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 TBA awestla7@uwo.ca 

History (Year One)

Name

Research Interests

Email

David Aloisio

France from the 18th to 20th centuries; Napoleonic Eras; Contemporary European history; Global Conflicts; Medieval history; History of Memory; Hollywood history.

daloisio@uwo.ca 
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