M.A. Theses and MRPs

Completed Research Projects

For more complete access to theses please visit the Library and Archives Canada and also Trent's Archives

2023 - 2022 - 2021 - 2020 - 2019 - 2018 - 2017- 2016 - 2015 - 2014 - 2013 - 2012 - 2011 - 2010 - 2009 - 2008 - 2007 - 2006 - 2005 - 2004 - 2003 - 2002 - 2001 - 2000 - 1999 - 1998 - 1997 - 1996 

2024 - THESES

Sharon Beaucage-Johnson

The Depiction of Indigenous Women in Crime Fiction Written by Non-Indigenous Authors
Supervisor: H. Nicol

Nicholas Van Beek

Trace of Blood: Sainte-Marie Among the Hurons After the Truth & Reconciliation Commission
Supervisor: J. Conolly

2024 - MAJOR RESEARCH PAPERS (MRPs)

Ethan Boyer

Incorporating Indigenous Land-based Pedagogy Into Canadian Education: An Analysis of the Role of Land-based Pedagogy in Reconciliation and Resurgence Based Education
Supervisor: B. Wall

Alison Scholl

Two Cultures, One Land: A Case Study Of The Trent Lands & Nature Areas Plan And The Michi Saagiig Anishnaabeg
Supervisor: D. Newhouse

2023 - THESES

Megan Hill

Queer Crip Generativity
Supervisor: M. Chazan

Evan Jamieson-Eckel

Navigating Erasure: Exploring the Limits and Potential of Indigenous Studies Within The Settler Colonial Academy Through Haudenosaunee Critical Self-Reflexivity
Supervisor: D. Newhouse

Jessica Scott

Exploring Access to the Arts for People with Disabilities in Peterborough-Nogojiwanong
Supervisor: N. Changfoot

2023 - MAJOR RESEARCH PAPERS (MRPs)

Megan Maceiras

Educational, Empowering and Inspiring: How Indigenous Women are Fighting Against The Crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and Advocating For Safety in Sex Work
Supervisor: N. Nichols

Luka Stojanovic

Counternarratives of Chronic Pain & Policy Possibilities: Exploring Complex Embodiment, Disability, and Sexuality in the Video Work of Panteha Abareshi
Supervisor: N. Changfoot

2022 - THESES

Alicia Carefoote

How Did We Get Here? Exploring the Socio‐Political Influences in Canadian Penitentiaries: 1800‐1955
Supervisor: P. W. Lackenbauer

Noodinong-Bemosed Christianson

Urban Anishinaabekwewag: (Re)Claiming our Traditional Roles and Responsibilities in Urban Spaces
Supervisor: J. Argue

Annie MacKillican

Oil is Thicker Than Justice: Environmental Violence in Lubicon Lake and the Alberta Tar Sands
Supervisor: J. Miron

2021 - THESES

Sandra Lamouche

Ê-Nitonahk Miyo-Pimâtisiwin (Seeking the Good Life) Through Indigenous Dance
Supervisor: M. Mumford

Dominique O'Bonsawin

Anishinaabemowin Teacher Perspectives of Indigenous Language Instruction in Nogojiwanong Public Schools
Supervisor: M. Lacombe

Madeline Porter

Examining Strategies of New Public Management in Homelessness Policy
Supervisor: K. Buccieri

2021 - MAJOR RESEARCH PAPERS (MRPS)

Kristin Jones

Evolution of an Issue: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
Supervisor: P. W. Lackenbauer

Marissa Magneson

My Methodology Mocassins: Walking in the Footsteps of My Ancestors
Supervisor: J. Argue

Jessa McAuliffe

The Challenges for Trans* Access to Civil Justice 
Supervisor: M. Rahman

Malika Whelan

“Illegitimate & Unworthy” Survivors: Canada's Failure to Protect Indigenous Women and Girls Against Sexual Violence 
Supervisors: H. Nicol & D. Lavell-Harvard

2020 - THESES

Juanita Spears

Finding Cowboy Joe: The Search for Canadian Authored Diverse LGBTQ2S Picture Books to Help Counter Heteronormativity in the Elementary Classroom
Supervision Committee: K. Pendleton Jimenez, B. Niblett

2020 - MAJOR RESEARCH PAPERS (MRPs)

Olivia de Brabandere

The Persistence of Colonial Ideology in Canadian Resource Extraction Projects
Supervisor: D. Newhouse

Emma Hughes

Save Pigeon Lake: A manifestation of settler colonialism in a contemporary context
Supervisor: S. Rutherford

Justin Thompson

Legislated Criminality: Examining the Indian Act, Gbaakodiigamig, and the Persistence of Incarceration
Supervisor: J. Miron

2019 - THESES

Erin Clancy

“It's like getting a new car without the manual”: Exploring Teacher Perceptions of Capacity to Implement Ontario’s Revised Curriculum on Indigenous Histories, Cultures, And Perspectives
Supervision Committee: B. Niblett, L. Davis

Cathy Dueck

Indigenous Knowledge in Contemporary Public Education: Issues and Guidelines for Educators
Supervision Committee: P. Elliott, S. Bocking, L. Davis

Mason Godden

That '70s Strike Support: Labour, Feminism, and the Left in Three Ontario Strikes, 1972-1979
Supervision Committee: J. Sangster, B. Palmer, D. Anastakis

Demi Mathias

Canoeing Through Resurgence: Wiigwaas Jiimaan and Cultural Resurgence Within N'Daki Menan
Supervision Committee: D. Newhouse, P. Sherman, S. Plain

Mykelle Pacquing

An Application of Virgilio Enriquez's Indigenization Method on Filipino-Canadian Discourse
Supervision Committee: D. McCaskill, D. Newhouse

2019 - MAJOR RESEARCH PAPERS (MRPs)

Kelsey Darnay

Exploring Gladue and its Relationship to the Overrepresentation of Indigenous People Incarcerated in Canada
Supervision: J. Miron

Pamela Forgrave

Veteran or Victims?: Veterans Affairs Canada Confronts GBA+
Supervision: J. Sangster

Gaurav Purohit

Partnership between First Nations and Government/Private Sector for Infrastructure Development
Supervision: D. Newhouse

2018 - THESES

Sean Antaya

Struggling for a New Left: The New Tendency, Autonomist Marxism, and Rank-and-File Organizing in Windsor, Ontario during the 1970s​
Supervision Committee: B. Palmer, D. Anastakis

Ulrike Fliesser

Tourism Around Yellowknife: A Brilliant Development
Supervision Committee: H. Nicol, R. Picton

Keith McIntyre

The Experience of Being Jewish in a Small Jewish Community: A Qualitative Approach
Supervision Committee: M. Rahman, F. Baban, D. Handlarski

Emily Yamashita

Building Individuals, Building the Economy: Labour Force Development in Canada's Territorial North
Supervision Committee: H. Nicol, C. Bruce, W. Lackenbauer

2018 - MAJOR RESEARCH PAPERS (MRPs)

Karli Robertson

Reflections of Truth: Turning the Colonial Mirror
Supervision: M. Lacombe

2017 - THESES

Melissa Baldwin

'This is where the poetry comes out': Examining the Peterborough Poetry Slam as resistant space-making
Supervision Committee: M. Chazan, S. Chivers

Caileigh Morrison

My Canadian Story: Multiculturalism and Meaning-Making in Local Archives
Supervision Committee: J. Harrison, M. Eamon, D. Bhandar

Yasmin Juliet Strautins

Representations of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women in Canadian Art
Supervision Committee: J. Sangster, S. Bailey

Matt Tallon

The Relationship of Policy Aims and Implementation: Ontario Coordinated Care Planning for People with Mental Health and Addiction Issues
Supervision Committee: P. Ballantyne, N. Changfoot

2017 - MAJOR RESEARCH PAPERS (MRPs)

Julia Anderson

The Physics of Power: Development, neoliberalism and CSOs in Canadian Aid
Supervision Committee: J. Harrison

Rebecca Lyon

The Importance of Indigenous Language Policy in Canada
Supervision Committee: D. Newhouse

Gabriel Karenhoton Maracle

The War Chief and His Men: The Emergence of the Mohawk Warrior Society
Supervision Committee: D. Newhouse

2016 - THESES

Kaitlyn Brillinger

Growth and Revitalization in Peterborough Ontario: Myth or Reality?
Supervision Committee: H. Nicol, R. Picton

Evan Brockest

Dissent Denied: Public Order Policing and the Criminalization of Protest at the 2010 Toronto G20
Supervision Committee: B. Palmer, J. Greene

Junyi Chen

Reconceptualizing Immigration in Canada: Toward a new Understanding of the Transnational through a focus on Chinese Canadians
Supervision Committee: M. Rahman, G. Balfour, B. Stoyles

Sarah Jessup

Workplace Bullying in Ontario Healthcare Settings: Examining the Relationship Between Bullying, Gender, and Policy
Supervision Committee: J. Sangster, D. Anastakis, M. Hobbs

Schoots-McAlpine, Martin

Class Struggle, The Communist Party, and the Popular Front in Canada, 1935-1939
Supervision Committee: B. Palmer, J. Miron

2015 - THESES

Megan Kathleen Hull

Imagining a National Research Centre: Decolonization, Commemoration, and Institutional Space
Supervision Committee: J. Harrison, J. Milloy, M. Eamon

Jesse Lever

Tłı̨chǫ, Co-management and the Bathurst Caribou Herd, 2009-2011
Supervision Committee: J. Harrison, A. Legat

Kimberly Wilson

Rights, Resources, and Resistance: Pan-Indigenous Political Organizations in Northeastern Alberta, 1968-1984
Supervision Committee: S. Bocking, J. Sangster

2015 - MAJOR RESEARCH PAPERS (MRPs)

Lisa Beaucage

Northern Ontario's Ring of Fire: The Inconsistent Policies Surrounding Aboriginal Rights and the Canadian Government's Failure to Effectively Engage
Supervision Committee: J. Milloy

Maya Gunnarsson

Representations of Tina Fontaine and Rinelle Harper in the Globe and Mail and the National Post
Supervision Committee: M. Mumford

Jade Huguenin

Metis Community Development in Penetanguishene: A Study on Metis Epistemology and Cultural Understandings of Place
Supervision Committee: J. Milloy

2014 - THESES

Robert Benjamin Fawcett

Exploring Indigenous Contributions to (Indigenization of) the City of Saskatoon's Strategic Plan 2012-2022
Supervision Committee: J. Greene, R. Walker, D. Newhouse

Bryan William Ernest Jordan

Unexpected Journeys: Unmasking Home While Abroad
Supervision Committee: J. Harrison, R. Wright

Robert C. Savelle

A Sustainable Development: The Case for Community-Based Research in the Durham Region
Supervision Committee: T. Whillans, B. Hickie, P. Lapp

Kaitlyn Watson

Ontario's Aboriginal Education Strategy: Successes and Areas for Improvement
Supervision Committee: J. Milloy, J. Harrison

2014 - MAJOR RESEARCH PAPERS (MRPs)

Kris Millett

Project Traveller and the Criminalization of Somali Canadian Youth
Supervision Committee: G. Balfour

Laura Emily Stanley

"You Won't Hear Our Songs On Your Radio": Canadian Indie Musicians in The Digital Age
Supervision Committee: R. Wright

2013 - THESES

Meghan Buckham

Barriers and Facilitators to Indigenous Knowledge Incorporation in Policy Making: The Nunatsiavut Case
Supervision Committee: C. Furgal, H. Nicol, R. Paehlke

Blair Cullen

Local Immigration Partnerships: A Case Study of Regional Governance of Durham Region, Ontario
Supervision Committee: M. Skinner, R. Dart, J. Green

Agata Durkalec

Understanding the Role of Environment for Indigenous Health: A Case Study of Sea Ice as a Place of Health and Risk in the Inuit Community of Nain, Nunatsiavut
Supervision Committee: C. Furgal, M. Skinner

Katharine Maye Gentle

Impacting Children: Post 9/11 Canada and the Case of Omar Khadr
Supervision Committee: D. Bhandar, J. Greene

Neil Hannam

The Peterborough Young Women's Christian Association: Fundraising and Feminism, 1960-1983
Supervision Committee: J. Struthers, G. Balfour, M. Hobbs

2013 - MAJOR RESEARCH PAPERS (MRPs)

Lynda Langford

Climate Change Adaptation in the Greater Peterborough Area
Supervision Committee: S. Hill

James David Lisowski

Media Narratives and Red Power: The Interrelationships Between Media, Mohawk Militancy and the Canadian State in the 2007 National Day of Action
Supervision Committee: B. Palmer

Jesse Allan Munroe

Governing Exhibition City: Manifestations of Order at the Toronto Industrial Exhibition and the Canadian National Exhibition, 1900-1914
Supervision Committee: K. Walden

Timothy J. Querengesser

The boundaries of unity: Implications of proposed reforms to the Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act on the future boundaries of the Northwest Territories
Supervision Committee: H. Nicol

2012 - THESES

C. Andrew Cragg

Neoliberalising Immigration in Canada: The Pilot Project for Occupations Requiring Lower-Levels of Formal Training and the Expansion of Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker Program
Supervision Committee: J. Greene, J. Sangster

T. Adrian Foster

Cultural Climate Change: A History of Aboriginal Arts Organizations in Toronto, 1970-2010
Supervision Committee: D. Newhouse, D. McCaskill

Regina Hartwick

Am I Omàmìwininì Enough? Understanding the Implications of Colonial Discourse and Political Policy in the Kichi Sìbì.
Supervision Committee: N. McLeod, M. Lacombe

Danielle Paige Jeancart

Imposed Identities: The Colonial Construction of Indigenous Masculinity
Supervision Committee: N. McLeod, G. Johnston

Judith A. Mason

The Mill at Clarington: Curating Place in the Environmental Work of Four Artists
Supervision Committee: J. Bordo, M. Lacombe

2012 - MAJOR RESEARCH PAPERS (MRPs)

Rosalyn Yake

The Phantom Public: The CBC's Coverage of Aboriginal Band Elections
Supervision Committee: K. Walden, D. McCaskill

Brittany Young

Youth Boot Camps: A Transformative Space for Aboriginal Youth
Supervision Committee: J. Harrison, P. Sherman

2011 - THESES

Carling C. Beninger

The Anglican Church of Canada: Indigenous Policies, 1946-2011
Supervision Committee: J. Milloy, B. Hodgins

Jessica Ellison

Negotiating the Complexities of Place: Peggy's Cove, tourism and SwissAir 111
Supervision Committee: J. Harrison, C. Dummitt

Elizabeth Evans

The Green Energy and Green Economy Act: Barriers and Opportunities for Renewable Energy Co-Operaties in Ontario
Supervision Committee: S. Hill, J. Harrison, T. Hutchinson

Rachel V. Herron

Rural Experiences of Aging and Care
Supervision Committee: M. Skinner, S. Chivers, J. Struthers

Tara Bernadette Michaud

Resisting the Liminal: Métis Narrative Traditions and Transitions
Supervision Committee: N. McLeod, B. Macdougall

Judith Rebecca Mintz

Helpers and Demons: Binary Representations of Early 20th Century Midwives, Doctors and Childbirth in Ami McKay's The Birth House
Supervision Committee: S. Chivers, J. Sangster, J. Struthers

Kelly Monique Pineault

Shifting the Balance: Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Activism in the Company of Young Canadians, 1966-1970
Supervision Committee: J. Sangster, J. Milloy, B. Palmer

Caitlin B. Radmore

The New "White Man's Burden": Legal and Press Media Discourses on Ms. G., A Vilified Indigenous Mother
Supervision Committee: J. Sangster, G. Balfour, C. Williams

Lynette Schick

Dominant Addiction Discourses: Making the 'Addicted' Woman
Supervision Committee: G. Balfour, R. Coughlan

James Wilkes

Decolonizing Environmental ‘Management’: A Case Study of Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug
Supervision Committee: C. Furgal, P. Sherman, D. Longboat

2011 - MAJOR RESEARCH PAPERS (MRPs)

Grace Henry-Caron

"(In)Formal Education": Redefining, Reconceptualizing and Repositioning First Nations' Education in Ontario
Supervision Committee: J. Milloy, P. Sherman

Diane Therrien

"This land is their land": Newcomer Perceptions of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada
Supervision Committee: L. Davis, D. Newhouse

2010 - THESES

Natasha Beeds

A Cartography of Nêhiyawi-Mâmitonêyihcikan (Cree Csiousness / Thinking): Edward Ahenakew & The Âtayôhkêwina (Sacred Stories)
Supervision Committee:  D. Newhouse, P. Sherman, G. Johnston        

Georgia Grace Carley

​"Reporting Diplomacy:  Eighteenth-Century London Newspapers and British Perception of the Indigenous Peoples of North America"
Supervision Committee: K. Siena, Janet Miron, John Milloy                 

Laurie Davey-Quantick

Broadening the Perspective on Canadian Small Business and Community Relationships
Supervision Committee: R. Dart, J. Bishop, H. Nicol                           

Katelyn Friendship

The Role of Indigenous Knowledge in Environmental Health Risk Management in the Yukon
Supervision Committee: C. Furgal, D. Longboat, D. Holdsworth         

Evan J. Habkirk

"Militarism, Sovereignty, and Nationalism:  Six Nations and the First World War"
Supervision Committee: J. Milloy, B. Hodgins                                     

Colin James Charles Meyette Hoag

A Digital Analog? A Study of Canadian Climate Change Policy Networks
Supervision Committee: S. Hill, R. Dart, R. Paehlke                              

Julia Lane

Embodying Environments: Interdisciplinary & Cross-Cultural Possibilities for Environmental Education in Ontario
Supervision Committee: D. Berrill, M. Mumford, D. Longboat, S. Hill  

Paul C.M. McCarney

Indigenous Jurisdiction in Ontario: Land and Resource Development in Ardoch Algonquin First Nation Territory
Supervision Committee: S. Hill, L. Simpson, D. Longboat                     

Douglas James Nesbitt

The 'Radical Trip' of the Canadian Union of Students, 1963-69
Supervision Committee: B. Palmer, K. Walden, R. Wright                    

Patrick Scott

"From 'Real Canada' to 'Not Even a Real Country':  Canadian Identities as Produced through Comedy"
Supervision Committee: S. Chivers, M. Epp, K. Walden                       

Alexandra M. Thomson

"SEEING THE HOMELAND AND THE TREES? First Nations/Environmentalist Rlations in N'Daki Menan/Temagami 1986-1994"
Supervision Committee: B. Hodgins, L. Davis                                        

Celine Mackenzie Vukson

Tlicho Oral History: Gowhae`hdo?o?` godii` of the Lost Hunter
Supervision Committee: N. McLeod, P. Sherman, C. Furgal                 

Simon Wallace

Strange Days Indeed: The Confused Politics of Conflict in Upper Canada’s 1830’s
Supervision Committee: B. Palmer, K. Walden                                      

2010 - MAJOR RESEARCH PAPERS (MRPs)

Melissa Dodson

Women's Representation: A Case Study Utilizing Karen Beckwith's Numbers and Newness Theory
Supervision Committee: N. Changfoot, D. Bhandar

Debra Gentle

Why are We Waiting?  An Institutional ethnography of Adoption Policy in Ontario
Supervision Committee: J. Struthers, M. Hobbs                                   

Zachary Parrott

The Land is Wild?: Identity, Music, and the Nationalistic Force in CBC Radio 3
Supervision Committee: R. Wright, A. O'Connor

Ainslee Rogers

The Healing Lodge:  Continuing the Colonization Process of Federally Sentenced Aboriginal Women through Neo-liberal Penal Reforms
Supervision Committee:  G. Balfour, P. Sherman                                 

Karen Watts

Aboriginal Perspectives on Native Identity
Supervision Committee: D. Newhouse, M. Lacombe                             

2009 - THESES

Aimee Agnes Blyth

A Rural Renaissance:  Working Towards a Sustainable Community-Based Food System in the Kawartha Bioregion of Ontario, Canada
Supervision Committee: J. Wadland, P. Andree, Tom Hutchinson

Erin Clow

Stories of Microcredit:  A Case Study of the Saint John Community Loan Fund and Paro Centre for Women's Enterprise
Supervision Committee: C. O'Manique, R. Dart, P. Shaffer

Maggie Embury

Rediscovering and Re-Imaging Indigenous Environmental Education Outdoors
Supervision Committee: N. McLeod, P. Sherman, B. Hodgins

Amanda Louise Jendrick

Completely Normal Chaos:  The Kashechewan Crisis and the Public Normalization of Risk on Indigenous Reservations
Supervision Committee: D. Holdsworth, S. Hill, C. Furgal

David Hugill

Mediated Complicity:  Sex Work, the State and Missing Women in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
Supervision Committee: G. Balfour, W. Matthews, J. Sangster

Kathryn McLeod

From Topography to Technology:  An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Downsview Park's Heritage
Supervision Committee: S. Wurtele, T.H.B. Symons, S. Bocking

Michael Reid

Understanding Children's aid:  Meaning and Practice in Ontario Children's Aid Societies, 1893-1912
Supervision Committee: J. Struthers, J. Milloy, M. Hobbs

2009 - MAJOR RESEARCH PAPERS (MRPs)

Lianne Irish

Closing the Border:  The CCF-NDP and Free Trade, 1932-1988
Supervision Committee: D. Anastakis, J. Sangster

Christine Sy

Indigenous Women's Work in Canada and United States, 1624-1997:  A Transnational Historical Synthesis
Supervision Committee: C. Williams, D. Newhouse

Nicole Williams

The Ontario Nurses' Association:  Using the Policy-Making Process
Supervision Committee: N. Changfoot, M. Hobbs

2008

Tim Brubacher

Beyond Good Intentions:  Critical Race Theory and the Role of Non-Indigenous Allies
Supervision Committee: D. Newhouse, L. Davis, T.H.B. Symons

Stacy Douglas

Settling Pasts and Settling Futures:  Negotiating Narratives of Nation at the 4th Line Theatre Production Company
Supervision Committee: D. Bhandar, V. Hollinger, S. Chivers

Patricia Life

Decline and Progress:  The portrayal of age in fiction by Mordecai Richler and Robertson Davies
Supervision Committee: S. Katz, M. Peterman, S. Chivers

Paula Madden

Indigenizing Africans - Disappearing Indians: Black/Mi'kmaq Relations in Nova Scotia
Supervision Committee: J. Wadland, D. Bhandar, J. Struthers

Christine McLaughlin

The McLaughlin Legacy and the Struggle for Labour Organizations:  Community, Class, and Oshawa's UAW Local 222, 1944-49
Supervision Committee: B. Palmer, J. Sangster, D. Anastakis

Jonathan Rose

Without Reservation:  The Chatham-Kent Community Network & Caldwell First Nation Land Dispute
Supervision Committee: L. Davis, B. Hodgins, J. Milloy

Cori Simpson

''In the Eyes of the State':  Memories of Indian Agents, Agency and Resistance in Kahnawake
Supervision Committee: J. Milloy, J. Struthers, J. Sangster

Natalie Waldbrook

Voices from the North:  Women's Experiences with Housing and Homelessness in the City of Greater Sudbury, Ontario
Supervision Committee: S. Wurtele, M. Hobbs, M. Skinner

2007

Jodi Aoki

Private to Public:  Frances Stewart, Ellen Dunlop, and the Production of Our Forest Home
Supervision Committee: M. Peterman, B. Dodge, J. Sangster

Ryan Bowie

Development And Aboriginal Peoples: Case Study Of The Victor Diamond Project
Supervision Committee: S. Bocking, J. Wadland, L. Davis

Emily Bruusgaard

Covert Threads:  The Subversive Language of Textile in Laura Goodman Salverson's The Viking Heart and Martha Ostenso's Wild Geese
Supervision Committee: S. Bailey, S. Chivers, J. Wadland

James Ellison

Les Belles Soeurs   by Michel Tremblay
Supervision Committee: L. Conolly, V. Hollinger, S. Berard

Mathieu Feagan

Meanings of Nature and Urban Greenspace:  History, Policy and Grassroots Perspectives
Supervision Committee: S. Bocking, J. Wadland, R. Dart

Catarina Kleven

External Identity Classification:  Its Effects on Saami Identity in Sweden, with a Comparison to First Nations People in Canada
Supervision Committee: B. Hodgins, C. O'Manique, J. Milloy

Geoffrey Korfman

The Wilde West:  Homosexual Behaviour in the Court Records of Saskatchewan, 1895 to 1930
Supervision Committee: J. Sangster, B. Dodge, B. Palmer

Armand La Barge

The Honourable Billa Flint -- The King of North Hastings:  A Biographical Study of the Life of Senator Billa Flint (1805-1894)
Supervision Committee: J. Wadland, B. Hodgins, J. Milloy

Kevin Plummer

Hugh Whitney Morrison's Experiences as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, 1930-1933:  Performing Canadian Identities Abroad
Supervision Committee: K. Walden, J. Harrison, Suzanne Bailey

2006

Zoe Aarden

​"Sexing The Indian": Scholarship's Role In The Consolidation Of Colonial Structures Of Gender And Sexuality
Supervision Committee: P. Kulchyski,  J. Harrison, E. Stavro

Riley J. Cartmill

​Re-Writing the Self:  Beyond the Limits of Sex with Elizabeth Smart's By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
Supervision Committee: M. Lacombe, S. Bailey, S. Chivers

Paula R. Drew

The Reconstruction Of Sainte Marie: Social, Political, And Religious Influences On An Archaeological Interpretation
Supervision Committee: B. Hodgins, S. Jamieson, R. Dart

Pia Grayman

A Sense Of Danish Identity In New Denmark, New Brunswick
Supervision Committee: M. Lacombe, J. Struthers, S. Wurtele

Laura Hall

Decolonizing Development: Haudenosaunee Approaches To 'Appropriate Economy' 
Supervision Committee:  J. Milloy, L. Simpson, M. Smith

Stephen Horner

Asserting Indigenous Values Within Capitalism:  Economics, Institutions And The Importance Of Narrative
Supervision Committee: D. Newhouse, S. Choudhry, R. Anderson (Univ.  Regina)

William Knight

"Our Sentimental Fisheries”: Angling and State Fisheries Administration in Ontario
Supervision Committee: S. Bocking, T. Whillans, A. Brunger

Sally Mennill

Place, Identity, Limitations: Representations Of Ice In Contemporary Canadian Literature
Supervision Committee: J. Wadland, M. Lacombe, B. Palmer

Svitlana Pcholkina

Construction And Disruption Of Cottage Idylls: Kushog Lake Case Study
Supervision Committee: J. Harrison, S. Bocking, A. Law

Grace Poulin

Invisible Women:  WWII Aboriginal Servicewomen In Canada
Supervision Committee: J. Sangster, M. Hobbs, L. Davis

Erin Stewart Eves

The Australian Controversy And The Canadian Compromise:  A Comparative Historiographical Analysis Of Aboriginal History Texts Written In 20th Century Australia And Canada
Supervision Committee: J. Milloy, B. Hodgins, D. Standen

Susan Thompson

How The Nonprofit Sector Adopts Neoliberal Discourse To Attack Undesirable Social Policy:  The Case Of Welfare Reform
Supervision Committee: M. Quaid, R. Dart, J. Struthers

2005

Caroline Archambault

Awareness To Action; WUSC, Young Canadians Engaging In International Development And The Fostering Of Global Citizenship
Supervision Committee: D. Sheinin, E. Helleiner, D. Morrison

Janice Barry

Collaborative Decision-Making And Persistent Land Use Conflicts: The Kawartha Highlands Case Study
Supervision Committee: S. Bocking, R. Dart, B. Hodgins

John Boyko

Into The Hurricane: The Campaign Against Socialism And The CCF In Canada, 1943-1949
Supervision Committee: J. Sangster, J. Struthers, J. Driscoll

Selena Crosson

Pilgrim Sisters: Exploring Female Friendship In Upper Canada In The Life Of Frances Stewart (1794-1872)
Supervision Committee: M. Peterman, M. Lacombe, M. Hobbs

Valerie Galley

Indigenization As Neoliberal Rule: The Case Of The Canadian Aboriginal Head Start Initiative
Supervision Committee: S. Katz, J. Milloy, J. Wadland

Lynn Gehl

Towards An Indigenous Understanding Of Government-Imposed Essentialized Discourses Of Identity For Aboriginal People
Supervision Committee: M. Dockstator, D. Bhandar, E. Manitowabi

Wendy Hicks-Casey

Grassroots Democracy:  The Implications Of NAFTA Chapter 11 For Ontario Municipal Policy
Supervision Committee: E. Helleiner, J. Clapp, R. Paehlke

Katherine J. Johnston

Benefitting Whom? A Critical Analysis Of Canada's National Child Benefit Strategy
Supervision Committee: J. Struthers, M. Hobbs, S. Wurtele

Michael Johnny

Policy Implications For Native Literacy In Ontario
Supervision Committee: J. Milloy, D. McCaskill, Ms. P. George (Consultant)

Lynda Mannik

Transcultural Views Of Canadian Indian/Cowboy Performances At The Royal Easter Show In Sydney, 1939
Supervision Committee: K. Walden, J. Harrison, J. Struthers

Tricia Longboat

More Than Words: Cayuga Immersion Programming In Six Nations
Supervision Committee: M. Dockstator, P. Kulchyski, D. Berrill

Angela Piggott

Shaw Before The "Shaw": Bernard Shaw's Plays In Canada Pre-World War I
Supervision Committee: L. Conolly, M. Peterman, V. Hollinger

David Tough

The Politicas Of Sara Jeannette Duncan's The Imperialist
Supervision Committee: M. Peterman, J. Driscoll, J. Struthers

2004

Renee Bedard

​An Anishinaabekwe Writes History: An Alternative Understanding Of Indigenous Intellectual And Historical Traditions
Supervision Committee: L. Simpson, E. Manitowabi, M. Lacombe

Eleanor Charlton

Manitoulin Island, 1862: Anishnaabe Strategies Of Resistance And Survival
Supervision Committee: J. Milloy, D. Standen, Bruce Hodgins

Sandra Ignagni

Processing Discontent: Women's Organizing And The Newfoundland Fishermen, Food And Allied Workers Union, 1971-1987
Supervision Committee: M. Hobbs, J. Struthers, J. Sangster

Christopher Mather

Richard Birdsall And Pioneer Survey
Supervision Committee: J. Wadland, A. Brunger, T. Whillans

Allison Maureen Sauer

This Is What Democracy Looks Like? A Critical Examination Of Exclusion And The Anti-Globalization Movement
Supervision Committee: L. Simpson, J. Milloy, D. Bhandar

Heather Yanique Shpuniarsky

The Struggle Between The Nishnaabe And The Haudenosaunee In The Late Seventeenth Century
Supervision Committee: D. Newhouse, D. McNab, D. Williams

Danielle Soucy

From Marshall To Mayhem: Mi'kmaq E'pijig/Women Of Esgenoopetitj/Burnt Church Resistance And Change For Tomorrow
Supervision Committee: J. Milloy, L. Simpson, Gkisedtanamoogk

Erin Whitmore

Inhabiting Ecocriticism: Canadian Women Writers Write Environmentalism
Supervision Committee: M. Lacombe, J. Wadland, M. Hobbs

2003

Gerald Cantello

The Roles Played By The Canadian General Electric Company's Atomic Power Department In Canada's Nuclear Power Program: Work, Organization And Success In APD, 1955-1995
Supervision Committee: D. McCalla, D. Sheinin, G. Taylor

Amy Chamberlin

Contemporary Indigenous Literatures: Writing Oral Traditions
Supervision Committee: S. Kane, K. Ladner, J. Wadland

Brendan Edwards

Paper Talk: Print Culture, Libraries And Aboriginal People In Canada Before 1960
Supervision Committee: D. Standen, J. Milloy, P. McNally (McGill Univ.)

Nicholas Alexander Hamilton

An Ecoclinical Analysis Of Margaret Atwood's Surfacing
Supervision Committee: M. Peterman, M. Lacomb, J. Wadland

Adene Kuchera

Building Community: Aboriginal Urban Housing In Canada
Supervision Committee: J. Struthers, S. Wurtele, B. Kinoshameg

Catherine M. McCready

Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit: 'Living Policy' And The Development Of Responsible Governance In Nunavut
Supervision Committee: D. Holdsworth, S. Wurtele, C. Eddy

Alfred Metallic

Mi'gmawei Mawiomi: Ta'n Teliassumsin Aq Assumsultigw Listugujeweigatic (Mi'gmaq Politics)
Supervision Committee: E. Johnson (Univ Of Cape Breton), K. Ladner, J. Milloy

Falina Norred

Performing Place: Landscape As Site Of Disturbance
Supervision Committee: J. Bordo, C. Eddy , M. Lacombe

Daniel Edward Shaule

The Disputed Boundaries Of The 1923 (Williams) Treaties
Supervision Committee: D. Newhouse, M. Dockstator, D. McNab

Michelle Francesca Simone

Back To The Basics: Student Achievement And Schoolyard Naturalization
Supervision Committee: J. Conley, D. Berrill, S. Wurtele

2002

Jennifer Blomqvist

Exploring The Interface Between Corrections And Culture: A Case Study Of Correctional Reform In The Northwest Territories
Supervision Committee: D. McCaskill, L. Davis, M. Dockstator

David Laurence Dunne

The Bowhead Whale Hunt At Kekerten, Nunavut Territory (July 1998), As Related In The Three Styles Of Writing Arising From A Condition Of Inarticulacy
Supervision Committee: J. Bordo, C. Eddy, J. Moss

Spencer J. Harrison

The Queer Project: The Distance Between History And Truth
Supervision Committee: C. Eddy, S. Kane, K. Walden

Mary Jane McCallum

To Make Good Canadians: Girl Guiding In Indian Residential Schools
Supervision Committee: J. Milloy, M. Blyth, J. Sangster

Dan Nelson

Faith Enough To Move Mountains: The Dorlands And The Quakers Of Upper Canada, 1784-1955
Supervision Committee: T. Symons, A. Schrauwers (London School Of Economics), D. McCalla, J. Zavitz-Bond, Archivist

Daphne Taylor-Garcia

Life Forms And Cultural Grammars: A Wittgensteinian Investigation In Postcolonial Theory
Supervision Committee: P. Kulchyski, P. Bandyopadhyay

2001

Jessa Chupik-Hall

"Good Families Do Not Just Happen": Indigenous People And Child Welfare Services In Canada And Australia 1950-1965
Supervision Committee: J. Milloy, J. Struthers, T. Buti, Murdoch (Univ., Australia)

Thelma Davidson

Former Soviet Jews In Toronto: Post Collapse Of The Soviet Union
Supervision Committee: A. Heitlinger, O. Andriewsky, A. Pickel

Helen Bajorek Macdonald

The Power Of Polonia: Post-WWII Polish Immigrants To Canada: Survivors Of Deportation & Exile In Soviet Labour Camps
Supervision Committee:  J. Struthers, C. Verduyn, S. Arat-Koc

Tullia Marcolongo

'Playing By The Rules': Environmental Justice And Land Use Planning In Ontario:The Lands For Life Case Study
Supervision Committee: Robert Paehlke, S. Bocking, R. O'Sullivan

Ruth Ritchie

The Existence Of Child Labour In Peterborough County, 1871-1901
Supervision Committee: J. Struthers, D. Sheinin, J. Milloy, J. Sangster

Aluki (Kotierk) Rojas

Iglumi Isumatait: A Reinterpretation Of The Position Of Inuit Women
Supervision Committee: P. Kulchyski, C. Eddy, O. Eegeesiak

Peggy O'Reilly-Shaughnessy

Friction Within The Machine: Aboriginal Prisoners Behind The Wall
Supervision Committee: P. Kulchyski, J. Milloy , J. Sangster

Chet Singh

The Politics Of Human Rights Organizational Change And Development: A Post-Secondary Case Study
Supervision Committee: J. Struthers, D. Berrill, D. Dippo

2000

Kathryn Elizabeth Barber

Community, Neighbourhood, Culture And Power:  Meanings Of Diversity In Central West End, Toronto
Supervision Committee: J. Struthers, S. Arat-Koc, S. Wurtele

Art Beaver

Dancing The Rice:  Aboriginal Self-Government Is The Community Reclaiming Traditional Cultural Values
"Mnoomini-Gaawin:  Nishinaabe Gimmaawin Na Dani-Daapinaawaa Nishinaabe Oodenoo"
Supervision Committee: P. Kulchyski, J. Milloy, D. Newhouse

Laura Black

"This Isn't One To Be Told In The Third Person":  Social Activism In The Poetry and Prose Writing Of Bronwen Wallace
Supervision Committee: C. Verduyn, M. Hobbs, G. Johnston

Neal Burnham

Environmental Assessment On The Canadian Frontier:  Resource Decision-Making At Great Whale, Quebec And Voisey's Bay, Labrador
Supervision Committee: R. Paehlke, P. Adams, S. Bocking

Cailin Clarke

Trent University Nature Areas: Educational And Interpretive Uses
Supervision Committee: J. Marsh, R. Jones, K. Mcpherson (Provincial Natural Heritage Educ. Coordinator)

Morgan K. Gay

Organized Labour And The Quebec State:  Neo-Corporatism, Nationalism And Trade Union Consensus:  1988-1998
Supervision Committee: C. Huxley, D. Standen, J. Struthers

Kerry Lynn Lake

Evolving Landscapes And Landmarks:  Grain Elevators And Lighthouses At Risk
Supervision Committee: S. Wurtele, J. Marsh, T. Symons

Steven Martyn

Integrated Land Use In The Southern Algonquin Bioregion:  The Madawaska Forest Garden Project
Supervision Committee: J. Wadland, T. Whillans, H. Lickers

Rhonda Paulsen

Displaced Culture:  Re-Defining Tradition Within Two Pedagogical Paradigms
Supervision Committee: D. McCaskill, D. Berrill, S. Katz

Andrea Williams

Sioux Lookout District First Nations Education:  Factors Influencing Secondary School Success
Supervision Committee: D. McCaskill, A. Law, J. Cutfeet

1999

Allan Chamberlain

Aquaculture Training In Ontario:  An Assessment Through Video Interviews Of Students At Sir Sandford Fleming College, Lindsay And At The Rainy Lake Ojibway Education Authority, Manitou Rapids
Supervision Committee: T. Whillans, J. Milloy, D. McCaskill

Paul John Scott Ellerman

An Examination Of The State Of Historical Re-Enactments In Canada
Supervision Committee: T. Symons, J. Marsh, J. Jennings

David Paul King

The History Of The Federal Residential Schools For The Inuit Located In Chesterfield Inlet, Yellowknife, Inuvik And Churchill, 1955-1970
Supervision Committee: J. Milloy, P. Kulchyski, A. Tagak, Sr.

Susan Margaret Knabe

Moral Pan(Dem)Ic: Deviance And Disease In Canadian Medical Discourses On Aids, 1981-1990
Supervision Committee: R. Dellamora, K. Walden, B. Marshall, V. Hollinger

Sheldon Krasowski

"A Nuimay" (The Prayer People) And The Pagans Of Walpole Island First Nation: Resistance To The Anglican Church, 1845-1885
Supervision Committee: D. Newhouse, J. Milloy, P. Kulchyski

Jeralyne Karen Manweiler

Seeing Is Believing? Historical Connections Between The Pictured Landscape And Tourism In The High Eastern Arctic
Supervision Committee: J. Wadland, B. Hodgins, S. Grant

D'Arcy Rheault

Mino-Bimaadiziwin (The Way Of A Good Life)
Supervision Committee: E. Manitowabi, B. Loucks, P. Bourgeois

Sheena Symington

The Environmental And Social History Of The O'Donnell Roast Yard And Townsite Near Sudbury, Ontario
Supervision Committee: T. Hutchinson, R. Paehlke, S. Bocking

Bernadette Wabie

Aboriginal Women And Community Development: Consistency Across Time
Supervision Committee: D. Newhouse, P. Kulchyski, E. Manitowabi

Beverley Winny

Canadian Fiction For Adolescents From 1970-1990: The Rise Of The Aboriginal Voice And The Decolonization Of The Curriculum Of Ontario
Supervision Committee: J. Wadland, S. Kane

1998

Shanna Balazs

Aboriginal Involvement Within Selected Canadian Museums: Developing A Model For The Canadian Canoe Museum
Supervision Committee: J. Harrison, P. Bourgeois, B. Hodgins

Libby Birch

Picking Up New Threads For Kathleen Mavourneen: The Irish Female Presence In Nineteenth-Century Ontario
Supervision Committee: M. Lacombe, I. Mclachlan, M. Peterman

Anne Burbidge

What New Right? The 1995 Immigration Policy Of The Reform Party Of Canada
Supervision Committee: J. Struthers, S. Arat-Koc, B. Hodgins

Tanya Coulter

When Words Are Returned:  Approaching Traditional And Contemporary Oral Narrative Integration In Whitehorse Primary Curriculum
Supervision Committee: S. Kane, M. Simpkins, S. Williams

Heather Dunlop

The Role And Image Of Wilderness And The Aborigine In Selected Ontarian Shield Camps
Supervision Committee: B. Hodgins, B. Dodge, J. Wadland

Kevin Fitzmaurice

To Reconcile Serious Difference: A Comparative Discourse Analysis On Aboriginal-State Relations Surrounding Land And Natural Resources: Co-Management Regimes In Ontario And The System Of Cooperation And Consultation In Sweden
Supervision Committee: D. Newhouse, M. Blyth, B. Hodgins

Dominic Hardy

Drawn To Order: Henri Julien's Political Cartoons Of 1899 And His Career With Hugh Graham's Montreal Daily Star, 1888-1908
Supervision Committee: J. Wadland, M. Lacombe, K. Walden

Elizabeth Hayes

The Italian Immigrant Woman In Post WWII Canada: Overt And Covert Stories
Supervision Committee: C. Verduyn, S. Arat-Koc, M. Peterman

Jackie Hookimaw-Witt

Keenebonanoh Keemoshominook Kaeshe Peemishikhik Odaskiwakh - [We Stand On The Graves Of Our Ancestors] Native Interpretations Of Treaty #9 With Attawapiskat Elders
Supervision Committee: P. Kulchyski, B. Hodgins, J. Milloy

Jeannette Menzies

Beyond The Postcard: Rethinking Heritage And Place In Yoho National Park, B.C.
Supervision Committee: T. Symons, J. Harrison, J. Wadland

Julie Rouse

Who Is The Northern Woman? Feminism And Place In The Northern Woman Journal: 1974-1980
Supervision Committee: M. Lacombe, M. Hobbs, B. Marshall

Doreen Small

Picturing Grand Manan: Nineteenth-Century Painting And The Representation Of Place
Supervision Committee: J. Wadland, B. Hodgins, M. Lacombe

Robin Smith

"Hishuk Ish Ts'awalk - All Things Are One": Traditional Ecological Knowledge And Forest Practices In Ahousaht First Nation's Traditional Territory, Clayoquot Sound, B.C. 
Supervision Committee: J. Wadland, S. Bocking, N. Turner

Janice Warfield

Environmental Impacts And Recreational Conflicts On Multiple-Use Trails: A Case Study Of The Ganaraska Forest, Ontario
Supervision Committee: J. Marsh, J. Fisher , J. Wadland

Erin Windatt

Voluntary Pollution Prevention Initiatives And Their Application To Small And Medium Sized Enterprises
Supervision Committee: R. Paehlke, S. Bocking, D. Torgerson

1997

Peter Andree

Strategies For Agricultural Sustainability Employed By Farmers In The Kawartha Bioregion Of Ontario, Canada
Supervision Committee: R. Paehlke, T. Hutchinson, L. Slavin

Dawn Berry Merriam

The Evolution Of A District Health Council Into A Regional Planning Body: The Haliburton, Kawartha And Pineridge District Health Council
Supervision Committee: J. Struthers, R. Bowles, J. Muldoon

Richard Hagg

The Recreational Use, And Management Of The Mountain And Keele Rivers, Sahtu Region, Northwest Territories
Supervision Committee: J. Marsh, F. Helleiner, B. Hodgins

Allen Macpherson

Recreational Trails In Ontario: Historical Development And Policy Options
Supervision Committee: J. Marsh, F. Helleiner, J. Wadland

Bina Mehta

From Nairobi To Knob Hill Farms - Our Dialogues In Exile: Stories Of East African Gujarati Women In Ontario
Supervision Committee: J. Struthers, S. Arat-Koc, D. Berrill

Michele Proulx

The Uranium Mining Industry Of The Bancroft Area: An Environmental History And Heritage Assessment
Supervision Committee: J. Wadland, T. Whillans, B. Hodgins

Alicia Schutt

The Bruce Trail, Ontario: Users And Their Economic Impact
Supervision Committee: J. Marsh, H. Kitchen, J. Winters

Maureen Wideman

A Community Development Approach To Heritage Tourism In Small Towns: A Case Study Of Millbrook, Ontario
Supervision Committee: J. Marsh, J. Wadland, L. Waldbrook

1996

Leanne Burney

Sustainable Development And Civil Disobedience: The Politics Of Environmental Discourse In Clayoquot Sound
Supervision Committee: D. Torgerson, S. Bocking, R. Paehlke

Jennifer Gillard Della-Casa

The Author As Activist: Marian Engel And The Writers' Union Of Canada
Supervision Committee: C. Verduyn, M. Peterman, J. Wadland

Kenneth Wayne Hil

Life Stories Of Other Aboriginals: Toronto
Supervision Committee: J. Milloy, G. Conchelos, B. Hodgins

Susan Jane Hynds

"In A Circle Everybody Is Equal": Aboriginal Women And Self-Government In Canada, 1869-1995
Supervision Committee: P. Kulchyski, E. Manitowabi, D. Sheinin

Peter Labor

The Alexander Mackenzie Voyageur Route: A Community Perspective On Waterways And The Development Of A Trans-Canada Heritage Route
Supervision Committee: J. Jennings, B. Hodgins, J. Marsh

Gurpreet Kaur Sodhi

Ignored Are The Wives And Children: Voices From Band Councils And Native Organizations During The Special Joint Committee Of 1946-1948 And The Standing Committee On Bill C-31
Supervision Committee: P. Kulchyski, J. Milloy, S. Williams

John Taylor

Non-Aboriginal Teachers Working In Aboriginal Communities: The Need For Training
Supervision Committee: D. Newhouse, R. Bowles, C. King

James Michael Thoms

Illegal Conservation: Two Case Studies Of Conflict Between Indigenous And State Natural Resource Management Paradigms
Supervision Committee: D. McCaskill, B. Hodgins, J. Marsh

Laura A. Zink

"A Good Future For Our Children": Struggling To Create A Bi-Cultural Society In The Yukon Territory 1960s To The Present
Supervision Committee: B. Hodgins, J. Milloy, D. Morrison