This collection contains theses and dissertations from the Department of History, collected from the Scholarship@Western Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
The 1900s Southwestern Ontario Sand Sucker Panic, Mary E. Baxter
“The Dignity of Being Called Americans”: American Identity and Portrayals of Canadians in the American Press, 1754-1812, Jonathan Bayer
Canada's Evergreen Playground: A History of Snow in Vancouver, M Blake Butler
Backboards and Backlash: The Experiences of Women's Intercollegiate Basketball Players Under Title IX, 1975-1992, Meredyth Dwyer
Matthew Bullock, Blackface and Belonging: Anti-Black Racism in Eary 20th Century Ontario Press, Rachael Edwards
Soccer Fascism: Sports and International Relations in Italy, 1934-1938, Hannah Mazzuca
'Gave His Life for the Empire': Memory, Memorials, and Identity in the British Empire after the First World War, Bryan McClure
Women and Medicine on the Gold Coast, 1880-1945, Michael Osei
An Enduring Popularity: Sir Isaac Brock and Canada, 1812-2012, Guy R.A. St-Denis
Clever Minds and Nimble Hands? Making Embroidery in Late Qing and Republican China, lu wang
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
You Go to My Head: Women's Prescription Pill Use in Postwar America, Erin K. Brown
Moral Subjects: The Girls' Friendly Society, Empire, and Modern Girlhood in Canada, c.1920s, Marshall Cosens
War and Wilderness: Intersections With Patriotism and Masculinity in Canadian Second World War Alternative Service Work, Rosemary Giles
Unsung Equine Heroes: An Analysis of Equine Care and Management During the Great War, Emma E. Kuiack
The Empire Strikes Back: Memory, Meaning, and the Falklands War, William R. McLachlan
Canadian Prisoners of the First World War: The Struggle for Resilience, Grace Peeters-Rosien
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Colonial Education as a Mode of Governance in the Philippines Under U.S. Rule, 1900-1916, David C.S. Buglass
Illusory Inclusion: The Underlying Racial Barriers in Civil Defense 1950 - 1965, Hayley R. Dick
Making the Mandates System, Benjamin Gladstone
Going With The Flow: The Evolution of Menstrual Education in England, 1850 to 1930, Madeline M. Hiltz
A Light in the Window: Canada, Race, and South African Apartheid, 1958-1994, Daniel Manulak
In the Shadow of the Atomic Cloud: Masculinity, Modernity, and the ‘Bomb’ in the Electoral Politics of Canada and the United States, 1949-1963, Allen G. Priest
The 1980 Moscow Olympic Boycott as a Tool of American Foreign Policy, Andrew Rice
Rooted In History: Representations of Ethiopian Identities in Canada, Nassisse Solomon
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Shell Shock in the First World War: An Analysis of Psychological Impairment in Canadian Soldiers., Brigette A. Farrell
Global Governance and Imperial Entanglements: Competition, Cooperation, and Catastrophe in Anglo-Italian Relations, 1922-1940, Jessi Gilchrist
Muddying the Lens: Photographs of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, Sarah Leilani Hart
Depot Harbour: the Rise and Fall of an Ontario Grain Port, Patrick Holland-Stergar
Beyond the Barbed Wire: POW Labour Projects in Canada during the Second World War, Michael O'Hagan
The Vine That Ate The North? Northern Reactions to Kudzu, 1876-2009, Kenneth Reilly
‘Phantom Limb’: Russian Settler Colonialism in the Post-Soviet Crimea (1991-1997), Maksym Dmytrovych Sviezhentsev
Smugglers and Excisemen: The History of Whisky in Scotland, 1644 to 1823, Sandra White
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
An Environmental History of Oil Development in Southwestern Ontario, 1858-1885, Robert Armstrong
Arrival of the Fittest: German POWs in Ontario during the Second World War, Jordyn Bailey
'To Waffle to the Left:' The Waffle, the New Democratic Party, and Canada's New Left during the Long Sixties, David G. Blocker
Protecting the Individual: The Origins and Development of Saskatchewan Conservatism, 1905-1944, Nolan Brown
Home Sweet Home: Domesticity in English and Scottish Insane Asylums, 1890-1914, Vesna Curlic
Love, Sex, and the Noose: The Emotions of Sodomy in 18th-Century England, Frances H.I. Henry
The Pearl of the Prairies: The History of the Winnipeg Filipino Community, Jon G. Malek
“She was a disgrace to her sex” : Prostitution and Moral Panic in London, Ontario, 1880-1885, Margaret E. Ross
“All Men Would be Tyrants if They Could”: Three New England Women’s Perspectives on Political and Domestic Tyranny during the Revolutionary Era, Austen K. Smith
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Would You Sell Yourself For A Drink, Boy?: Masculinity and Fraternalism in the Ontario Temperance Movement, 1850-1914, Megan E. Baxter
Tanks and Tinsel: The American Celebration of Christmas during World War II, Samantha Desroches
Tribute to the Fallen: The Evolution of Canadian Battlefield Burials during the First World War, Jeremy P. Garrett
Charting Continuation: Understanding Post-Traditional Six Nations Militarism, 1814-1930, Evan Joseph Habkirk
Remembering Rebellion, Remembering Resistance: Collective Memory, Identity, and the Veterans of 1869-70 and 1885, Matthew J. McRae
'An Articulate Minority': Studies in the Ideas of Canadian Peace, 1945-1963, Graeme Phillips
Separating the Sands: Karl Clark and Early Oil Sands Research in Alberta, Shane Roberts
Welcoming Strangers: Race, Religion, and Ethnicity in German Lutheran Ontario and Missouri, 1939-1970, Elliot Worsfold
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Dying to be Modern: Cataraqui Cemetery, Romanticism, Consumerism, and the Extension of Modernity in Kingston, Ontario, 1780-1900, Cayley B. Bower
Killing, Combat and the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry: Legendary Soldiers’ Stories of the First World War – 1914-1918, Ryan B. Flavelle CD
The Foundations of Empire Building: Spain’s Legacy and the American Imperial Identity, 1776-1921, Gregg M. French
Temporary Gentlemen: The Masculinity of Lower-Middle-Class Temporary British Officers in the First World War, Magdalena J. Hentel
Neither Here Nor There: Northern Ireland, Myth, and the People In Between, Amanda L. Judge
The Happy Secret: Alexandra of Denmark and Ireland, 1863-1925, Shawn J. McCarthy
'Gifts From Amin': The Resettlement, Integration, and Identities of Ugandan Asian Refugees in Canada, Shezan Muhammedi
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Civilizational Imperatives: American Colonial Culture in the Islamic Philippines, 1899-1942, Oliver Charbonneau
An Army of Never-Ending Strength: The Reinforcement of the Canadian Army 1944-1945, Arthur Willoughby Gullachsen
Femininity and Higher Education: Women at Ontario Universities, 1890 to 1920, Marilla McCargar
And the Men Returned: Canadian Veterans and the Aftermath of the Great War, Jonathan Scotland
Peace Dividend: The War Assets Corporation and the Disposal of Canada's Munitions and Supplies, 1943-1948, Alex Souchen
Like Angels Among Them: John Calvin and the Protestant Pastorate, Jeff Temple
Royal Army, Fascist Empire: The Regio Esercito on Occupation Duty, 1936–1943, Nicolas G. Virtue
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
The War of the Worlds: The Militant Fundamentalism of Dr. Thomas Todhunter Shields and the Paradox of Modernity., Doug A. Adams
Dishonoured Americans: Loyalist Manhood and Political Death in Revolutionary America, Timothy J. Compeau
Searching for Sakitawak: Place and People in Northern Saskatchewan's Île-à-la-Crosse, Signa A. K. Daum Shanks
Detective Policing and the State in Nineteenth-century England: The Detective Department of the London Metropolitan Police, 1842-1878, Rachael Griffin
From Lion to Leaf: The Evacuation of British Children to Canada During the Second World War, Claire L. Halstead
Cityscape, Urban Nobodies and War: Modern Transformation of Nianhua in Suzhou-Shanghai, Hua Huang
More Than Plumbing: The History of Sexual Education in Ontario, 1960-1979, Michelle K P Hutchinson Grondin
Grasping for the Ends of the Earth: Framing and Contesting Polar Sovereignty, 1900-1955, Peter Kikkert
“Contemporary Reactions to War and the Holocaust with a Focus on The Role of the Polish- Language Press in North America from 1926-1945.”, Magdalena E. Kubow
Embattled Communities: Voluntary Action and Identity in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, 1914-1918, Steve Marti
The Public Advocacy of the American Jewish Committee, 1906-1929, Joshua Perell
Green Berets and Gay Deceivers: The New Left, The Vietnam Draft and American Masculinity, Anna L. Zuschlag
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
“Soldiers First”: The Evolution of Training for Peacekeeping in the Canadian Forces, 1956-2000, Trista L. Grant-Waddell
‘First Among Equals:’ The Development of Preponderant Federalisms in Upper Canada and Ontario to 1896, Daniel H. Heidt
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
The Legacy of Military Necessity in Italy: War and Memory in Cassino and Monte Sole, Cynthia D. Brown
"Smile and Carry On:" Canadian Cavalry on the Western Front, 1914-1918, Stephanie E. Potter
British-Romanian Relations during the Cold War, Mihaela Sitariu
Flying Fish in the Great White North: The "Culture" of Black Barbadian Migration to 1967, Christopher Stuart Taylor
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Religious Rebels: The Religious Views and Motivations of Confederate Generals, Robert H. Croskery
Outside Influences: Great War Experiences along the Canada-U.S. Border, Brandon R. Dimmel
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
A Season in Town: Plantation Women and the Urban South, 1790-1877, Marise Bachand
The Vatican, American Catholics and the Struggle for Palestine, 1917-1958: A Study of Cold War Roman Catholic Transnationalism, Adriano E. Ciani
The Powered Generation: Canadians, Electricity, and Everyday Life, Dorotea Gucciardo
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Toronto the Green: Pollution Probe and the Rise of the Canadian Environmental Movement, Ryan Ernest O'Connor
Asbestos, Quebec: The Town, the Mineral, and the Local-Global Balance Between the Two, Jessica J. van Horssen