Past MA Theses
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
2025
| Name | Supervisor | Title |
|---|---|---|
| James Caldwell | William Turkel | ""Something in the water": Antibiotic Pollution and the Making of a Global Environmental Crisis (1946-2002) |
| Rebecca Van Harn | Margaret McGlynn | "It is Not Good for a Man to be Alone": Matthew Parker and Clerical Marriage in England |
| Morgan Fyn-Riley | Nancy Rhoden | Anglicanism and Slavery as Mutually Reinforcing Institutions in Virginia, 1680-1786 |
2024
| Name | Supervisor | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Michael Brown | Robert Wardhaugh & Keith Fleming | Newspaper Coverage of Child Emigration to Southern Ontario Through the Children's Emigration Homes |
| Brian Gibb | Frank Schumacher | The Question of Opium: Money, Morality and Japan's Transimperial Participation in Opium Regulation, 1868-1925. |
| Kunji Wang | James Flath | The Sino-Vietnamese War: How to Forget a Victory? |
| Andrew Hawkes | Robert Wardhaugh & Keith Fleming | Performing Masculinity: Calgary Men in the Great War |
2023
| Name | Supervisor | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Rachael Edwards | Laurel Shire | Matthew Bullock, Blackface and Belonging in the Ontario Press: Anti-Black Racism in Early 20th Century Canada |
| Hannah Mazzuca | Robert Ventresca | Soccer Fascism: Sports and International Relations in Italy, 1934-1938 |
| Meredyth Dwyer | Laurel Shire | Backboards and Backlash: The Experiences of Women's College Basketball Players Under Title IX, 1975-1992 |
| Mary Baxter | Alan MacEachern | The 1900s Southwestern Ontario Sand Sucker Panic |
| Michael Osei | Katherine McKenna | Women and Medicine on the Gold Coast, 1880-1945 |
2022
| Name | Supervisor | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Grace Peeters-Rosien | Jonathan Vance | Canadian Prisoners of the First World War. The Struggle for Resilience |
| Emma Kuiack | Jonathan Vance | Unsung Equine Heroes of War: An Analysis of the Roles and Importance of Equines in the Great War |
| Rose Giles | Alan MacEachern | Groves of Trees Were God’s First Temples”: An Environmental Analysis of Second World War Alternative Service |
| Marshall Cosens | Robert Wardhaugh & Keith Fleming | Moral Subjects: The Girls' Friendly Society, Empire and Modern Girlhood in Canada, c 1920s |
| Ryan McLachlan | Jonathan Vance | The Empire Strikes Back: Memory, Meaning and the Falkland Islands |
2021
| Name | Supervisor | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Samantha Franco | Shelley McKellar |
"Death strikes down the innocent and the young": Tracheotomy in the saving of a child's life during the diphtheria outbreaks of Victorian London, 1850-1900. |
| Benjamin Gladstone | Jonathan Vance | Making the Mandates System |
| Madeline Hiltz | Allyson May | Going With The Flow: The Evolution of Menstrual Education in England, 1850 to 1930 |
| Andrew Rice | Aldona Sendzikas and Robert Barney | The 1980 Moscow Olympic Boycott as a Tool of American Foreign Policy |
| Hayley Dick | Aldona Sendzikas | Illusory Inclusion: The Underlying Racial Barriers in Civil Defense 1950-1965 |
| David Buglass | Frank Schumacher | Colonial Education and Knowledge Circulations in the Phillippines Under U.S. Rule, 1898-1916 |
2020
| Name | Supervisor | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Paul White | Keith Fleming | The Impact of the Forest Products and Tourism Industries on the Development of the Bruce Peninsula, 1850-2019 |
| Jessi Gilchrist | Francine McKenzie | Global Governance and Imperial Entanglements: Competition, Cooperation, and Catastrophe in Anglo-Italian Relations, 1922-1940 |
| Sandra White | Benjamin Forster | Smugglers and Excisemen: The History of Whisky in Scotland, 1700 to 1824 |
| Sarah Hart | Jonathan Vance | Muddying the Lens: Photographs of the Canadian Expeditionary Force |
| Brigette Farrell | Jonathan Vance | Shell Shock in the First World War: An Analysis of Psychological Impairment in Canadian Soldiers. |
| Kenneth Reilly | Alan MacEachern | "Plant Kudzu Seeds Up Nawth": Northern Reactions to Kudzu, 1876-2009 |
| Patrick Holland-Stergar | Francine McKenzie | Depot Harbour: The Rise and Fall of an Ontario Grain Port |
2019
| Name | Supervisor | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Robert Armstrong | Alan MacEachern | An Environmental History of Oil Development in Southwestern Ontario, 1858-1885 |
| Maggie Ross | Robert Wardhaugh | "She was a disgrace to her sex": Prostitution and Moral Panic in London, Ontario, 1880-1885 |
| Austen Smith | Nancy Rhoden | “All Men Would be Tyrants if They Could”: Three New England Women’s Perspectives on Political and Domestic Tyranny during the Revolutionary Era |
| Vesna Curlic | Shelley McKellar | Home Sweet Home: Domesticity in English and Scottish Insane Asylums, 1890-1914 |
| Jordyn Bailey | Eli Nathans & Jonathan Vance | Arrival of the Fittest: German POWs in Ontario during the Second World War |
2018
| Name | Supervisor | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Shane Roberts | Alan MacEachern | Separating the Sands: Karl Clark and Early Oil Sands Research in Alberta |
MA Thesis option was reintroduced in 2016-17
2005
| Name | Supervisor | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Robert N. Hall | Andrew Johnston | When the Margins Become the Centre: Black Veterans' Responses to America in the Wake of Vietnam |
2002
| Name | Supervisor | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Amanda Judge | Gary Owens | Against all Odds: Terence MacSwinery and Bobby Sands, a Study in Martyrdom |
| Michael Veenema | Roger Hall | Challenge, Corruption, and Grace on the Road to Closure: The Moravian Mission of New Fairfield on the Thames, 1843-1903 |
2001
| Name | Supervisor | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Erin Black | Andrew Johnston | "Isolationist" Subtexts: Reappraising America's Foreign Policy, 1945-1949 |
| Gordon Cavanaugh | Jonathan Vance | The Knights of the Air and the mYth of Chivalry |
| Karl Hamid | Luz-Maria Hernandez-Saenz | The Specter That Haunted: The Doctrine of the Cuban Internationalism, 1975-1991 |
| Elizabeth Lesson | Donald Avery | Preserving Identity: The Six Nations of the Grand River and the Second World War |
| Peter Morrison | Andrew Johnston | "True Men" American Manhood and the Coming of the Cold War |
| Michael L. Petricca | Benjamin Forster | Edward Plunket Taylor's Entrepreneurial Visions of Expansion: The Interrelated Development of Canadian Breweries Limited and Argus Corporation, 1945-1975 |
| Jeffrey Temple | Thomas Sea | Fixity and Flexibility in Calvin's Doctrine of the Church |
2000
| Name | Supervisor | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Michael Deeb | Maya Shatzmiller | The Dissolution of the State of Lebanon |
| Andrew David A. Smith | Roger Hall | The Constitutional Act of 1791 in an International Context |
1999
| Name | Supervisor | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Christopher Badenoch | Roger Emerson | The Conjectural History of Language in the Scottish Enlightenment |
| Terry Foster | Margaret Kellow | William Clarke Quantrill and the Civil War in West Missouri |
| Guy St-Denis | Benjamin Forster | Suckertown: A Case Study of Urbanization in Early Ontario |
| Gregory Stott | Roger Hall | The Maintenance of Suburban Autonomy: The Story of the Village of Petersville-London West, Ontario 1847-1897 |
| Andrew S. Thompson | Donald Avery | The Politics of Intervention: Haiti Human Rights and the Influence of the International Community 1957-1994 |
1998
| Name | Supervisor | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Jennifer Lynn Carson | Margaret Kellow | "Your Sisters of Darker Hue": African-American Women Workers and the Women's Trade Union League |
| Kathy English | Benjamin Forster | Family Ties and Chains of Ownership: The Expositor: From Thomas Hiram Preston to Conrad Moffat Black 1880-1900 |
| Janet McShane Galley | Margaret Kellow | "I did it to hide my shame": Community Responses to Suspicious Infant Deaths in Middlesex County, 1850-1900 |
| Helen Roos | Douglas Leighton | "Hollow Promises and Deadly Bullets: Canadian Medals for Patriotism" An Examination of the Stoney Point Land Appropriation, 1940-1943 |
1997
| Name | Supervisor | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Noel Bullock | Colin Read | The Development of Canadian and American Wheat Policy on the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration and on the Combined Food Board |
| Inge Sanmiya | George Emery | Opposition in the Elimination of Synthetic Laundry Detergents in Canada, 1947-1992 |
| Daniel Wells | Roger Emerson | The Progress of Scottish Society: The Use of History in the Formation of National Identity |
| Bruce L. Willis | Gerald Killan | The Environmental Effects of the Yukon Gold Rus 1896-1906: Alterations to Land Destruction of Wildlife and Disease |
1996
| Name | Supervisor | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Clark Heard | Donald Avery & Roger Hall | Sideshows and the Main Tent: A Social History of the Symbiotic Relationship Between the University of Western Ontario and its Senior Intercollegiate League Football Program, 1929-1970 |
| Sara Morrison | Ian Steele | Fell, Sell or Save? The Dilemma in English Forst Policy, 1649-1660 |
| George Smith | Roger Hall | Canadian Aviation Medicine 1939-1945 |
| Susan R. Swallow | Peter Neary | Olive Ruth Russell: A 20th Century Canadian Progressive |
| Kam Teo | Robert Hohner | I am White and I am Black: Walter White and the NAACP, 1949-1950 |
1995
| Name | Supervisor | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Elisabeth Leiss McKellar | Roger Hall | Out of Order: Florence Carlyle and the Challenge of Identity, 1864-1923 |
1994
| Name | Supervisor | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Jim Benincasa | Douglas Leighton | Sources of Conflict: The Six Nations' Loss of Traditional Government |
| William Pascoe | Robert Hohner | Seasons in the Sun: The Negro Baseball Leagues |
| Andrew Ross | Benjamin Forster | A History of the Heinzman Piano Company, 1888-1922 |
1993
| Name | Supervisor | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Kevin Duggan | Jack Ogelsby | The Planning and Execution of Assault Landings: Tarawa, Kwajalein, and Saipan |
| Stacy Lorenz | Ian Steele | "To Do Justice to His Majesty, the Merchant and the Planter": Governor William Gooch and Anglo-Virginia Politics, 1727-1749 |
| Lance Mercer | Robert Hohner | Woodrow Wilson and the Armenian Question, 1915-1920 |
| Jon W. Parmenter | Ian Steele | Pontiac's War: Protecting Native Sovereignty in the Great Lakes Region, 1756-1766 |
| Jennifer Pettit | George Emery | From Longhouse to Schoolhouse: The Mohawk Institute 1834-190 |
| John Schuit | Frederick Dreyer | Jonathan Edwards and Conviction of Sin: An Aspect of Eighteenth Century Revivalism |
| Steve Seguin | Jean Matthews | Evolution of the Circus, 1820-1880 |
| Robert Stewart | Neville Thompson | The Lightening Rod for Lord Liverpool's Government, Lord Castleeagh and His Critics: 1812 to 1822 |
| Stephanie Tiffin | Peter Neary | The Evolution of Labour and Gender Relations at the J.M. Schneider Company of Kitchener, Ontario |
