Graduate Student Research

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

PhD and MA degrees completed 2010 - present

2024

Author and Thesis Title	Supervisor
Dippel, Ben, MA, The British Columbia Cabinet’s Role in the Agricultural Land Reserve, 1973-1993	Penny Bryden
Goldstein, Abby, MA, Terror and the New Man: Belief, Performance, and Atomization in Stalin's Soviet Union	Serhy Yekelchyk
Lang, Dave, MA, Just Letting Her Rip and Hoping for the Best Didn’t Work Out: Raw Log Export Controls in British Columbia, 1871 to 1947	John Lutz
Romano, Abby, MA, Doll Tomorrow’s Parties: The Origin of Transsexual Glamour in Balls and Fashion and the Adoption of the Doll	Rachel Cleves
Russell, Christopher, MA, Pre-War Factory Relations in Stalin’s Soviet Union (1924–1941)	Serhy Yekelchyk
Wilcock, Cory, MA, Paternalism, Capitalism, and Political Suppression: Case Studies of Settler-Colonialism on the Grand River	Peter Cook
Zadravic, Eric, MA, "But I Did Not Ask These Questions": The Soviet Katyn Lie and the Anglo-American Press during the Second World War	Kristin Semmens
Fontaine, Kristen, MA PUHI, Paper: Constructing Communities, Constructing Identities: The Public History of Saanich Commonwealth Place	Christine O'Bonsawin
Celli, Kristina, MA MRP, “There was hard work to be done and it was the women who led it”: Child Welfare Initiatives in Stó:lō Téméxw, 1980-1997.	Lynne Marks Christine O'Bonsawin
Danais, Natasha, MA MRP, Clearances Continued: Local Perceptions of Tourism in the Scottish Highlands and Islands in the 19th century.	Kristin Semmens
Cathcart, Ella, MA MRP, “It takes a man like the roughneck to handle the job”: Settler Colonialism, Women’s Work, and the Development of Alberta’s Bitumen Sands.	Jason Colby
Wing, Melissa, MA MRP, Doughnuts and Doughboys: The Salvation Army Doughnut Girls and the American Expeditionary Force during the First World War.	Penny Bryden

2023

Author and Thesis Title	Supervisor
Osborne, Carla, PhD, “We Know Where We Are” The Role of Place in Indigenous Historiography By Haudenosaunee and Northwest Métis Historians	Christine O'Bonsawin Peter Cook
Surjan, Zsofia, PhD, Epistolary Networks: Information, News and Practical Knowledge in the Correspondence of the Poppel Lobkowitz Sisters from Early Seventeenth-Century Central Europe	Andrea McKenzie
Zhou, Kefen, PhD, Mission to Modernize Higher Education in China: Lincoln Zhang and the West China Union University, 1890-1955	Greg Blue Lynne Marks
Drolet-Duguay, Mathieu, MA, Russian Colonialism in the North Caucasus: The Chechen Case	Serhy Yekelchyk
Fang, Francis, MA, Between Past and Future: Charles de Gaulle’s Geopolitical Foresight and Its Implications for Modern Diplomacy	Rob Alexander
Goudarzi, Baktash, MA, Russo-Persian Relations and Russian Imperialism in Qajar Iran 1800-1906	Serhy Yekelchyk
Hayes, Mateos, MA, The Soviet Connection: Russian Orientalism’s Long March 1800-1930	Serhy Yekelchyk
Petrie, Emilee, MA, (De)Constructing Nation and Race Along the Canadian Pacific Railway: First Nations and Chinese Migrants in the Colonial Project	Peter Cook
Pihlak, Chris, MA, A Movable Closet: Constructions of Femininity Among Twentieth Century Transfeminine Periodical Communities	Rachel Cleves
Schneider, Rachel, MA, CSPT, “Expansion is too Clean a Name for it.” Black Perspectives on American Imperial Expansion, 1898-1902	Jason Colby
St Arnaud, Katherine, MA, Trials and Clemency Cases of Abortionists in Germany, 1926-1932	Tom Saunders
Watson, Morgan, MA, Labour and Love: Working-Class Lesbians in Vancouver, 1970-1983	Lynne Marks Annalee Lepp
Good, Ireland, MA PUHI, Exhibit and Paper: "All the Hospitality If None of the Riches": Upper Class Society in 1930s Victoria B.C.	Kristin Semmens
Paquin, Nick, MA PUHI, Private website titled: "Police Complaints in BC"	Jordan Stanger-Ross
Humber, Caitlin, MRP, Intelligence, Intellectual Potential, and Intelligence Testing in Indigenous Education in Canada, c.1950s -1970s	Christine O'Bonsawin
Reardon, Catherine, MRP, "Colony" But Not Colonized: How Early 1850 was Liminal Moment in Spatial Definition between Indigenous Territory and Colonial "Victoria"	Peter Cook

2022

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

2021

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

2020

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

2019

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

2018

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

2017

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

2016

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

2015

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

2014

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

2013

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

2012

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

2011

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

2010

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