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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.

Juan Borgatello

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

Justin Brodie

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

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.

Jason Crozier

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

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.

Kyle Frattasio

BA (Worcester State, MA)
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

​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.

Zachary Meier

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

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.

Richard Moore

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

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.

Vivian Parkes

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

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.

Bryce Saulnier

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

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.

Nicholas Sills

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

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.

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