Graduate Student Research

All completed MA and PhD theses from 2008 on can be found in the History Department's Institutional Repository in the library.

PhD and MA degrees completed 2010 - present

2022

      
Lyall, Gordon PhD Turning the Tide: Clams and Colonialism in the Salish Sea, 1925-1994 Jason Colby
Flechl, Katy MA “Man’s Reasonable Companion:” Scottish Enlightenment Rhetoric and Female Education Discourse in Revolutionary America Rachel Cleves
Hayes, Nathaniel MA Why won’t the pieces fit: Uncovering Deviations in the Compensation Awarded to Japanese Canadians at the Bird Commission Jordan Stanger-Ross
Lessard, Kelsey MA Malaria and Colonial Development Projects in India, 1927-1935 Elizabeth Vibert
Mrozewski, Josephine (Jo)  MA Inuit, Tuberculosis, and Political Determinants of Health Penny Bryden
Pearce, Anne-Marie MA Qallunology of an Arctic Whaling Encounter: An Inuk’s Transatlantic Voyage, 1839 to 1840 Peter Cook
Tate, Dax MA “There must be neither rich nor poor”: The Role of Economic Inequality in the French Revolution Jill Walshaw
Van Der Meer, Kästle MA “When I Resisted Him, I Didn’t Know What He’s Going to Do to Me”: Jewish Resistance to Sexualized Violence in Nazi Forced Labour, Concentration, and Death Camps Kristin Semmens
Zec, Milan MA The Ghost of the Balkans: Defining and Deconstructing "Balkanism" Serhy Yekelchyk
Cho, Sung Hak MA/PUHI How to Teach Historical Injustice in the Contemporary History of South Korea major research paper and film prospectus documentary film about Chun Tae-il Jordan Stanger-Ross
Hadley, Cassandra MA/PUHI Emily Eden's Travels in India 1836-1842 - digital map link: https://chadley.opened.ca/  Lynne Marks
Johnston, Jessie MA/PUHI Performing Heritage: The Use of Performance in Public History Spaces Kristin Semmens
McClure, Jacquelyn MA/PUHI Exhibiting Emily - An exhibition catalogue and major research paper which discusses change over time within the curation and exhibition history of Emily Carr's artwork. Elizabeth Vibert
Richard, Aimee MA/PUHI Whale Watching in the City Jason Colby

2021

      
Semmens, Justine PhD Sex Crime Appeals at the Parlement of Paris, 1564-1655 Sara Beam
Cunningham, Timothy MA THESIS Cultural Social Political Thought Program Beasts in the Garden City: Animals, Humans and Settlement on Canada’s West Coast Jason Colby
Eccelston, Allison MA THESIS The Uniform of the Lower Fraser Fishing Authority: Case Study of a Material Artifact John Lutz
Greenup, Erica MA THESIS Living Feminism and Leaving Catholicism in Victoria, BC since the 1960s Lynne Marks
Snidal, Michelle MA THESIS Rape in Revolutionary America, 1760-1815 Rachel Cleves
Strandlund, Tyson MA THESIS Cultural Social Political Thought Program An “Empire” Without Imperialism? A Study of the Soviet-Colonial Dialectic from the October Revolution to its Defeat Neilesh Bose
Archibald, William MA Public History Stream A Path Less Traveled: Lessons Learned Through My Journey in Public History Wendy Wickwire
McGillivray, Liam MA Public History Stream History, Fiction and Fantasy: Fantasy Literature’s Contribution to Historical Understanding - Fantasy Short Stories on World War Two Tom Saunders 
Sgromo, Francesca MA Public History Stream Dishing on Food Scholarship: A historiographical analysis of the way food has been analyzed in different fields. Includes film titled: Let's Talk About Food (History) TV Elizabeth Vibert
deMontmorency, Chantelle  MA Major Research Paper “A Satanic Mockery of Womanhood” : Representations of Female Sexuality in Nazi-Era Magazines  Tom Saunders 
Fleischhaccker, Christian MA Major Research Paper Louis Douglas, Re-Fashioning Black America during the German Jazz Age. The Position of Black Performers in the Entertainment Industry of the Weimar Republic  Tom Saunders 
van Es, Joshua  MA Major Research Paper How the Other Half Lives: Moral Environmentalism, Slums, and the World War Two Dispossession of Japanese Canadians  Jordan Stanger-Ross 
Weicker, Christopher  MA Major Research Paper Secret Warriors in the Pacific War: Chinese Canadians and the Special Operations Executive, 1944-45  Zhongping Chen 

2020

      
Kuo, Yen-Kuang PhD  The History and Politics of Taiwan's February 28 Incident, 1947-2008  Zhongping Chen 
Vogt, David PhD  "In the Best Interest of the Indians": An Ethnohistory of the Canadian Department of Indian Affairs, 1897-1913  John Lutz 
Antoniazzi, Taylor MA THESIS Books By Women, For Women, About Women: An Oral History of Everywomans Books in Victoria, B.C., 1975-1997  Lynne Marks 
Ballin, Jonathan  MA THESIS Stopping the “World’s Greatest Threat”: Canadian Policy and Rhetoric towards the Iranian Nuclear Program during Stephen Harper’s Conservative Government, 2006-2015  Martin Bunton 
Dumont, Robert  MA THESIS Dreaming of Empire: German Imperialism, The Use of Othering and the Evolution of the Nazis’ Ideological Imperialism from Bismarck to Hitler  Oliver Schmidtke 
Fitzgerald, Kyla  MA THESIS An Unjust Execution: A Case Study of Inouye Kanao, the Kamloops Kid  John Price/Lynne Marks
Forest-Hammond, Elise  MA THESIS A Human History of Tl’chés,1860-1973  John Lutz 
Gentz, Fred  MA THESIS Bridging in Shanghai’s Commercial Revolution: Compradors, Bureaucratic Merchants, and Returned Overseas Businesspeople as Capitalist Middlemen in Late Qing and Early Republican China  Guoguang Wu 
Huijsmans, Matthew  MA THESIS George Padmore, Jawaharlal Nehru, and Metropolitan Perceptions of Nazism/Fascism and Colonialism /Imperialism in the 1930s-40s  Neilesh Bose 
Johnston, Andrew  MA THESIS “Arbitrary and Cruel Punishments:” Trends in Royal Navy Courts Martial, 1860-1869  David Zimmerman 
King, Georgia  MA THESIS Cultural Social Political Thought Program “National Housekeeping:” Rethinking Nationalism through the Irish Housewives Association  Lynne Marks 
MacPherson, Sean  MA THESIS Rising and Remembering: Ktunaxa History and Settler Mythology in the East Kootenay  John Lutz 
Ramprashad, Oakley  MA THESIS From Spaces of Mercy to Sites of Sanctuary: A Historical Survey of Canada’s Federal Prison Libraries  Jordan Stanger-Ross 
Reid, Darren  MA THESIS The Aborigines' Protection Society as an Imperial Knowledge Network: the Writing and Representation of Black South African Letters to the APS, 1879-1888  Elizabeth Vibert 
Taekema, Sarah  MA THESIS Sir John A. Macdonald’s Influence on the Development of Canadian Indigenous Policy, 1844-1876  John Lutz 
Thombs, Paige  MA THESIS Cultural Social Political Thought Program Arc of the Covenant: The Evolution of Trinity Western University's Community Covenant as a Response to Secularization  Lynne Marks 
Youmans, Gregory  MA THESIS Officers and Gentlemen? Class, Values, and the British Army’s Officer Corps, 1871-1901  David Zimmerman 
Abma, Elyse  MA Public History Stream Anatomy of an Episode: A Historiography of Public History, Podcasting Oral Histories, and the Importance of Storytelling  Jordan Stanger-Ross 
Hughes, Katie  MA Public History Stream "To Fish as Formerly" - Reef Net Fisheries Exhibition at Legacy Gallery  John Lutz 
Moffatt, Aidan  MA Public History Stream From the Wild West to the Western Front: The Role of Military Service in Western Canadian Cultural Remembrance  Brian McKercher 
Worthing, Jeannine  MA Public History Stream “They Have Proved Themselves to Be Men”: Canadian Soldiers and the Embodiment of Manhood in the First World War  Kristin Semmens 
Croutch, Samuel  MA Major Research Paper The House of Commons, English Subjects in the French Service and Foreign Policy in Restoration England  Andrea McKenzie 
Rajendran, Janeththa  MA Major Research Paper Bimaadiziwin (Working Towards the Good Life): How Restoule V. Canada (2018) Reinvigorated the Historical and Ongoing Nature of Legal Pluralism in Canada Penny Bryden

2019

      
Graduate Degree Thesis/Project Title Supervisor
Kempling, James PhD A City Goes to War David Zimmerman
Davey, James MA THESIS A Bridge to Nowhere: British Columbia’s Capitalist Nature and the Carmanah Walbran War in the Woods (1988-1994) Richard Rajala/ Kara Shaw
Han, Liang MA THESIS Chinese Religious Life in Victoria, BC, 1858-1930 Lynne Marks
Huang, Hairong MA THESIS Popular culture and the political mobilization of Guangdong elites in modern China and the Chinese diaspora, 1839-1911 Zhongping Chen
Kelly, Eoin MA THESIS The Unhoused: Homelessness in Early-Twentieth Century British Columbia Eric Sager
Koehn, Drew MA THESIS Cultural Social Political Thought Program Masks of Hegemony: Populism, Neoliberalism, and Welfare Narratives in British Columbia, 1975-2004 Lynne Marks/ Greg Blue
Lundeberg, Faelan MA THESIS The People’s War in N’wamitwa 1989-1994 Elizabeth Vibert
Lynch, David MA THESIS 'Claiming Refuge' A Settler's Unsettling History of Hot Springs Cove John Lutz
Mowatt, Gina MA THESIS A Brief history of 19th-20th century Genocidal Indian Education in British Columbia and Oral History of Gitxsan Resistance and Resurgence Elizabeth Vibert
Clark, Kelly MA Public History Stream “Atom and Eve on the Silver Screen” and documentary film titled “Happy Endings” Jason Colby
Fuhrman, Sydney MA Public History Stream  "Propaganda of the “People’s War”: The History and Presentation of British Domestic Propaganda of World War II" Mariel Grant
Holder, Samantha MA Public History Stream  “The Wrong Side of the Blanket”  Andrea McKenzie
Levine, Jill MA Public History Stream “The Chinese Nation in Miniature”: Constructions of Chineseness in America’s Museums and World’s Fairs (1829-1915) Zhongping Chen
Lu, Wenjuan MA Public History Stream  "Jewish-Indigenous Relations in Victoria, 1858-1912"  Lynne Marks/ Kathryn Bridge
Russell, Pia MA Public History Stream  "Whose History? A Reconnaissance of British Columbia’s First Fifty Years of History Textbooks, 1871-1921"  Lynne Marks 
Ruston, Nate MA Major Research Paper “There are people in all walks of life who are using this substance…”: Drugs, Discourse, and the Student Counterculture at the Le Dain Commission, 1969-70 Penny Bryden

2018
Graduate Degree Thesis/Project Title Supervisor
Bashir, Kamran PhD The Evolution of Qur’anic Hermeneutics in British India, 1857-1947: Projects, Ideas, and Trends Deryl Maclean/ Neilesh Bose
Fielding, Stephen PhD Sporting Multiculturalism: Toronto’s Postwar European Immigrants, Gender, Diaspora, and the Grassroots Making of Canadian Diversity  Jordan Stanger-Ross
Hunfeld, Christa PhD Through a Glasse Darkly: Secrecy and Access to Arcane Knowledge in Seventeenth-Century England Andrea McKenzie
Murray, Derek PhD A "Colony of Unrequited Dreams"? Settler Colonialism and the Failed-Settlement Narrative in the Ottawa-Huron Tract, 1850-1910 Eric Sager
Bullman, Kalin MA THESIS Not the Hole Story: Exclusivity at the Colwood Golf and Country Club, 1913-1934 Christine O'Bonsawin
Cameron, Max MA THESIS Patriotism, Internationalism, and Anarchy: the Anarchist Response to the Boulanger Affair Robert Alexander
Deacon, Deborah MA THESIS Seduced and Dying: The Sympathetic Trope of the Fallen Woman in Early and Mid-Victorian Britain, c. 1820-1870 Simon Devereaux
Freeman-Orr, Chandler MA THESIS “Et nous aussi nous sommes Citoyennes”: Perceptions of Women’s Political Activity in the French Revolution, 1789-1793 Jill Walshaw
Glover, Alexie MA THESIS “I know what I am and what I am not”: Heterosexual Male Cross-Dressing in Postwar America, 1960-1990 Rachel Cleves
Griffin, Isobel MA THESIS Caging the Seas: Cetacean Capture and Display at Marineland of the Pacific, 1954-1967 Jason Colby
Lidstone, Mike MA THESIS The Caravan of Deplorables: Perspectives on Romani Anglophobia in Late Modern Britain Mitch Lewis Hammond
Mercier, Courtenay MA THESIS These kind of flesh-flies shall not suck up or devour their husbands estates: Married Women's Separate Property Rights in England, 1630-1835 Andrea McKenzie
Miller, Noah MA THESIS As the times want him to decide: the lives and times of Florence Maybrick, 1891-2015 Simon Devereaux
Petrov, Dmitry MA THESIS An Unsuccessful Mission: The Short-Lived Alliance of the Soviet Union with Warlord Feng Yuxiang, 1925-1927. Zhongping Chen
Sherman, Jake MA THESIS They are a Scum Community Who Have Organized: The Georgia Straight, freedom of expression, and Tom Campbell's War on the Counterculture,1967-1972 Jason Colby
Williamson, Shaun MA THESIS Cultural Social Political Thought Program Creating the American Carceral State: The Evolution of Liberal Criminology Jordan Stanger-Ross
Gilbert, Catherine MA Public History Stream "A Long Time Coming: Safeguarding Wilderness in Strathcona Provincial Park." Richard Rajala
Hogan, Alison MA Major Research Paper Ireland: Nationalist Ideology on the Road to Independence 1912-1921. Simon Devereaux
Bristow, Julia MA Major Research Paper “Muslim Immigrants in Canada: Linking and Legitimizing Identity and Security.”  Jordan Stanger-Ross
Kostrich, Adam MA Major Research Paper “The Imperial Species: Masculinity & Necropolitics in Frank Buck’s Fiction.”  Jason Colby
Russell, Kaitlin MA Major Research Paper “Voices of Dissent: Print Media Discourse of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, 1986-2001.” Lynne Marks
Wiltshire Sal MA Major Research Paper “I’m as Big a Gun Among the Men as Any of ‘Em”: Female Masculinity in the Nineteenth-Century American West.  Rachel Cleves

2017
Graduate Degree Thesis/Project Title Supervisor
Falconer, Thirstan PhD “An Ethnic Coalition: the Liberal Party of Canada and the Engagement of Ethnocultural Communities, 1959-1974.” Penny Bryden
Harvey, Megan PhD Living Well Through Story: Land and Narrative Imagination in Indigenous-state relations in British Columbia  John Lutz
O'Shea, Iain PhD The Anatomy of Panic: Naval scares in late nineteenth-century Britain David Zimmerman
Addie, Sean MA THESIS “Go back to the capital and stay there”: The Mining Industry’s Resistance to Regulatory Reform in British Columbia 1972-2005 Richard Rajala
Bozanich, Stevan MA THESIS “The Mobilisation of an Invented Tradition: The Serbian Warrior Hajduk, 1804-1995” Serhy Yekelchyk
Buddenhagen, Jeremy MA THESIS Tsemsyaenhl-get - Sixteen Battles in the Military History of the Nine Allied Tsimshian Tribes John Lutz
Butler, M. Blake MA THESIS “Fishing on Porpoise:” The Origins and Early Years of the Tuna-Porpoise Controversy Jason Colby
Fabiani, Christina MA THESIS Cultural Social Political Thought Program (Im)Permanent Body Ink: The Fluid Meanings of Tattoos, Deviance, and Normativity In Twentieth-Century American Cultures Rachel Cleves/ Steve Garlick
Fehr, Paige MA THESIS Psychiatry and Eugenics: The Classification and Diagnosis of Female Patients in British Columbia's Psychiatric Institutions, 1918-1933 Lynne Marks
Findlay, Kaitlin MA THESIS The Bird Commission, Japanese Canadians, and the challenge of reparations in the wake of state violence Jordan Stanger-Ross
Gow, Ezekiel MA THESIS The Potato and the Nail: Reading The Fort Langley Post Journals and Europeanization on the Banks of the Fraser River 1827-1830 Elizabeth Vibert
Hoskins, John (Jack) MA THESIS Online Corruption-Reporting, Internet Censorship, and the Limits of Responsive Authoritarianism  Guoguang Wu
Miskulin, Matthew MA THESIS Chaos and Confusion: British Oversight of Russian Repatriations in Postwar Southern Austria Serhy Yekelchyk
Smallshaw, Brian MA THESIS The Dispossession of Japanese Canadian Land on Saltspring Island John Price
Thiessen, Leroy MA THESIS Protesting Smoke: A Social and Political History of Air Pollution in Vancouver” Eric Sager
Van Genderen, Kate MA THESIS Evelyn Cameron: A Study in Three Parts of Her Photography, Diary, and Life in Montana Rachel Cleves 
Golding, Lesley MA Public History Stream "Blacks in Fur Country: Black Participation in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth century British North American Fur Trade" Elizabeth Vibert
Gunton, Tiffany MA Public History Stream  “Museum Learning in the Digital Age”  Jordan Stanger-Ross
Topfer, Stephen MA Public History Stream Gallery exhibit titled “Mirror with Memory”   John Price
Liu, Yanshuo MA Major Research Paper “Canton and the Maritime Fur Trade: The Development of Early Transpacific Connections, 1770s--1820s.”  Zhongping Chen
Trafford, John MA Major Research Paper “Defining History and Defending Tradition: The Tory Use of the History of the Hereditary Succession in the Exclusion Crisis, 1679-1681.”  Andrea McKenzie

2016
Graduate Degree Thesis/Project Title Supervisor
Olsen, Sylvia PhD “Making Poverty: A History of On-reserve Housing Programs, 1930-1996”.  John Lutz
Van Vugt (Lebel), Sara PhD "Beauty on the Job: Visual Representation, Bodies, and Canada's Women War Workers, 1939-1945".  Lynne Marks
Biagioni, Samuel MA THESIS “Homemade Italianita: Italian Foodways in Postwar Vancouver”.  Jordan Stanger-Ross
Kort, Meghan MA THESIS “The Girls Who Spoke for God: Vocation and Discernment in Seventeenth-Century France”.  Sara Beam
Murray, Galen MA THESIS "Still German: The Case of Aussiedler and the Framing of German National Identity through Citizenship in Periods of Transition, 1945-1955 and 1989-2000."  Oliver Schmidtke
Posey, Daniel MA THESIS “Gateway to the Stars:” Science, Civic Identity, and Tourism at the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, Victoria B.C. 1903-1941.  Richard Rajala
Seidel, Jennifer MA THESIS “Cultivating the Three Sisters: Haudenosaunee Foodways and Cultural Change in the Fur Trade Economy”.  Peter Cook
Trimble, Sabina MA THESIS “Making Maps Speak: The The'wá:lí Community Digital Mapping Project”.  John Lutz
Weller, Jonathan MA THESIS ”Living on ‘Scenery and Fresh Air’: Land-use Planning and Environmental Regulation in the Gulf Islands”.  Richard Rajala
Cantarutti, Brent MA Major Research Paper “British Columbia’s High-Modernist Fallacy: The Columbia River Treaty Dams”.  Penny Bryden

2015

      
Graduate Degree Thesis/Project Title Supervisor
Bradley, Patrick MA THESIS “Average mail…Lots of routine”: Arthur Wellsley Vowell and the Administration Of Indian Affairs in British Columbia 1889-1910 John Lutz
Chapco, Stephen MA THESIS Traitors, Harlots and Monsters: The Anti-Aristocratic Caricatures of the French Revolution Jill Walshaw
Fitzgerald, Mickey MA THESIS The Rise and Demise of J. H. Todd and Sons, British Columbia's Enduring Independent Salmon Canners John Lutz
Hughes, Emma MA THESIS “A perfect catalogue of all the Rarities”: Nehemiah Grew’s Musæum Regalis Societatis and Cataloguing Culture in late Seventeenth-Century England Andrea McKenzie
McKee, Taylor MA THESIS Sport, Not Savagery: Resistance to Hockey Violence in BC Media, 1875-1911 Christine O'Bonsawin
Trainor, Janet MA THESIS The Personal and the Political: Canadian Lesbian Oral Histories, 1970-2010 Lynne Marks/Annalee Lepp
Bajric, Whitney MA Major Research Paper On Experiencing Place: A Biography of a Stó:lõ Family’s Fishing Site in the Fraser River Canyon in British Columbia John Lutz
Brown, Sean MA Major Research Paper Homosexual Organizations, and Identity formation in Weimar Germany Tom Saunders
Harry, Deryck MA Major Research Paper Redefining Treason in the Seventeenth Century: the Trials of Thomas Wentworth the Earl of Strafford, and William Howard the Viscount Stafford Andrea McKenzie
Leriger de la Plante, Alexis MA Major Research Paper Identity! Nelvana and the Quest for Nationhood Penny Bryden
Park, Evan MA Major Research Paper The Nationalist Fleet: Radical Nationalism and The Imperial German Navy before World War One Perry Biddiscombe
Rzeplinski, Esther MA Major Research Paper “Although I’m just 12 I’m sure I could do a lot for you…”: Political Participation in Children’s Letters to Pierre Trudeau, March-May 1968 Jordan Stanger-Ross

2014

      
Graduate Degree Thesis/Project Title Supervisor
Hilmy, Hanny PhD “Sovereignty, Peacekeeping, and the United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF), Suez 1956-1967: Insiders’ Perspectives” Greg Blue
Thiessen, Wesley PhD The Formation of the Mudawwana Andrew Rippin
Cunliffe, Sydney MA THESIS British Imperialism and Tea Culture in Asia and North America, 1650-1950 Zhongping Chen
Gibbard, Judith MA THESIS Instruments in God's Hands: American Protestant Attitudes to Suffering, 1908-1955 Lynne Marks
Hamilton, Sheila MA THESIS Panamanian Politics and Panama's Relationship with the United States Leading up to the Hull-Alfaro Treaty Jason Colby
Karmel, Ezra MA THESIS We Are All Jordan: The Dynamic Definition of "We" in the Hashemite Kingdom (The Effects of Identity Precariousness on the Participation of Palestinian-Jordanians) Martin Bunton
Kier, Gregory MA THESIS The Gumboot Navy: Securing or Sundering British Columbia David Zimmerman
Rundans, Valdis MA THESIS Tearing Apart the Bear and British Military Involvement in the Construction of Modern Latvia: A History Untold Serhy Yekelchyk
Sawyer, Bonnie MA THESIS A Critical History of Social Work, The Canadian Salvation Army, and Female Sexual "Deviance" in Canada, 1886-1940  Lynne Marks
Kempling, Annelise MA Major Research Paper Museums and the Future of Education: Best Practices for Developing and Facilitating Engaging Experiences with History for Children and Youth John Lutz

2013

      
Graduate Degree Thesis/Project Title Supervisor
Blanding, Lee PhD “Re-branding Canada: The Origins of Canadian Multiculturalism Policy, 1945-1974” Penny Bryden
Schoeber, Axel PhD “Gerard Roussel: An Irenic Religious Change Agent” Sara Beam
Burton-Vulovic, Nicholas MA THESIS "Contra-Dictory: Threat Perception and U.S. Policy toward Nicaragua, 1979-1990” Jason Colby
Chen, Dennis MA THESIS The Western Perception of Empress Dowager Cixi Zhongping Chen
Fidler, Lacy MA THESIS Newspaper Representations of Queen Victoria’s Agency During the Hastings Scandal and Bedchamber Crisis of 1839 Simon Devereaux
Guenette, Salam MA THESIS "Franco-British Diplomatic Relations Transformed? The Socio-Political Impact of the Émigrés’ Presence in Britain” Robert Alexander
Ihmels, Melanie MA THESIS The Mischiefmakers Woman's Movement Development in Victoria, British Columbia 1850-1910 Lynne Marks/Annalee Lepp
Lyall, Gordon MA THESIS "The Pig and the Postwar Dream: The San Juan Island Dispute, 1853-1872, in History and Memory” Eric Sager
Noddings, Timothy MA THESIS "What it Means to be Modern: A Messy History of Mass-Media Revivals in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 1875-1920” Rachel Cleves
Ruch, Julie MA THESIS "On Comradely Persuasion and the Discursive Practice of Soviet Thought, 1953-1958” Serhy Yekelchyk
Van Mulligen, Kiefer MA THESIS "Which Side (of the Border) Are You On? Nationalism, Ideology, and the Hegemonic Struggle of the Seattle and Winnipeg General Strikes of 1919” Eric Sager
Bedard, Ella MA Major Research Paper "Bringing Home all that has Left": The Skulkayn/Stalo Heritage Project and the Stó:lō Cultural Revival John Lutz
Kennedy, Helen MA Major Research Paper “Fearsome Limbo”: The Media’s Characterization of Psychological Trauma during the Conflict in Kosovo, 1998-1999 Mitch Lewis-Hammond
Keresztesi, Orion MA Major Research Paper "The Department of Indian Affairs Got a Hold of It": Interpreting DIA Records and the Surrender of Scowlitz Indian Reserve One John Lutz
Smith, Bryan MA Major Research Paper Fusing Technological and Pedagogical Innovation - An Analysis of QR Codes as facilitators of Historical Thinking in Museums John Lutz

2012

      
Graduate Degree Thesis/Project Title Supervisor
Bridge, Kathryn PhD “Being Young in the Country: Settler Children and Childhood in British Columbia and Alberta, 1860-1925” Lynne Marks
Chira-Pascanut, Constantin PhD “The Schuman Plan: Vision, Power and Persuasion” Oliver Schmidtke
Pasolli, Lisa PhD “Talkin’ Day Care Blues”: Motherhood, Work, and Child Care in Twentieth-Century British Columbia Penny Bryden
Ainsley, Jill MA THESIS The Ordeal of Sarah Chesham Angus Mclaren
Clemo, Elizabeth MA THESIS "Professional Do-Gooding: British Women's Philanthropy in Colonial India, 1870-1900" Elizabeth Vibert
Forseille, Ashley MA THESIS “Reading Love Between the Lines”: Religion, Courtship, and Correspondence in the Salvation Army, 1906-1910 Elizabeth Vibert/Lynne Marks
Hill, Elina  MA THESIS Cultural Social Political Thought Program Indigenous Knowledge Practices: A Study in Decolonization Wendy Wickwire
Hoffman, Martin MA THESIS "The Consequential Existence of Indigenous People": Zionist Settlement in 1920s Palestine Martin Bunton
Johnston, Joshua MA THESIS “From Aestheticism to Naturalism: A Reassessment of Nietzsche's 'postmodernist' Philosophy of History” Tom Saunders
Kempling, James MA THESIS Birth of a Regiment: Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, 1914-1919 David Zimmerman
Logan, Matthew MA THESIS "We Say All the Real Things.  And We Believe Them:" The Establishment of the United States Information Agency, 1953.   Jason Colby
Madsen, Kim MA THESIS “Guernsey Children and the Second World War” Perry Biddiscombe
Richards, Tylor MA THESIS “(Re-) Imagining Germanness: Victoria’s Germans and the 1915 Lusitania Riot” John Lutz
Richdale, Ryan MA THESIS West Coast Aerodromes: The Impact of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan on Delta and Abbotsford, British Columbia David Zimmerman
Sellers, Marki MA THESIS Wearing the Mantle on Both Shoulders': An Examination of the Development of Cultural Change, Mutual Accommodation, and Hybrid Forms at Fort Simpson/Laxtgu'alaams, 1834-1862 Lynne Marks / John Lutz
Souidan, Racan MA THESIS "The Duties of Neutrality": The Impact of the American Civil War on British Columbia and Vancouver Island, 1861-1865 John Lutz
Clinton-Baker, Ben MA Major Research Paper Reverend C. M. Tate and the Campaign for “Indian Rights” in British Columbia, 1909-16 Wendy Wickwire
Conway, Rachel MA Major Research Paper "Reservations to Citizenship: The Voting Rights of Status Indians, 1950-1960" Penny Bryden
Craib, Patrick MA Major Research Paper “Contracting the Coast: Rationalization and Flexibility in the BC Coastal Logging Industry, 1930-1990” Richard Rajala
Reid, Andrew MA Major Research Paper Not So Secret Societies: Fraternities and Masculine Identity in Victorian Victoria 1860-1890 Eric Sager

2011

      
Graduate Degree Thesis/Project Title Supervisor
Eidinger, Andrea PhD What My Mother Taught Me: The Construction of Canadian Jewish Womanhood in Montreal, 1945-1980 Lynne Marks
Nantais, Simon PhD Koreans and the Politics of Nationality and Race During the Allied Occupation of Japan, 1945-1952 John Price
Reid, Heather PhD INTD The Story of  Asneth and its Literary Relations: The Bride of Christ Tradition in Late Medieval England Andrew Rippin/Kathryn Kerby-Fulton (Eng)
Bowe, Meghan MA THESIS Framing Memory: The Bombings of Dresden, Germany in Narrative, Discourse and Commemoration after 1945 Oliver Schmidtke
Charlie, Lianne MA THESIS History in all the Wrong Places: Twentieth-century British Columbia History from an Indigenous Perspective Wendy Wickwire
Corbeil, Patrick MA THESIS A Godless Fable: Atheism and the Philosophy of Bernard Mandeville Paul Wood
Hough, Adam MA THESIS Musically Expressed Theology and the Golden Age of Martin Luther’s Reformation Mitch Lewis Hammond
Johnson, Carlee MA THESIS Remembering "the American Island of Oahu": Hawai`i Under Military Rule, 1941-1945 Jason Colby
Kuncewicz, Lisa MA THESIS “In this book there is nothing of ours”: Women’s Spiritual Biographies in Seventeenth-Century France Sara Beam
Miro, Jacopo MA THESIS Visions of False Creek: Urban Development and Industrial Decline in Vancouver, 1960-1980 Jordan Stanger-Ross
Timmons, Daniel (DJ) MA THESIS ’Evangelines of 1946’: The Exile of Nikkei from Canada to Occupied Japan John Price
Trewin, Meaghan MA THESIS Cuisine, Customs, and Character: Culinary Tradition and Innovation in Enlightenment France Sara Beam
Yeo, Walter MA THESIS William Dawbarn: A Victorian Life Mariel Grant
Copage, Caitlin MA Major Research Paper The Violence of Innocents: Children in the Wars of Religion in France Sara Beam
Gower, Katrina MA Major Research Paper Outcast and Ungrievable: A Historical Account of the Negation of Romani Civil Rights in Germany Oliver Schmidtke
MacLeod, Bryan MA Major Research Paper Something to Declare: Customs and Border Policy in Canada 1990-2011 Penny Bryden
O'Reilly, Liam MA Major Research Paper “Missionaries and Women in Victoria’s Chinatown: The Establishment and Evolution of the Chinese Rescue Home, 1886-1900” Zhongping Chen
Rasmi, Adam MA Major Research Paper Colonialism, Cotton, Khedives and Cadastres: British Efforts to Survey the Lands of ‘Egypt,’ 1878-1907 Martin Bunton

2010

      
Graduate Degree Thesis/Project Title Supervisor
Gordon, Hugh PhD Cheers and Tears: Relations Between Canadian Soldiers and German Civilians, 1944-1946 David Zimmerman
Ayers, Amber MA THESIS Introducing a Distinction Which Your Lordship Would Not Allow’: Official Debates on Agriculture Co-operatives as a Means of Dealing with Fellaheen Indebtedness in Palestine, 1929-1934 Martin Bunton
Chapman, Matthew MA THESIS The Evolution of Professional Aviation Culture in Canada: 1939-1945 David Zimmerman
Dove, Stephen MA THESIS The Reconstruction of Pharmacy Authority in British Columbia: 1965-1968 Mitch Lewis Hammond
Drury, Devon MA THESIS ’That Immense and Dangerous Sea’: Spanish Imperial Policy and Power During the Exploration  of the Salish Sea, 1790-1791 John Lutz
Erickson, Bailey MA THESIS Leave Your Men at Home:” Autonomy in the West German Women’s Movement, 1968-1978 Tom Saunders
Harrison, Stephen MA THESIS The Alternative Vote in British Columbia: Values Debates and Party Politics Penny Bryden
Horosko, Kendra MA THESIS Deliciously Detailed Narratives: The Use of Food in Stories of British War Lynne Marks
Hunfeld, Christa MA THESIS The Science of the Countenance”: Full-Bodied Physiognomy and the Cosmography of the Self in Seventeenth-Century England Andrea McKenzie
Jervis, Michael MA THESIS 'Finding' the Irish in British Columbia Using the 1881 Census of Canada Peter Baskerville
Morris, Samantha MA THESIS Mapping the Family Road Trip: The Automobile, the Family and Outdoor Recreation in Postwar British Columbia Rick Rajala
Ono-George, Meleisa MA THESIS The Planter’s Fictions: Identity, Intimacy and the Negotiation of Power in Colonial Jamaica Elizabeth Vibert
Robbins, Margaret MA THESIS Re-Imagining S’ólh Téméxw: Tunnel Narratives in a Stó:lõ Spiritual Geography John Lutz
Robitaille, Mathieu MA THESIS Redefining the Monarchiens: the Failure of Moderation in the French Revolution Rob Alexander
Adams, Neil MA Major Research Paper Maple Leaf Wonders’: the N.R.M.A. Service During the Second World War David Zimmerman
Fraser, Crystal MA Major Research Paper Cultural Perplexities: Non-Aboriginal Representations of Dene Women In the Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Elizabeth Vibert
Groves, Nick MA Major Research Paper For God, For Country and for Himself: the Representations of Masculinity in the Clubmen Movements in Worcestershire, Dorset and Wiltshire during the English Civil War Andrea McKenzie
Loveless, Cameron MA Major Research Paper Nazi Ideology, the German Christian Movement, and British Military Government Action against the Movement after 1945 Perry Biddiscombe
Matthewson, Amy MA Major Research Paper Sporty, Sexy and Sage: Visual Representations and Social Expectations of Urban Women in China's Late Republican Era Greg BLue
Wong, Joyce MA Major Research Paper (Un)Satisfying Stories: The Relationship between Narrative Form and Social Commentary in Weimar Historical Films Tom Saunders