MA Students

Public History 

Name

Research Interests

Email

Julianne (Hofstede) Beauchemin Museum, historical site programming jhofsted@uwo.ca 
Morgan Garratt Youth interest in history, accessibility, preserving the histories of underrepresented communities in Canada mgarratt@uwo.ca 
Brooke Graham Supporting Indigenous communities in discovering and preserving their local histories and using public history methodology to make their history more accessible to their community and their members. bgraha62@uwo.ca 
Brianne Machan

Research on Happy Woodland Pet Cemetery, focusing on the Canadian women who founded and advocated for the cemetery and animal rights.

bmachan@uwo.ca 
Larissa McCabe My interests include examining how the general public acquires historical knowledge and how academic and institutional knowledge can be more accessible to a wider audience. I am interested in the reciprocal relationship between media representations of history, such as films and television, and the public understanding of the past. lmccabe9@uwo.ca 
Molly Richardson Women’s history and the ways public history can bring overlooked stories to wider audiences. mrich72@uwo.ca 
Abby Salvatore

Developing innovative approaches to public history, focusing on making history accessible, meaningful, and relevant to wider audiences and future generations.

asalvat8@uwo.ca 
Hazel Scott Pankratz

Historical education, museum and historic site programming, heritage legislation, preservation, and living history.

hscottpa@uwo.ca 
Alexis Westlake Why certain histories are told and why other histories are forgotten. I’m interested in both the material explanation (like something was not preserved) and the immaterial explanation (the document was purposefully destroyed.  awestla7@uwo.ca 

History (Year One)

Name

Research Interests

Email

Colter Assiniwai

TBA

cassiniw@uwo.ca 
Rhyly Bell 1950's Fashion History; Cold War; Economy and Policy; American History rbell65@uwo.ca 
Thomas Dumoulin Antisemitism in Post-War Toronto 1945-1965 tdumouli@uwo.ca 
Priya Flynn

Post Confederation Canada, the Canadian military and national identity, American pop culture, as well as the history of social clubs and guilds. 

pflynn3@uwo.ca 
Max Hall

Church history; Canadian history; Relationships of religious affiliation, political alignment and radicalism in Upper Canada during the early 19th century.

mhall245@uwo.ca 
Haley Hammond TBA hhammon3@uwo.ca 
Liam Hutchin Canadian business and social history; consumer history and material culture; 19th- and 20th-century Canadian history, with particular interest in the Canadian boot and shoe industry lhutch6@uwo.ca 
Guanting Liu

Electoral Districts and Administrative Divisions; Interactions between Cultural Communities and Political Practices; Anti-colonial Revolutions; Radical Movements; Counterculture and Youth Thoughts. 

gliu363@uwo.ca 
Ben Shapiro

British Monarchy, the British Empire and imperialism, colonialism, and European & U.S. geopolitics from the 18th to the 20th century. 

bshapir5@uwo.ca 

History (Thesis) 

Name

Thesis/Research Interest

Email 

Huanyu Li Legal and Moral Studies of Using Civilian Passenger Ships for Military Purposes During Two World Wars hli943@uwo.ca 
Scott MacGregor Everywhere and Nowhere All At Once: Revisiting ‘The Scots [Identity] in Canada’ Through Cultural Associations, 1830-1900

scott.macgregor@
schulich.uwo.ca

Apeksha Pawanikar Enslaved Black Women in the Southern Ontario Borderlands apawanik@uwo.ca