A doctoral degree is the ultimate culmination of hard work and dedication. After countless hours attending seminars and conducting research, TA'ing or teaching courses and preparing a dissertation, our doctoral students are becoming doctoral graduates.
On behalf of the Faculty of Arts, congratulations to our newest cohort of Doctors of Philosophy!
Congratulations to our newest PhDs!
Daniel Attrell
Department:
History
Thesis: Intelligentia
Spiritualis:
Platonism,
the
Latin
Polemical
Tradition,
and
the
Renaissance
Approach
to
the
Prophetic
Sense
of
History
Demonstrating how interreligious theological disputes served as a vehicle for the exchange of knowledge across linguistic and cultural boundaries.
Jennifer Doyle
Department:
English
Thesis: Element
Focused
Inquiry:
Air
and
Water
in
American
Literature
Drawing on three environmental crisis novels from the late 20th to early 21st century to embrace the ways literary fiction forms a relation to the world.
Ian Gibson
Department:
English
Thesis: Some
Mysterious
Resonance
Between
Thing
and
Language:
On
Contradiction
and
the
Materialist
Theologies
of
Cormac
McCarthy
and
Marilynne
Robinson
Articulating what resonance between human experience and literary form means with respect to authors McCarthy and Robinson.
Anna Godollei
Department:
Psychology
Thesis: Hoping
for
the
Best,
Preparing
for
the
Worst:
Employee
Reactions
to
Automation
at
Work
Examining employees' psychological evaluations and subsequent attitudinal and behavioural reactions to automation at work.
Emma Green
Department:
Psychology
Thesis: What
do
you
think?
Associations
between
social
anxiety,
mentalizing,
and
social
competence
in
middle
childhood.
Demonstrating that children's self-reported social anxiety is associated with the ways they perceive and reason about others' emotions.
Anna Hudson
Department:
Psychology
Thesis: Examining
the
neural,
behavioural,
and
social
responses
associated
with
affective
self-referential
processing
in
adults
and
children.
Examining how self-referential and positivity biases modulate the encoding and memory of social information in adults and children.
Cynthia Leal Garza
Department:
Global
Governance
Thesis: Was
Bretton
Woods
Working
for
the
Common
Good?
Mexico's
Advocacy
to
Consider
the
Human
Implications
of
the
International
Monetary
and
Financial
Systems
at
the
Bretton
Woods
Conference
Developing a critical reframing that articulates Mexico's desire for a fairer, more inclusive, and more sustainable approach to the international economic system at the Bretton Woods conference.
Christopher Lok
Department:
Psychology
Thesis: Lay
Theories
and
Self-Perceptions
of
Maturity
in
Young
Adulthood
Exploring young adults' lay theories of what it means to be mature and whether these perceptions apply to their own self-perceptions of maturity, and applying these findings to the hardships of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Rukhsana Merkand
Department:
Psychology
Thesis: Don’t
Ask,
I’ll
Tell:
Investigating
Strategy
Use
During
Disability
Disclosure
at
Work
Investigating the various strategies that individuals with disabilities use while disclosing their disabilities in work-related contexts.
Chris Miller
Department:
Religious
Studies
Thesis: Out
of
the
'Broom
Closet'
and
Into
the
Academy:
The
Development
of
Contemporary
Pagan
Studies
and
the
Role
of
Scholarship
in
Shaping
Legitimacy
Exploring how academic fields develop, how Pagan studies interact with Pagans themselves, and how scholars can legitimize communities.
Midori Nishioka
Department:
Psychology
Thesis: When
our
co-workers
share
their
unfair
experiences,
do
we
believe
them?
Perceptions
of
workplace
fairness
are
negatively
related
to
perceived
credibility
of
coworkers’
claims
of
injustice
Arguing that third parties rely on their perceptions of an organization's overall fairness when interpreting a claim of unfairness.
Samantha Sargent
Department:
Philosophy
Thesis: The
Techno-Inclusive
Model
of
Disability:
Motivations,
Influences,
and
Applications
Advancing a techno-inclusive model of disability and making recommendations to improve current Ontario policies regarding assistive technologies.
Cameron Smith
Department:
Psychology
Thesis: Interpersonal
Consequences
of
Self-Disclosures:
The
effect
of
self-esteem
on
perceived
risks
of
self-disclosure
Examining the association between self-esteem and expected interpersonal consequences of self-disclosure.
Ryan Yeung
Department:
Psychology
Thesis: The
Persistence
of
Involuntary
Memory:
Analyzing
Phenomenology,
Links
to
Mental
Health,
and
Content
Demonstrating that recurrent involuntary autobiographical memories consistently predict symptoms of mental health disorders.