the case of Fernando García"
Supervised by David Sheinin, Major Research Paper 2025.

Tonia Misevski

"German Resistance to Nazismm"
Supervised by Carolyn Kay, Major Research Paper 2010.

Bafumiki Mocheregwa

"Underdevelopment in Eastern Bechuanaland: The Dynamic Role of the Mafikeng - Bulawayo Railway, from the late 1800s to 1960s"
Supervised by Tim Stapleton, Thesis 2016.

Richard Moore

U.S. Foreign Policy Formulation and the Nicaraguan Crisis of 1978-1979
Supervised by David Sheinin, MRP 2022.

Faisal Muniru

Biography of Arturo Cruz Junior
Supervised by David Sheinin, Thesis 2023

Hannah Mulligan

The Impact of Gender-Role Stereotyping in Ontario Physical and Health Education and Home Economics Education Curricula from the 1960s to 1980s
Supervised by Caroline Durand, Major Research Paper 2023.

Ashley Neale

"Alone in Power: The Presidency and Decision Making of President Richard M. Nixon"
Supervised by: David Sheinin, Thesis 2015.

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.

Ryan Orr

"Edward IV, The Woodvilles, and the Politics of Idealism, c. 1464-83"
Supervised by: Fiona Harris-Storetz, Thesis 2019

Rebecca Osawa

"Emotional Intelligence (EI) in the Life and Career of Lady Margaret Beaufort (1443-1509)"
Supervised by Ivana Elbl, Thesis 2010.

Vivian Parkes

Let’s Move It: Divided loyalties and the Impact of Personal Policymaking in Canadian Foreign Policy in 1979
Supervised by Robert Wright, MRP 2022.

Elora Passafiume

'To Remedy this Disease of the Mind': Musical Healing and its Consistent Role in Seventeenth-Century English Science
Supervised by Kevin Siena, Major Research Paper 2023.

Ryan Perks

"After the Fall: The Rhetoric of National-Moral Reconstruction in Occupied France, 1940-1944"
Supervised by Antonio Cazorla-Sanchez, Thesis 2013.

Alison Perry

"Missiles and Multilateralism: The Canadian Approach to the Cuban Missile Crisis"
Supervised by Robert Wright, Major Research Paper 2014.

Allen Priest

"Beyond Paris: Jacqueline Kennedy and the Presidency"
Supervised by David Sheinin, Thesis 2014.

Natalie Pringle

"Silent Witnesses: The Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System and the Holodomor"
Supervised by Olga Andriewsky, Major Research Paper, 2014.

Kagiso Puso

"The Question of Culture in the Socio-Economic Violence & Abuse Against Women in Zambia: 1980s-1990s"
Supervised by Tim Stapleton, Thesis 2014.

Steven Radonjic

"Narratives of Victimhood: National Identity and the Historiography of the Second World War in the Yugoslav Republics of Serbia and Croatia"
Supervised 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.

Andrew J. Rowley

"The Elite Canadian Print Media Construction of the Cuban Revolution, 1956-1962"
Supervised by Robert Wright, Thesis 2014.

Mathew Ruguwa

"'Land, Displacement and Coping Strategies': A Social  History of the Marange People, Eastern Zimbabwe,  1960s - 2015"
Supervised by Tim Stapleton, Thesis 2017.

Ginevra Sadlier

"Religion, Wilberforce’s Evangelicalism, and the Memoirs of Common British Soldiers, 1811-1863."
Supervised by Jennine Hurl-Eamon, Thesis 2021.

Andrea Samoil

"Class Struggle and Solidarity in Neo-Liberal Times: The 1986 Gainers Strike"
Supervised by Bryan Palmer, Thesis 2013.

Bryce Saulnier

The "Rise and Fall" of Robert N. Thompson and the Social Credit Party of Canada
Supervised by Robert Wright, MRP 2022.

A. Peyton Seabolt

"A Knight and His Horse: The Social Impact of Horses in Medieval France, 1150-1300"
Supervised by: Fiona Harris-Stoertz, Thesis 2019.

Deborah Shore

"Nymphs, Satyrs and Impotent Old Men"
Supervised by Kevin Siena, Thesis 2014.

Nicholas Sills

Weakened Foundations: The Evolution of Legal Intelligence Regulation in Post-9/11 Canada
Supervised by Robert Wright, MRP 2022.

Melissa Sinclair

"Canadian Child Migration: An Analysis of the Experiences of the Children's Overseas Reception Board Evacuees During the Second World War"
Supervised by Joan Sangster, Major Research Paper 2013.

Joshua Smith

"The Paper Chase: A Survey of Student Newspapers on Three Ontario Campuses in the 1960s"
Supervised by Dimitry Anastakis, Thesis 2021

Peter Sorensen

"'Are There No Social Rules in Our Home?': Fear, Anger, Power and the Aztec Empire"
Supervised by David Sheinin, Thesis 2011.

Sean Springer

"Eugenics in Ontario: Reconsidering Catholicism, the Culture of Government, and Postwar Eugenics in the Canadian  Historiography"
Supervised by Joan Sangster, Thesis 2012.

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.

Taylor Taniguchi

"Nutrition in Canada’s Japanese Internment Camps of the Second World War"
Supervised by Caroline Durand, Major Research Paper 2025.

Victoria Veenstra

"Lang Mill Project"
Supervised by Christopher Dummitt, Major Research Paper 2016.

Kathleen Wells

"Collective Amnesia: The Impact of Canadian Journalism Upon Collective and Historical Memory of Omar Khadr"
Supervised by Joan Sangster, Major Research Paper 2014.

Christopher Wright

"Transnational Aboriginal History"
Supervised by John Milloy, Major Research Paper 2010.

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