Completed Graduate Research

PhD

Paul Gebhardt, "Gregory Palamas and Demetrios Kydones on God, Knowledge, and Humanity at the End of Byzantium."

Sean Marrs, "L’oeuil incommode: Police Surveillance in Eighteenth-Century Paris."

Bingru Yue, "From wetland wilderness to ecological model: Reclamations of Chongming Island, Shanghai, from 1950 to 2020."  

PhD

Katelyn Arac, "War Criminals, Multiculturalism, and Post-war Liberalism in Canada."

James Andrew Bonar, "New Atlantis: A Venetian Vision of the Americas."

Christopher Coome, "Retracing Eternity: Freemasonry, Theosophy and the Occult Revival."

Nicholas Haisell, "The Useable Past: History and Collective Identity in Nova Scotia, 1835-1920." 

Paul David Johnston, "Readying to Call Down Thunderbolts: NATO Tactical Air Power During the Cold War, 1951-1990."

Claire Litt, "Le Gioie Della Vita: The Gemstones, Health, and Beauty of the Medici Women." 

Timothy Michael Olinski, "The Battle of Lepanto: The Image of the Turk in Renaissance Neo-Latin Poetry."

Peter Rayls, "'Informal Information': A Cultural History on NORAD's Creation 1944-1957." 

David White, "The Matter of Britain: How the Tudors Adapted British Historic Tradition to Legitimise their Dynasty."

PhD

Steven Barrow, “Breaking the Cycle: Oral Histories of Trauma & Resilience among Unhoused Queer & Trans Youth in Ontario, from the 1970s to the 2010s.”

John David More, “The Severity of This Service": Canadien Inland Mariners in the Early Post-Conquest Era, 1760 to 1817.”

David Quintyne, “In the Lie of this Multicultural Land: An Analysis of Barbados-Canada Relations, 1966-1990.”

Melissa Shaw, “Blackness and British 'Fair Play': Burgeoning Black Social Activism in Ontario and its Grassroots Responses to the Canadian Colour Line, 1919-1939.”

Hee Min (Julian) Yang, “Author and Audience: Creating `Sanctifiction' in Middle Byzantine Hagiography.”

Nan Zhou, “From the Physical Body to the Body Social: The Development of Enlightenment French Materialism."

PhD

Stefan Brown, “Enlightened Hobbism: Aspects of the Eighteenth-Century Reception of Hobbes in Britain."

Abdulkerim Kartal, “Crime and Punishment in the Patriarchal Court of Constantinople in Late Byzantium, 1261-1453."

Aprajita Sarcar, “Mythical Families: The Small Family Norm and Everyday Government of Population in India, 1954-1977.”

Daniel Meister, “The Racial Mosaic: Race, Cultural Pluralism, and Canadian Multiculturalism.”

Sanober Umar, “Racializing Subalternity: Space, Caste, and Gender in Muslim Mohallas of Lucknow (1947-1993)."

PhD

Matthew Barrett, “Ruin and Redemption: Losing and Regaining Honour in the Canadian Officer Corps, 1914 -1945."

• Listen to Matthew's interview on Episode 23 of the Alumni Archives Podcast
• Read Matthew's Alumni Story

Michael Couchman, "Apologists, Prohibitionists, and Systemic Inertia: The Origins of Global Drug Control, 1900-1945."

Sarah Dougherty, "All the World's a Stage: Local, National, and Transnational Histories of the Stratford Festival."

Angela Duffett, “Making Home: Performance, Sociability, and Identity in St John's, Newfoundland, 1810-1860."

• Listen to Angela's interview on Episode 6 of the Alumni Archives Podcast

Johan MacKechnie, “Migration and its Impact on the Household: Medieval Valencia after the Black Death Plague, 1348-1453.”

Heena Mistry, “Reconfiguring Empire Gently: Indians and Imperial Reform, 1917-1947.” 

• Listen to Heena's interview on Episode 5 of the Alumni Archives Podcast
• Read Heena's Alumni Story

Tabitha Renaud, “A Methodological Reconsideration of Early English-Indigenous Communication in Sixteenth Century Northeastern America."

• Listen to Tabitha's interview on Episode 8 of the Alumni Archives Podcast
• Read Tabitha's Alumni Story

Virginia Vandenberg, “'Transient Beauties': Early Nineteenth-Century British Women and the Construction of a Global Imperial Science Culture.” 

PhD

Connor Kelly, “Christian Manhood on Crusade: A Gender Analysis of Clerical Discourses on Latin Masculinities, 1095-1145."

Yun Liu, “Establishing Policies of Environmental Protection in Hubei, China, 1970 to 1990.”

Valerie Martin, "The Honest Man/L’Homme Honnête: The Colonial Gentleman, the Development of the Press, and the Race and Gender Discourses of the Newspapers in the British “Province of Quebec,” 1764-1791."

Douglas Nesbitt, “Days of Action: Ontario's extra-parliamentary opposition to the Common Sense Revolution, 1995-1998.”

Jackson Tait, “The English State Lottery-Loan and the Origins of Modern Public Finance in the Atlantic World, 1694-1826.” 

Jun Wang, “Shizhe Shengcun (Survival of the Fittest): The Development of Social Darwinist Ideas in China since 1865."