Wednesday, June 12, 2024

Celebrating our newest PhD graduates

From classes to teaching and research to writing, a PhD is earned through a whole lot of hard work and determination. We are incredibly proud of our latest graduates, and are honoured to have been part of their journey. With their broad range of disciplines and talents, we're excited to see them make a difference.

Join us in celebrating the PhD class of 2024! 

John Baker

Applied Economics

Dissertation: Monetary Policy Analysis and its Contemporary Challenges

Sally Beresford-Sheridan

English

Dissertation: Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers. Detecting Community in their Public, Private, and Fictional Lives

David Borkenhagen

Psychology

Dissertation: COVID-19 Risk Perception in Urban and Architectural Environments

Emily Britton

Psychology

Dissertation: The Uncertainty Model of Boredom and Self-Control Failure: How Ambient Uncertainty Influences Affect and Behaviour during Unrelated Goal Pursuit

Pierson Browne

Sociology

Dissertation: Doing Transparent and Reproducible Quantitative Sociology

Emily Cyr

Psychology

Dissertation: Correlates and Consequences of Misjudging Romantic Partners’ Work and Family Priorities

Ryan D'Eon

History

Dissertation: Practical Inclusion: Representing French-Canadians in the Army during the Second World War

Erik Jansen

Psychology

Dissertation: A Metamotivational Approach to Understanding Managers’ Beliefs About Motivationally Diverse Teams in the Domain of Regulatory Mode

Denise Law

Psychology

Dissertation: A meta-analytic comparison of why workplace ostracism relates to discretionary behavior

Rebecca-Ann MacAlpine

History

Dissertation: In Protection of No Woman: Consent, Illegitimacy, and Gender-Based Violence in Early Modern Somerset, 1600-1699

Jennifer McKay

History

Dissertation: Stalin’s Last Comrade: Hanna Wolf and the “Karl Marx” Party College in the German Democratic Republic

Iuliia Nesterova

Applied Economics

Dissertation: Conspicuous Consumption and Inequality

Nicholas Richbell

History

Dissertation: 'Mr. Spiritualism' Maurice Barbanell and his Life as a Twentieth-Century Spiritualist Propagandist 

Samuel Rowland

English

Dissertation: Sounds of the Land of Promise: Listening to Ralph Ellison’s Metaphors of Memory in Invisible Man 

Choyon Saha

Global Governance

Dissertation: Restricting fossil fuel supply: Examining and amplifying the role of the Least Developed Countries’ Group in the United Nations Climate Negotiations 

Krystle Shore

Sociology

Dissertation: Exploring the Care-Control Nexus Through Police Monitoring of Vulnerable Groups: A Case Study of Project Lifesaver 

Martin Turpin

Psychology

Dissertation: Dazzled and Confused: Bullshitting as a Strategic Behaviour

Mari Vist

English

Dissertation: The Intimate Fandoms of Men’s Hockey Real Person Fanfiction

Lucy Vorobej

History

Dissertation: “By Their Own Efforts”: First Nations Health Policy in Canada, 1940s-1970s 

Christopher Wass

Philosophy

Dissertation: Professional Ethics for Economists: A Reflection on DeMartino's Oath 

Hannah Watts

English

Dissertation: Cognitive Constellations: Neurodivergent Aesthetics in 20th Century Experimental Poetries 

ZhuoJing Zhang

Applied Economics

Dissertation: Essays on Empirical likelihood for Heaviness Estimation, Outlier Detection and Clustering