A big congratulations to our newest PhD graduates! | Arts | University of Waterloo

Years of asking questions, challenging assumptions and pushing knowledge forward have led to this moment. Our newest PhD graduates have already made their mark, and their next chapters are just beginning.

Ayesha Altaher

English

Dissertation: Inherited Scripts and Contested Narratives: Arab Identity in 18th and 19th Century America

Samantha Ayers-Glassey

Psychology

Dissertation: Examining temporally specific retrospective reports of attentional engagement and mind wandering using video-stimulated recall

Jacob Benjamin

Global Governance

Dissertation: Internal conflict within Asian security arrangements

Jonathan Zi En Chan

History

Dissertation: Loyalty and Righteousness: Confucianism and the Chinese Community in British Columbia, 1923-1960

Laura Colucci

Psychology

Dissertation: Family Processes in the Year Following Brief and Virtual Emotion-Focused Family Therapy Groups: Child and Family Trajectories and Mental Health Service Utilization

Jessica Edwards

Psychology

Dissertation: The Cognitive-Affective Model of Sexual Consent Communication

Sarah English

Psychology

Lana Gonzalez Balyk

Global Governance

Dissertation: Everyday Infrastructures of Negotiation: Borders, Xenophobia, and Belonging among Latin American Migrant Women in Portugal

Jolie Tsoi Kan Ho

Psychology

Dissertation: Keeping Others at Arm’s Length: Examining the Contribution of Fears of Receiving Compassion to Safety Behaviour Use and Positivity Deficits in Social Anxiety

Melissa Johnson

English

Dissertation: A “Chronic Complainer’s” Guide to the Hystericizing of Fibromyalgia

Jacob Legault-Leclair

Sociology

Dissertation: Secular Transition and Religious Transmission in Canada, Australia, the United States and Europe: A Quantitative Analysis of Migration and Family Religious Socialization

Sandra Majthenyi

Sociology

Dissertation: An Assessment of the Utility of Academic Research to Intelligence Professionals in Canada: A Case study in Knowledge Mobilization

Adam Mursal

Sociology

Dissertation: Equity in Policy and Health: Examining Inequalities in Job Quality of Caregivers, Refugees’ Health Care Access, and the Health Disparity of Health Care Workers in Canada

Sophia Tran

Psychology

Dissertation: Drawing benefits memory and comprehension by establishing and strengthening the link between verbal and visual percepts

Seth Winward

Psychology

Dissertation: Investigating the Multidimensionality of State Empathy: Evidence from Behaviour and Event-Related Potentials

Zetian Zhang

Applied Economics

Dissertation: Dimensionality Testing, Shape-Constrained Neural Network Estimation, and Equilibrium Approximation in Team Games