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Dr Abril Liberatori
2017 (December)
(Supervisor: Roberto Perin) Family is Really All Over The Place: Ethnic Identity Formation Within A Transnational Network
Dr Adele Perry
1997
(Supervisors: Bettina Bradbury and Craig Heron) Gender, Race, and the Making of Colonial Society: British Columbia, 1858-1871
Current Employment: Professor, Department of History, University of Manitoba
Dr Adrian Mandzy
1998 (July)
(Supervisor: Orest Subtelny) Entrepot of the Ukrainian Steppe Frontier: An Urban History of Early Modern Kamianets-Podilsky, Origins to 1672
Current Employment: Associate Professor, Department of History, Morehead State University
Dr Aitana Guia-Conca
2011 (October)
(Supervisor: Adrian Shubert) Deepening Democracy: The Muslim Struggle for Civil Rights and Belonging in Spain Since 1975
Current Employment: Assistant Professor of History, California State University Fullerton
Dr Alban Bargain
2012 ( November)
(Supervisor: William Irvine), The French and German Socialists in Hostile Environments, 1920-1933/40
Dr Alexandra Mosquin
2003 (September)
(Supervisor: Marlene Shore), Advertising Canada Abroad: Canada on Display at International Exhibitions, 1920-1940
Current Employment: Architectural History, Parks Canada (Historical Services Branch)
Dr Allan Greer
1980 (February)
(Supervisor: T. J. A. Le Goff) Habitants of the Lower Richelieu: Rural Society in Three Quebec Parishes, 1740-1840.
Current Employment: Professor of History at the University of Toronto.
Dr Alvyn James Austin
1996 (March)
(Supervisor: Ramsay Cook) Pilgrims and Strangers: The China Inland Mission in Britain, Canada, the United States and China 1865-1900
Current Employment: Member, Department of History, Brock University
Dr Andrew Carl Holman
1994 (December)
(Supervisor: Susan Houston) Aspects of Middle-Class Formation in Victorian Ontario Towns: Galt and Goderich, 1850-1891
Current Employment: Professor, Department of History, Bridgewater State College, Massachusetts
Dr Angela Durante
2015 (January)
(Supervisor: Kathryn McPherson) The Visual Politics of the Female Form in 1920s Canada
Current Employment: Portrait photographer, Dukat Studios, and owner, Schoolhouse B&B
Dr Angela Hug
2014 (December)
(Supervisor: Jonathan Edmondson) Fecunditas, Sterilitas, and the Politics of Reproduction at Rome
Current Employment: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Classics, McMaster University
Dr Ann Davis
1973 (November)
(Supervisor: Ramsay Cook) An Apprehended Vision: The Philosophy of the Group of Seven
Dr Audrey Pyée
2005 (December)
(Supervisor: Yves Frenette) « La terre promise: migration de France vers Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes et Saint-Claude, Manitoba, 1890-1914
Current Employment : Associate Professor of History at Glendon, York University
Dr Barbara Jane Cooper
1989 (June)
(Supervisor: Susan Houston) “That We May Attain to the End We Propose To Ourselves…:” The North American Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, 1932-1961
Dr Barry Glen Ferguson
1982 (April)
(Supervisor: Ramsay Cook) The New Political Economy and Canadian Liberal Democratic Thought : Queen’s University, 1890-1925.
Current Employment: Professor, Department of History, University of Manitoba
Dr Behnaz Asl Mirzai
2004 (September)
(Supervisor: Paul Lovejoy) Slavery, The Abolition of the Slave Trade, and the Emancipation of Slaves in Persia (1828-1928)
Current Employment: Associate Professor, Brock University
Dr Bela Bodo
1998 (February)
(Supervisor: Michael Kater) The Function of Selection in Nazi Policy Towards University Students, 1933-1945
Dr Benjamin Bryce
2013 (January)
(Supervisor: Roberto Perin) Making Ethnic Space: Education, Religion and the German Language in Argentina and Canada, 1880-1930
Current Employment: Assistant Professor in Department of History, University of British Columbia
Dr Brian J. Fraser
1982 (October)
(Supervisor: Ramsay Cook), ‘The Christianization of Our Civilization’: Presbyterian Reformers and the Defence of a Protestant Canada, 1875-1914.
Current Employment: Professor of Church History, Vancouver School of Theology
Dr Brian MacDowall
2017 (June)
(Supervisor: William Wicken) ‘ A Flag that Knows No Colour Line’: Aboriginal Veteranship in Canada, 1914-1939
Dr Brittany Luby
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Dr Bruce Douville
2011
(Supervisor: William Westfall) The Uncomfortable Pew: Christianity, The New Left, and the Hip Counterculture in Toronto, 1965-1975
Contract Employment: Part-Time Contract Faculty at Algoma University
Dr Bruce Kidd
1990 (June)
(Supervisor: Christopher Armstrong) Improvers, Feminists, Capitalists and Socialists: Shaping English Canadian Sport in the 1920s and 1930s
Current Employment: Vice President, University of Toronto and Principal, University of Toronto Scarborough
Dr Bruce William Muirhead
1986 (May)
(Supervisor: Jack L. Granatstein), Canadian Trade Policy, 1949-57: The Failure of the Anglo-European Option
Current Employment: Professor, Department of History, University of Waterloo
Dr Carl Eric Benn
1995 (August)
(Supervisor: Ramsay Cook) The Iroquois in the War of 18 12
Current Employment: Faculty Member, Department of History, Ryerson University
Dr Chad Reimer
1995 (August)
(Supervisor: Ramsay Cook) The Making of British Columbia History: Historical Writing and Institutions, 1784-1958.
Dr Charles Allen Seager
1981 (October)
(Supervisor: Irving Abella) A Proletariat in Wild Rose Country: The Alberta Coal Miners, 1905-1945
Current Employment: Professor Emeritas, Department of History, Simon Fraser University
Dr Charles Morden Levi
1998 (June)
(Supervisor: Paul Axelrod) Where the Famous People Were? The Origins, Activities and Future Careers of Student Leaders at University College, Toronto, 1854-1973
Current Employment: Archivist, Archives of Ontario
Dr Chris Dawson
2016 (April)
(Supervisor: Jonathan Edmondson) Intimate Communities. Honorific Statutes and the Political Culture of the Cities of Africa Proconsularis in the First three Centuries CE
Dr Christine Campbell
1988
(Supervisor: Timothy J. Le Goff) Chanlon-sur-Saône in the Nineteenth-Century: A Demographic Study
Current Employment: Financial Advisor, TD Bank
Dr Christine Grandy
2008 (April)
(Supervisor: Stephen Brooke) Truly She loves No Other Class, Nationalism and Desire in Popular British Culture, 1914-1939
Current Employment: Senior Lecturer in the School of History & Heritage, University of Lincoln, UK
Dr Christine Sismondo
2017 (September)
(Supervisor: Craig Heron) Toronto the Gay: The Formation of a Queer Counterpublic in Public Drinking Spaces, 1947-1981
Dr Christopher Grafos
2016 (December)
(Supervisor: Roberto Perin) Canada’s Greek Moment: Transnational Politics, Activists and Spies During the Long Sixties
Dr Christopher J. Frank
2003 (February)
(Supervisor: Douglas Hay), “Constitutional Law versus Justices’ Justice”: English Trade Unions, Lawyers and the Magistracy, 1842-1862
Current Employment : Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Manitoba
Dr Christopher Robb Waddell
1981 (October)
(Supervisor: Jack L. Granatstein), The Wartime Prices and Trade Board: Price Control in Canada in World War II
Current Employment: Associate Professor and Associate Director, School of Journalism and Communication, Carleton University
Dr Colin M. Coates
1992 (May)
(Supervisor: Fernand Ouellet) The Boundaries of Rural Society in Early Quebec: Batiscan and Sainte-Anne de Ia Perade to 1825
Current Employment: Canada Research Chair in Canadian Landscape, Associate Professor, Canadian Studies program, Glendon College, York University
Dr Colin McCullough
2013 (May)
(Supervisor: Marlene Shore) “We are the Blue Berets”: Problematizing Peacekeeping in Postwar Canada
Current Employment: Adjunct Professor, McMaster University and Ryerson University
Dr Colleen Elizabeth Kriger
1992 (September)
(Supervisor Paul Lovejoy) Ironworking in 19th Century Central Africa
Current Employment: Professor, University of North Carolina
Dr Cristina Arrigoni
2015 (May)
Ducks and Deer, Profit and Pleasure: Hunters, Games and the Natural Landscapes of Medieval Italy
Dr Dagomar Degroot
2014 (May)
(Supervisor: Richard Hoffmann) The Frigid Golden Age: Experiencing Climate Change in the Dutch Republic, 1560-1720
Current Employment: Assistant Professor of Environmental History in the Department of History at Georgetown University
Dr Dan A. Azoulay
1991 (February)
(Supervisor: Peter Oliver) Keeping the Dream Alive: The Cooperative Commonwealth Federation/New Democratic Party of Ontario, 1951-1963
Current Employment:
Dr Daniel Bullard
2012 (June)
(Supervisor: Irmgard Steinisch) “Vergiss nicht unsere Kolonien!”German Colonial Memory from 1919 to 1943
Dr Daniel Horner
2010 (December)
(Supervisor: Bettina Bradbury) Taking to the Streets: Crowds, Politics and Identity in Mid-Nineteenth Century Montreal
Current Employment: Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology at Ryerson University
Dr Daniel J. Robinson
1996 (December)
(Supervisor Jack L. Granatstein) Polling Consumers and Citizens: Opinion Sample Surveys and the Rise of the Canadian Marketing Polity, 1928-1945
Current Employment: Associate Professor, Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario
Dr Daniel Ross
2017 (March)
(Supervisor: Marcel Martel) Remaking Downtown Toronto: Politics, Development, and Public Space on Yonge Street, 1950-1980
Dr Daphne Bonar
2006
(Supervisor: T. J. A. Le Goff) Local Conflict, Local Ties: Society and the State in Seventeeth-Century Auvergne
Current Employment: Manager, Degree Development and Academic Pathways at George Brown College
search Services, Faculty of Arts and Science, University of Toronto
Dr David A. Lenarcic
1991 (January)
(Supervisor Jack L. Granatstein) Where Angels Fear to Tread: Neutralist and Non-Interventionist Sentiment in Inter-War English Canada
Dr David Grosvenor Coombs
1978 (April)
(Supervisor: Jack T. Saywell), The Emergence of a White Collar Workforce in Toronto 1895-1911
Dr David Mizener
2009 (June)
(Supervisor: Craig Heron) Sport and Identity in Rural Southern Ontairo, 1900-1970
Current Employment: Educator at St. Clement’s School
Dr Dawn Harris
2009 (June)
(Supervisor: David Trotman) Endurance Vile: Bodies, Punishment, and Discipline in Barbados and Jamaica, 1834-1900
Dr Dean Oliver
1996 (January)
(Supervisor: Jack L. Granatstein) When the Battle’s Won: Military Demobilization in Canada, 1939-1946
Current Employment: Director, Historical Research and Exhibit Development, Canadian War Museum, Ottawa
Dr Diana Cucuz
2016 (September)
(Supervisor: Molly Ladd-Taylor) Winning Women’s Hearts and Minds: U.S. Cultural Diplomacy and Consumerism in the Soviet Union, 1953-1959
Current Employment: Instructor Ryerson University
Dr Dimitry Anastakis
2001 (November)
(Supervisor: Christopher Armstrong) Auto Pact: Business and Diplomacy in the Creation of a Borderless North American Auto Industry, 1945-1971
Current Employment: Professor, Department of History, Trent University
Dr Donald G. Wileman
1988 (July)
(Supervisor: William Irving), L’Alliance républicaine démocratique: The Dead Centre of French Politics, 1901-1947
Dr Doug Hunter
2015 (May)
(Supervisor: Carolyn Podruchny) Stone of Power: Dighton Rock, Colonization and the Erasure of an Indigenous Past
Dr Douglas O. Baldwin
1973 (April)
(Supervisor: Jack T. Saywell) Political and Social Behaviour in Ontario, 1879-1891 A Quantitative Approach
Dr Edmund Abaka
1998 (July)
(Supervisor: Paul Lovejoy) Kola Nut Production in Ghana (Gold Coast and Asante) 1865-1920
Current Employment: Associate Professor, Department of History and Director of Africana Studies Program, University of Miami
Dr Elaine Naylor
1999 (November)
(Supervisor: Molly Ladd-Taylor) “It’s Going to Be a Place of Commercial Importance”: Frontier Boosterism in Jefferson County, Washington, 1850-1890
Current Employment: Associate Professor, Department of History, Mount Allison University
Dr Elizabeth Polak
(Supervisor: Anne Rubenstein) Conventual Contracts: Power and Property in Oaxaca
Dr Elmar J. Henrich
2004
(Supervisor: Tom Cohen) Peasants, Militiamen, Bounty Killers And The State: A Social Geography Of Life And Death In the Lucchese Mountains (ca. 1570-1650)
Dr Emilie Pigeon
2017 (April)
(Supervisor: Carolyn Podruchny) Au nom du Bon Dieu et du Buffalo: Metis Lived Catholicism on the Northern Plains
Current Employment: Part time Professor, Department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics at the University of Ottawa
Dr Eric Dussault
2011 (January)
(Supervisor: Suzanne Langlois) ” Les Mythes e la réalité de «l’ âge d’or de Saint-Germain-des Prés (1945-1960)» de1945 à nos jours”
Dr Erik Strikwerda
2007 (October)
(Supervisor: Craig Heron), The City and the Depression on the Canadian Prairies; Edmonton, Saskatoon, and Winnipeg, 1929-1935
Current Employment: Assistant Professor, Athabasca University
Dr Erin K. McLaughlin-Jenkins
2001 (August)
(Supervisor: Bernard Lightman) Common Knowledge: The Victorian Working Class and the Low Road to Science, 1870-1900
Dr Evgeny Efremkin
2014 (September)
(Supervisor: Roberto Perin) At the Intersection of Nations, Diasporas, and Modernities: North American Finns in the Soviet Union in the 1930s.
Current Employment: Contract Lecturer in the Department of Politics and Political Administration at Ryerson University
Dr Fabio Fernando Rizi
1999 (December)
(Supervisor: William Irvine) Benedetto Croce and Italian Fascism
Current Employment: Independent Researcher
Dr Femi James Kolapo
1998 (July)
(Supervisor: Paul Lovejoy) Military Turbulence, Population Displacement and Commerce on a Slaving Frontier of the Sokoto Caliphate: Nupe c. 1810-1857
Current Employment: Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Guelph
Dr Fiona Alice Miller
2000 (February)
(Supervisor: Gina Feldberg) A Blueprint for Defining Health: Making Medical Genetics in Canada, c. 1935-1975
Current Employment: Associate Professor, Department of Health Policy, Mangement and Evaluation, University of Toronto
Current Employment: Professor, Department of History, University of Toronto (Scarborough)
Dr Frank Leonard
1988 (December)
(Supervisor: H. V. Nelles) “A Thousand Blunders”: The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company and Northern British Columbia, 1902-1919
Current Employment: Professor Emeritas, Department of History, Douglas College (New Westminster)
Dr Franklin Bialystok
1997 (April)
(Supervisor: Irving Abella) Delayed Impact: The Holocaust and the Canadian Jewish Community 1945-1985
Current Employment: Sessional Lecturer, University College, University of Toronto
Dr Frederick David Millar
1980 (December)
(Supervisor Irving Abella) Shapes of Power: The Ontario Labour Relations Board, 1944 to 1950
Dr Funke Aladejebi
2016 (November)
(Supervisor: Michele Johnson) Girl You Better Apply to Teacher’s College: The History of Black Women Educators in Ontario, 1940s-1980s
Current Employment: Assistant Professor, University of New Brunswick
Dr Gail Cuthbert Brandt
1976
(Supervisors: Ramsay Cook and Michael Katz) ‘J’y suis, j’y reste’ : the French Canadians of Sudbury, 1883-1913
Current Employment: Professor Emerita, Department of History, University of Waterloo
Dr Geoffrey Ewen
1998 (January)
(Supervisor: Irving Abella) The International Unions and The Workers’ Revolt in Quebec, 1914-1925
Current Employment: Coordinator of the Canadian Studies program , Glendon College, York University
Dr Geoffrey Read
2006 (Oct)
(Supervisor: William Irvine) From Left to Right: Gender and Politics in Interwar France
Current Employment: Associate Professor of History, Huron at Western University
Dr Gerard Simanga Kunene
1992 (May)
(Supervisor: Paul Lovejoy) British Colonial Policy in Swaziland, 1920-1960
Dr Greg Kennedy
2008 (April)
(Supervisor: T. LeGoff) French peasants in two worlds: A comparative study of rural experience in seventeenth and eighteenth century Acadia and the Loudunais
Current Employment: Associate Professor of History, and Research Director of the Institute d’etudes acadiennes, Université de Moncton
Dr Gregory Allan Johnson
1989 (May)
(Supervisor: Jack L. Granatstein) North Pacific Triangle?: The Impact of the Far East on Canada and Its Relations With The United States and Great Britain, 1937-1948
Current Employment: Academic Co-Ordinator in the Department of History at
Athabasca University
Dr Hayley Andrew
2016 (June)
(Supervisor: Stephen Brooke) The Reluctant Stork: Science, Fertility, and the Family in Britain, 1943-1960)
Current Employment: Senior Program and Education Coordinator at Historica Canada
Dr Heiderose Brandt Butscher
2001 (December)
(Supervisor: Martin Fichman) Lorenz Oken and Nineteenth-Century German Romantic Science. Transformation from “Naturphilosoph” to Professional Scientist through the Institutionalization of Science
Current Employment: Part-time faculty with Humanities Division, Arts, York University
Dr Henry Manuel Trachtenberg
1984 (April)
(Supervisor: Irving Abella) “The Old Clo’ Move”: Anti-Semitism, Politics, and the Jews of Winnipeg, 1882-1921
Dr Howard D. Palmer
1973 (October)
(Supervisor: Ramsay Cook) Nativism and Ethnic Tolerance in Alberta, 1920-1972
Dr Ian Hesketh
2006 (June)
(Supervisor: Marlene Shore), Making the Past Speak: The Science of History in Victorian Britain
Current Employment: Senior Research Fellow, School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, The University of Queensland
Dr Ian Walter Radforth
1985 (May)
(Supervisor: Irving Abella) Bushworkers and Bosses: A Social History of the Northern Ontario Logging Industry, 1900-1980
Current Employment: Professor, Department of History, University of Toronto
Dr Ibrahim Hamza
2009 (Nov)
(Supervisor: Paul Lovejoy) Cargill’s Mistakes: A Study of British Colonial Policies in Madaki District, Kano Emirate Northern Nigeria c. 1903-1919
Dr Ibrahim Muhammad Jumare
1995 (November)
(Supervisor: Paul Lovejoy) Land Tenure in the Sokoto Sultanate of Nigeria
Current Employment: Faculty Member, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Nigeria
Dr Ismael Musah-Montana
2007 (June )
(Supervisor: Paul Lovejoy) Sudan Tunis: The Black Slave Community of the Regency of Tunis, 1800-1890
Current Employment: Associate Professor of History at Northern Illinois University
Dr Jack Cecillon
2007 (December)
(Supervisor: Yves Frenette) Language, Schools and Religious Conflict in the Windsor Border Region: A Case Study of Francophone Resistance to the Ontario Government’s Imposition of Regulation XVll, 1910-1928
Current Employment: Course Instructor at Glendon College, York University
Dr Jacques R. Pauwels
1976 (September)
(Supervisor: Michael H. Kater) Women and University Studies in the Third Reich, 1933-1945
Current Employment: Independant historian, author
Dr James Cullingham
2014 (February)
(Supervised by Carolyn Podruchny and Anne Rubenstein) “Scars of Empire: A Juxtaposition of Duncan Campbell Scott and Jacques Soustelle”
Current Employment: Professor of Broadcast Journalism at Seneca College
Dr James E. Moran
1998 (February)
(Supervisor: Susan Houston) Insanity, The Asylum and Society in Nineteenth-Century Quebec and Ontario
Current Employment: Associate Professor (Department of History) at the University of Prince Edward Island
Dr James J. Matthews
1999 (October)
(Supervisor: Bernard Luk) The Union Jack on the Upper Yangzi: The Treaty Port of Chongoing, 1891-1943
Current Employment: Independent Researcher
Dr James Michael Pitsula
1979 (May)
(Supervisor: Ramsay Cook) The Relief of Poverty in Toronto, 1880-1930
Current Employment: Professor, Department of History, University of Regina
Dr James Muir
2004 (December)
(Supervisor: Paul Craven) Civil Law in Colonial Halifax: Merchants and Craftsmen, Creditors and Debtors
Current Employment: Associate Professor, Department of History and Classics and the Faculty of Law at University of Alberta
Dr James Naylor
1988 (June)
(Supervisor: Tom Traves) The New Democracy: Class Conflict in Industrial Ontario, 1914-1925
Current Employment: Associate Professor, Department of History, Brandon University
Dr James P. Hull
1985 (November)
(Supervisor: Tom Traves) Science and the Canadian Pulp and Paper Industry, 1903-1933
Current Employment: Associate Professor, Department of History at UBC Okanagan
Dr Jamie Glazov
1997 (March)
(Supervisor Jack L. Granatstein) Canadian Policy Toward Nikita Khrushchev’s Soviet Union
Current Employment: Managing Editor of Frontpagemag.com
Dr Jamie Trepanier
2015 (April)
(Supervisor: Marcel Martel) Building Boys, Building Canada: The Boy Scout Movement in Canada, 1908-1970
Current Employment: Curator, Post -Confederation Canada, Canadian Museum of History
Dr Jane McLeod
1987 (January)
(Supervisor John Bosher) A Social Study of Printers and Booksellers in Bordeaux from 1745 to 1810
Current Employment: Associate Professor, Department of History, Brock University
Dr Janet Jarme Green
1975 (November)
(Supervisor: Paul Stevens) Government and Wildlife Preservation, 1885-1922: The Emergence of a Protective Policy
Current Employment:
Dr Janet Miron
2004 (October)
(Supervisor: Marlene Shore) “As in a Menagerie”: The Custodial Institution as Spectacle in the Nineteenth Century
Current Employment: Associate Professor, Department of History, Trent University
Dr Janice Matsumura
1994 (June)
(Supervisor: Bob Wakabayashi) “More Than a Momentary Nightmare”: Thought Control and the Yokohama Incident
Current Employment: Associate Professor, Department of History, Simon Fraser University
Dr Janice Rae McTavish
1996 (December)
(Supervisor Richard Jarrell) The Role of the Headache and its Treatment in American Medical Practice Prior to World War II
Dr Jarett Henderson
2010
(Supervisor: Bettina Bradbury) “Uncivil Subjects: Metropolitan Meddling, Conditional Loyalty and Lord Durham’s 1838 Administration of Lower Canada”
Current Employment: Lecturer, Department of History, University of California-Santa Barbara
Dr Jean-François Brière
1980 (January)
(Supervisor: John F. Bosher) L’armement français pour Ia pêche à Terre-Neuve au XVIIIe siècle
Current Employment : Professor Emeritus of French Studies at the University of New York at Albany
Dr Jeff Keshen
1992 (January)
(Supervisor: Jack L. Granatstein) The Great War At Home And Abroad: Information Management In Canada vs. Life In “Flanders’ Field”
Current Employment: Vice-president, Grenfell Campus, Memorial University
Dr Jennifer Ellison
2010 (June)
(Supervisor: Kathryn McPherson) Large as Life: Self-Acceptance and the Fat Body in Canada, 1977-2000
Current Employment: Curator, Sport and Leisure, Canadian Museum of History
(Supervisor: Ian Gentles) The War In the North: The Northern Parliamentarian Army In the English Civil War, 1642-1645
Current Employment: Senior Economic Policy Advisor, Government of Ontario
Dr Jennifer Lofkrantz
2008 (October)
(Supervisor: Paul Lovejoy) Ransoming Policies and Practices in the Western and Central Bilad al-Sudan c 1800-1910
Dr Jennine Hurl-Eamon
2001 (July)
(Supervisor: Nick Rogers) Voices of Litigation; Voices of Resistance: Constructions of Gender in the Records of Assault in London, 1680-1720
Current Employment: Professor, Department of History, Trent University
Dr Jeremy Koop
2011 (October)
(Supervisor: Irmgard Steinisch) The Political Ramifications of the Two Kingdoms Doctrine in the Nazi Period: A Comparatative Study of the German Christians, the Confessing Church and the Mennonites
Dr Jim Clifford
2011 (January)
(Supervisor: Stephen Brooke) A Wetland Suburb on the Edge of London: A Social and Environmental History of West Ham and the River Lea, 1865-1914
Current Employment: Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at University of Saskatchewan
Dr Jodi Burkett
2009 (July)
(Supervisor: Stephen Brooke) Radicalism, Race and National Identity in Britain, 1958-72
Current Employment: Principal Lecturer and Subject leader in History at University of Portsmouth, UK
Dr John David Thomas
1991 (June)
(Supervisor: Ramsay Cook) “A Pure and Popular Character” : Case Studies in the Development of the Methodist ‘Organizational’ Church, 1884-1925.
Dr John Henry Wadland
1976 (December)
(Supervisor: R. J. Storr), Ernest Thompson Seton: Man in Nature and the Progressive Era, 1880-1915
Current Employment: Professor Emeritas , Department of Canadian Studies, Trent University
Dr John Humphrey Colhoun
1976 (March)
(Supervisor: Gabriel Kolko), The Frustration of Power: United States Military Policy, 1945-60
Dr John Patrick Bingham
1997 (May)
(Supervisor: Michael H. Kater) Weimar Cities: Assimilating Urban Modernity in the Weimar Republic, 19 19-1933
Current Employment: Assistant Professor, Department of History, Dalhousie History
Dr Jonathan Sufrin
2009 (June)
(Supervisor: Marlene Shore ), The Canadian Apocalypse: Disappointed Nationalists and the End of the Canadian Nation, 1963-1995
Current Employment: Assistant Lecturer, Writing Department, York University
Dr Jonathan Vance
1993 (May)
(Supervisor Jack L. Granatstein), Providing for Canadians in Enemy Hands through the 20th Century
Current Employment: Professor and Canada Research Chair, Department of History, University of Western Ontario
Dr José Antonio Brandao
1994 (September)
(Supervisor: Ramsay Cook) ‘Your fyre shall burn no more’: Iroquois Policy Towards New France and her Native Allies to 1701.
Current Employment : Professor Department of History, Western Michigan University
Dr José Cairus
2012
(Supervisor: Anne Rubenstein) The Gracie Clan and the Making of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu: National Identity, Culture and Performance, 1905-2003
Dr Jose Raposo
1989 (June)
(Supervisor: John Bosher) Don Gabriel de Silva, A Portuguese-Jewish Banker in Eighteenth Century Bordeaux
Current Employment: Independent Researcher
Dr Juanita De Barros
1998 (June)
(Supervisor: David Trotman) Contested Territories: Public Space in Colonial Georgetown, 1889-1924
Current Employment: Professor, Department of History, McMaster University
Dr Judith Szapor
2001 (September)
(Supervisor: Bettina Bradbury) The Possibilities and Impossibilities of this Semi-Century: The Life of Laura Polanyi, 1882-1959
Current Employment: Assistant Professor, Department of History, McGill University
Dr Karen Macfarlane
2008 June)
(Supervisor: D. Hay) Minority Justice: Ethnic Minorities and Criminal Justice in London, 1724-1800
Current Employment: Senior Lecturer, Department of History, University of Toronto
Dr Karen Travers
2015 (June)
(Supervisor: David McNab) Seeing With Two Eyes: Colonial Policy, the Huron Tract Treaty and Changes in the Land in Lambton County, 1780-1867
Dr Karlee Sapoznik
2015 (December)
“Who/If/When to Marry, It’s a Choice: A History of Forced Marriage in Canada, 1948-2008
2015 (December)
Dr Katherine Bausch
2014 (November)
(Supervisor: Mark Stein), He Thinks He’s Down: White Appropriation of Black Masculinities in the Civil Rights Era, 1945-1979
Current Employment: Instructor Gender & Women’s Studies Trent University
Dr Katrina Keefer
2015 (September)
(Supervisor: Paul Lovejoy) Mission Education in Early Sierra Leone, 1793-1820
Current Employment: Adjunct Professor, Department of History, Trent University
Dr Ken Cruikshank
1988 (October)
(Supervisor: H. V. Nelles) The Limits of Regulation: Railway Freight Rate Regulation and the Board of Railway Commissioners, 1851–1933
Current Employment: Associate Professor, Department of History, McMaster University
Dr Kenneth Michael Sylvester
1997 (April)
(Supervisor Fernand Ouellet), Montcalm: the Transformation of Rural Life in a Prairie Community, 1870-1940
Current Employment: Adjunct Researcher at the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, University of Michigan.
Dr Kiyoaki Adachi
1991 (May)
(Supervisor: H. V. Nelles) The National Policy in the World Economy: Studies in Canada’s Foreign Trade, 1877-1890
Current Employment: Associate Professor, Yokkaichi University, Japan
Dr Kristin Burnett
2006 (June)
(Supervisor: Katherine McPherson) The Healing Work and Nursing Care of Aboriginal Women, Female Medical Missionaries, Nursing Sisters, Public Health Nurses, and Female Attendants in Southern Alberta First Nations Communities, 1880-1930
Current Employment: Associate Professor, Department of History, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay
Dr Kristine Alexander
2010 (November)
(Supervisor: Bettina Bradbury) The Girl Guide Movement, Imperialism and Internationalism in Interwar England, Canada and India
Current Employment: Canada Research Chair in Child & Youth Studies, University of Lethbridge
Dr Laila Haidarali
2007 (April)
(Supervisor: Molly Ladd-Taylor) The Vampingest Vamp is a Brownskin: Colour, Sex, Beauty and African American Womanhood 1920-1954
Current Employment: Lecturer at the University of Essex, England
Dr Larry A. Glassford
1985 (September)
(Supervisor: Michiel Horn) Canadian Conservatism in Crisis: A Study of the Federal Conservative Party During the R. B. Bennett Years, 1927-1938
Current Employment: Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Education, University of Windsor
Dr Laura Godsoe
2011 (February)
(Supervisor: William Irvine) ‘Pour la grandeur de la patrie et nous mêmes.’ Reading Women’s Colonial Work in the Pages of the Women’s Press in France, 1870-1914
Dr Laurence B. Mussio
1994 (December)
(Supervisor H. V. Nelles) Altered States: Telecommunications as a Government Responsibility in Canada, 1945-1975
Current Employment: Author of several books; senior research and strategic communications consultant to executives in the public and private sectors; lecturer in history and communication, McMaster University, Hamilton.
Dr Lee Slinger
2015 (January)
(Supervisor: Nicholas Rogers) The Purchase of the Past: The Elizabethan Past and the uses of History in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Current Employment: Sessional Instructor at OCAD University and Ryerson University
Dr Leila Gay Mitchell-McKee
1982 (December)
(Supervisor: Ramsay Cook) Voluntary Youth Organizations in Toronto, 1880-1930
Dr Leslie Howsam
1988 (November)
(Supervisor: A Tucker) The Bible Transaction: A Publishing History of the British and Foreign Bible Society, 1804-1864
Current Employment: Professor, Department of History, University of Windsor
Dr Linfu Dong
2001 (July)
(Supervisor: William Westfall) The Search for God in Ancient China: James Mellon Menzies, China Missionary and Archaeologist
Dr Lisa Chilton
2002 (November)
(Supervisor: Kate McPherson), Emigration of English Single Women to Canada and Australia, 1862-1930
Current Employment: Associate Professor, Department of History, and Director, Applied Communication, Leadership & Culture Program, University of Prince Edward Island
Dr Liza Piper
2005
(Supervisor: H. V. Nelles) Harnessing the Wet West: Environment and Industrial Order on the Large Lakes of Subarctic Canada, 1921-1960’
Current Employment: Associate Professor, Department of History & Classics, University of Alberta
Dr Luigi D’Alonzo
2000 (December)
(Supervisor: William Irvine), The Strange Death of Liberal Italy: A Study in the Politics of Modernization (1919-1925)
Dr Lynn Sorrel Marks
1992 (April)
(Supervisor: Susan Houston) Ladies, Loafers, Knights and “Lasses”: The Social Dimensions of Religion and Leisure in Late Nineteenth Century Small Town Ontario
Current Employment: Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Victoria
Dr Madeleine Chartrand
2017 (September)
(Supervisor: Doug Hay) Gendered Justice: Women Workers, Gender, and Master and Servant Law in England, 1700-1850
Dr Magda Fahrni
2001
(Supervisor: Bettina Bradbury) Under Reconstruction: The Family and the Public in Postwar Montréal, 1944-1949
Current Employment: Professeure, département d’histoire, Université du Québec à Montréal
Dr Mandy Hadenko
2014 (January)
(Supervisor: Myra Rutherdale and Gina Feldberg) “Talking About Down There: The Development of a Public Discussion of Cervical Cancer in the Twentieth Century”
Dr Marcel Martel
1994 (October)
(Supervisor: Ramsay Cook), Les relations entre le Québec et les francophones de l’Ontario: de la survivance aux ‘dead ducks’, 1937-1969.
Current Employment: Professor and Holder of the Avie Bennett Historica Chair in Canadian History, Department of History, York University and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Dr Mark Abraham
2014 (May)
(Supervisor: Marc Stein) You Are Your Own Alternative: Performance, Pleasure, and the American Counterculture, 1965-1975
Dr Mark Cox
1990 (April)
(Supervisor: H. V. Nelles) The Transformation of Regulation: Private Property and The Problem of Government Control in Canada, 19 19-1939
Consultant
Dr Mark Jay Stern
1979 (November)
(Supervisor: M Katz) The Demography of Capitalism: Industry, Class, and Fertility in Erie County, New York, 1855-1915
Dr Mark Kuhlberg
2002 (April)
(Supervisor: Jack L. Saywell) “In the Power of the Government”: The Rise and Fall of Newsprint in Ontario, 1894-1932
Current Employment: Associate Professor, Department of History, Laurentian University
Dr Mark Steven Rosenfeld
1990 (December)
(Supervisor: Tom Traves) “She Was a Hard Life”, Work, Family, Community, Politics, and Ideology in the Railway Ward of a Central Ontario Town, 1900-1960
Current Employment: Executive Director of the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations
Dr Mathieu Lapointe
2010 (December)
(Supervisor: Roberto Perin) La Comité de Moralité Publique, l’Enquête Caron et les Campagnes de Moralité Publique à Montréal, 1940-1954
Dr Matthew Bera
2009 (November)
(Supervisor: Irmgard Steinisch) Managers and Entrepreneurs: Chief Business Managers in the Organisations of the Machine Building and Iron Steel Industries in Weimer and Nazi Germany
Dr Matthew Evenden
2000 (June)
(Supervisor: H. V. Nelles) Fish Vs. Power: Remaking Salmon, Science and Society on the Fraser River, 1900-1960
Current Employment : Professor and Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies, University of British Columbia
Dr Michael D. Behiels
1978 (May)
(Supervisor: Ramsay Cook) Prelude to Quebec’s ‘Quiet Revolution’: The Re-Emergence of Liberalism and the Rise of Neo-Nationalism, 1940-1960
Current Employment: Professor and University Research Chair in the Department of History, University of Ottawa
Dr Michael M. Sheng
1991 (December)
(Supervisor: Jerome Ch’en) Maoist Dualism and Chinese Communist Foreign Relations, 1935-1950
Current Employment: Professor, Department of History, The University of Akron
Dr Michele Green
1988 (February)
(Supervisor: S. Eisen) Sympathy, Self-Interest, And The Revision of Benthamism: The Development Of John Stuart Mill’s Moral And Social Philosophy, 1826-1840
Dr Michelle White
2001 (January)
(Supervisor: Ian Gentles), Meddlesome Henrietta Maria: The Actual and Perceived Significance of Charles 1’s Wife during the English Civil Wars
Current Employment: Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Tennessee (Chattanooga).
Dr Mohammed Bashir Salau
2005 (June)
(Supervisor: Paul Lovejoy) The Growth of Plantation Economy in Sokoto Caliphate: Fanisau, 1819-1903
Current Employment: Assistant Professor in the Department of History, University of Mississippi
Dr Molly Ungar
2003 (March)
(Supervisor: Ramsay Cook) The Last Ulysseans: Culture and Modernism in Montreal, 1930-1939.
Current Employment: Associate Professor, Department of History, University of the Fraser Valley, Abbotsford, British Columbia
Dr Myer Siemiatycki
1986 (April)
(Supervisor: Irving Abella) Labour Contained: The Defeat of a Rank and File Workers’ Movement in Canada, 1914-1921
Current Employment: Professor, Department of Politics and Public Administration, Ryerson University
Dr Myra Rutherdale
1996 (May)
(Supervisor: William Westfall) Models of Grace and Boundaries of Culture: Women Missionaries on a Northern Frontier, 1860-1940
Dr Nancy Kay Parker
1998 (March)
(Supervisors: Douglas Hay/Susan Houston) Reaching A Verdict: The Changing Structure of Decision-Making in the Canadian Criminal Courts, 1867-1905
Dr Norman James Knowles
1992 (June)
(Supervisor: Ramsay Cook), Inventing the Loyalists: The Ontario Loyalist Tradition and the Creation of a Usable Past, 1784-1924.
Current Employment: Professor of History, St Mary’s University College, Alberta
Dr Olatunji Ojo
2003 (December)
(Supervisor: Paul Lovejoy) Warfare, Slavery, and the Transformation of Eastern Yorubaland (South-Western Nigeria), c. 1820-1900
Current Employment: Visiting Professor, Department of History, Ohio University
Dr Pamela Fuentes
2015 (February)
The Oldest Professions in Revolutionary Times: Madames, Pimps and Prostitution in Mexico City, 1920-1952
Dr Patrice Dutil
1987
(Supervisor: Ramsay Cook) The Politics of Liberal Progressivism in Quebec : Godfroy Langlois and the Liberal Party, 1889-1914.
Current Employment: Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Ryerson University
Dr Patrick H. Brennan
1989 (January)
(Supervisor: Jack L. Granatstein) “A Responsible, Civilized Relationship:” Reporting the Nation’s Business, 1937-1957
Current Employment : Professor Emeritas, Department of History, University of Calgary
Dr Patrick Joseph Connor
2012 (June)
(Supervisor: Douglas Hay), “The Purest of Gifts:” Royal Clemency, Patronage, and the Politics of Identity in Upper Canada, 1791-1841
Current Employment: Contract Faculty, York University
Dr Paul D. Axelrod
1979 (November)
(Supervisor: M Katz) The Economy, Government and the Universities of Ontario: 1945-1973
Current Employment: Professor Emeritas, Faculty of Education, York University
Dr Paul Morgan Couture
1981 (July)
(Supervisor: Jack L. Granatstein) The Politics of Diplomacy: The Crisis of Canada-France Relations, 1940-1942
Dr Penny E. Bryden
1994 (March)
(Supervisor: Jack L. Granatstein) Liberal Politics and Social Policy in the Pearson Era, 1957-1968
Current Employment: Professor, Department of History, University of Victoria
Dr Philip Atsu Afeadie
1996 (June)
(Supervisor: Sydney Kanya-Forstner) The Hidden Hand of Overrule: Political Agents and the Establishment of British Colonial Rule in Northern Nigeria, 1886-1914
Current Employment: Senior Lecturer, University of Ghana
Dr Philip Colin Levy
1976 (June)
(Supervisor; A. Tucker) A Nobler Humanity: A Study of the Influences of Poverty and Community on the Self-Education of Working Class Men Born in Britain Between 1780 and 1850
Dr Phyllis Senese
1975 (October)
(Supervisor: Ramsay Cook) The World, the Flesh and the Devil: The Crusade of Lionel Groulx, 1878-1967.
Current Employment: Professor Emeritas, Department of History, University of Victoria
Dr Pierre Claude Reynard
1994 (July)
(Supervisor John Bosher) La papeterie ambertoise au XVIIIe siècle: une prospérité fragile et stérile
Current Employment: Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Western Ontario
Dr R. Douglas Francis
1975
(Supervisor: Ramsay Cook) Frank H. Underhill: Canadian Intellectual.
Current Employment: Professor Emeritus, Department of History, University of Calgary
Dr Rafaela Jobbitt
2016 (September)
Medical Practitioners and the Colonial Project: Medicine, Public Hygiene and the Contest Re-Colonization of Sao Tome and Principe, 1850-1926
Current Employment: Lecturer and Researcher at Lakehead University
Dr Rainer K. Baehre
1985 (October)
(Supervisor: Peter Oliver) The Ill-Regulated Mind: A Study in the Making of Psychiatry in Ontario, 1830-1921
Current Employment: Associate Professor and Historical Studies program Chair, Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Dr Ralph Ripley Heintzman
1977 (June)
(Supervisor: Ramsay Cook), The Struggle for Life: the French Daily Press of Montreal and the Problem of Economic Growth in the Age of Laurier, 1896-1911
Dr Raphael Costa
2014 (September)
(Supervisor: Adrian Shubert) Making the New Lourinha a European Lourinha: Democracy, Civic Engagement, and the Urban Development of Lourinha, Portugal, since 1966
Dr Raymond B. Blake
1991 (March)
(Supervisor: Jack L. Granatstein) The Making of a Province; Newfoundland’s Integration into Canada, 1948-1957
Current Employment: Professor, Department of History, University of Regina
Dr Rebecca Beausaert
2013 (April)
(Supervisor: Bettina Bradbury) Benevolence, Bicycles and Qulting Bees: Leisure, Class and Gender in Small-Town Ontario, 1870-1914
Current Employment: Sessional Instructor University of Guelph
Dr Richard Allan Rajala
1994 (October)
(Supervisor Craig Heron) Clear cutting the Pacific Coast: Production, Science and Regulation in the Douglas Fir Forests of Canada and the United States, 1880-1965
Current Employment: Professor Emeritas, University of Victoria
Dr Richard Gilmour
June 2004
(Supervisor: Marc Egnal) Imagined Bodies and Imagined Selves’: Cultural Transgression, ‘Unredeemed’ Captives and the Development of American Identity in Colonial North America, 1520-1763
Current Employment: Independent Researcher
Dr Richard Wenghofer
2009 (June)
(Supervisor: J. Rives) “Racism and National Identity in Ancient Greece and Rome”
Current Employment: Associate Professor, Classical Studies at Nipissing University, North Bay
Dr Rob Kristofferson
2003 (February)
(Supervisor: Craig Heron) Craft Capitalism: Craftworkers, Industrialization, and Class Formation in Hamilton, Ontario, 1840-1872
Current Employment: Associate Professor Canadian History/Contemporary Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University
Dr Robert A Rutherdale
1993 (October)
(Supervisor: Jack L. Granatstein), The Home Front: Consensus and Conflict in Lethbridge, Guelph and Trois-Rivieres during the Great War
Current Employment: Associate Professor, Department of History, Algoma University
Dr Robert John Perrins
1996 (October)
(Supervisors: D. Lary/Bernard Luk) “Great Connections”: The Creation of a City, Dalian, 1905-1931. China and Japan of the Liaodong Peninsula
Current Employment: University Provost Mount St. Mary’s University
Dr Robert Louis Stein
1975 (February)
(Supervisor: John Bosher) The Nantes Slave Traders, 1793-1815
Current Employment: Independent Researcher
Dr Robert Matthew Bray
1977 (January)
(Supervisor Ramsay Cook) The Canadian Patriotic Response to the Great War
Current Employment: Professor Emeritus, Department of History, Laurentian University
Dr Robin Ganev
2004 (November)
(Supervisor: Jeanette Neeson) Popular Ballads and Rural Identity in Britain, 1700-1830
Current Employment: Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Regina.
Dr Ronald Rudin
1977 (October)
(Supervisor: Jack T. Saywell) The Development of Four Quebec Towns, 1840-1914: A Study of Urban and Economic Growth in Quebec
Current Employment: Professor, Department of History, Concordia University
Dr Ruth A. Frager
1986 (November)
(Supervisor: Irving Abella) Uncloaking Vested Interests: Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Jewish Labour Movement of Toronto, 1900-1939
Current Employment:: Associate Professor, Department of History, McMaster University
Dr Ruth Compton Brouwer
1987 (March)
(Supervisor: Ramsay Cook) Canadian Women and the Foreign Missionary Movement: A Case Study of Presbyterian Women’s Involvement at the Home Base and in Central India, 1876-1914
Current Employment: Professor Emeritas, Department of History, University of Western Ontario
Dr Ryan Whibbs
2014 (December)
(Supervisor: Elizabeth Cohen) God Sends Meate but the Devil Sends Cookes: Cooks Working in French and English Great Households, c1350-1650
Current Employment: Chairperson of the School of Hospitality & Culinary Arts, Paterson Global Foods Institute, Red River College
Dr Sara Ann Stratton
1998 (May)
(Supervisor: Molly Ladd-Taylor) An Embattled Idealism: Land Reform, the Alliance for Progress, and the Struggle for Social Justice in American Foreign Policy
Current Employment: Campaigns Coordinator, Kairos: Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives
Dr Sarah Elvins
2001 (August)
(Supervisor: Marlene Shore) Local Sales and Celebrations: A History of Retailing, Marketing, and Consuming In Western New York State, 1920-1940
Current Employment: Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Manitoba
Dr Sarah Glassford
2007 (June)
(Supervisor: H.V. Nelles) Marching As To War: The Canadian Red Cross 1885-1939
Current Employment: Archivist, Leddy Library Archives & Special Collections, University of Waterloo
Dr Sean Michael Kennedy
1998 (June)
(Supervisor William Irvine) Reconciling The Nation Against Democracy: The Croix de Feu, The Parti Social Francais and French Politics, 1927-1945
Current Employment: Associate Professor (Department of History) at the University of New Brunswick
Dr Sean Stilwell
1999
(Supervisor: Paul Lovejoy) The Kano Mamluks: Royal Slavery in the Sokoto Caliphate, 1807-1903
Current Employment: Associate Professor and Director of African Studies Program, University of Vermont
Dr Serge Miville
2016 (April)
(Supervisor: Marcel Martel) L’Historien dans la cite l’oeuvre intellectuelle de Donald Creighton et de Michel Brunet
Current Employment: tenure track position and Chair in Franco-Ontarian History at Laurentian University
Dr Sharon Wall
2003 (February)
(Supervisor: Craig Heron), Negotiating Modernity: Nature and Nurture at Ontario Children’s Camps, 1920-1955
Current Employment: Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Winnipeg
Dr Sheila Hanlon
2009 (June)
(Supervisor: Stephen Brooke) The Lady Cyclist: A Gender Analysis of Women’s Cycling Culture in 1890s London
Current Employment: Assistant Head of Sixth Form, The King Alfred School (London, UK)
Dr Sheila McManus
2001 (August)
(Supervisor: Kate McPherson) ‘The Line which Separates’: Race, Gender , and the Alberta-Montana Borderlands 1862-1892
Current Employment: Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Lethbridge
Dr Sheryl Stotts McLaren
2001 (November)
(Supervisor: Bettina Bradbury), Becoming Indispensable: A Biography of Elizabeth Smith Shortt (1859-1949)
Current Employment: Independent Researcher
Dr Sophia Koutsoyannis
2010 (December)
(Supervisor: Anne Rubenstein) Immoral but Profitable: The Social Cultural History of Cabarets in Mexico City (1920-1965)
Current Employment: Humanities and History teacher at Marianopolis College
Dr Stacey Nation-Knapper
2015 (September)
(Supervisor: Carolyn Podruchny) N-Ikwkw-min: Remembering the Fur Trade in the Columbia River Plateau
Current Employment: Postdoctoral Fellow in the L.R. Wilson Institute for Canadian History at McMaster
Dr Stanley Herbert Vittoz
1979 (October)
(Supervisor: Gabriel Kolko), The American Industrial Economy and the Political Origins of Federal Labor Policy between the World Wars
Dr Stephen Moore
2009 (June)
(Supervisor: Nick Rogers) Losing Minorca: An Event in English Political History
Dr Steve Penfold
2002 (September)
(Supervisor: Craig Heron) The Social Life of Donuts: Commodity and Community in Postwar Canada
Current Employment: Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Toronto
Dr Suzanne Le-May Sheffield
1997 (June)
(Supervisor: Bernard Lightman) Beyond the Mask of Gender: Three Victorian Scientist-Naturalists
Current Employment: Director (Programs) for the Centre for Learning and Teaching, Dalhousie University
Dr Sylvie Beaudreau
1992 (April)
(Supervisor: Ramsay Cook) Quebec and the Problem of French Canadian Emigration to the United States, 1840-1896
Current Employment: Associate Professor, Department of History, State University of New York (Plattsburg)
Dr T. Stephen Henderson
2003 (April)
(Supervisor: H. V. Nelles) A Provincial Liberal: Angus L. Macdonald, 1890-1954
Current Employment: Assistant Professor, Department of History, Acadia University
Dr Tarah Brookfield
2009 (June)
(Supervisor: Kate McPherson) Our Deepest Concern is for the Safety of our Children and Their Children: Maternal Solutions to Cold War Fears in Canada and Abroad, 1950-1980
Current Employment : Associate Professor, Department of History, and Youth & Children’s Studies program, Wilfrid Laurier University-Brantford
Dr Thomas Donald Traves
1976 (March)
(Supervisors: Ramsay Cook and Jack T. Saywell) Security and Enterprise: Canadian Manufacturers and the State, 1917-1931
Dr Thomas Hooper
2016 (December)
(Supervisor: Marcel Martel) Enough is Enough: The Right to Privacy Committee and Bathhouse Raids in Toronto, 1978-83
Dr Thorald Burnham
2006 (August)
(Supervisor: David Trotman) Immigration and Marriage in the Making of Post-Independence Haiti
Dr Todd Stubbs
2007 (July)
(Supervisor: Craig Heron), Visions of the Common Good: Britishness, Citizenship, and the Public Sphere in Nineteenth-Century Toronto
Current Employment: Contract Lecturer at Lakehead University
Dr Todd Webb
2006 (Winter)
(Supervisor: William Westfall), The Religious Atlantic: British Wesleyanism and the Formation of an Evangelical Culture in Nineteenth-Century Ontario and Quebec.”
Current Employment: Associate Professor, Department of History, Laurentian University
Dr Tom Crawshaw
2013 (March)
(Supervisor: Ian Gentles) Military Finance and the Earl of Essex’s Regular Army: 1642-1644
Current Employment: Postmaster, Watson’s Phamacy & Wellness Centre (Ottawa)
Dr Valentina Capurri
2010 (June)
(Supervisor: Patricia Wood), Canadian Public Discourse around Issues of Inadmissibility for Potential Immigrants with Diseases and Disabilities,1902-2002
Current Employment: Contract Lecturer, Ryerson University
Dr Valerie Deacon
2011 (February)
(Supervisor: William Irvine) The ‘Other’ Resistance: The Extreme-Right in France During the Second World War
Current Employment: Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor in History at New York University, Shanghai campus
Dr Vanessa Oliveira
2016 (February)
(Supervisor: Jose Curto) The Donas of Luanda, c. 1770-1867: From Atlantic Slave Trading to ‘Legitimate’ Commerce
Current Employment: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of Toronto
Dr Varpu Lindstrom
1986 (November)
(Supervisor: Susan Houston) Defiant Sisters; A Social History of the Finnish Immigrant Women in Canada, 1890-1930
Dr Virginia McKendry
1998 (April)
(Supervisor: Nick Rogers) Embodied Politics: The Pictorial Romance of the British Royal Family c. 1760-1860
Current Employment: Associate Professor, School of Communication and Culture, Royal Roads University
Dr Wendy Lynn Mitchinson
1977 (January)
(Supervisor: Paul Stevens) Aspects of Reform: Four Women’s Organizations in Nineteenth Century Canada
Current Employment: University Research Chair and Professor, Department of History, University of Waterloo
Dr William den Hollander
2012 (August)
(Supervisor: Jonathan Edmondson) Hostage to Historian: Josephus, the Emperors, and the City of Rome
Dr William Harry Wiley
1996 (May)
(Supervisor Michael H. Kater), “Onward to New Deeds!” The German Field Army and War Crimes during the Second World War
Dr Xavier Gélinas
2001 (October)
(Supervisor : Ramsay Cook) La droite intellectuelle québécoise et la Révolution tranquille, 1956-1966.
Current Employment: Curator, Political history, Canadian Museum of History/Conservateur, Histoire politique, Musée canadien de l’histoire.
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Dr. Andrew Watson
2014 (May)
(Supervisor: Colin Coates) Poor Soils and Rich Folks: Household Economics and Sustainability in Muskoka, 1850-1920
Current Employment: Assistant Professor, University of Saskatechewan
Dr. Angela Rooke
2014 (September)
(Supervisor: Bettina Bradbury) Raising Christian Citizens for the Twentieth Century: Children, Religion and Society in Protestant Ontario
Current Employment: Manager, Professional Skills and Postdoctoral Affairs, Graduate Studies, University of Waterloo
Dr. Benjamin Lander
2009 (October)
(Supervisor: Stephen Brooke) Mass-Observations and British Society, 1936-1949
Current Employment: Faculty Member, Department of History, Dawson College
Dr. Bradley Skopyk
2010 (December)
(Supervisor: Richard Hoffmann) Undercurrents of Conquest: The Shifting Terrain of Indigenous Agriculture in Colonial Tlaxcala, Mexico
Current Employment:: Assistant Professor Binghamton University
Dr. Christopher Tiessen
2006
Dr. Colin McMahon
2010 (September)
(Supervisor: Stephen Brooke) “Ports of Recall: Memory of the Great Irish Famine in Liverpool and Montreal”
Current Employment: Contract Faculty, York University
Dr. Cynthia Loch-Drake
2013 (February)
(Supervisor: Craig Heron) Unpacking ‘Alberta Beef’: Packinghouses during the Era of National Pattern Bargaining, 1947-1979
Current Employment: Contract Faculty, Schulich School of Business, York University
Dr. David Smith
2002 (December)
(Supervisor: Michiel Horn) Intellectual Activist: Graham Spry, A Biography
Dr. David Zylberberg
2014 (April)
(Supervisor: Jeanette Neeson) Plants and Fossils: Household Fuel Consumption in Hampshire and the West Riding of Yorkshire 1750-1830
Dr. Elizabeth Palmer
2012 (December)
(Supervisor: Kathryn McPherson) Choices and Compromises: The Abortion Movement in Canada, 1969-1988
Dr. Eric Payseur
2013 (February)
(Supervisor: Roberto Perin) Making Polish-Canadian Identities: Generation, Gender, Politics and the Rise of the Polish Canadians from 1950’s to the 1980’s
Dr. Francis Peddie
2012 (August)
(Supervisor: Roberto Perin and Anne Rubenstein) Young, Well-Educated and Adaptable People: Chilean Exiles, Identity and Daily Life in Canada, 1973 to Present Day
Current Employment: Associate Professor, Graduate School of International Development of Nagoya University, Japan
Dr. Gilberto Fernandes
2014 (September)
(Supervisor: Roberto Perin) Of Outcasts and Ambassadors: The Making of Portuguese Diaspora in Postwar North America
Current Employment: Postdoctoral Fellow with the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies at York University
Dr. Guillaume Teasdale
2010 (December)
(Supervisor: Carolyn Podruchny) The French of Orchard Country: Territory, Landscape and Ethnicity in the Detroit River Region, 1680-1810s
Current Employment: Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Windsor
Dr. Ian Milligan
2011 (October)
(Supervisor: Craig Heron) Rebel Youth: Young Workers, New Leftists and Labour in English Canada, 1964-1973
Current Employment: Associate Professor of Canadian history at the University of Waterloo
Dr. Ian Mosby
2011 (October)
(Supervisor: Kathryn McPherson) Food Will Win the War: The Politics and Culture of Food and Nutrition During the Second World War
Current Employment: Assistant Professor, Department of History, Ryerson University
Dr. Jason Ellis
2011 (September)
(Supervisor: Paul Axelrod) Backward and Brilliant Children: A Social and Policy History of Disability, Childhood, and Education in Toronto’s Special Education Classes, 1910 to 1945
Current Employment: Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia
Dr. Jason Reid
2011
(Supervisor: Molly Ladd-Taylor) A Room of One’s Own: The Emergence of Teen Room Culture in America, 1800-1985
Current Employment: Course Director Ryerson University
Dr. Jay Young
2012 (June)
(Supervisor: Marlene Shore) Searching for a Better Way: Subway Life and Metropolitan Growth in Toronto 1942-1978
Current Employment: Outreach Officer at Archives of Ontario
Dr. Joseph Tohill
2012 (June)
(Supervisor: Molly Ladd-Taylor) “A Consumer’s War”: Price Control and Political Consumerism in the United States and Canada During World War II
Current Employment: Contract Faculty at York University and Ryerson University
Dr. Kato Perdue
2014 (June)
(Supervisor: Kate McPherson) Writing Desire: The Love letters of Frieda Fraser and Edith Williams
Dr. Kristopher Radford
2013 (October)
(Supervised by Douglas Peers) “Exalted Order: Muslim Princes and the British Empire 1874-1906
Dr. Lisa Rumiel
2009 (August)
(Supervisor: Gina Feldberg) Random Murder by Technology: The Role of Scientific and Biomedical Experts in the Anti-Nuclear Movement, 1969-1992
Current Employment: Director, Office of Research Services, Faculty of Arts and Science, University of Toronto
Dr. Maurice Demers
2010 (March)
(Supervisor: Roberto Perin) Pan-Americanism Re-invented in Uncle Sam’s Backyard: Catholic and Latin Identity in French Canada and Mexico in the First- Half of the 20th Century
Current Employment: Tenure track position at the Unviersity of Sherbrooke
Dr. Melisa Turkstra
2006
Dr. Michael Popylansky
2013 (February)
(Supervisor Marcel Martel) Devenir majoritaires: Les destins divergents des neo-nationalismes quebecois et acadien, 1960-1985
Dr. Mohamed Kassim
2008 (June)
(Supervisor: Paul Lovejoy) The Bravanese Ulama and the Islamic Intellectual Tradition of the Benadir Coast in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries
Dr. Samira Saramo
2014 (September)
(Supervisor: Roberto Perin) Life Moving Forward: Soviet Karelia in the Letters & Memoirs of Finnish North Americans
Dr. Sean Kheraj
2007 (December)
( Supervisor: H. V. Nelles) Inventing Nature’s Past: An Environmental History of Stanley Park
Current Employment: Associate Professor, Department of History, York University
Dr. Shannon Stettner
2011 (November)
(Supervisors: Bettina Bradbury and Gina Feldberg) Women and Abortion in English Canada: Public Debates and Political Participation, 1959-70
Current Employment: Contract Faculty, University of Waterloo
Dr. Susanna Miranda
2010 (June)
(Supervsor: Roberto Perin) Not ashamed or Afraid: Portuguese Immigrant Women in Toronto’s Cleaning Industry, 1950-1995
Current Employment: Senior Information and Privacy Advisor for the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities
Dr. Terence Wilde
2014 (August)
(Supervisor: Kate McPherson) Masculinity, Medicine and Mechanization: The Construction of Occupational Health in Northern Ontario, 1890-1925
Dr. Thomas Peace
2011 (September)
(Supervisor: Carolyn Podruchny) Two Conquests: Aboriginal Experiences of the Fall of New France and Acadia
Current Employment: Assistant Professor of Canadian History in the Department of History at Huron University College (Western University)
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