Graduate Defences
Upcoming
MA Thesis Defence: Catriona Webber
July 24, 2025 -- 10:30 AM -- Zoom
One Fish, Two Fish: Legal Access to Land and Water in Fin de Si猫cle British Columbia
MA Thesis Defence: Jayme Martin
August 8, 2025 -- 9 AM -- Zoom
Toward a History of Unexceptional Art: Scribe-decorators and Their Work, 1558-1625
MA Thesis Defence: Letian Wan
August 20, 2025 -- 10 AM -- AQ 6229
Transpacific Imaginary: Chinese Canadian Wartime Aid to China, 1937 鈥� 1945
PhD Thesis Defence: Shams Sharif
September, 5 2025 -- 2 PM -- AQ 6229
The Welcome[d] War: The Soviet War in Afghanistan and the Political Reordering of Pamiri Lives Across Borders.
Recently Completed
PhD Thesis Defence: Joseph Burton
Democracy and Revolution: Frederick W. Thompson, the Wobblies, and Twentieth-Century Anarchism
MA Thesis Defence: Daniel Hogan
Re-evaluating the Hoare-Laval Pact: The Culpability of Sir Robert Vansittart
MA Thesis Defence: Bella McKenzie
鈥淗er death a life which euer shall remaine:鈥� Mary Ramsey, Public Commemoration, and the Concept of 鈥楥ivic Sainthood鈥� in Early Modern London
PhD Thesis Defence: Jovana Andelkovic
Strongly Worded Letters: Dissidents, Displacement and Self-Representation in Post-Iconoclastic Letter Collections of the Roman Empire
MA Thesis Defence: Aya Abdel-Dayem
Arab Popular Culture: Drama Serials as a Catalyst for a New Pan-Arabism
MA Thesis Defence: Matthew Araki
From The Branding Irons to the Badlands: Theatre, Religion, and Environment in Twentieth Century Alberta
MA Thesis Defence: Janet Lewis
Cultural Education for and by Whom?: Indigenous Education, Cultural Education Centres, Activism and the Struggle for Sovereignty in the 1970s
MA Thesis Defence: Justin Devries
鈥淣o Customs Tariffs in Music鈥�: Martin Bartlett, Counterculture, and Musics of the Pacific Rim in Vancouver鈥檚 Political Economy, 1963-1993
MA Thesis Defence: Zoe Guo
Surviving on the Outskirts of Beijing: The Life Stories and Memories of Women in Sijiqing Township, 1960鈥�1969
MA Thesis Defence: Shehroze Shaikh
鈥淢usings of the Unlettered:鈥� Wartime Surveillance and the Muslim Subaltern in India, 1913-1918
MA Thesis Defence: Samantha Rushowic
Intersectionality and the Second-Wave: An Analysis of the British Columbia Federation of Women in the 1980s
PhD Thesis Defence: 脟ahit Mete O臒uz
Looking beyond the Queen of Cities: A Study of Roman Paphlagonia in the Middle Ages
PhD Thesis Defence: Leah Wiener
Enabling Settler Citizens: Disability, Age, and Settler Colonialism in Northern Ontario, 1876-1951
MA Thesis Defence: Kirstie Goodfellow
Healing Through Discourse: Analyzing Indigenous women's testimony at the Royal Commission on Aboriginal People
PhD Thesis Defence: Nathan Crompton
Autogestion: Workers, Masses, and New Political Subjects in France, 1970鈥�78
PhD Thesis Defence: Rui Zhang
The State of Workers: Labour Protection versus Workers鈥� Individualities, 1949鈥�1966
MA Thesis Defence: Brian Latimer
The Anti-Conscription movement in BC and its contribution to the labour revolt of 1918-1919
MA Thesis Defence: Suki Xu
How to Survive in Wuhan: Household Coping Strategies in China鈥檚 Socialist Planned Economy, 1961鈥�1965
PhD Thesis Defence: Stevan Bozanich
鈥淔or King and Fatherland鈥�: Collaboration and Genocide in Wartime Yugoslavia
MA Thesis Defence: Jacqueline Friesen
The Real Pimpernel Smith: Leslie Howard and his Contribution to the British War Effort, 1939-1943
MA Thesis Defence: Siling Tao
Overseas Connections as a Blessing: Goods Distribution and Strategies to Survival in Mao鈥檚 China
MA Thesis Defence: Brody Herman
"We Were Not Playing Games": Transnational Moral Policing in 1970s Vancouver
MA Thesis Defence: Tiffany VanWinkoop
Blueprints of Power: Roman Statecraft and Politics in Konstantinos VII's Book of Ceremonies
PhD Thesis Defence: Yifan Shi
Leisure, Lifestyle, and Youth Subcultures in China, 1949-1987
PhD Thesis Defence: Panagiotis Delis
Notions of Violence and Ethnic Cleansing on the Eve of the First World War: The Balkan Wars of 1912-13
MA Thesis Defence: Bradley Kleinstuber
鈥淢y Canada is Yet Unborn鈥�: Settler Identity & Ideology in the Life & Works of A.M. Stephen
MA Thesis Defence: Anna Fong
"Bandits, Neighbours, Japanese Soldiers: Security Threats and Survival Strategies in Taishan and Kaiping Villages, 1937-1949."
MA Thesis Defence: Ryan Breeden
The Discreet Charm of the Petty Bourgeoisie: Marx, Proudhon, and the Critique of Political Economy