Celebrating our newest PhD graduands! | Arts

Completing a PhD means spending years at the edge of human understanding and choosing, every day, to push further. These graduates have already changed how we see the world — and they're just getting started.

Emilie Caron

Psychology

Dissertation: Posture and Attention

Brandon Dickson

Global Governance

Dissertation: Higher Education Sustainability Governance: The Bidirectional Flow of Ideas, Influence, and Power in University Sustainability Efforts

Darlene Drecun

Philosophy

Dissertation: Beyond the Reason-Emotion Divide: Philosophical Theories of Autonomy from a Neuroscience Perspective

Carolyn Eckert

English

Dissertation: Punctuated Ethos: Addressing Trust, Credibility and Expertise in Times of Crisis

Aleksander Franiczek

English

Dissertation: Immersion, Roleplaying, Narrative Design: Concepts for Understanding Videogame Narrative

Nicole Georges

Global Governance

Dissertation: Anchored Ashore: American Life at Guantanamo

Sudipto Ghosh

Applied Economics

Emily Grant

Psychology

Dissertation: Perceived Restorativeness and Restorative Outcomes: A Comparative Study of Diverse Environments in Urban and Natural Settings

Zahra Jafari

English

Dissertation: The Missing Picture: Iranian Women in the Media

Jin Sol Kim

English

Dissertation: Fade to White: Racial Construction and Respectable Subjectivity in (Digital) Photography

Caleb Lauer

Global Governance

Dissertation: Sovereignty, Rhetoric, and World Order: Woodrow Wilson’s Self-Determination

Kem-Laurin Lubin

English

Dissertation: Ethotic Heuristics in Artificial Intelligence: A Rhetorical Framework for Guiding Responsible Data Design Praxis in Healthcare and Surveillance

Christopher Martin

English

Dissertation: Decoding QAnon: Building an Adaptive Alternative Reality at the Crossroads of American Conspiracism, Cultic Commodification, and Schizogenic Hyperreality

Julia McNeil

Psychology

Dissertation: Love, Resilience, and the Past: The Role of Positive Emotion Regulation in Overcoming Childhood Maltreatment and Building Strong Romantic Relationships

Karmvir Padda

Sociology and Legal Studies

Dissertation: From Radicalization to Violent Extremism: A Mixed Methods Study of Misogyny Across Forums, Podcasts, and Manifestos

Myrto Provida

Germanic and Slavic Studies

Dissertation: Selbstbestimmt: The Woman in Contemporary German Women’s Filmmaking

Jerika Sanderson

English

Dissertation: Revivifying, Repurposing, Reimagining: From Commodification to Kinship in 21st-Century De-Extinction and Xenotransplantation Narratives

Yadurshana Sivashankar

Psychology

Dissertation: Identifying the Relative Contribution of Motoric and Cognitive Engagement on Spatial Memory

Jatheesh Srikantharajah

Psychology

Dissertation: Eye Movements: Measuring Fatigue and Attention in Natural and Urban Scenes

Meghan Staal

English

Dissertation: Altering Bodies, Altering Minds: Examining Essentialism, Gendered Discrimination and Violence, Racism, and Colonialism through Speculative Fiction Tropes

Valerie Uher

English

Dissertation: Resource Rhetoric in Three Canadian Novels, 1919-1945

Pei Wang

Accounting

Dissertation: The Effects of Reward Nature and Reward Contingency on Employee Voluntary Training