Mary G. Chaktsiris

About

Ph.D. Research Interests

I am primarily interested in researching the relationships among war and gender in the Canadian context during the Great War (1914-1918). Working with my supervisors Dr. Karen Dubinsky and Dr. Jane Errington, I examine what it meant to be ‘a man' in early twentieth-century English Canada and how understandings of masculinity may have influenced recruitment tactics, the subsequent movement towards conscription and the internment of ‘enemy aliens' on Canadian soil.

Publications

Conference Presentations:

Chaktsiris, Mary G. "Two Reasonable Conceptions of Childhood: A Discussion of Childhood in the Educational Writings of John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau." Paper presented at the annual Dean's Graduate Student Research Conference, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, March 23-24, 2008.

Chaktsiris, Mary G. "The Varsity Man: A Discussion of Manhood, the University of Toronto and the Great War." Paper presented at the annual Graduate History Symposium, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, February 6-7, 2009.

Chaktsiris, Mary G. "The Importance of ‘Thinking Historically.'" Paper presented at the annual Dean's Graduate Student Research Conference, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, March 6-7, 2009.

Refereed Publications:

Chaktsiris, Mary G. "Transitioning Towards Democracy: The Democratization of South Africa." Undergraduate Journal of Political Science, University of Toronto (2007), 1-5.

Chaktsiris, Mary G. "Two Reasonable Conceptions of Childhood: A Discussion of Childhood in the Educational Writings of John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau." Proceedings of the annual Dean's Graduate Student Research Conference, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto (2008).