Undergraduate Student Research
Honours Theses:
2023-24
Currey, Bronwyn: “Absolute Exclusion”: Alan Webster Neill and Racially Restrictive Covenants
Fill, Amber: Curiosity Killed the Cat: Attitudes Towards Vivisections, c. 1660-1820
Johnston, Sarah: Socio-economic Status in the Sanatorium: Tuberculosis in British Columbia in the Interwar Period
Jones, Meghan: ‘O Cannabis’: A History of Cannabis Legalization in Canada
Svorkdal, Jakob: Tkop Man Wawa: Settler Use of Chinook Jargon in the Post-Decline Period
2022-23
Davenport, Daniel: Under New Management: Energy Resource Allocation in Great War Britain
Holland, Sam: Sprucing Up Britain: How Foresters Conquered the British Landscape with BC Trees
Moreno, Jacob: Modernist Imaginaries of Crisis - Crisis in the Weimar Republic
White, Conner: To Admonish or Abolish: The End of Indigenous Slavery in British Columbia, 1830-1890
2021-22
Bal, Kevin: The Multi-Dimensional Elements of Early Twentieth Century British Labour
Barron, Kiegan: March 21st and May 1st, 1933: Nazi Germany and the Nature of Fascism
Cloete, Hannes: The OAS and US Struggle for Hegemony: 1948-1962
Engelbrecht, Mira: Privilege versus the People: A Study of Food, Volk, Elitism, and the Nazi State
Laybourne, Nathaniel: (Mis)Representations of an Italian Anarchist
Sacilotto, Sophie: The Soviet Memorialization of Babi Yar 1941-1976
Stefik, Aaron: Fire from Sea and Sky: The Defence of British Columbia in the Pacific War
Stremel, Emily: Democracy under Fire: The July 15 Coup and Turkish
Authoritarianism
2020-21
2019-20
Davies, H: Walking the Tightrope: Jimmy Carter’s Foreign Policy for a Nuclear Armed South Africa
de Montmorency, C: The Joke is on Hitler: A Study of Humour under Nazi Rule
Landrey, J: “Democracy? What a farce.”1 The Marpole-Richmond Review ’s Anti-Racist Coverage During World War Two
Simpson, N: The “Woman’s Angle” and Beyond: Allied Women War Reporters during the Second World War
2018-19
Baer, A: The Portrayal of Hitler, Nazis, and Nazism in American Animated Cartoons from the Second World War
Bradshaw, Z: What’s for Dinner? Social Mobility in Hannah Woolley’s The Queen-Like Closet; Or, Rich Cabinet
Fraser, K: The Moralized Picturesque in England, 1730–1811
Gray, L: Trans Mountain 1953: Public Response in Alberta and British Columbia
Accola, M: “The Empire Traveller”: Purposeful Tourism in Western Canada, 1885-1914
Lang, D: The Log Export Question in British Columbia, 1865-1930
LeBere, K: Red Swans: The Transformation of Ballet after the Russian Cultural Revolution (1924-1937)
Mooney, C: “Accio Bibliographia”: The Use of Historiographical Methods in Fiction
Poulus, R: “Baneful Influences”: Racism and Canadian Drug Legislation Against Opium
West, H: The Historical Backdrop to the United States’ Relationship with the Syrian Kurds
Wu, A: The Hollywood Wartime Comedy American Comedy Film in the Second World War
2017-18
Finnson, A: "The Blood of a King Brings Joy:" Blood and the Execution of Louis XVI.
Ruston, N: "There is a new drug in the schedule": The Mysterious Origins of Criminalized Cannabis.
van der Linden, R: Women after War: Jewish Women as Displaced Persons in Belsen, 1945-50.
2016-17
Carter, S: "Justice in the Balkans: Developing International Law after Yugoslavia".
Crocker, J: "Unorthodox Professors: World War One in Videogames and on YouTube".
Gallegos Dupuis, M: "Egypt Before and After 2011: An Uncertain History of Revolution".
Gow, E: "Reconciliation in Theatres of Living History: Unsettling Fort Edmonton Park" - withhold until 2021.
Mollema, R: "German Youth 1900 - 1933 From Emancipation to Radicalization".
Safton, B: "Growig Louder: The Environmental Movement in Clayoquot Sound, 1980-93".
Siemens, K: "Witnessing Internment: Captain V.C. Best's Letters to Ottawa"
2015-16
2014-15
Blair, D: "Fish, Oil, and Cucumbers: The Premiership of Brian Peckford, 1979-1989".
Cartwright, A: ""We the Ghetto People:" Perceptions of Rap Music and the Underclass Between the Late 1970s and Late1980s."
Deacon, D: "Fallen Women: The Popular Image of Female Suicide in Victorian England, c. 1937-1901".
Jezierski, J: "The United States and the Evolution of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict".
Mann, S: "More than a Symbol: Historical and Historiographic Perspectives on the Mind and Faith of Louis Riel".
McKay, J: "Narratives of Death In Diaries and Memoirs of The holocaust".
2013-14
2012-13
Anderson, H: "Women's Philosophy of Health During Colonial Conflicts, 1675-1783".
Stewart, M: "A War for Memory: Commemoration and the Creation of Second World War Memory in Russia".
Willmott, R: ""Not Possible to Proceed Now": The Failure of Arthur Wauchope's Legislative Council Project, 1932-1936".
2011-12
Anderson, A: "The Law of the City: The Reichshofrat in hamburg, 1670-1700".
Carswell, C: "Death of a State: Politics, Nationalism and the Collapse of Socialist Yugoslavia".
du Plessis, Y: Indigenous settlers: the Griquas of nineteenth-century south Africa
Smith, B: "From Myth-Conceived to Myth-Understood: France's Revolutionary Ordre Profond Revisited".
2010-11
2009-10
Brouwer, B: "The Hearth of Rwanda's Drum: History as Justification for Discrimination and Violence."