Alumni
Lucas Alexiou
BA (Trent)
"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 Researh Paper 2021.
Kristoffer Archibald
BA (St Thomas)
"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
BA (Manitoba)
"The Lives of Young Delinquents: Relationships of Power in the Royal Philanthropic Society"
Supervised by: Jennine Hurl-Eamon, Thesis 2019.
Sabrina Arnold
BA (Trent), BEd (Queen’s)
"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
BA (Carleton)
"Hearing the Invisible Empire: Music and Hatred in Progressive Era Indiana"
Supervised by: David Sheinin, Thesis 2020.
Jennifer Avis
BA (Trent)
"A Crime That Wants A Name': Wife-Rape In Eighteenth-Century England"
Supervised by Jennine Hurl-Eamon, Thesis 2012.
Cory Baldwin
BA (Carleton)
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
BA (Botswana)
"Civil Aviation and Scheduled Air Services in Colonial Botswana, 1935-1966: A History of Underdevelopment"
Supervised by Tim Stapleton, Thesis 2017.
Alicia Bertrand
BA (Trent)
"The Downfall of the Royal Africa Company in the 1720s on the Atlantic African Coast"
Supervised by Arne Bialuschewski, Thesis 2011.
Matthew Bezic
BA (Trent)
"Enlisting Famine: Three Cases of Weaponized Famine on Civilian Populations during the Second World War"
Supervised by Antonio Cazorla-Sanchez, MRP 2021
Julie Bonello
BA (Trent)
"The Development of Early Settler Identity in Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1914"
Supervised by Tim Stapleton, Major Research Paper 2009.
Emmett Brownscombe
BA (Trent)
"The Effects of Ideological Conformity on Foreign Policymaking: A study of Ronal Reagan's Central American Policy"
Supervised by David Sheinin, Thesis 2016.
Jason Caron
BA (Trent)
"Communist China in Canadian-American Relations, 1957-63"
Supervised by Dimitry Anastakis, Thesis 2009.
Sister María de la Parousía (Miranda Clemens)
BA (Eastern University)
"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
BA (Lakehead)
"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
BA (Trent)
"Sponsoring Private Schools in an Informal Empire: The United States and the Inter-American Schools Service"
Supervised by David Sheinin, Thesis 2013.
Kylie Coulson
BA (Trent), BEd (Queen's)
Intelligence at D-Day: How Signals Intelligence Informed Operation Overlord
Supervised by: Robert Wright, Major Research Paper, 2019.
Jeryn Daly
BA (Trent)
"Women in Fiction and World War II"
Supervised by Joan Sangster, Major Research Paper 2013.
Matthew Davidson
BA (Trent)
"Empire and its Practitioners: Public Health in Haiti during the American Occupation, 1915-1934"
Supervised by David Sheinin, Thesis 2014.
Jackson Desgagne
BA (Trent)
"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
BA (Cape Breton)
"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
BA (Western)
"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
BA (York)
"Press Rhetoric and Human Rights in the Carter Era: 1977-81"
Supervised by: David Sheinin, Thesis 2018.
Daniel Dishaw
BA (Ryerson)
"Seeing Beyond the Shah: The Ambassadorship of James George in Iran"
Supervised by Robert Wright, Major Research Paper 2015.
Leah Ensing
BA (Redeemer)
"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
BA (Trent)
"The Reagan Administration's Motivations for Intervening in Grenada (October 25, 2983)"
Supervised by David Sheinin, Thesis 2010.
Carlisle Froese
BA (Wilfrid Laurier)
"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
BA (St. Francis Xavier)
"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
BA (Wilfred Laurier)
"Hitting the Mark: Iroquoian Acquisition and Usage of Firearms, 1640-1649"
Supervised by Tim Stapleton, Major Research Paper 2015.
Clare Glassco
BA (Trent)
"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
BA (King's College)
"American Acropolis, American Ruins: Camilo José Vergara's Repeat Photography as Imagistic History"
Supervised by Finis Dunaway, Thesis 2013.
Logan Hallard
BA (Trent)
"Canada's Cold War Politics: A Middle Power and it's Sovereignty"
Supervised by Robert Wright, Major Research Paper 2020.
Devon Harding
BA (Guelph)
"The Pervert’s New Statesman: Justice Weekly, Advocacy, and Sexuality in Post-War Canada"
Supervised by: Christopher Dummitt, Thesis 2019.
Alex Heigh-Roper
BA (Trent)
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
BA (Trent), BEd (Queen's)
"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
BA (Trent)
"Finding New Roads Towards Peace: The Report of the Carnegie Commission on the Balkan Wars, 1912-1913"
Supervised by Olga Andriewsky, Thesis 2016.
Cristy Ironside
BA (Trent)
"Women Under the Swastika: Victims or Perpetrators"
Supervised by Carolyn Kay, Major Research Paper 2011.
Amber Johnson
BA (Trent)
"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
BA (Trent)
"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
BA (Trent)
"A Treatise on Female Ruin: Thelyphthora and its Controversy"
Supervised by Kevin Siena, Major Research Paper, 2010.
Jessica Klauke
BA (Trent)
"The Media and the Somalia Affair: How to Maintain a National SymbolA
Supervised by: Robert Wright, Major Research Paper 2019.
Derek Lipman
BA (Trent)
"Connecticut Cold Warrior: Senator Thomas J. Dodd, the U.S., and the World, 1945-1971"
Supervised by David Sheinin, Thesis 2010.
Morganna Malyon
BA (Brandon)
"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.
Steven Martin
BA (Concordia)
"The Commonality of Enemies: Carlism and Anarchism in Modern Spain, 1868-1937"
Supervised by Antonio Cazorla-Sanchez, Thesis 2014.
Eduardo Mateo Carrasco
BA (Concordia)
"The Franco Regime and the Independence of Spanish Morocco (1945-56)"
Supervised by Antonio Cazorla Sanchez, Thesis 2011.
Shannon McCarthy
BA (Guelph)
"Queen of Canada? The 1964 Royal Visit and Canadian National Identity"
Supervised by Christopher Dummitt, Major Research Paper 2017.
Michael McGill
BA (Trent)
Signalling Beliefs in Ogilby’s Africa: Representations of Religion and Group Identities in West-Central Africa
Supervised by: Ivana Elbl, Thesis 2020.
Devon McKinnon
BA (Trent)
"Nation-Building in the Guatemalan Countryside"
Supervised by David Sheinin,Thesis 2010.
Erin McMorrow
BA (Toronto)
"Witches and Bawds as Elderly Women in England, 1680-1730"
Supervised by Jeannine Hurl-Eamon, Thesis 2016.
Alexander McPherson
BA (Toronto)
"In The Wilderness at Fohrenwald: Jewish Refugees in Occupied Upper Bavaria, 1945-47"
Supervised by Carolyn Kay, Thesis 2016.
Bradley Melle
BA (Redeemer)
"North American Evangelical Perceptions of Africans in Colonial Northern Nigeria, 1890-1939"
Supervised by Tim Stapleton, Thesis 2011.
Adam Milburn
BA (Trent)
"Athletes and Warriors: France at the Barcelona 1936 People’s Olympiad"
Supervised by Antonio Cazorla-Sanchez, 2022
Isaac Miller
BA (Carleton)
"Reshaping the Terms of Debate: An Examination of the Historiography of the Reagan Era"
Supervised by Bryan Palmer, Thesis 2014.
Kailey Miller
BA (Trent)
"Following the American Lead: Canada's Diplomacy towards Cuba in the Prerevolutionary Period, 1939-1959"
Supervised by Robert Wright, Thesis 2011.
Tonia Misevski
BA (Queen's)
"German Resistance to Nazismm"
Supervised by Carolyn Kay, Major Research Paper 2010.
Bafumiki Mocheregwa
BA (Botswana)
"Underdevelopment in Eastern Bechuanaland: The Dynamic Role of the Mafikeng - Bulawayo Railway, from the late 1800s to 1960s"
Supervised by Tim Stapleton, Thesis 2016.
Ashley Neale
BA (Trent)
"Alone in Power: The Presidency and Decision Making of President Richard M. Nixon"
Supervised by: David Sheinin, Thesis 2015.
Boipelo Oitsile
BA (Botswana)
"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
BA (Wilfrid Laurier)
"Edward IV, The Woodvilles, and the Politics of Idealism, c. 1464-83"
Supervised by: Fiona Harris-Storetz, Thesis 2019
Rebecca Osawa
BA (Trent)
"Emotional Intelligence (EI) in the Life and Career of Lady Margaret Beaufort (1443-1509)"
Supervised by Ivana Elbl, Thesis 2010.
Ryan Perks
BA (Trent)
"After the Fall: The Rhetoric of National-Moral Reconstruction in Occupied France, 1940-1944"
Supervised by Antonio Cazorla-Sanchez, Thesis 2013.
Alison Perry
BA (Trent)
"Missiles and Multilateralism: The Canadian Approach to the Cuban Missile Crisis"
Supervised by Robert Wright, Major Research Paper 2014.
Allen Priest
BA (Trent)
"Beyond Paris: Jacqueline Kennedy and the Presidency"
Supervised by David Sheinin, Thesis 2014.
Natalie Pringle
BEd (Queen's) B.A. (Trent)
"Silent Witnesses: The Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System and the Holodomor"
Supervised by Olga Andriewsky, Major Research Paper, 2014.
Kagiso Puso
BA (Botswana)
"The Question of Culture in the Socio-Economic Violence & Abuse Against Women in Zambia: 1980s-1990s"
Supervised by Tim Stapleton, Thesis 2014.
Steven Radonjic
BA (Trent)
"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
BA (Redeemer)
"The Role of Technology in the Colonial Conquest of Zimbabwe 1890-97"
Supervised by Tim Stapleton, Thesis 2011.
Andrew J. Rowley
BA (Trent)
"The Elite Canadian Print Media Construction of the Cuban Revolution, 1956-1962"
Supervised by Robert Wright, Thesis 2014.
Mathew Ruguwa
BA (Zimbabwe)
"'Land, Displacement and Coping Strategies': A Social History of the Marange People, Eastern Zimbabwe, 1960s - 2015"
Supervised by Tim Stapleton, Thesis 2017.
Ginevra Sadlier
BA (Trent)
"Religion, Wilberforce’s Evangelicalism, and the Memoirs of Common British Soldiers, 1811-1863."
Supervised by Jennine Hurl-Eamon, Thesis 2021.
Andrea Samoil
BA (Alberta)
"Class Struggle and Solidarity in Neo-Liberal Times: The 1986 Gainers Strike"
Supervised by Bryan Palmer, Thesis 2013.
A. Peyton Seabolt
BA (Armstrong State)
"A Knight and His Horse: The Social Impact of Horses in Medieval France, 1150-1300"
Supervised by: Fiona Harris-Stoertz, Thesis 2019.
Deborah Shore
BA (Trent)
"Nymphs, Satyrs and Impotent Old Men"
Supervised by Kevin Siena, Thesis 2014.
Melissa Sinclair
BA (Trent), BEd (Queen's)
"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
BA (PEI)
"The Paper Chase: A Survey of Student Newspapers on Three Ontario Campuses in the 1960s"
Supervised by Dimitry Anastakis, Thesis 2021
Peter Sorensen
BA (York)
"'Are There No Social Rules in Our Home?': Fear, Anger, Power and the Aztec Empire"
Supervised by David Sheinin, Thesis 2011.
Sean Springer
BA (Plattsburgh State, NY)
"Eugenics in Ontario: Reconsidering Catholicism, the Culture of Government, and Postwar Eugenics in the Canadian Historiography"
Supervised by Joan Sangster, Thesis 2012.
Heather Taylor
BA (Trent)
"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.
Victoria Veenstra
BA (Trent)
"Lang Mill Project"
Supervised by Christopher Dummitt, Major Research Paper 2016.
Kathleen Wells
BA (Trent), BEd (Nippissing)
"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
BA (Ryerson)
"Transnational Aboriginal History"
Supervised by John Milloy, Major Research Paper 2010.