PhD Students

Dissertation Title:
Experiencing Illegitimacy: kinship, parish, and the negotiation of social and judicial power in early Seventeenth-Century England

Supervisor:
Margaret McGlynn

Student Profile

Email
jbake58@uwo.ca

Office
Lawson Hall 2252

Dissertation Title:
Divided Waters: An Environmental History of Oil and Gas Development in the Great Lakes Waterbeds, 1900-1980

Supervisors:
Alan MacEachern & William Turkel

Student Profile

Email
mbaxte32@uwo.ca

Office
Lawson Hall 2214

Research Interests:
Imperial history; settler colonialism and genocide; nationalism, irredentism, and ethnic conflict; international communism; modern European/Russian history; geopolitics 

Dissertation Title:
The Boyne's Loins: The Orange Order, Settler Colonialism, and Nationalism in Canada and Ireland

Supervisor:
Laurel Shire

Email
lcliffo@uwo.ca 

Office
Lawson Hall 1202

Research Interests:
Military History; Social History

Supervisor:
Jonathan Vance

Email

jcomstoc@uwo.ca 

Dissertation Title:
The Emergence of Neurodiversity: The Role of Technology in Shaping Autism

Supervisor:
William Turkel

Email
udagamas@uwo.ca 

Dissertation Title:
Delirium of Empire: United States Intragovernmental Dissent in Wars of Empire, 1899-2011

Supervisor:
Frank Schumacher

Email
jdavisab@uwo.ca

Office
Lawson Hall 2252

Dissertation Title:
The History of Eugenics in French Colonial Algeria

Supervisors:
Geoff Read and Laurel Shire

Email
Please contact Kara Brown, Graduate Program Coordinator - 
kbrow@uwo.ca  

Research Topic:
Western Counties Veterans' Lodge and the rehabilitation of Canada's tubercular Second World War veterans

Supervisor:
Jonathan Vance

Student Profile

Email
rgiles5@uwo.ca

Office
Lawson Hall 2214

Dissertation Title:
Discourses on German Settler Colonialism, Genocide, and Reconciliation

Supervisor:
Laurel Shire

Email
shislop@uwo.ca 

Dissertation Title:
Gardens in the Wilderness: Bodily Intervention and Climate Reform in Shelburne, NS, 1782-1792

Supervisor:
Nancy Rhoden

Email
eisaac3@uwo.ca

Dissertation Title:
Keep calm and type on: British community press in the Second World War

Supervisor:
Jonathan Vance

Student Profile

Email
kbarry@uwo.ca 

Office
Lawson Hall 2253 

Dissertation Title:
The Ones Who Survived: Attempted Suicides in the Canadian Army, 1914-1945

Supervisor:
Jonathan Vance

Student Profile

Email
agood29@uwo.ca

Office
Lawson Hall 2214

Dissertation Title:
Making Ji'nan in to a 'Spring City'

Supervisor:
James Flath

Email
mma56@uwo.ca

Dissertation Title:
From Fabrication to Repatriation: The Journey of Two Totem Poles in the Niagara Region at the Intersection of Cultural Revival and Colonial Legacy

Supervisors:

Cody Groat and Michelle Hamilton

Email 
emacd25@uwo.ca

Office
Lawson Hall 2252

Dissertation Title:
NASA's Analog Missions: Terrestrial Visions of Celestial Bodies

Supervisors:
Alan MacEachern and William Turkel

Student Profile

Email
cmandur2@uwo.ca 

Office
Lawson Hall 2220

Research Topic:
The Sea is at her Gates: Canada, Britain, and the Evolution of British Maritime Imperial Defence

Supervisors:
Jonathan Vance & Robert Wardhaugh

Email
wmclach@uwo.ca

Office
Lawson Hall 2214

Dissertation Title:
War Sets the Table: The Military-Industrial Complex and the Development of the American Agricultural Industrial Complex, 1953-1961

Supervisor:
Robert MacDougall

Email
cpayne24@uwo.ca 

Office
Lawson Hall 2252

Dissertation Title:
Archives of Power: How the United Nations Curated an International Narrative on Refugee Policies

Supervisors:
Francine McKenzie & Stephanie Bangarth

Email
anicol24@uwo.ca

Dissertation Title:
Training of priests of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in times of persecution and the activities
of the UGCC before new persecutions

Supervisor:
Marta Dyczok 

Email
knyshche@uwo.ca 

Office
Lawson Hall 2252 

Dissertation Title:
The Wonder of their Senses: Disabled Engagements with American Nature

Supervisor:
Alan MacEachern & Robert MacDougall

Email 
kreill22@uwo.ca

Office
Lawson Hall 1201

Dissertation Title:
Real Dangers or Imagined Fears? The History of Olympic Security in North America, 1976–2010

Supervisor:
William Turkel

Student Profile

Email
arice25@uwo.ca

Office
Lawson Hall 2253

Dissertation Title:
The Different Parts and Bearings: Bodies, Systems and Soldier-Technicians in the Canadian Field Artillery, 1914-1918

Supervisors:
Robert MacDougall and Jonathan Vance

Student Profile

Email 
hscottpa@uwo.ca

Office
Lawson Hall 2252

Dissertation Topic:
Quilting for a Cause: First World War Domestic Crafts in the Service of War

Supervisor:
Jonathan Vance

Email
hsmit47@uwo.ca

Research Interests:
Canada in the Second World War and Canadian veteran’s history

Supervisor:
Jonathan Vance

Email
msmit826@uwo.ca 

Office
Lawson Hall 2253 

Dissertation Title:
Crossing the Andes: A Comparative Analysis of Canada's Engagement with Chile and Argentina in the Trudeau-Clark Era, 1968-1984

Co-Supervisors:
Stephanie Bangarth & Francine McKenzie

Student Profile

Email
tstroyan@uwo.ca 

Office
Lawson Hall 2220

Dissertation Title:
"Supervision and Control": Civilian Internment in Canada in the First World War

Supervisor:
Jonathan Vance

Student Profile

Email
svanwett@uwo.ca

Dissertation Title:
No Longer the "Sport of Nations": Understanding the Post-War Jewish Identity Transformation in Europe and Beyond

Supervisor:
Marta Dyczok

Email
bvillani@uwo.ca  

Office
Lawson Hall 2252

Dissertation Title:
Islands of Contention: The American Influence on Maritime Territorial Disputes in East Asia during the Cold War

Supervisor:
Carl Young

Email
cwhite53@uwo.ca

Office
Lawson Hall 2221

Dissertation Title:
Healing and Forming the Body Politic: Healthcare and Moral/Political Guidance in Imperial Outliers

Supervisor:
Marta Dyczok 

Email
awoodbal@uwo.ca