Honouring our PhD graduates | Arts | University of Waterloo

Earning a PhD takes immense hard work and dedication, from coursework to teaching, research, and writing. We are incredibly proud of our newest graduates and honoured to have been part of their journey. With their diverse skills and expertise, we can’t wait to see the impact they’ll make.

Celebrate the PhD class of 2024 with us!

Jillian Adams

Accounting

Dissertation: Examinations of the Relations Between Tax-Motivated Income Shifting and Private and Public Country-by-Country Reporting

Emerson LaCroix

Sociology

Dissertation: An Organizational Perspective on Experiential Education in Ontario Higher Education

Richard Barnett

German

Dissertation: Pedagogical Approaches for Encouraging Interaction Awareness and Interactional Competence in University-Level Second-Language Learners

Shannon Lodoen

English

Dissertation: Subjectivity Under the Smartphone: A Rhetorical Examination of Digital Communications Technologies

Yixing Che

Accounting

Dissertation: Corporate Innovation Strategy and Narrative Disclosures

Xinyi Lu

Psychology

Dissertation: Relatedness in memory and metamemory: Benefits, costs, and beliefs

Xi Chen

Accounting

Dissertation: The Information Value of Earnings Announcements of US-Listed Foreign Firms

Alexi Orchard

English

Dissertation: Interdisciplinary Pedagogy for Ethical Engineering and Responsible Innovation

Elianne El-Amyouni

English

Dissertation: Mosaics of Resistance Political Identity Expression in Palestinian Youth Subcultures

Mahsa Sadeghi Janbahan

Psychology

Dissertation: Goal-Striving and Pilot Goal Management Training in Adolescents with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

Lara El Mekaui

English

Dissertation: Hesitant Belonging: Understanding Generational Traumas of Forced Migration in Black and Palestinian Diaspora Contemporary Transnational Fiction

Alyssa Smith

Psychology

Dissertation: Examining the Relation between Oral Contraceptive Use and Attention-Related Traits and States

Nicole Gevaux

Psychology

Dissertation: Children’s Performance and Social Behaviour during Competitive Games with (simulated) Peers

Damian Sycz

Sociology

Dissertation: Flying the Flag: A Mixed-Methods Study Examining Policing Subjectivity in a Canadian Auxiliary Police Service

Candice Hubley

Psychology

Dissertation: Struggling to Let Go: The Role of Prior Investment in Goal Disengagement

Pelin Tan

Psychology

Dissertation: Intentional Forgetting: The Role of Retrieval in Encoding

Jana Koepcke

German

Dissertation: Analyzing the Manuscript Contexts of the Medieval German Verse Novella Die Königin von Frankreich (The Queen of France)

Rebecca Trossman

Psychology

Dissertation: Exploring Social Attention in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A Dimensional Approach

Tyler Kruger

Psychology

Dissertation: Examining the Influence of Caffeine on Attentional Engagement in Everyday Life and During an Auditory Attention Task

Wenzou Xu

Economics

Dissertation: Applications of Machine Learning on Econometrics for Two-stage Regression, Bias-adjusted Inference with Unobserved Confounding, and Test for High Dimensionality

Yifei Kuang

Accounting

Dissertation: Does ESG-linked Executive Compensation Improve Responsible Sourcing?