PhD students

Home University: Laurier

Email: arms1460@mylaurier.ca

Education: BA (Hons) & MA, History, Laurier

Research Fields: Canadian, Policing History

Supervisor: Adam Crerar

Billy Armstrong is a PhD student in the Department of History at Wilfrid Laurier University, where he also received his Bachelor and Master of Arts in history. Billy’s MA research focused on policing in Canada during the 1970s. Using the Waterloo Regional Police as a case study, he examined how policies such as the Bail Reform Act and the practice of community policing impacted more traditional forms of law enforcement. Billy is building upon this research during his PhD. Focusing on the community policing policies the Toronto Police Service has implemented since the 1980s, Billy seeks to uncover their successes and failures in fostering positive police-public relations. Billy’s broader historical interests include Canadian social and political history and modern American history.

Pronouns: she/her

Home University: Guelph

Email: baerl@uoguelph.ca

Twitter: @baersafari

Academia.edu: /LisaBaerTsarfati

Research Fields: Early Modern European, Scottish, Gender, Digital Humanities

Supervisor: Elizabeth Ewan

A Scottish gender historian and digital humanist, Lisa Baer-Tsarfati received her BSc (Hon.) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and her MSc by research (with distinction) from the University of Edinburgh. Her research uses the computational analysis of discourse to examine the way that language was used to control and regulate women in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain. She is particularly interested in the ways in which expressions of ambition were socially defined and whether connections can be made between these constructions of ambition and the development of “ideal” masculinities and femininities.

In 2019, Lisa published “Gender, Authority, and Control: Male Invective and the Restriction of Female Ambition in Early Modern Scotland and England, 1583–1616” in the International Review of Scottish Studies, for which she received the Tri-University PhD History Essay Prize in 2020. She was awarded the 2019 College of Arts Graduate Teaching Assistant Teaching Excellence Award and was a 2019 Teaching and Early Career Development Fellow at the University of Guelph. Lisa has been a sessional lecturer in history at Parkland College (2015–2016 and 2018) and is currently a THINC Lab Fellow in Digital Humanities and assistant director of operations at the Centre for Scottish Studies.

Home University: Waterloo

Email: t2barton@uwaterloo.ca

LinkedIn: /teghanbarton/

Education: BA (Hons) Canadian Studies & Cultural Studies, Laurier; MA, Canadian Studies, Carleton; Paralegal Graduate Certificate (Conestoga College; LSUC)

Research Fields: Canadian, Cultural History/Theory, Fat Studies, Girlhood and Youth

Supervisor: Jane Nicholas

Teghan Barton is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History at the University of Waterloo. As an interdisciplinary scholar, Teghan comes to History by way of Cultural Studies and Canadian Studies and is broadly interested in the intersections of nation-making, gender, size, race, and ability. Her doctoral research explores how Anne Shirley, from Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery, has been culturally redefined into a historical figure wherein her existence is viewed as both fact and fiction and exploring how Anne’s eternal girlhood and modern/antimodern sentiments create a myth of her existence. An activist, Teghan volunteers both on campus and in her community including with the Guelph Enabling Garden and is also a licenced paralegal under the Law Society of Upper Canada.

Home University: Guelph

Email: kbecke06@uoguelph.ca

Education: BA (Hons) History, Dalhousie University; MA History, Dalhousie University

Research Fields: Scottish History

Supervisor: Cathryn Spence

Kristen Becker is a PhD student in the Department of History at the University of Guelph. She completed both her BA and MA in history at Dalhousie University. Kristen's previous research focused on various legal changes in English and Scottish history and Anglo Scottish relations. Her BA honours thesis examined the use and legality of torture during the Stuart reign in England and Scotland to determine if (and how) this influenced Anglo Scottish relations. Kristen's MA thesis examined legal reform in Cromwellian Scotland during the 1650s to determine if (and how) the brief union affected Anglo Scottish relations, and the ways in which legal reform influenced contemporaries' own understandings of the laws. Building upon her previous projects, Kristen will be tracing the act of Treason throughout early modern Scotland from the reign of James VI to the reign of George II, to determine what changed and why, and how these changes influenced contemporaries understandings of the law, the relationship between state and society, a national identity, and contemporaries rights as subjects of the crown.

Home University: Guelph

Email: beingesa@uoguelph.ca

Education: BA (Hons) Communications, Ottawa; MA, Art History, Guelph

Research Fields: Early Modern European, Medieval, Scottish, World, Material Culture, Historiography

Supervisor: James E. Fraser

Amy Beingessner is PhD Candidate in History and Scottish Studies at the University of Guelph. She received her BA in Communications at the University of Ottawa, and her MA in Art History at the University of Guelph, focusing on the role of cultural appropriation and authenticity in the restoration of historical monuments. With particular attention to the Vikings, Amy’s current research engages with early modern interpretations of stone monuments in Scotland. Her study is taking an interdisciplinary approach that includes Material Culture, Cultural Theory and Literature to explore the ways in which interpretations of ancient history were shaped by the socio-political environment of the long eighteenth century, and how they have influenced modern histories of The North

Home University: Waterloo

Email: m6blair@uwaterloo.ca

Education: BA (Hons) History, Laurier; MA, History, Waterloo

Research Fields: Canadian; Gender; History of Childhood and Youth

Supervisor: Jane Nicholas

Megan is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History at the University of Waterloo. She completed her BA at Wilfrid Laurier University and MA at the University of Waterloo. Megan's doctoral research examines teenage feminism in Canada during the 1960s and 1970s by assessing the involvement of high school students in feminist projects and the women's liberation movement. Her research considers what high school students themselves understood to be important feminist and social issues and the relationship between generations of feminists. Megan is a recipient of the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship (2021-2024). She has published articles in the Canadian Bulletin of Medical History and Histoire Sociale/Social History. Megan is the Graduate Student Representative on the Canadian Committee on Women's and Gender History.

Pronouns: they/them

Home University: Laurier

Email: carp7470@mylaurier.ca

Education: BA (Hons) History, Windsor; MA, History, Windsor

Research Fields: Cold War Era, Gender, Culture

Supervisor: David Monod

Originally from Windsor, ON, Kess is a PhD Candidate at Wilfrid Laurier University. Kess received their BA and MA in History from the University of Windsor. Growing up in a border city, Kess has always had an interest in American history and culture. Their MA thesis examined Playboy's significance in the lives of its readers, and in particular, how the magazine influenced male behaviour in courtship.

In the doctoral program, Kess is particularly interested in social, cultural, and gender history. Their research investigates the significance of pornography in culture, and in the lives of those who consumed it, during the Cold War in North America. In particular, Kess' research considers themes of race, class, gender, and sexuality to facilitate an understanding of the pornography's significance in historical contexts. Kess' broader research interests include American history, the history of sexuality, racial history, film, media, music, art, and cultural history. Kess is a recipient of the Ontario Graduate Scholarship (2020-2021, 2021-2022).

Home University: Waterloo

Email: jzechan@uwaterloo.ca

Education: BA (Hons) Economics, Waterloo; BASc, Mechanical Engineering, Waterloo; MA History, Waterloo;

Research Fields: Canadian, Indigenous, Modern European, Asian Migration

Supervisor: Susan Roy

Jonathan writes, "When I meet new people in the profession, I am often asked why I left engineering. Even at graduation, I wondered if engineering would offer me a path to make a difference in society. And after a few years of soul searching, I realized that I am better suited for a career in education than one in the industry. I chose history because an understanding of the past provides a unique perspective on present-day issues. My research interests are in relationships between minority groups, with focus on the Chinese and Indigenous peoples in British Columbia before World War II."

Pronouns: she/her/hers

Home University: Guelph

Email: bclark18@uoguelph.ca

Education: BA History, Alberta; MA History, Guelph

Research Fields: Early Modern European; Medieval; Scottish; Economic History; Biocodicology

Supervisor: Susannah Ferreira

Brenna Clark is a PhD Candidate at the University of Guelph. Her doctoral research examines the medieval parchment trade in the Orkney and Shetland islands to clarify the region’s wider cultural and economic links with Scotland and Norway. An objective of her research is to elucidate the ambiguous geopolitical position of the islands, first as Norwegian possessions that Scots administered, and then, after 1472, as Scottish possessions whose cultural identity remained Norse-influenced.

Brenna’s research draws on the University of Guelph’s established expertise in the fields of Scottish history and animal sciences. Her work on the medieval North Sea parchment trade relies on an interdisciplinary methodology that combines the insights of documentary sources with the genetic analysis of historical animal DNA contained in parchment, a developing field known as biocodicology.

Her Master’s thesis research investigated the extension of the Scottish witch-hunt to Orkney and Shetland in the early seventeenth century as a consequence of the Scottish government’s drive towards centralization and unification.

Home University: Waterloo

Email: m25davies@uwaterloo.ca

Education: BA (Hons) International Development, Guelph; MA Educational Studies, UBC

Research Fields: Canadian, History of Education, Gender and Family History

Supervisor: Kristina Llewellyn

Mallory Davies completed her BA (Hons.) in International Development at the University of Guelph, and her MA in Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia prior to her doctoral studies. Mallory is currently a PhD Candidate in the department of History at the University of Waterloo. Her doctoral research examines teen mothers’ integration into public education in the 1970s and 1980s to present. Mallory is also interested in the history of education more broadly and has co-written newspaper articles about the school (re)naming discussions in Vancouver. She is also a research assistant on the Thinking Historically for Canada’s Future project, where she focuses on citizenship and history education. Mallory is the Fall 2021 winner of the Wendy Mitchinson Award in History, an OGS scholar, and the TUGSA co-president for the University of Waterloo.

Home University: Laurier

Email: dunn2970@mylaurier.ca

Twitter: @BrittanyC_Dunn

Research Fields: Canadian, War and Society, Gender

Supervisor: Mark Humphries

Brittany Dunn received her BA (Hon.) from the University of Ottawa and her MA from Wilfrid Laurier University, both in history. She is currently a PhD Candidate in the Department of History at Wilfrid Laurier University. Brittany’s research examines death in the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the First World War, focusing on how soldiers reacted, coped and mourned for the dead. Her broader research interests include gender history, the history of emotions and the history of death in Canada. Brittany is also the managing editor of the peer-reviewed journal Canadian Military History, having previously served as the journal's book review editor.

Home University: Guelph

Email: cfloros@uoguelph.ca

Education: BA Politics, University of Bedfordshire (UK); MA International Security Studies, University of Reading (UK)

Twitter: @CAFloros

Research Fields: Cold War Era, Modern European, Sports

Supervisor: Alan McDougall

Christos Floros is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History at the University of Guelph. He holds a BA (Hons) in Politics from the University of Bedfordshire (UK), and a MA (Merit) in International Security Studies from the University of Reading (UK). Christos’ research focuses on Cold War and post-Cold War Sports History, especially the way basketball successes helped in the evolution of societies during the late 1980s and the early 1990s in Southern and Eastern Europe. His broader research interests include the connection between soccer and dictatorships in the second half of the 20th century, and the history of doping in sports. He is also interested in the history of espionage and terrorism. In addition to his doctoral research, Christos is an English-Greek translator and a co-owner of Lingua Greca Translations.

Home University: Waterloo

Email: hcgeorge@uwaterloo.ca

LinkedIn: heather-george-06673115

Research Fields: Canadian, Indigenous, History of Human Rights

Supervisor: Susan Roy

Heather George, B.A. Hons, (Indigenous Studies; History, Trent University), MA (Public History, University of Western Ontario), OCGC (Museum Management and Curatorship) is a PhD Candidate at the University of Waterloo. As a scholar of Euro-Canadian and Kanien'kehá:ka (Mohawk) descent much of Heather's personal and professional work has been directed at gaining a better understanding of her culture and history. Her research examines the historical and philosophical underpinnings of contemporary museum practice specifically grounded in Haudenosaunee (Six Nations / Iroquois) philosophies of Edge of the Woods and Condolence. She seeks to challenge the colonial basis of cultural preservation methods and museology and better understand how we engage with material culture to heal trauma and engage in cross-cultural dialogues. Recipient of the Ontario Graduate Scholarship (2017-2018, 2018-2019, 2019-2020) and the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship (2019-2022) Heather’s research on Haudenosaunee beadwork and Glengarry Caps was most recently published in the Otsego Alumni Review (2019).

Home University: Laurier

Email: groa9490@mylaurier.ca

LinkedIn: cody-groat-85262765

Research Fields: Canadian, Indigenous, Public History

Supervisor: Susan Neylan

Cody Groat is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History at Wilfrid Laurier University and a faculty member at Simon Fraser University teaching Canadian and Indigenous History. He is Kanyen'kehaka (Mohawk) and a band member of Six Nations of the Grand River. He completed a BA in Youth & Children's Studies and History at Wilfrid Laurier University (Brantford campus) in 2016 and an MA in World Heritage Studies from the University of Birmingham (UK) in 2017. His research focuses on the federal commemoration of Indigenous historic sites by the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada. He has published academic articles on Indigenous Peoples and public history in the British Journal of Canadian Studies and the Canadian Historical Review (forthcoming). Outside of Laurier, Cody serves on the Canadian Commission for UNESCO Advisory Committee for Memory of the World, responsible for recognizing Canada's most significant documentary heritage collections, and is the President of the Indigenous Heritage Circle, a national not-for-profit dedicated to the advancement of Indigenous (First Nations, Inuit and Metis) cultural heritage. 

Home University: Waterloo

Email: a2hooper@uwaterloo.ca

Education: BA (Hons) History, Ryerson; MA History, Waterloo

LinkedIn: amanda-hooper

Instagram: @stumbling.stones

Research fields: Cold War Era, Modern European, Public History

Supervisor: Gary Bruce

Amanda Hooper is a PhD Candidate at the University of Waterloo. She received her Honours Bachelor of Arts in History from Ryerson University and her Master of Arts in History from the University of Waterloo. As a Master’s student, Amanda researched East German Holocaust Memory, from films and film production to the memorialization of former Nazi concentration camps, including Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen under the supervision of Dr. Gary Bruce.

During her MA, Amanda created an Instagram page @stumbling.stones in hopes of engaging younger audiences with Holocaust memory and memorialization. Her account explores identities and stories of Holocaust victims of Berlin memorialized through Stolpersteine (Stumbling Stones), small memorials placed outside victims’ former homes or workplaces. Amanda utilizes online archives and databases like Yad Vadshem and Arlosen Archives to bring the experiences of these Holocaust victims to light.

Upon her entrance to the PhD program, Amanda received the Provost Doctoral Entrance Award for Women. As a PhD student, Amanda studies German Holocaust memory and education during the Cold War. She is interested in memorialization, commemoration, gendered memory, memoirs, and digital history. Her broader interests include modern German history, Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, Second World War history, Cold War history, and Public History.

Home University: Waterloo

Email: s2hossac@uwaterloo.ca

LinkedIn: sam-hossack-47a1a222

Research Fields: Canadian, Indigenous, Human Rights

Supervisor: P. Whitney Lackenbauer

Sam Hossack completed two Bachelor of Arts degrees (English (Hon); History (Hon)) and a CGS-M funded Masters of Strategic Studies at the University of Calgary before moving to Waterloo to pursue a PhD in History in 2017. Her previous research focused on post-colonial narratives and political/external influences on historical military intelligence systems. As a PhD Candidate, she is applying variants of these lenses to Canadian history: Sam's dissertation examines how discourses of human and civil rights influenced post-Second World War Canadian policy making regarding Indigenous peoples and land. She is the recipient of the Provost Doctoral Entrance Award (2017), the J. Alan George Leadership Award (2017), Dan Watt Scholarship (2018) and an Ontario Graduate Scholarship (2019). Sam is also a researcher with the SSHRC/DND-funded North American Arctic Security and Defence Network, an historian for the City of Kitchener's Heritage committee, and is completing the University of Waterloo's Certificate in University Teaching program.

Home University: Waterloo

Email: michael.humeniuk@uwaterloo.ca

Education: BA (Hons) & MA History, (Brock)

Research Fields: Canadian History; Indigenous History; Race, Imperialism, and Slavery

Supervisor: Susan Roy

Michael Humeniuk is a PhD Candidate at the University of Waterloo. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 2020, and Master of Arts in 2021 respectively at Brock University. For his Master's research, he analyzed the 1980-82 Constitution Express Movement as a case study of successful pan-Indigenous activism in the era of Red Power and argued that the movement was instrumental in ensuring the inclusion of section 35 of the 1982 Canadian Constitution. Michael plans to build upon this research for his PhD, studying the intersection of Indigenous "Red Power" activism with "Black Power" and Civil Rights Movement activism in the United States within the broader context of global activism in the second half of the 20th century, coined by Brian Palmer as the "Global Sixties". Beyond his studies, Michael is an avid Blue Jays fan, photographer, bookworm, and movie enthusist; his favourite genre's include horror, mystery, and sci-fi/fantasy.

Home University: Laurier

Email: john1431@mylaurier.ca

Education: BA History and English (Dalhousie); MA History (Waterloo)

Research Fields: 20th Century American Social and Cultural History, History of Popular Culture, History of Rock and Roll, Death and Rock and Roll.

Supervisor: David Monod

Michelle Johnston is a popular cultural historian and PhD Candidate at Wilfrid Laurier University. She received her BA with a double major in History and English from Dalhousie University, and has also spent time abroad studying at the Universities of Hull and Sussex in the UK. She completed her Masters degree in History in 2018 at the University of Waterloo, having written her thesis on female experience during the Holocaust. Her current research undertakes an historical evaluation of death in rock and roll - specifically, the prevalence of death in the genre since its inception, and the significance that this permeation of death has had upon the music itself and its consumption by audiences as popular media. Michelle has served as PhD representative for the Laurier History department, and currently is Laurier's TUGSA president. She is an OGS scholar.

Home University: Guelph

Email: ekaliel@uoguelph.ca

Twitter: @emilykalizzle

Research Fields: Canadian, History of Health and Medicine

Supervisor: Catherine Carstairs

Emily Kaliel received her BA (Hon.) from the University of Alberta and her MA from the University of Saskatchewan, both in History. She is currently a PhD Candidate in the History Department at Guelph. Her PhD research examines federal and provincial public health programs centred on nutrition and the uptake, modification, or refusal of such programs in northern prairie communities. Comparing government nutrition recommendations with changing local food ways, her research elucidates how communities created their own approaches to food by reworking nutritional information and cultural or familial food traditions into new, regional food ways. One large component of her research centres on public health nursing in rural, isolated locations in the Prairie north, and how nurses' physical and relational positioning in communities influenced both nurses' own understandings of nutritional health practices and community members' uptake or adaptations to discourses of nutrition. Emily is an Arrell Scholar with the University of Guelph’s Arrell Food Institute.

Home University: Waterloo

Email: erin.kurian@uwaterloo.ca

Twitter: @erinkurian

Education: BA (Hons) History, Waterloo; MA History, Waterloo (forthcoming)

Research Field: Medieval History

Supervisors: Steven Bednarski

Erin Kurian is a PhD Candidate at the University of Waterloo. She received her BA (Hons), History and MA, History (forthcoming, Sept. 2021) at the University of Waterloo. Her research examines urban environments in medieval England with a special interest in waste and contaminates. Erin uses digital mediums including video and animation to communicate research. She was a finalist in the University of Waterloo's 2020/21 GRADflix competition and has a created a video for public exhibition in Sussex on global climate change.

Pronouns: she/her

Home University: Guelph

Email: kkvill@uoguelph.ca

Education: BA (Hons) History, Minor Museum & Heritage Studies, Co-op, Calgary; MA History, Calgary

Twitter: @kesiatk | Website: Potatoes, Rhubarb, and Ox

Research Fields: Canadian, War and Society, Food, Gender, Rural, Public

Supervisor: Catherine Carstairs

Originally hailing from rural Alberta, Kesia comes to Guelph via Calgary. Her SSHRC funded PhD research explores the relationships between women, the Canadian government, food control, and kitchens during the First World War. Growing up volunteering and working as a historic interpreter in museums, Kesia has a background in historical foodways and public history, which she incorporates into her research. She received a Mitacs Fellowship in 2019 to work with the L.M. Montgomery Museum and Literary Centre (Norval, ON) on their kitchen and garden exhibit plans. Kesia has published a number of blog posts on various food history and historic cooking related topics on Active History, Niche, The Recipes Project, Unwritten Histories and other blogs. Kesia is a currently member of Heritage Guelph, volunteers with the Culinary Historians of Canada and the Guelph Arts Council, and serves as the Central Canada representative to the Association of Living History Farms and Agricultural Museums.

Home University: Guelph

Email: tlittlew@uoguelph.ca

Twitter: @tmlittlewood

Research Fields: Canadian, War and Society

Supervisors: Matthew Hayday and Geoffrey Hayes

Thomas' PhD dissertation focuses on how Canada has remembered and commemorated the Second World War. The intersections between politics, culture, identity, and nationalism come together in how Canadians have seen their legacy of the Second World War. He considers Remembrance Day, official government commemorations, and museums and public history institutions. The development of a variety of public history institutions -- the Canadian War Museum, the Canadian Battlefields Foundation, and the Juno Beach Centre -- in the late 1990s and early 2000s is critical to understanding how Canadians remember the Second World War. More broadly, Thomas is interested in Canadian cultural history, museum studies, public history, and the social history of knitting. Thomas has a BA in History and French from Mount Allison University, an MA in History from the University of New Brunswick, and an MA in Public History from the University of Western Ontario.

Home University: Waterloo

Email: rpmacalp@uwaterloo.ca

Research Fields: Early Modern European, World, Gender, Women, and Family

Supervisor: Ian Milligan

Rebecca MacAlpine is a doctoral candidate at the University of Waterloo. She received her Bachelor and Master of Arts from the University of Waterloo and a Master of Teaching from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. Her current research engages with network and discourse analysis to understand the complex relationship between community and judicial networks in cases of gender-based violence in seventeenth-century England. Her project proposal was recognized in Fall 2019 with the Wendy Mitchinson Award in History, which is awarded annually to a project that meaningfully engages with gender studies. In addition to her doctoral research, Rebecca is also an Ontario Certified Teacher.

Pronouns: she/her

Home University: Waterloo

Email: r2manes@uwaterloo.ca

Twitter: @rachelmanes_

Education: BA (Hons) History, McMaster; MA History, Waterloo

Research Fields: Canadian; Race, Imperialism, and Slavery; Digital/Public History

Supervisor: Ian Milligan

Rachel is a PhD student at the University of Waterloo. She received her BA from McMaster University in 2020 and her MA from the University of Waterloo in 2021. During her MA, Rachel studied the intergenerational trauma of World War II on second generation Canadian Mennonites using oral history techniques. Continuing with her passion for oral history, Rachel's PhD research investigates the ethical barriers to using digital oral history repositories as a means for community-based historical preservation in the Region of Waterloo. Upon her entrance into the PhD program, Rachel received the Provost Doctoral Entrance Award for Women, an award provided to any outstanding full-time female student beginning their doctoral studies. Outside of academia, Rachel can be found reading, hiking, and spending lots of time with her friends and family.

Home University: Waterloo

Email: jl3mckay@uwaterloo.ca

LinkedIn: jennifer-mckay-5073a9a8

Research Fields: Cold War Era, Modern European, War and Society

Supervisor: Gary Bruce

Jennifer McKay is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History at the University of Waterloo. She completed her BA at MacEwan University and her MA at the University of Guelph. She is a recipient of the Provost Doctoral Entrance Award, the President’s Graduate Scholarship and the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship (2019-2022). She has been a Visiting Research Fellow at the Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History in Potsdam, Germany and was awarded a Summer Institute Fellowship from the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University. Jennifer’s research examines denazification measures that were pursued during the 1950s toward former Nazi Party members, specifically focusing on the Karl Marx Party Training School in the former German Democratic Republic.

Home University: Guelph

Email: bmendonc@uoguelph.ca

Education: BA (Hons), International Relations, Western; MA, History, Western.

Research Fields: Canadian, World, Rural

Supervisor: Catharine Wilson

Brandon is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of History at the University of Guelph. His SSHRC-funded research explores the postwar development of agricultural journalism, with a specific focus on the professionalization of the Canadian Farm Writers Federation (CFWF) and the Developing Countries Farm Radio Network (DCFRN—today known as Farm Radio International). By examining two Canadian agricultural journalist organizations that included members of the print, radio and television industry, Brandon's research reveals the crucial role the CFWF and DCFRN played in disseminating postwar agricultural and food safety issues to the public.

Brandon is also active in promoting rural history at the University of Guelph. He is currently the Assistant Coordinator of the Rural History Roundtable, a member of the Steering Committee for the People's Archive of Rural Ontario, and an active contributor to the Rural Voices Oral History Project.

Home University: Laurier

Email: oake1680@mylaurier.ca

Education: BA (Hons) History, Laurier; MA History, Laurier

Research Fields: Canadian; War and Society; History of Science

Supervisor: Mark Humphries

Emily received her BA in History (Hons) with an English Minor and a Research Specialization Option as well as her MA in History from Wilfrid Laurier University. Emily's MA research focused on the relationships that formed between soldiers and equines in the Canadian Expeditionary Forces in the First World War. Emily's PhD research will examine the historical relationships between humans and horses across Canadian society. Beyond her interests in animal history, Emily is interested in Canadian military history and local history.

Home University: Waterloo

Email: tparsons@uwaterloo.ca

Education: BA (Hons) Laurentian; MA, History, Nipissing; Grad. Cert. in Museum and Gallery Studies, Georgian College

Twitter: @Tory1867 | LinkedIn: trevorrjparsons

Research Fields: Canadian

Supervisor: Dan Gorman

Trevor Parsons received his BA (Hons) in history from Laurentian University in Sudbury, an MA in Canadian history from Nipissing University in North Bay under the supervision of Robin Gendron in addition to a postgraduate certificate in museum studies at Georgian College in Barrie. His doctoral research examines the political career of Sir Gilbert Parker, a Canadian-born, British MP, novelist, and imperialist. He is interested in interrogating the relationship between Anglo-Canadian nationalism, imperialism, and conservatism in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Trevor is an active member of his community serving on the Glanmore National Historic Site Advisory Committee and is on the board of directors of the Hastings County Historical Society. He previously served as vice-chair of Heritage Belleville and is a regular volunteer at the Community Archives in Belleville.

Pronouns: she/they

Home University: Waterloo

Email: ceramey@uwaterloo.ca

Education: BA (Hons) History, York; MA History, Toronto

Research Fields: Canadian; Race, Imperialism and Slavery; World History; African History; Women and Gender; History of Education

Supervisor: Katherine Bruce-Lockhart

Catherine (she/they) is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at the University of Waterloo. She received her BA in History from York University and her MA in History from the University of Toronto. Her current research focuses on the gendering of the curricula in Canadian missionary schools in Angola between 1880 and 1920. In particular, she focuses on the mission stations run by the Canadian Congregational Foreign Missionary Society. Using the United Church of Canada records and oral histories, she examines the missionary curriculum for girls and boys and the lived and living consequences of this education on Angolan women. Her broader research interests include women and gender history, the history of education, African history, Indigenous history, and critical race theory.

Pronouns: he/him

Home University: Waterloo

Email: nick.richbell@uwaterloo.ca

Education: BA (Hons) Modern Languages, University of Westminster; MLIS, McGill

Research Fields: Canadian; Modern European; Spiritualism

Supervisor: Andrew Hunt

Nick Richbell is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at the University of Waterloo. Nick's area of research is the history of Spiritualism with a focus on the life and career of Maurice Barbanell, a leading Spiritualist, newspaper editor, and channel for the Spirit Entity named "Silver Birch". Barbanell delivered teachings from Silver Birch for over 50-years and published the leading Spiritualist newspaper, Psychic News. Nick is writing a biography of these two characters and their impact on British society from 1920 to 1981, a lesser studied period of the Spiritualist movement.

By day, Nick is the Head of Special Collections and Archives at the University of Waterloo Library. He is also a lover of all things “donkey” and can be found at the Donkey Sanctuary of Canada’s open days.

Home University: Guelph

Email: gschreib@uoguelph.ca

Education: BA History, Taylor University (USA); MA History, Sam Houston State University (USA); MLitt, Reformation Studies, University of St. Andrews (Scotland)

Research Fields: Early Modern European; Scottish; Reformation

Supervisor: Susannah Ferreira

A late medieval/early modern historian, Grant Schreiber received his BA in history from Taylor University, an MA in history from Sam Houston State University, and an MLitt (with distinction) from the University of St Andrews where he did his thesis on society, politics and economics in post-Reformation Perth, Scotland. His research is a comparative analysis of early modern Scotland and England and the social, political, and spatial changes stemming from the loss of monasteries and friaries in urban centres during and following the Reformation. He is specifically interested in tracing shifts in education, charity, social class and power structures, and usage of former monastic spaces and materials in new contexts.

Home University: Laurier

Email: tick0650@mylaurier.ca

Education: BA (Hons) History, Royal Military College of Canada; MA History, Nipissing

Research Fields: Modern European

Supervisor: Amy Milne-Smith

Carolyne Ticky is a PhD Candidate whose current research examines the intersections between Victorian psychological theories and literary forms deployed in novels. In both realist and sensation fiction, the theme of the unconscious springs up time and time again to explain and account for behaviour. Carolyne is interested in the historical development of the novel as a medium, the relationship between art and science through borrowed language, and the concept of self-control and self-mastery in a 19th century context. In her spare time, Carolyne can be found curled up in a chair reading Anthony Trollope novels.

Home University: Waterloo

Email: lvorobej@uwaterloo.ca

Twitter: @lucy_vorobej

Research Fields: Canadian, Indigenous, History of Medicine

Supervisor: Heather MacDougall

Lucy Vorobej completed her BAH and B.Ed. at Queen’s University before coming to Waterloo to complete her MA in history. She is currently a doctoral candidate in history at UWaterloo. Her research interests include the social history of medicine, Canadian history, and Indigenous health history. As a settler-scholar, her dissertation research examines the nature of Canadian health policy for Indigenous peoples in the second half of the 20th century. Using frameworks of critical race theory and post-colonialism her work has a particular focus on the development of tripartite health management plans between federal, provincial, and First Nations governments in Ontario.

Lucy is an active member of Tri-U and UWaterloo communities through her involvement in projects such as the Indigenous Speakers’ Series committee and the Tri-U Conference organizational committee. She is also an active member of the Canadian Society for the History of Medicine and the Children’s Rights Academic Network.

Pronouns: he/him

Home University: Waterloo

Email: sdwalshm@uwaterloo.ca

Education: BA (Hons) History and Political Science, Toronto; MA History, Waterloo

Research Fields: Cold War Era; Modern Europe; Race, Imperialism and Slavery

Supervisor: Gary Bruce

Sebastian is a PhD student focusing on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. He is looking specifically at how Nazi language towards Jewish people and other target groups provided the framework for Nazi genocide in the pre-war years (1933-1939) of the Nazi regime. He received his (Hons) BA from the University of Toronto in 2020 with a double major in History and Political Science, and then received his MA in History from the University of Waterloo in 2021. Sebastian’s MA research looked at how Nazi language was understood in historians works and how Nazi Language could be used as an important lens of analysis in the Holocaust as found in diaries and memoirs from the period. His interests include Nazi Germany, World War II, Modern Europe, and the Cold War.