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Adam Hilton
Graduate Program in Political Science, PhD 2016
October 7, 2016
Party Reform and Political Realignment: The New Politics Movement in the Democratic Party
Supervised by: Leo Panitch, Dennis Pilon, Stephen Hellman
Ahmed Allawala
Graduate Program in Political Science, PhD 2011
Civic Metropolitan Regionalism: The Politics of Competitive Multiculturalism in Toronto
Supervised by: Roger Keil, Ann Porter, John Shields
Alana Cattapan
Graduate Program in Political Science, PhD 2015
July 31, 2015
Controlling Conception: Citizenship and the Governance of Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Canada (1989-2004)
Supervised by: Miriam Smith, Barbara Cameron, Lorna Weir
Alisha Ticku
Graduate Program in Political Science, PhD 2017
February 15, 2017
Dreamscapes of Dubai: Geographies and Genealogies of Global City Status
Supervised by: Kamala Kempadoo, Anna Agathangelou, Zulfikar Hirji
Andrew Jones
Graduate Program in Political Science, PhD 2019
August 6, 2019
The Kids are Alt-Right: The Intellectual Origin of the Alt-Right
Supervised by: Shannon Bell, Robert Latham, David Mutimer
Angela Joya
Graduate Program in Political Science, PhD 2013
July 11, 2013
Accumulation by Dispossession and the Transformation of Property Relations in Egypt: Housing Policy under Neoliberalism
Supervised by: Greg Albo, Leo Panitch, Sabah Alnasseri
Bikrum Singh Gill
Graduate Program in Political Science, PhD 2016
December 12, 2016
Race, Nature, and Accumulation: A Decolonial World-Ecological Analysis of Indian Land Grabbing in the Gambella Province of Ethiopia
Supervised by: Ananya Mukherjee-Reed, Anna Agathangelou, Radika Mongia
Bradley Bauerly
Graduate Program in Political Science, PhD 2015
March 27, 2015
The Agrarian Seeds of Empire: The Political Economy of Agriculture in the U.S. State Institutional Capacity Building
Supervised by: Leo Panitch, Hannes Lacher, Jamey Essex
Caitlin Daley
Graduate Program in Political Science, PhD 2017
June 4, 2017
Growth Management and Regional Government: How an Interpretive Approach Can Explain Politicians’ Commitment to Smart Growth Policies in Waterloo Region, Ontario
Supervised by: Dennis Pilon, Karen Murray, Pierre Filion
Caleb Basnett
Graduate Program in Political Science, PhD 2015
February 23, 2015
Politics and the Aesthetic Animal: Aristotle and Adorno
Supervised by: Asher Horowitz, Shannon Bell, Martin Breaugh
Carlos Velasquez Carrillo
The Persistence of Oligarchic Rule in El Salvador: Neoliberal Transformation, and the Retrenchment of Privilege and Inequality in the Post-Civil War Period
Supervised by: Ananya Mukherjee-Reed, Liisa North, David McNally
Christopher Hendershot
Graduate Program in Political Science, PhD 2015
May 5, 2015
Corpses, Guns, Penises and Private Military and Security Corporations
Supervised by: David Mutimer, Sandra Whitworth, Christopher Spearin
Christopher Taucar
Graduate Program in Political Science, PhD 2011
Assessing Judicial Decisions on Judicial Independence: the Canadian System of Government and Framework for Judicial Review
Supervised by: Ian Greene, Carl Baar, Bruce Ryder
Curtis Atkins
Graduate Program in Political Science, PhD 2015
May 4, 2015
Forging a New Democratic Party: The Politics of the Third Way from Clinton to Obama
Supervised by: Greg Albo, Tom Klassen, Dan Cohn
Daniel Ross
Graduate Program in Political Science, PhD 2011
The Political Economy of Free and Open Source Software
Supervised by: George Comninel, David McNally, Rodney Loeppky
Dean Caivano
Graduate Program in Political Science, PhD 2019
May 6, 2019
The Radical Democratic Thought of Thomas Jefferson: Politics, Space & Action
Supervised by: Martin Breaugh, Stephen Newman, Richard Matthews
Devin Penner
Graduate Program in Political Science, PhD 2012
Rethinking the Spectacle: Radical Political Agency in the Information Society
Supervised by: Martin Breaugh, Scott Forsyth, David McNally
Elliott Buckland
Graduate Program in Political Science, PhD 2013
April 15, 2013
Politics as Perishing: Crisis, Contradiction and Non-Identity in Marx and the Frankfurt School
Supervised by: Asher Horowitz, David McNally, Martin Breaugh
Elya Durisin
Graduate Program in Political Science, PhD 2017
December 1, 2017
White Slavery Reconfigured: The “Natasha Trade” and Sexualized Nationalism in Canada
The Conservative Party of Canada and the Politics of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism (2006-2015)
Supervised by: Dennis Pilon, Alan Simmons, Arat-Koc Sedef
John Grundy
Graduate Program in Political Science, PhD 2012
Administering Employability: Employment Service Delivery in the Era of Active Labour Market Policy
Supervised by: Leah Vosko, Barbara Cameron, William Walters (Carleton University)
Jonathan Martineau
Graduate Program in Political Science, PhD 2012
Time, Capitalism, and Alienation: Social time Relations, Clock-Time and the Making of World Standard Time
Supervised by: David McNally, George Comninel, Frederick Guillaume Dufour
Jongchul Kim
Graduate Program in Political Science, PhD 2011
Identity, Money, and Trust: The Origin, Politics, and Ontology of Early-Modern Paper Money in England the 17th – Early 19th Century
Supervised by: Jonathan Nitzan, Ted Winslow, John Smithin
Jordan Brennan
Graduate Program in Political Science, PhD 2014
The Business of Power: Canadian Multinationals in the Postwar Era
July 28, 2014
Supervised by: Mark Peacock, Bruce Smardon, Andrew Jackson
Jordy Cummings
Graduate Program in Political Science, PhD 2017
September 14, 2017
Forces of Chaos and Anarchy: Rock Music, the New Left and Social Movements, 1964 to 1972
Supervised by: Shannon Bell, Greg Albo, Scott Forsyth
Joseph Baines
Graduate Program in Political Science, PhD 2015
March 16, 2015
Price and Income Dynamics in the Agri-Food System: A Disaggregate Perspective
Supervised by: Jonathan Nitzan, Rodney Loeppky, Mark Peacock
Joshua Dumont
Graduate Program in Political Science, PhD 2011
Pension Reform & the Labor Movement in France, 1993-2003
Supervised by: Stephen Hellman, Marc Lesage, Ann Porter
Julian Campisi
Graduate Program in Political Science, PhD 2018
November 5, 2018
What’s in a Political Risk? Re-Assessing the Policies and Determinants of Foreign Investments
Supervised by: Willem Maas, Burkard Eberlein, Stephen Hellman
Julian Germann
Graduate Program in Political Science, PhD 2013
November 29, 2013
Pivotal Crisis: State Power and Social Forces in the Making of Neoliberal Capitalism
Supervised by: Hannes Lacher, Leo Panitch, Stephen Gill
Julie Dowsett
Graduate Program in Political Science, PhD 2014
May 7, 2014
Feminism for Sale: Commodity Feminism, Femininity, and Subjectivity
Supervised by: Leah Vosko, Sandra Whitworth, Shannon Bell
Kamila Pietrzyk
Graduate Program in Political Science, PhD 2013
June 24, 2013
Time, Technology and Troublemakers: “Fast-Activism” and the Alter-Globalization Movement in Canada
Supervised by: Leo Panitch, Stephanie Ross, Lesley Wood
Karl Dahlquist
Graduate Program in Political Science, PhD 2018
October 22, 2018
Leo Strauss: Hobbes and Liberalism
Supervised by: Stephen Newman, Martin Breaugh, David McNally
Laura Harris
Graduate Program in Political Science, PhD 2013
November 8, 2013
Reproductive Rights in Ireland: A Unique Journey
Supervised by: Heather MacRae, Janice Newton, Ann Porter, Patricia McDermott
Laura Pin
Graduate Program in Political Science, PhD 2019
January 29, 2019
Participatory Governance, Neoliberal Restructuring and Participatory Budgeting in Chicago, IL
Supervised by: Dennis Pilon, Karen Murray, Barbara Camero
Lilian Yap
Graduate Program in Political Science, PhD 2016
September 30, 2016
Green Jobs: An Alternative to Neoliberalism? Recycling in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Toronto Canada
Supervised by: Greg Albo, Viviana Patroni, Stefan Kipfer
Lori Crowe
Graduate Program in Political Science, PhD 2018
August 3, 2018
Militarism, Security and War: The Politics of Contemporary Hollywood Superheroes
Supervised by: David Mutimer, Sandra Whitworth, Shannon Bell
Mai Thu Thi Nguyen
Graduate Program in Political Science, PhD 2014
Building Relationships or Building Roadblocks with Public Consulations? An Evaluation of the Urban Aboriginal Strategy in Winnipeg and Toronto
June 16, 2014
Supervised by: Tom Klassen, Ian Greene, Dan Cohn
Manuel Larrabure
Graduate Program in Political Science, PhD 2016
December 9, 2016
Post-Capitalist Struggles in 21st Century Latin America: Cooperation, Democracy and State Power
Supervised by: Greg Albo, David McNally, Viviana Patroni
Matt Dow
Graduate Program in Political Science, PhD 2019
November 22, 2019
Canada’s Carbon Capitalism in the Age of Climate Change
Supervised by: Stephen Gill, Isabella Bakker, Karen Murray
Matthew Morgan
Graduate Program in Political Science, PhD 2015
July 3, 2015
The Provision of Security in an Age of Austerity: The Transformation of NATO, the Production of Trans-scalar Spaces of Intervention, and the Future of the West
Supervised by: Robert Latham, Greg Albo, Nicola Short
Melanie Richter-Montpetit
Graduate Program in Political Science, PhD 2014
Beyond the Erotics of Orientalism: Homeland Security, Liberal War and the Pacification of the Global Frontier
September 17, 2014
Supervised by : Anna Agathangelou, Sandra Whitworth, Andil Gosine
Melanie Samson
Graduate Program in Political Science, PhD 2012
Wasting Value and Valuing Waste: Insights into the Global Crisis and the Production of Value Reclaimed from a Soweto Garbage Dump
Supervised by: Isa Bakker, John Saul, Gillian Hart (University of California, Berkeley)
Melissa Finn
Graduate Program in Political Science, PhD 2011
Al-Qaeda and the Sacrificial Subject: Martyrdom Operations for War and Politics
Supervised by: Elizabeth Dauphinee, David Mutimer, Shannon Bell
Michael Molavi
Graduate Program in Political Science, PhD 2018
March 26, 2018
Multilayer Access to Environmental Justice: A Critical Policy Analysis of Ontario’s Class Action Regime
The Profound Hegemony of Neoliberalism: Economic Theory, Public Policy, and Capitalist Accumulation
Supervised by: Gregory Albo, Thomas Klassen and Sam Gindin
Tyler Shipley
Graduate Program in Political Science, PhD 2013
October 4, 2013
Honduras and the New Canadian Imperialism: Re-Assessing Canadian Foreign Policy Matters
Supervised by: David McNally, Rodney Loeppky, Liisa North
Xavier Lafrance
Graduate Program in Political Science, PhD 2013
January 16, 2013
Citizens and Wage-Labourers: Capitalism and the Formation of a Working Class in France
Supervised by: David McNally, Ellen Wood, Mark Thomas
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