Congratulations to our newest PhDs!

Tuesday, June 15, 2021

group of PhD graduates sitting at convocation
 Completing a doctoral degree is an incredible accomplishment and academic milestone. Countless hours attending seminars, writing exams, TAing, RAing, teaching courses, conducting research and participating in the dissertation defense have led to this exciting moment—degree completion. For many, these necessary facets of the PhD were also completed remotely because of COVID-19. 

On behalf of the Faculty of Arts, congratulations to our newest cohort of Doctors of Philosophy!

On Thursday, June 17th at 7:00 p.m., a PhD Virtual Reception will be held to celebrate the achievements of our PhD graduands

Congratulations to our newly minted PhDs!

Phillipe Beriault

Department: Philosophy
Thesis: All the World's a Stage: Fictionalism, Metaphysics, and Truth

Zong Chen

Department: Economics
Thesis: The Relative Performance of Internatinal Students and Their Academic Program Choices


Timothy Clarke

Department: History
Thesis: Threads of Memory: A Culture of Commemoration in Kenya Colony, 1918-1930

Vanessa Correia

Department: Philosophy
Thesis: Harm Reduction for Corporations


Tiffany Doan

Department: Psychology
Thesis: Children Use Probability to Infer Other People's Emotions

Thomas Freure

Department: History
Thesis: A Modern American Conservative: How Ronald Reagan Legitimized the Religious Right and Helped Reshape the American Zeitgeist


Samuel Hanig

Department: Psychology

Thesis: Expanding the Role of Power in Employees' Interpretations of and Reactions to Leader Behaviors

Ashley Irwin

Department: English

Thesis: Debasing Dissent:  The Role of the News Media in the Devaluation of Black Canadian Activism


Christopher Lee

Department: Psychology
Thesis: Context Reinstatement Reconsidered: Investigating Boundary Conditions of the Effect

Robin Mazumder

Department: Psychology
Thesis: The Downside of Building Up: An Exploration Into the Psychological and Physiological Impacts of Exposure to High-Rise Buildings


Sarah McTavish

Department: History
Thesis: The Queer Eternal September: LGBTQ Identity on the Early Internet and Web

Janet Michaud

Department: Philosophy
Thesis: Broadening the Scope of Engaged Philosophy of Science: An Empirical Analysis of Context-Dependent Barriers


Kathryn Miller

Department: Psychology
Thesis: Displays of Adaptive Body Image by Others: Examining Their Influence on College Women's Body Image

Rod Missaghian

Department: Sociology
Thesis: The Post-Secondary Decision-Making Process for at-Risk Students in Ontario


Xiao Mu

Department: Psychology
Thesis: Gender Stereotypes and the Relational Consequences of Interpersonal Justice Violations

Hanna Negami

Department: Psychology
Thesis: Investigating Positive and Threat-Based Awe in Natural and Built Environments


Caitlin O'Donnell

Department: Philosophy
Thesis: Supporting Palliative Care in a Post-Carter World

Karisa Parkington

Department: Psychology
Thesis: Individual Differences in Recogn-Eye-Zing Faces: Behavioural and Neural Underpinnings of Face Recognition in Neurotypical and Autistic Adults


Vincent Phan

Department: Psychology
Thesis: Why Do People (Not) Take Breaks? An Investigation of Individuals' Reasons for Taking and for Not Taking Breaks at Work

Douglas Sikkema

Department: English
Thesis: The Myth of Disenchantment: Religion and the Environment in Contemporary American Literature


Daniel Todorovic

Department: Psychology
Thesis: Choosing What to Read out Loud While Studying: the Role of Agency in Production

Bin Xing

Department: Accounting
Thesis: Tax-Planning vs. Coordination: the Dual-Role of Internal Capital Allocation


Jing Hui Zhu

Department: Psychology
Thesis: On the Determinants of Human Spatial Organization