PhD Students

Dissertation Title:
Social and Cultural Understandings of Reproduction in Sixteenth-Century England: Rethinking attitudes and knowledge about contraception and pregnancy in the household and community

Supervisor
Margaret McGlynn

E-mail
jbake58@uwo.ca

Office
Lawson Hall 2252

Research Interests:
Great Lakes History, Environmental History, Energy History

Supervisor
Prof. Alan MacEachern & Prof. William Turkel

E-mail
mbaxte32@uwo.ca

Office
Lawson Hall 2214

Dissertation Title:
Cookery Instruction in Ontario, 1890s-1980s

Supervisor
Keith Fleming

E-mail
lbuckle9@uwo.ca

Office
Lawson Hall 2241

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
Prof. Laurel Shire

E-mail:
lcliffo@uwo.ca 

Office:
Lawson Hall 1202

Research Interests:
Military History; Social History

Supervisor
Jonathan Vance

E-mail:

jcomstoc@uwo.ca 

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

Supervisor:
William Turkel

E-mail:
udagamas@uwo.ca 

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

Supervisor:
Frank Schumacher

E-mail
jdavisab@uwo.ca

Office
Lawson Hall 2252

Dissertation Title:
The History of Eugenics in French Colonial Algeria

Supervisor(s):
Geoff Read and Laurel Shire

E-mail:
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

E-mail
rgiles5@uwo.ca

Office
Lawson Hall 2214

Dissertation Title:
Negotiating Truth and Reconciliation in Namibia: Discourses on German Settler Colonialism and
Genocide in Southern Africa

Supervisor:
Laurel Shire

E-mail:
shislop@uwo.ca 

Dissertation Title:
Bodies, Belonging, and Belief: Confronting Environmental Crisis in Nova Scotia, 1783–84

Supervisor
Nancy Rhoden

Email: eisaac3@uwo.ca

Research Interests:
Canada and Britain in the World Wars, wartime community publishing, London Underground during the Blitz.

Supervisor
Prof. Jonathan Vance

E-mail
kbarry@uwo.ca 

Office:
Lawson Hall 2253 

Dissertation Title:
"Barberton Daisies": The Role of White Women in the Settler Colonisation of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek and the Canadian Prairies in the Nineteenth Century.

Supervisor
Laurel Shire

E-mail
cjoubert@uwo.ca

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

Supervisor
Prof. Jonathan Vance

E-mail
agood29@uwo.ca

Office
Lawson Hall 2214

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

Supervisor
James Flath

E-mail
mma56@uwo.ca

Research Interests:
Museum Studies and Indigenous Representation in Museums

Co-Supervisors:
Prof. Cody Groat and Prof. Michelle Hamilton

Email: emacd25@uwo.ca

Office:
Lawson Hall 2252

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

Supervisors:
Prof. Alan MacEachern and Prof. William Turkel

E-mail:
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

Supervisor
Jonathan Vance & Robert Wardhaugh

E-mail
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

E-mail
cpayne24@uwo.ca 

Office
Lawson Hall 2252

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

Co-Supervisors
Francine McKenzie & Stephanie Bangarth

E-mail
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

Supervisors:
Marta Dyczok 

E-mail
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

Research Interests:
Political History; Cold War History; Sport History; History of the Olympic Games; International Relations; Canadian–American Relations

Supervisor:
Prof. William Turkel

E-mail:
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

Co-supervisors:
Robert MacDougall and Jonathan Vance

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

E-mail
hsmit47@uwo.ca

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

Supervisor
Jonathan Vance

E-mail
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

Supervisors:
Stephanie Bangarth

E-mail:
tstroyan@uwo.ca 

Office:
Lawson Hall 2220

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

Supervisor
Jonathan Vance

E-mail
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

E-mail
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

E-mail
cwhite53@uwo.ca

Office
Lawson Hall 2221

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

Supervisors:
Marta Dyczok 

E-mail
awoodbal@uwo.ca