Graduate Student Research
All completed MA and PhD theses from 2008 on can be found in the History Department's in the library.
PhD and MA degrees completed 2010 - present
2024
Author and Thesis Title |
Supervisor |
Dippel, Ben, MA, |
Penny Bryden |
Goldstein, Abby, MA, |
Serhy Yekelchyk |
Lang, Dave, MA, |
John Lutz |
Romano, Abby, MA, |
Rachel Cleves |
Russell, Christopher, MA, |
Serhy Yekelchyk |
Wilcock, Cory, MA, |
Peter Cook |
Zadravic, Eric, MA, |
Kristin Semmens |
Fontaine, Kristen, MA PUHI, Paper: Constructing Communities, Constructing Identities: The Public History of Saanich Commonwealth Place |
Christine O'Bonsawin |
Celli, Kristina, MA MRP, “There was hard work to be done and it was the women who led it”: Child Welfare Initiatives in Stó:lō Téméxw, 1980-1997. |
Lynne Marks |
Danais, Natasha, MA MRP, Clearances Continued: Local Perceptions of Tourism in the Scottish Highlands and Islands in the 19th century. |
Kristin Semmens |
2023
Author and Thesis Title |
Supervisor |
Osborne, Carla, PhD, |
Christine O'Bonsawin |
Surjan, Zsofia, PhD, |
Andrea McKenzie |
Zhou, Kefen, PhD, |
Greg Blue |
Drolet-Duguay, Mathieu, MA, |
Serhy Yekelchyk |
Fang, Francis, MA, |
Rob Alexander |
Goudarzi, Baktash, MA, |
Serhy Yekelchyk |
Hayes, Mateos, MA, |
Serhy Yekelchyk |
Petrie, Emilee, MA, |
Peter Cook |
Pihlak, Chris, MA, |
Rachel Cleves |
Schneider, Rachel, MA, CSPT, |
Jason Colby |
St Arnaud, Katherine, MA, |
Tom Saunders |
Watson, Morgan, MA, |
Lynne Marks |
Good, Ireland, MA PUHI, Exhibit and Paper: "All the Hospitality If None of the Riches": Upper Class Society in 1930s Victoria B.C. |
Kristin Semmens |
Paquin, Nick, MA PUHI, Private website titled: "Police Complaints in BC" |
Jordan Stanger-Ross |
Humber, Caitlin, MRP, Intelligence, Intellectual Potential, and Intelligence Testing in Indigenous Education in Canada, c.1950s -1970s |
Christine O'Bonsawin |
Reardon, Catherine, MRP, "Colony" But Not Colonized: How Early 1850 was Liminal Moment in Spatial Definition between Indigenous Territory and Colonial "Victoria" |
Peter Cook |
2022
Author and Thesis Title |
Supervisor |
Lyall, Gordon, PhD, |
Jason Colby |
Flechl, Katy, MA, |
Rachel Cleves |
Hayes, Nathaniel, MA, |
Jordan Stanger-Ross |
Lessard, Kelsey, MA, |
Elizabeth Vibert |
Mrozewski, Josephine (Jo), MA, |
Penny Bryden |
Pearce, Anne-Marie, MA, |
Peter Cook |
Tate, Dax, MA, |
Jill Walshaw |
Van Der Meer, Kästle, MA, |
Kristin Semmens |
Zec, Milan, MA, |
Serhy Yekelchyk |
Cho, Sung Hak, MA PUHI, How to Teach Historical Injustice in the Contemporary History of South Korea MRP and film prospectus documentary film about Chun Tae-il |
Jordan Stanger-Ross |
Hadley, Cassandra, MA PUHI, Emily Eden's Travels in India 1836-1842 - digital map link: |
Lynne Marks |
Johnston, Jessie,MA PUHI, Performing Heritage: The Use of Performance in Public History Spaces |
Kristin Semmens |
McClure, Jacquelyn, MA PUHI, Exhibiting Emily - An exhibition catalogue and MRP which discusses change over time within the curation and exhibition history of Emily Carr's artwork. |
Elizabeth Vibert |
Richard, Aimee, MA PUHI, Whale Watching in the City |
Jason Colby |
2021
Author and Thesis Title |
Supervisor |
Semmens, Justine, PhD, |
Sara Beam |
Cunningham, Timothy, MA CSPT, |
Jason Colby |
Eccelston, Allison, MA, |
John Lutz |
Greenup, Erica, MA, |
Lynne Marks |
Snidal, Michelle, MA, |
Rachel Cleves |
Strandlund, Tyson, MA CSPT, |
Neilesh Bose |
Archibald, William, MA PUHI, A Path Less Traveled: Lessons Learned Through My Journey in Public History |
Wendy Wickwire |
McGillivray, Liam, MA PUHI, History, Fiction and Fantasy: Fantasy Literature’s Contribution to Historical Understanding - Fantasy Short Stories on World War Two |
Tom Saunders |
Sgromo, Francesca, MA PUHI, Dishing on Food Scholarship: A historiographical analysis of the way food has been analyzed in different fields. Includes film titled: Let's Talk About Food (History) TV |
Elizabeth Vibert |
deMontmorency, Chantelle, MRP, “A Satanic Mockery of Womanhood” : Representations of Female Sexuality in Nazi-Era Magazines |
Tom Saunders |
Fleischhaccker, Christian, MRP, Louis Douglas, Re-Fashioning Black America during the German Jazz Age. The Position of Black Performers in the Entertainment Industry of the Weimar Republic |
Tom Saunders |
van Es, Joshua , MRP, How the Other Half Lives: Moral Environmentalism, Slums, and the World War Two Dispossession of Japanese Canadians |
Jordan Stanger-Ross |
Weicker, Christopher , MRP, Secret Warriors in the Pacific War: Chinese Canadians and the Special Operations Executive, 1944-45 |
Zhongping Chen |
2020
Author and Thesis Title |
Supervisor |
Kuo, Yen-Kuang, PhD, |
Zhongping Chen |
Vogt, David, PhD, |
John Lutz |
Antoniazzi, Taylor, MA, |
Lynne Marks |
Ballin, Jonathan, MA, |
Martin Bunton |
Dumont, Robert, MA, |
Oliver Schmidtke |
Fitzgerald, Kyla, MA, |
John Price/Lynne Marks |
Forest-Hammond, Elise, MA, |
John Lutz |
Gentz, Fred, MA, |
Guoguang Wu |
Huijsmans, Matthew, MA, |
Neilesh Bose |
Johnston, Andrew, MA, |
David Zimmerman |
King, Georgia, MA CSPT, |
Lynne Marks |
MacPherson, Sean, MA, |
John Lutz |
Ramprashad, Oakley, MA, |
Jordan Stanger-Ross |
Reid, Darren, MA, |
Elizabeth Vibert |
Taekema, Sarah, MA, |
John Lutz |
Thombs, Paige, MA CSPT, |
Lynne Marks |
Youmans, Gregory, MA, |
David Zimmerman |
Abma, Elyse, MA PUHI, Anatomy of an Episode: A Historiography of Public History, Podcasting Oral Histories, and the Importance of Storytelling |
Jordan Stanger-Ross |
Hughes, Katie, MA PUHI, "To Fish as Formerly" - Reef Net Fisheries Exhibition at Legacy Gallery |
John Lutz |
Moffatt, Aidan, MA PUHI, From the Wild West to the Western Front: The Role of Military Service in Western Canadian Cultural Remembrance |
Brian McKercher |
Worthing, Jeannine, MA PUHI, “They Have Proved Themselves to Be Men”: Canadian Soldiers and the Embodiment of Manhood in the First World War |
Kristin Semmens |
Croutch, Samuel, MA PUHI, The House of Commons, English Subjects in the French Service and Foreign Policy in Restoration England |
Andrea McKenzie |
Rajendran, Janeththa, MA PUHI, Bimaadiziwin (Working Towards the Good Life): How Restoule V. Canada (2018) Reinvigorated the Historical and Ongoing Nature of Legal Pluralism in Canada |
Penny Bryden |
2019
Author and Thesis Title |
Supervisor |
Kempling, James, PhD, |
David Zimmerman |
Davey, James, MA, |
Richard Rajala |
Han, Liang, MA, Chinese Religious Life in Victoria, BC, 1858-1930 |
Lynne Marks |
Huang, Hairong, MA, |
Zhongping Chen |
Kelly, Eoin, MA, |
Eric Sager |
Koehn, Drew. MA CSPT, |
Lynne Marks |
Lundeberg, Faelan, MA, |
Elizabeth Vibert |
Lynch, David, MA, |
John Lutz |
Mowatt, Gina, MA, |
Elizabeth Vibert |
Clark, Kelly, MA PUHI, “Atom and Eve on the Silver Screen” and documentary film titled |
Jason Colby |
Fuhrman, Sydney, MA PUHI, "Propaganda of the “People’s War”: The History and Presentation of British Domestic Propaganda of World War II" |
Mariel Grant |
Holder, Samantha, MA PUHI, |
Andrea McKenzie |
Levine, Jill, MA PUHI, “The Chinese Nation in Miniature”: Constructions of Chineseness in America’s Museums and World’s Fairs (1829-1915) |
Zhongping Chen |
Lu, Wenjuan, MA PUHI, "Jewish-Indigenous Relations in Victoria, 1858-1912" |
Lynne Marks |
Russell, Pia, MA PUHI, "Whose History? A Reconnaissance of British Columbia’s First Fifty Years of History Textbooks, 1871-1921" |
Lynne Marks |
Ruston, Nate, MA MRP, “There are people in all walks of life who are using this substance…”: Drugs, Discourse, and the Student Counterculture at the Le Dain Commission, 1969-70 |
Penny Bryden |
2018
Author and Thesis Title |
Supervisor |
Bashir, Kamran, PhD, |
Deryl Maclean |
Fielding, Stephen, PhD, |
Jordan Stanger-Ross |
Hunfeld, Christa, PhD, |
Andrea McKenzie |
Murray, Derek, PhD, |
Eric Sager |
Bullman, Kalin, MA, |
Christine O'Bonsawin |
Cameron, Max, MA, |
Robert Alexander |
Deacon, Deborah, MA, |
Simon Devereaux |
Freeman-Orr, Chandler, MA, |
Jill Walshaw |
Glover, Alexie, MA, |
Rachel Cleves |
Griffin, Isobel, MA, |
Jason Colby |
Lidstone, Mike, MA, |
Mitch Lewis Hammond |
Mercier, Courtenay, MA, |
Andrea McKenzie |
Miller, Noah, MA, |
Simon Devereaux |
Petrov, Dmitry, MA, |
Zhongping Chen |
Sherman, Jake, MA, |
Jason Colby |
Williamson, Shaun, MA CSPT, |
Jordan Stanger-Ross |
Gilbert, Catherine, MA PUHI, "A Long Time Coming: Safeguarding Wilderness in Strathcona Provincial Park." |
Richard Rajala |
Hogan, Alison, MA MRP, Ireland: Nationalist Ideology on the Road to Independence 1912-1921. |
Simon Devereaux |
Bristow, Julia, MA MRP, “Muslim Immigrants in Canada: Linking and Legitimizing Identity and Security.” |
Jordan Stanger-Ross |
Kostrich, Adam, MA MRP, “The Imperial Species: Masculinity & Necropolitics in Frank Buck’s Fiction.” |
Jason Colby |
Russell, Kaitlin, MA MRP, “Voices of Dissent: Print Media Discourse of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, 1986-2001.” |
Lynne Marks |
Wiltshire Sal, MA MRP, “I’m as Big a Gun Among the Men as Any of ‘Em”: Female Masculinity in the Nineteenth-Century American West. |
Rachel Cleves |
2017
Author and Thesis Title |
Supervisor |
Falconer, Thirstan, PhD, |
Penny Bryden |
Harvey, Megan, PhD, |
John Lutz |
O'Shea, Iain, PhD, |
David Zimmerman |
Addie, Sean, MA, |
Richard Rajala |
Bozanich, Stevan, MA, |
Serhy Yekelchyk |
Buddenhagen, Jeremy, MA, |
John Lutz |
Butler, M. Blake, MA, |
Jason Colby |
Fabiani, Christina, MA CSPT, |
Rachel Cleves |
Fehr, Paige, MA, |
Lynne Marks |
Findlay, Kaitlin, MA, |
Jordan Stanger-Ross |
Gow, Ezekiel, MA, |
Elizabeth Vibert |
Hoskins, John (Jack), MA, |
Guoguang Wu |
Miskulin, Matthew, MA, |
Serhy Yekelchyk |
Smallshaw, Brian, MA, |
John Price |
Thiessen, Leroy, MA, |
Eric Sager |
Van Genderen, Kate, MA, |
Rachel Cleves |
Golding, Lesley, MA PUHI, "Blacks in Fur Country: Black Participation in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth century British North American Fur Trade" |
Elizabeth Vibert |
Gunton, Tiffany, MA PUHI, “Museum Learning in the Digital Age” |
Jordan Stanger-Ross |
Topfer, Stephen, MA PUHI, |
John Price |
Liu, Yanshuo, MA MRP, “Canton and the Maritime Fur Trade: The Development of Early Transpacific Connections, 1770s--1820s.” |
Zhongping Chen |
Trafford, John, MA MRP, “Defining History and Defending Tradition: The Tory Use of the History of the Hereditary Succession in the Exclusion Crisis, 1679-1681.” |
Andrea McKenzie |
2016
Author and Thesis Title |
Supervisor |
Olsen, Sylvia, PhD, |
John Lutz |
Van Vugt (Lebel), Sara, PhD, |
Lynne Marks |
Biagioni, Samuel, MA, |
Jordan Stanger-Ross |
Kort, Meghan, MA, |
Sara Beam |
Murray, Galen, MA, |
Oliver Schmidtke |
Posey, Daniel, MA, |
Richard Rajala |
Seidel, Jennifer, MA, |
Peter Cook |
Trimble, Sabina, MA, |
John Lutz |
Weller, Jonathan, MA, |
Richard Rajala |
Cantarutti, Brent, MA MRP, “British Columbia’s High-Modernist Fallacy: The Columbia River Treaty Dams”. |
Penny Bryden |
2015
Author and Thesis Title |
Supervisor |
Bradley, Patrick, MA, |
John Lutz |
Chapco, Stephen, MA, |
Jill Walshaw |
Fitzgerald, Mickey, MA, |
John Lutz |
Hughes, Emma, MA, |
Andrea McKenzie |
McKee, Taylor, MA, |
Christine O'Bonsawin |
Trainor, Janet, MA, |
Lynne Marks |
Bajric, Whitney, MA MRP, On Experiencing Place: A Biography of a Stó:lõ Family’s Fishing Site in the Fraser River Canyon in British Columbia |
John Lutz |
Brown, Sean, MA MRP, Homosexual Organizations, and Identity formation in Weimar Germany |
Tom Saunders |
Harry, Deryck, MA MRP, Redefining Treason in the Seventeenth Century: the Trials of Thomas Wentworth the Earl of Strafford, and William Howard the Viscount Stafford |
Andrea McKenzie |
Leriger de la Plante, Alexis, MA MRP, Identity! Nelvana and the Quest for Nationhood |
Penny Bryden |
Park, Evan, MA MRP, The Nationalist Fleet: Radical Nationalism and The Imperial German Navy before World War One |
Perry Biddiscombe |
Rzeplinski, Esther, MA MRP, “Although I’m just 12 I’m sure I could do a lot for you…”: Political Participation in Children’s Letters to Pierre Trudeau, March-May 1968 |
Jordan Stanger-Ross |
2014
Author and Thesis Title |
Supervisor |
Hilmy, Hanny, Phd, |
Greg Blue |
Thiessen, Wesley, Phd, |
Andrew Rippin |
Cunliffe, Sydney, MA, |
Zhongping Chen |
Gibbard, Judith, MA, |
Lynne Marks |
Hamilton, Sheila, MA, |
Jason Colby |
Karmel, Ezra, MA, |
Martin Bunton |
Kier, Gregory, MA, |
David Zimmerman |
Rundans, Valdis, MA, |
Serhy Yekelchyk |
Sawyer, Bonnie, MA, |
Lynne Marks |
Kempling, Annelise, MA MRP, Museums and the Future of Education: Best Practices for Developing and Facilitating Engaging Experiences with History for Children and Youth |
John Lutz |
2013
Author and Thesis Title |
Supervisor |
Blanding, Lee, Phd, |
Penny Bryden |
Schoeber, Axel, Phd, |
Sara Beam |
Burton-Vulovic, Nicholas, MA, |
Jason Colby |
Chen, Dennis, MA, |
Zhongping Chen |
Fidler, Lacy, MA, |
Simon Devereaux |
Guenette, Salam, MA, |
Robert Alexander |
Ihmels, Melanie, MA, |
Lynne Marks |
Lyall, Gordon, MA, |
Eric Sager |
Noddings, Timothy, MA, |
Rachel Cleves |
Ruch, Julie, MA, |
Serhy Yekelchyk |
Van Mulligen, Kiefer, MA, |
Eric Sager |
Bedard, Ella, MA MRP, "Bringing Home all that has Left": The Skulkayn/Stalo Heritage Project and the Stó:lō Cultural Revival |
John Lutz |
Kennedy, Helen, MA MRP, “Fearsome Limbo”: The Media’s Characterization of Psychological Trauma during the Conflict in Kosovo, 1998-1999 |
Mitch Lewis-Hammond |
Keresztesi, Orion, MA MRP, "The Department of Indian Affairs Got a Hold of It": Interpreting DIA Records and the Surrender of Scowlitz Indian Reserve One |
John Lutz |
Smith, Bryan, MA MRP, Fusing Technological and Pedagogical Innovation - An Analysis of QR Codes as facilitators of Historical Thinking in Museums |
John Lutz |
2012
Author and Thesis Title |
Supervisor |
Bridge, Kathryn, PhD, |
Lynne Marks |
Chira-Pascanut, Constantin, PhD, “ |
Oliver Schmidtke |
Pasolli, Lisa, PhD, |
Penny Bryden |
Ainsley, Jill, MA, |
Angus Mclaren |
Clemo, Elizabeth, MA, |
Elizabeth Vibert |
Forseille, Ashley, MA, |
Elizabeth Vibert |
Hill, Elina, MA CSPT, |
Wendy Wickwire |
Hoffman, Martin, MA, |
Martin Bunton |
Johnston, Joshua, MA, |
Tom Saunders |
Kempling, James, MA, |
David Zimmerman |
Logan, Matthew, MA, |
Jason Colby |
Madsen, Kim, MA, |
Perry Biddiscombe |
Richards, Tylor, MA, |
John Lutz |
Richdale, Ryan, MA, |
David Zimmerman |
Sellers, Marki, MA, |
Lynne Marks |
Souidan, Racan, MA, |
John Lutz |
Clinton-Baker, Ben, MA MRP, Reverend C. M. Tate and the Campaign for “Indian Rights” in British Columbia, 1909-16 |
Wendy Wickwire |
Conway, Rachel, MA MRP, "Reservations to Citizenship: The Voting Rights of Status Indians, 1950-1960" |
Penny Bryden |
Craib, Patrick, MA MRP, “Contracting the Coast: Rationalization and Flexibility in the BC Coastal Logging Industry, 1930-1990” |
Richard Rajala |
Reid, Andrew, MA MRP, Not So Secret Societies: Fraternities and Masculine Identity in Victorian Victoria 1860-1890 |
Eric Sager |
2011
Author and Thesis Title |
Supervisor |
Eidinger, Andrea, PhD, |
Lynne Marks |
Nantais, Simon, PhD, |
John Price |
Reid, Heather, PhD INTD, |
Andrew Rippin/Kathryn Kerby-Fulton (Eng) |
Bowe, Meghan, MA, |
Oliver Schmidtke |
Charlie, Lianne, MA, |
Wendy Wickwire |
Corbeil, Patrick, MA, |
Paul Wood |
Hough, Adam, MA, |
Mitch Lewis Hammond |
Johnson, Carlee, MA, |
Jason Colby |
Kuncewicz, Lisa, MA, |
Sara Beam |
Miro, Jacopo, MA, |
Jordan Stanger-Ross |
Timmons, Daniel (DJ), MA, |
John Price |
Trewin, Meaghan, MA, |
Sara Beam |
Yeo, Walter, MA, |
Mariel Grant |
Copage, Caitlin, MA MRP, The Violence of Innocents: Children in the Wars of Religion in France |
Sara Beam |
Gower, Katrina, MA MRP, Outcast and Ungrievable: A Historical Account of the Negation of Romani Civil Rights in Germany |
Oliver Schmidtke |
MacLeod, Bryan, MA MRP, Something to Declare: Customs and Border Policy in Canada 1990-2011 |
Penny Bryden |
O'Reilly, Liam, MA MRP, “Missionaries and Women in Victoria’s Chinatown: The Establishment and Evolution of the Chinese Rescue Home, 1886-1900” |
Zhongping Chen |
Rasmi, Adam, MA MRP, Colonialism, Cotton, Khedives and Cadastres: British Efforts to Survey the Lands of ‘Egypt,’ 1878-1907 |
Martin Bunton |
2010
Author and Thesis Title |
Supervisor |
Gordon, Hugh, PhD, |
David Zimmerman |
Ayers, Amber, MA, |
Martin Bunton |
Chapman, Matthew, MA, |
David Zimmerman |
Dove, Stephen, MA, |
Mitch Lewis Hammond |
Drury, Devon, MA, |
John Lutz |
Erickson, Bailey, MA, |
Tom Saunders |
Harrison, Stephen, MA, The Alternative Vote in British Columbia: Values Debates and Party Politics |
Penny Bryden |
Horosko, Kendra, MA, |
Lynne Marks |
Hunfeld, Christa, MA, |
Andrea McKenzie |
Jervis, Michael, MA, |
Peter Baskerville |
Morris, Samantha, MA, |
Rick Rajala |
Ono-George, Meleisa, MA, |
Elizabeth Vibert |
Robbins, Margaret, MA, |
John Lutz |
Robitaille, Mathieu, MA, |
Rob Alexander |
Adams, Neil, MA MRP, Maple Leaf Wonders’: the N.R.M.A. Service During the Second World War |
David Zimmerman |
Fraser, Crystal, MA MRP, Cultural Perplexities: Non-Aboriginal Representations of Dene Women In the Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries |
Elizabeth Vibert |
Groves, Nick, MA MRP, For God, For Country and for Himself: the Representations of Masculinity in the Clubmen Movements in Worcestershire, Dorset and Wiltshire during the English Civil War |
Andrea McKenzie |
Loveless, Cameron, MA MRP, Nazi Ideology, the German Christian Movement, and British Military Government Action against the Movement after 1945 |
Perry Biddiscombe |
Matthewson, Amy, MA MRP, Sporty, Sexy and Sage: Visual Representations and Social Expectations of Urban Women in China's Late Republican Era |
Greg Blue |
Wong, Joyce, MA MRP, (Un)Satisfying Stories: The Relationship between Narrative Form and Social Commentary in Weimar Historical Films |
Tom Saunders |