• “Expansion is too Clean a Name for it.” Black Perspectives on American Imperial Expansion, 1898-1902 

  Schneider, Rachel (2023-10-10)

  This thesis examines Black American perspectives on American imperial expansion during the Spanish-Cuban-American and Philippines-American Wars. Framed through a racial and gendered analysis, I use extensive archival ...
• Between Past and Future: Charles de Gaulle's Geopolitical Foresight and Its Implications for Modern Diplomacy 

  Fang, Francis (2023-09-27)

  Charles de Gaulle's foreign policy, intricately woven with the concepts of national sovereignty, European unity, and balance of power, stands as a seminal study in the realm of international relations. This thesis delves ...
• Mission to Modernize Higher Education in China: Lincoln Zhang and West China Union University, 1890-1955 

  Zhou, Kefen (2023-09-13)

  This biographical case study examines the life and career of a prominent Chinese Christian, Lincoln Zhang, from late Qing times to the early 1950s. It documents his determination and actions to secularize, indigenize, and ...
• Epistolary Networks: Information, News and Practical Knowledge in the Correspondence of the Poppel Lobkowitz Sisters from Early Seventeenth-Century Central Europe 

  Surján, Zsófia (2023-09-01)

  The dissertation focuses on written communication and information exchange among close-kin elite noblewomen in the early seventeenth-century Habsburg Monarchy, using the extensive and previously unexplored bilingual (German ...
• Trials and Clemency Cases of Abortionists in Germany, 1926-1932 

  St Arnaud, Katherine (2023-08-31)

  The falling birth rate and rising estimates of illegal abortions during the Weimar Republic fueled fears about the decline of the German people. The movement to abolish Paragraph 218, the section of the penal code criminalizing ...
• A Movable Closet: Constructions of Femininity Among Twentieth Century Transfeminine Periodical Communities 

  Pihlak, Chris (2023-08-17)

  I examine conceptions of ‘proper’ femininity across North American and South African English-speaking transfeminine networks from the 1960s through the 1990s via a range of transfeminine periodicals. I first demonstrate ...
• Russo-Persian Relations and Russian Imperialism in Qajar Iran 1800-1906 

  Goudazri, Baktash (2023-08-09)

  Inspired by the approaches developed in the new fields of “Borderland Studies,” “Entangled History,” and the revisionist approaches to the study of imperialism, this thesis provides a fresh analysis of Russo-Persian relations ...
• (De)constructing nation and race along the Canadian Pacific Railway: First Nations and Chinese migrants in the colonial project 

  Petrie, Emilee (2023-05-31)

  Much has been written on the history of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), but rarely are conversations regarding the experiences of First Nations and Chinese immigrants on the railway brought together. This thesis will ...
• The Soviet Connection: Russian Orientalism’s Long March 1800-1930 

  Hayes, Mateos Glen (2023-05-24)

  Although Edward Said's 'Orientalism' has been widely acknowledged for providing a necessary critical lens for the analysis of Orientalism in Western Europe and North America, whether post-colonial ideas neatly translate ...
• Russian Colonialism in the North Caucasus: The Chechen Case 

  Drolet-Duguay, Mathieu (2023-05-01)

  This thesis examines the long-standing colonial relationship between Russia and the Northern Caucasus, more specifically in Chechnya. Arching back to Imperial Russia, this thesis seeks to connect the Russo-Chechen conflicts ...
• “We know where we are” the role of place in indigenous historiography by Haudenosaunee and Northwest Métis Historians 

  Osborne, Carla A. (2023-05-01)

  Indigenous peoples in the Americas applied many means of encoding and passing down their histories prior to the arrival of Europeans, combining oral and material-based methods. They have maintained their own histories, ...
• Japanese “Entrepreneur” on the Fraser River: Oikawa Jinsaburo and the Illegal Immigrants of the Suian Maru 

  Sulz, David Kenneth Allan (2023-03-16)

  Oikawa Jinsaburo, Japanese entrepreneur, re-located to Canada from 1896 to 1917 and engaged in business enterprises, utopian communities on the Fraser River (Sunbury, Lion Island, Don Island), and immigration ventures. ...
• "Strategies of Resistance and Subversion": The Politics and Writing of Jane Rule, 1960s-1980s 

  Hughes, Christine (2023-01-04)

  Jane Rule was a lesbian novelist and political commentator, whose debut novel Desert of the Heart represented one of the earliest lesbian romances in North America. The process of publishing both Desert of the Heart and ...
• Qallunology of an Arctic Whaling Encounter: An Inuk’s Transatlantic Voyage, 1839 to 1840 

  Pearce, Anne-Marie (2022-09-28)

  This thesis borrows the analytical framework of Qallunology to examine a nineteenth-century Arctic whaling encounter between Scottish whalers and an Inuk geographer: Inulluapik. This thesis analyzes the narrative, written ...
• The Ghost of the Balkans: Defining and Deconstructing “Balkanism” 

  Zec, Milan (2022-09-23)

  Whenever the Balkans becomes a topic of conversation or of serious political and intellectual discussion, the narrative always moves towards the apocalyptic and genocidal collapse of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Out of the ...
• Malaria and Colonial Development Projects in India 1927–1935 

  Lessard, Kelsey (2022-09-21)

  The 1920s and 1930s were a period of rapid urban growth and intensive changes to rural Indian geography through the construction of irrigation project to increase agricultural output. The work of several key researchers ...
• “When I resisted him, I didn’t know what he’s going to do to me”: Jewish resistance to sexualized violence in Nazi forced labour, concentration, and death camps 

  Van Der Meer, Kästle (2022-09-09)

  Despite the recent rise in research concerning sexualized violence in the Holocaust, virtually no studies exist concerning the ways in which those who experienced sexualized violence in Nazi camps resisted such abuse. That ...
• Inuit, Tuberculosis, and Political Determinants of Health 

  Mrozewski, Josephine Catherine (2022-09-01)

  Tuberculosis is one of humanity's most ancient and deadly diseases. It is largely curable, but its long co-evolution with humans has given it distinctive characteristics that make it hard to control or eradicate. The ...
• "There must be neither rich nor poor": The Role of Economic Inequality in the French Revolution 

  Tate, Dax (2022-08-19)

  The outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789 was accompanied by widespread demands for equality. While much has been written on the social privileges and political inequalities denounced by revolutionary leaders, relatively ...
• Why won't the pieces fit: Uncovering Deviations in the Compensation Awarded to Japanese Canadians at the Bird Commission 

  Hayes, Nathaniel James (2022-07-28)

  In developing the Bird Commission, its commissioner, Henry I. Bird, and other officials eventually chose to compensate Japanese Canadians for the forced sale of their property below free market value using property categories ...

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