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Robyn Lee is an Assistant Professor of Social Theory in the Sociology department at University of Alberta. She uses contemporary social theory to explore subjectivity, embodiment, and gender.

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Alumni List
Name | Thesis | Year |
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Barfoot, Catherine | Free Learning In Ontario | 2017 |
Lachowicz, Peter | An Existenital Investigation into the Powerful Uncertainty of Death and the resulting Gap that occurs between Phenomenal entities and their Apparent/Semblant counterpart in the interdependent relation of In-person Interaction and Digital Messaging: the Battle between Dasein either Being-with other Daseins or Being-Alongside-the-Other | 2017 |
Kunze, Michael | Play and the Revolution of Everyday Life | 2017 |
Brownrigg, Erik | Tracing Ethics: Derrida | 2017 |
Lu, Jun | Preliminary Thinking: The Cultural Revolution as a Defense Against Persecutory Anxiety | 2017 |
Mastrocola, Christopher | Marcuse on Primary Narcissism: A Reinterpretation | 2016 |
Khan, Sadia | Adam Smith at the Margins The Colonial Question in the Wealth of Nations | 2016 |
Nusbaum, Jordan | The Way Through Nietzsche's Garden | 2016 |
Correia, Tyler | Coming to Terms with Modernity: The Possibility of Politics in the Works of Arendt and Rawls | 2016 |
Friesen, Rachelle | Making Life Permanently Temporary: An Analysis of Settler Colonialism in Jerusalem | 2016 |
Serykh, Darya | Gay Liberation Versus Soviet Oppression: Constructing and Regulating U.S. Homonational Identity during the Cold War | 2015 |
Niloofar, Golkar | Rethinking the Center Critique of the Theory of the Primitive Accumulation and the Situation of the Temporary Working Women in Ontario | 2015 |
Duncan, Maija | Politics and the Myth of Sovereignty: Affects of Nationalism and Protest in the 2012 Quebec Spring | 2015 |
Leal, Severin | Building Knowledges of Love and Sex: A Review of Monogamy and Sex Work Literature | 2015 |
Behnam, Amini | State Power and Class Power in the Post–Revolutionary Iranian State | 2015 |
Placzek, Richard | "Melodramatic State Terror" | 2015 |
O'Callaghan, Connor | Poverty as State Violence | 2014 |
Abdul Hamid Khan, Salmaan | Reflections on Orthodox Marxism | 2014 |
Bannis, Albert | The Socio-economic, Cultural and Political impact of Cell Phone Technology due to the Deregulation in Dominica | 2013 |
Alamdar, Negar | Ontologizing Ideologies of Neoliberalism and the resistance of Transcending Identities | 2012 |
Rodriguez, J. Santiago | The Significance of Social Imaginaries: Reading Cornelius Castoriadis and Benedict Anderson | 2012 |
Anna McIntosh | Foundations for an Inclusive Approach to the Study of Psychology in an Interconnected World | 2012 |
Yasar Bukan | Theory of State Relations in Ibn Khaldun's Philosophy | 2012 |
Kerpel, Mark | Historical Specificity in the Thought of Karl Marx | 2012 |
Dwyer, Asheda | The politics of chanting down Babylon: Re-reading the 1960 reports on the Rastafar-I of Kingston, Jamaica | 2011 |
Malcolm, Cristopher | The Whole is False: Adorno's Negative Materialism | 2011 |
Sarkeesian, Anita | "I'll make a man out of you": Strong women in science fiction and fantasy television | 2010 |
Adjemian, Jonathan | Fanon: the uses of psychology Psychiatry, group dynamics and the work of social change | 2010 |
Voegeli, Fabian | Temporality and Potentiality in Ancient and Modern Techniques of the Self | 2010 |
Heer, Amrit | Postulating Chance in Deleuze | 2010 |
Crighton, Claire | To put it briefly: Freshman composition and the politics of concise writing in modern America | 2010 |
Upadhyay, Nishant | Building Consciousness and Redefining Politics: Going beyond class | 2010 |
Harman, Jason | Nothing of Substance: A Spinozist Response to Emmanuel Levinas | 2009 |
Selimovic, Adnan | Psychopolitics of Childhood: Trauma of Modernity and the Political Prospects of Bosnia Youth | 2009 |
Cimino, Franco | Representation De-sutured: Between Pathos and Intermittency | 2009 |
Araujo, Christopher | The Phenomenology of Labour: Reason, subjectivity, and freedom in Marx's writings from 1844 to 1867 | 2009 |
Taylor, Cayley | Reproductive Rights and Legal Reform in Latin America: The Case of Mexico City | 2009 |
Miceli, Vanessa | Dispossession as permanent temporariness: a comparative reading of poor laws in early nineteenth century england and refugee rights in the age of neoliberalism | 2009 |
Gill, Sean | Towards a Post-human Marx: Rethinking Consciousness, Labour, and Human Difference | 2009 |
Taylor, Cayley | Reproductive Rights and Legal Reform in Latin America: The Case of Mexico City | 2009 |
Ali, Noaman G. | Repeating Anticolonial Nationalism: Mozambique and the Political Economy of Dominance and Hegemony, 1975-2009 | 2009 |
Dang, Baolinh | The Concept of Natural History in Adorno and Marcuse | 2008 |
Lafrance, Stirling | Direct to Consumer Advertising: How Subjective Governance Serves Capital | 2008 |
Erin, Gray | Going Achitextural: Thinking Through Sensation in Gins, Arakwa and Brossard | 2007 |
Lee, Andrew Michael | Querying the conditions for warfare: The political economy of U.S. military spending in 21st century | 2007 |
Newson, Michael | Rawls' Concept of Political Society, Justice as Fairness and the Problem of Transnationalism | 2006 |
Welburn, Jude | On the Image of History in Benjamin's "These" | 2006 |
Bisnar, Danielle | Trauma, Witness, Testimony: Psychoanalysis and Narratives of Colonial Education | 2005 |
Jull, Mark | Plato's wish: pleasure, metaphysics and sovereign being | 2005 |
Thompson, Shawn | The Subject of Metapsychology: Working Through the Ethics of Desire with Freud and Kierkegaard | 2005 |
William, Lane | Making it real: The Subject in Play | 2004 |
Gasteiger, Tyler | A Study of Language and Desire in Hegels Phenomenology of Spirit | 2004 |
Belmer, Stephanie | Art and Negative Dialectics In Constellation: Critical Theory and a Dialectical Negation of Identity-Thinking | 2004 |
Robertson, Trevor | A Poetic Word: Manifestation in High Park | 2004 |
Chang-Campbell, Gena | Retail Religion? Contesting the Cooptation and Commodification of Candomble in Salvador, Brazil | 2003 |
Klement, Kristine | Psychoanalysis and Performativity: Theorizing Gender and Sexual Identity between the Psyche and the Social | 2003 |
Lefebvre, Alexandre | Laws of Critique, speculative and ethical | 2003 |
Alexander, Claudius | Bad Faith Bad Conscience & Forgetfulness: Three Perspectives on The [Im]-Possibility for Ethical Practice in Contemporary Human Attitude | 2003 |
Hilary A., Schuldt | The Uncanny Life of Hope | 2003 |
Bociurkiw, Marusya | Lucy, and Ellen, Rosanne and Ally: Sexed Bodies and the Construction of Normalcy in Television Comedy | 1999 |
Hall, Micheal | Re-staging Performativity: Authourity and Acknowledgment from Benvensite to Butler | 1999 |
Williams, James | Maurice Merleau-Ponty and the Practice of Policing | 1997 |
Cemer, Brett | Rethinking Revolutionary History: Marxism and Working Class Unification | 1996 |
Burman,Jenny | Waking Dreamscapes: Colonial Nostalgia and ethnographic representation in "North-South" tourism advertising | 1996 |
Landolt, Patricia | The Indian Peasantry of the Western Highlands of Guatemala: Upholding Corporate Community and the Indian Identity | 1996 |
Friedman, Elizabeth | Too Much and Not Enough: the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Art of Ambivalence | 1996 |
Goldman, Daniel | Turning Politics around Theology: Negativity in Benjamin's Critique of Violence | 1996 |
Borman, Jenny | Waking dreamscapes: Colonial nostalgia and ethnographic representation in "North South" tourism and advertising | 1996 |
Resendes, Livia | Ethical Epistemologies | 1995 |
Camfield, David | Towards a Social History of Foucault's Thought | 1995 |
Kiefer, Theresa | Computer-Mediated Communication in the Workplace: An Evaluation of the Development of the Subject in the "New" Working Class | 1995 |
Hennessy, Niamh | Defining Moments: Models of Public Space as Emancipation in Arendt and Habermas | 1994 |
Baker, Norma | Reality as Oxymoron: Contingent Essentialism and Marx's Theory of Social Ontology | 1994 |
Druick, Zoe | Adorno, Benjamin and the Dialectics of Culture | 1993 |
Stolow, Jeremy | A Critical Report on The Bureaucratization of Multiculturalism | 1993 |
Dufresne, Todd | Reading Towards an Understanding of Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle | 1992 |
Ives, Peter | Gramsci and Feminism: From allusion to alliance | 1992 |
Robertson, Kathleen | Use, Pleasure and Meaning: The Social Practices of Consumption | 1992 |
Hiristos, Verikukis | Toward a Definition of the Proleteriat | 1992 |
Ramsay, Christine | "Are you really royal or are you a derelict?" Abjection and the passive male hero in the films of David Cronenburg | 1992 |
Kulak, Avron | Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and the Necessary Structure of the Interpersonal Origin | 1991 |
Kontos, Louie | A Theoretical Inquiry into Cybernetics | 1991 |
Macintyre, W.A. | The Post-Colonial State and the Global Economy: Dependence, Continuity and the Potential for Transformation in the Case of Trinidad-Tobago (1972-1984) | 1991 |
Boucock, Cary | Michel Foucault and the 'Repressive Hypothesis': A Rejoinder for Herbert Marcuse | 1991 |
Welch, Colin | Autonomy and Power: the Ethical Theory of Michel Foucault | 1990 |
Freedman, Ben | Alienation, Reification and the Ontology of Social Being | 1990 |
Laurie, Peter | Power in Development: Rethinking the Critique of Canadian Foreign Aid | 1989 |
Fielding, Helen | Communicative Ethics and the Desiring Subject: A Feminist Rethinking of Habermas | 1989 |
Colvin, Ian | Adorno and Humor | 1989 |
De Villa, Gonzalo | Colonial Guatemala: Ethnicity and Social Classes, 1524 - 1821 | 1988 |
Cosgrave, Jim | Intimate Strangers and Anti-Heroes or "Postmodern Aesthetics"/Sociological Poetics": A Dialogical Approach to Understanding Television Discourses | 1988 |
Polster, Claire | Toward a Decentered Historical Materialism | 1988 |
Waldorf, Lee | The Limits of Art: Theodor Adorno's Aesthetic Theory | 1988 |
Havers, Grant | Existence-Communication and Greek Thought | 1988 |
Lo, Marlow | Anti-pornography, sex negation and the expansion of state control: A critique of the critiques of pornography | 1987 |
Clark, Donald | Language, Aesthetics, And Practice: Walter Benjamin and the Crisis of Marxism | 1987 |
Shergold, Teresa | An Identity of One's Own: Femininity, Authority and Gender Domination in Critical Theory | 1987 |
Davies, Philip | Idea and Information: Phenomenological and Cybernetic Aspects of Talcott Parson's Theory of Action | 1986 |
Bondi, Lou | Rousseau and Political Action | 1986 |
Colby, Marion | Women and Law In The Third World Strategies for Empowerment | 1986 |
Farrell, Gilda | Cuba: The Transition Road Economy and Employment | 1986 |
Sorensen, Carol J. | Cherchez la femme: Derrida, Irigaray, and the search for the "other woman" | 1985 |
Elias, John Manuel | Phenomenology of Narrative: Existential Communication as Dialectical Practice | 1985 |
Ifeanyi, Enwerem M. | Socialist Imperatives In Africa: A Critical Examination | 1985 |
Zisman, Alex | La tia Julia y el escribidor and the object of Mario Vargas Llosa's literary creation as a novelist | 1985 |
Mortimer, Christopher | Aspects of Disarmament | 1984 |
Cechmistro-Michie, Olga | Rhetorical Strategies in Philosophical Writing | 1984 |
Vanderplaats, Robert | Marx, Weber and the Interpretation of the Dutch Republic | 1983 |
Duncan, Colin A. M. | The General Norms Of Economic Life | 1982 |

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