• An acoustic investigation of vowel variation in Gitksan 

  Borland-Walker, Kyra Ann (2019-02-13)

  The research question for this thesis is: How does vowel quality vary across Gitksan speakers, and what sociolinguistic factors may be influencing this variation? Answering this question requires both that I show what the ...
• The unhoused: homelessness in early-twentieth century British Columbia 

  Kelly, Eoin (2019-02-05)

  North American histories of homelessness have focused upon the specific image of the “tramp.” Exemplified by Charlie Chaplin, Jack London, and various other popular representations in a variety of media formats, the tramp, ...
• The phonological representation and distribution of vowel in SENĆOŦEN (Saanich) 

  Leonard, Janet (2019-01-29)

  This dissertation provides the first comprehensive analysis of the phonology of vowels in SENĆOŦEN (Salish). Evidence from various phonological and phonetic phenomena are brought together to support a proposal that there ...
• The syntax of V-V resultatives in Mandarin Chinese 

  Liu, Jianxun (2019-01-25)

  This is a study on the syntax of V-V resultative constructions in Mandarin Chinese within the generative framework. I investigate three aspects of these constructions: the generation of resultative V-V compounds, the ...
• "They are a scum community who have organized:" The Georgia Straight, freedom of expression, and Tom Campbell’s war on the counterculture, 1967 – 1972 

  Sherman, Jake Noah (2019-01-15)

  The 1960s have a special place in the cultural memory of the West Coast of Canada. They have informed its regional identity, the cityscape of Vancouver, and the social infrastructure of the modern state. But lost in the ...
• Patriotism, internationalism, and anarchy: the anarchist response to the Boulanger Affair 

  Cameron, Max (2018-12-24)

  In the late 1880s, the Boulanger Affair threatened to bring down the French Third Republic. The Boulangist movement, centered around General Georges Ernest Boulanger, capitalized on ultra-nationalist fervour for revenge ...
• Language instruction and language acquisition: A complex interplay 

  Nassaji, Hossein (Language Teaching Research, 2017)
• The business of women: gender, family, and entrepreneurship in British Columbia, 1901-1971 

  Buddle, Melanie Anne (2018-11-27)

  This study examines female self-employment in British Columbia from 1901 to 1971. Entrepreneurial women comprised a small proportion of the total female labour force but they exhibited differences from the rest of the ...
• Constructing Heimat in the Ruhr Valley: assessing the historical significance of Krupp company housing from its origins through the National Socialist era, 1855-1941 

  Bolz, Cedric (2018-11-27)

  As the central pillar of the Krupp steel firm’s much-publicized company welfare initiatives, employee housing has played a vital role in shaping Krupp’s corporate identity from 1855 to the present. The central objective ...
• Remote control: a history of the regulation of religion in the Canadian public square 

  Fennema, Norman James (2018-11-16)

  The modern Canadian state is secular, but it is not a neutral state. It is a liberal democracy in which the prevailing value system has shifted. The shift has been from a culture in which a commonly held religion was ...
• The future of Pierre Bourdieu’s politics: keeping the promise of reflexive sociology 

  Conlon, Michael B. (2018-11-14)

  The novelty of Pierre Bourdieu's theory of literature is a product of the ethical and political demands he makes of art and literature. Though Bourdieu's work ranges from research in social housing to a book length study ...
• Conversion, revolution and freedom: the religious formation of an American soul in Edwards, Melville and Du Bois 

  Stewart, Carole Lynn (2018-11-13)

  This dissertation brings together two well known interpretative problems in the understanding of the formation of the American nation and self how a meaning of an American self arises as different from traditional cultures, ...
• Subjectivity, Bildung, pedagogy: “Coming of age” in modernity 

  Heslop, Jacqueline Ann (2018-10-26)

  Subjectivity, Bildung, Pedagogy: “Coming of Age” in Modernity is a trans-disciplinary study of the concept of subjective maturation in the post-Enlightenment West. The study hinges on an historicization of the idea of ...
• Error bounds for an inequality system 

  Wu, Zili (2018-10-23)

  For an inequality system, an error bound is an estimation for the distance from any point to the solution set of the inequality. The Ekeland variational principle (EVP) is an important tool in the study of error bounds. ...
• “Through a glasse darkly”: secrecy and access to arcane knowledge in seventeenth-century England 

  Hunfeld, Christa (2018-10-01)

  In seventeenth-century England, pursuits of knowledge were shaped by two seemingly paradoxical, yet interwoven beliefs: a persistent belief in the devastating effects of the Fall on human reason, and a growing trust in ...
• An unsuccessful mission: the short-lived alliance of the Soviet Union with warlord Feng Yuxiang, 1925-1927 

  Petrov, Dmitry (2018-10-01)

  This Master’s thesis examines the reasons for the failure of the Soviet advisers’ mission in Chinese warlord Feng Yuxiang’s army in 1925-1927. The USSR had strategic interests in Northern China and needed an ally to help ...
• "Sandwiches and/or sushi?" : second generation Japanese Canadian women and The New Canadian, 1938-1949 

  Camelon, Stephanie Jean Marie (2018-10-01)

  This thesis examines the writings of second generation Japanese Canadian women in the newspaper, The New Canadian between 1938 and 1949. Nisei women lived in a dual world containing different messages of appropriate female ...
• Bridging the gap: a study of academic language-learning needs of Saudi international students 

  Alkutbi, Douaa (2018-10-01)

  Using quantitative and qualitative research methodologies, the current study examines Saudi students’ perspectives, coupled with EAL instructors’ views, regarding Saudi students’ English language-learning needs. Two data ...
• Creating the American carceral state: the evolution of liberal criminology 

  Williamson, Shaun (2018-09-28)

  This thesis explores mass incarceration in the United States as an outcome of the evolution of liberal penal theory over the last two centuries. The first chapter analyzes the work of the 18th century Italian legal theorist ...
• Of dogs and idiots: tropological confusion in twentieth-century US fiction 

  Oswald, David G. D. (2018-09-28)

  This dissertation examines dog and idiot tropes—and, specifically, the conflation thereof—in William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury (1929), John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men (1937), and Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian, ...

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