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Dissertations Defended 2000-2008

2008-2009

Name

Thesis Title

Supervisor

Sarah Amato “Curiosity Killed the Cat: Pets Personified in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century British Popular Culture”

L. Loeb

Ariel Beaujot "Accessorise It: A Study of the Manufacture, Design, and Meaning of Victorian Women's Accessories" L. Loeb
Erin Black “Spectres of Isolation?:  Debating America’s Place in the Global Arena, 1965-74” R. Pruessen
Jeffrey Bowersox "Raising Germans in the Age of Empire: Colonialism, Youth, and the Everyday" M. Eksteins
Heather Dichter Sporting Democracy: The Western Allies' Reconstruction of Germany Through Sport, 1944-1952" M. Eksteins
Julie Gilmour “The kind of people Canada wants": Canada and the Displaced Persons, 1943-1953 R. Bothwell
Fatima Imam "Institutionalizing Rajadharma:  Strategies of Svereignty in the 18th Century Jaipur" R. Birla
Steve Jobbitt "Remembering the Nation:  Geographer Ferenc Fodor and the Politics of National Memory in Trianon Hungary, 1920-1957" T. Lahusen
Tatjana Lichtenstein "Jewish Youth, Politics and Nationalism in Bohemia and Moravia, 1918-1938" D. Penslar
Steven Maddox "Healing the Wounds": Commemorations, Myths, and the Restoration of Leningrad's Imperial Heritage, 1941-1950 L. Viola
Heather Metcalfe "Comparative Study of Canadian and American Isolationism" R. Bothwell
David O'Brien Elite Service Culture at Court and in the Field: Fidelity, Generosity, and Honour in the Eighteenth-Century 'Maison Militaire du Roi' D. Higgs
Frances Timbers "From Faustus to Fortune-Telling:  Gender and Magic in Early Modern England" B. Todd
Kiyoshi Ueda Hiraizumi Kiyoshi (1894-1985):'Spiritual History' in the Service of the Nation in Twentieth Century Japan I. Radforth

2007-2008

Name

Thesis Title

Supervisor

Elizabeth Bernhardt "Ginevra Sforza Bentivoglio and Women's Culture in Renaissance Bologna"

N. Terpstra

Daniel McNeil "The devil made the mulatto": Race, Relgion and Respectability in the Black Atlantic, 1931-2005 P. Rutherford
Lori Woods "Pentients, Godly Charity and Public Sin: The Transformation of Civic Religion in Valencia, Spain, 1300-1450" M. Meyerson

2006-2007

Name

Thesis Title

Supervisor

Jennifer Carson

“It takes revolution and evolution:” New York City’s Women Laudry Workers in the First Half of the Twentieth Century

J. Ingham

Wendy Cuthbertson "Labour Goes to War: the CIO, the People’s War and the Construction of a “New Social Order,” Toronto, 1939-1945" I. Radforth
Jennifer DeSilva "Ritual Negotiations: Paris de' Grassi and the Office of Ceremonies under Pope Julius II and Leo X, 1504-1521" N. Terpstra
Ryan Gingeras "Imperial Killing Fields:  Revolution, Ethnicity and Islam in Western Anatolia, 1913-1938" Aksan
Christopher Pennington "The Continentalist Movement in the Politics of Canada and the United States, 1887-1894" R. Bothwell
John Michael Pettit "The Science of Deception:  The Human Sciences, The Law, And Reform in Early 20th Century America"

Brown/Murphy

Jamie Smith "Navigating Adsence: Law and the Family in Genoa, 1380-1420" N. Terpstra
David Mark Thompson "Delusions of Grandeur:  French Global Ambitions and the Problem of the Revival of Military Power, 1950-1954" D. Smyth

2005-2006

Last Name

Thesis Title

Supervisor

Paul Baxa "Fascist Rome: Text and Image" M. Eksteins
Heidi Bohaker

"Nindoodemag: Anishinaabe Identities in the Eastern Great Lakes Region, 1600-1900"

S. Van Kirk

Melanie Pascale Brunet

"Becoming Lawyers: Gender, Legal Education and Professional Identity Formation in Canada, 1920 - 1980"

C. Morgan

Clare Dale "War, Noblesse and Identity in Early Modern Champagne: A Study of the Recherche de la noblesse de Champagne (1673) J. Abray
Audra Diptee "Gender, Age and Ethnicity in teh Making of an Atlantic Slave Society, 1775-1807" M. Klein
Lesley Nicole Greenspan

"The Politics of Anti-Popery: Nation-hood, War, and Conquest in Interregnum England"

M. Finlayson

Valerie Hebert "The High Command Case: Context and Legacy, 1947-1958 M. Marrus
Denis Kozlov

"The Readers of Novyi Mir, 1945-1970: Twentieth-Century Experience and Soviet Historical Consciousness"

L. Viola

Gregor Joseph Kranjc "Between the Star and the Swastika: Slovene Collaboration and National Identity, 1941-1945" A. Rossos
David Lawrence "The Complete Soldier: Military Books and Military Culture in Early Stuart England, 1603-1645" Hall
Amy Gennet Milne-Smith "Clubland: Imagining the Nineteenth-Century London Club, Manliness, and Aristocratic Culture" L. Loeb
Deborah Neill

"Transnationalism in the Colonies: Cooperation, Rivalry, and Race in German and French Tropical Medicine, 1880-1930"

J. Retallack

Urs Obrist "Canada and the Federal Republic of Germany: A Nato-Relationship of Special Significance R. Bothwell
Alexander Opalinski

"Diplomatic Compromise: General Wladyslaw Sikorski's Soviet Policy and the Alliance of 30 July 1941 as a 'thrid-way' alternative for Polish-Soviet Relations during the Second World War"

P. Wrobel

G. Bruce Retallack "Drawing the Lines: Gender, Class, Race and Nation in Canadian Editorial Cartoons, 1840-1926 P. Rutherford
Lisa Todd

"Sexual Treason: State Surveillance of Immorality and Infidelity in World War I Germany"

J. Retallack

Dana Wessell Lightfoot

"Negotiating Agency: Labouring-Status Wivies and their Dowries in Early Fifteenth-Centurey Valencia"

M. Meyerson

 2004-2005

Last Name

Thesis Title

Supervisor

Hanne Rikke Andreassen

"Mass Media's construction of Popular Memory, Gender, Sexuality and Nationality"

Brown/Jennings

Michael Carroll

"Peacekeeping in the Sand: Canada and the United Nations Emergency Force"

R. Bothwell

Mark Crane

"A Conservative Voice in the French Renaissance: Jsse Bade (1462-1535)"

J. Farge

Heather DeHaan

"Stalinism in the Provinces: Nizhnii Novgorod in the 1930s"

L. Viola

Benedikt Feldges

"Visual Signs and Iconic Imaginations: The Genesis of a National Visual Language on American Television"

P. Rutherford

Christopher Hagerman

"Muse of Empire?  Classical Education, the Classical Tradition and British Conceptions of Empire, 1757-1902"

M. Israel

Sasha Mullally

"Unpacking the Black Bag: Rural Medicine in the Maritime Provinces and Northern New England States, 1900-1950"

M. Bliss

Andrea Geddes Poole

"Conspicuous Presumption: The National Gallery of Great Britain's Board of Trustees and the Decline of Aristocratic Authority 1890-1939"

L. Loeb

Jiri Smrz

"Symphonic Maxism: Appropriating the Heritage of Nineteenth Century Russian Music for the Culture of Stalinist Soviet Union 1932-1953"

W. Dowler

Katrina Srigley

"Working Lives and Simple Pleasures: Single, Employed Women in Depression-era Toronto, 1929-1939"

C. Strange

Donna Trembinski

"Narratives of (Non) Suffering in Dominican Legendaries: Explorations and Explanations"

I. Cochelin

 2003-2004

Last Name

Thesis Title

Supervisor

Tomas Balkelis

"In Search of a Native Realm: the Lithuanian Intelligentsia, 1883-1914"

P. Wrobel

Edwin Bezzina

"The Catholic and Protestant Families of Loudun, 1598-1665: A Case Study in the Social History of ""Religious Toleration"" in Seventeenth-Century France"

N. Terpstra/A. Greer (co-sponsors)

Adam Chapnick

"Redefining Canadian: A History of Canada and the Origins of the United Nations, 1941-1945"

R. Bothwell

Jack Fairey

"Religion, Identity, and Intercommunal Relations in the Metropolitanate of Thessaloniki: Orthodoxy and Diversity in an Ottoman City, 1788-1912"

P. Magocsi

Erwin Fink

"Region and Nation in Early Imperial Germany: The Dynamics of Popular Allegiances in the Period of Nation Building"

J. Retallack

Mark Loudon

"Cuthbert Tunstal: Humanist Bishop and Counsellor to Henry VIII: Patronage, Education and Ecclesiastical Administration in Tudor England"

K. Bartlett

Gillian Mitchell

"The Nation and National Identity in the Folk Music Revival Movement of Canada and United States from 1946 to 1980"

E. Brown

Reza Pirbhai

"Antagonistic Utopias: A Cultural Approach to Mughal Polity and Muslim Nationalism"

M. Israel

Wendy Stross

"Magazines of Mortality: A Cultural History of the Obituary in Eighteenth-Century London"

J. Beattie

 2002-2003

Last Name

Thesis Title

Supervisor

Nadine Roth

"Collective Identity and the Landscape of Modern Urbanity: Berlin from Kaiserstadt to Weltstadt, 1871-1933"

M. Eksteins

Vivienne Poy

"Chinese Women in Canada: Comparison of Immigrants, mainly in British Columbia and Ontario before and After World War I"

R. Hayhoe

Jean Levesque

"The Post-World War II Stalinist Order in the Soviet Countryside: Labour Discipline and Collective Farm Life, 1945-1953"

L. Viola

Alisa Siegel

"An Unintended Haven: The Jews of Trinidad 1937 to 2003"

H. Troper

Jack Lipinsky

"The Progressive Wedge: the Organizational Behavior of Toronto Jewry, 1933-48"

H. Troper

Barrington Walker

"The Gavel and the Veil: 'Blackness' in Ontario Criminal Courts, 1858-1958"

F. Iacovetta

Thomas Hamilton

"Padres Under Fire: A Study of the Canadian Chaplain Services (Protestant and Roman Catholic) in the Second World War"

M. McGowan

David Goutor

"The Walls of Solidarity: The Mainstream Canadian Labour Movement and Immirgration Policy, 1872 to the Early 1930s"

I. Radforth

Lynne Griffin

"A Two-Way Street: The giving and receiving of pastoral care and relations between 13th & 14th century German speaking Dominican men & women."

J. Goering

Jacob Chima Korieh

"The State and the Peasantry: Agricultural Policy, Agricultural Crisis and Sustainability in the Igbo Region of Eastern Nigeria, 1900-1995"

M. Klein

Richard Raiswell

"Before the Company: English Perceptions of India, 1400-1600"

K. Bartlett

Tracey McDonald

"Through the Windo of Village Crime, Riazan Russia, 1921-1930"

L. Viola

Jerzy Borzecki

"The Riga Peace Treaty of 1921 in Light of the Polish and Soviet Concepts of Ethnic Arrangement of the Borderlands"

P. Wrobel

 2001-2002

Last Name

Thesis Title

Supervisor

Blaine Chiasson

"Administering the Colonizer: The Chinese Takeover of Russian Harbin, 1919-1932"

T. Brook

Lisa Mar

"Canada's Civil Rights Movement: A Chinese Canadian Perspective"

T. Brook

Hilary Earl

"Accidental Justice: The Trial of Otto Ohlendorf and the Einsatzgruppen Leaders , September 1947-April 1948 in the American Zone of Occupation, Germany"

M. Marrus

Colin Mitchell

"Growth of Institutional Diplomacy in Safavid Iran, 1501-1629"

M. Subtelny

Robert Hanks

"Culture Versus Diplomacy: Clemenceau and Anglo-American Relations during the First World War"

D. Higgs

Rebecca Wittmann

"Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial 1963-65 in Historical Perspective"

M. Marrus

Kathleen Britt Rasmussen

"Canadian Foreign Economic Policy, 1944-1947"

R. Bothwell

Eva Plach

"Building the Moral Nation: The 'Sanacja', Imponderables and Experiments in Nation-Building in the Second Polish Republic"

P. Wrobel

 2000-2001

Last Name

Thesis Title

Supervisor

Alison Kirk-Montgomery

"Courting Madness: Insanity and Testimony in Victorian Ontario"

I. Radforth

Eona Karakacili

"Peasants, Productivity and Profit in the Open Fields of England: A Study of Economic and Social Development"

J. Raftis

Kevin Siena

"Gender, Poverty and the Pox: Venereal Disease and London Hospitals, 1600-1800"

P. Mazumdar

Susan Lewthwaite

"Law and Authority in Upper Canada:  The Justices of the Peace, 1800-1840"

I. Radforth

Alexander Prusin

"War and National Conflict in Eastern Galicia, 1914-1920: The Evolution of Modern Antisemitism"

P. Wrobel

Joseph Berkovits

"Prison Culture in Ontario: 1875-1915"

J. Phillips

Catherine Carstairs

"Hop Heads and Hypes: Drug Use, Regulation and Resistance in Canada, 1920-1961"

F. Iacovetta

Timothy Jenks

"Patriotism, Culture Politics and the Heroes of the Royal Navy, 1793-1815"

R. Helmstadter

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