Current PhD students and their on going research

ANNIS, Jennifer, “Community Recruiting for the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Ontario, 1915-1917.” Supervisor: Roger Sarty

BREWER, Paul. "The Descent of Disco: An Atlantic Trajectory." Supervisor: David Monod.

CALOW, Keith, “The Origins, Establishment, and Early Work of the Court Martial Appeals Board of the Canadian Armed Forces, circa 1945-60.” Supervisor: Roger Sarty

CROSS, Gwenith. "Midwives and the Science of Childbirth in an Age of Innovation." Supervisor: Cynthia Comacchio

CUNDY,  Alyssa, Topic: Naval Blockades of Germany during WWI. Supervisor: Roger Sarty

DOWNEY, Allan, “The Creator’s Game: A History of Lacrosse in Canada, 1840s-1990s,” Supervisor: Susan Neylan

FRANDSEN, Bert, “The Aviation Policy of the St. Laurent Government, 1949-57, with particular reference to the Royal Canadian Airforce.” Supervisor: Roger Sarty

GREAVETTE, Gordon, “The Politics of Munitions Production in Canada, 1914-16.” Supervisor: Roger Sarty

HARRIS, Tavis, “Canadian Strategic Culture, with particular reference to Civil-Mililtary relations 1916-1939.” Supervisor: Roger Sarty

LEDDY, Lianne, “Jewel in the Wilderness: Uranium Mining and First Nations Communities in Northern Ontario, 1950-1988.” Supervisor: Susan Neylan

ROMAHN, Theresa Edington, “Eisenhower and the Other Africa: American’s Policy for French North Africa in the context of the Cold War, 1953-1961.” Supervisor: John Laband

STANG, Heiko, “Migrant Labour, the Transformation of Masculinities, and Violence in Namibia, 1860s to modern times.” Supervisor: John Laband

SYMES, Matthew, “Athena’s Sportsmen: Recreational Sport, Idealized Masculinity, and the Training of Canadian Soldiers, 1939-45.” Supervisor: Cynthia Comacchio

WHALEN, Jane, “Wasting Away: Canada’s First Nations, Tuberculosis, and the Politics of Race and Health, 1882-1951.” Supervisor: Susan Neylan

Recently Completed PhDs

 

CARAVAGGIO, Angelo, “Commanding the Green Line: A Caset Study of Division Command in the Second World War.” May 2009. Supervisor: Terry Copp/Roger Sarty

CONNOR, Steven (BA, University of Windsor; MA & PhD Wilfrid Laurier University) “Golden Pheasants and Eastern Kings: The German Civil Adminstration in the Occupied Soviet Union, 1941-44.” Supervisor: Erich Haberer (Fall 2007)

PRIESTMAN, Karen, “Illusion of Coexistence: The Waldorf Schools in the Third Reich, 1933-1941.” May 2009. Supervisor: Erich Haberer

QUIRK, Laura, “The Thompsons' Town: Family, Industry and Material Culture in Indiana, Ontario 1830-1900” Jan 2010. Supervisor: Cynthia Comacchio

SAGER, Jason (BA, University of Guelph; MA, Brigham Young University; PhD Wilfrid Laurier University) “Devotion and the Political: Sermon and Devotional Literature in the Reigns of Henri IV and Louis XIII, 1598-1643.” Supervisor: Peter Goddard (Tri-University Faculty Member, Guelph) (Fall 2007)

SMITH, Barbara, “The Rules of Engagement: German Women and British Occupiers, 1945-49.” Mar 2008. Supervisor: Erich Haberer. Degree conferred at June 2009 convocation.

WOOD, Jim (BA Wilfrid Laurier University; MA University of New Brunswick; PhD Wilfrid Laurier University) “The Sense of Duty: Canadian Ideas of the Citizen Soldier, 1896-1917.”  Supervisor: Roger Sarty (Summer 2007)

Recently Completed MA Theses (since May 2007)

BETTS-WILMONT, Kate, “Working Italy’s Passage: The Italian Army and the Allies’ Hopes for It in the Co-belligerency, 1943-1944.” Supervisor: Roger Sarty

MUST, Nik, “The Reception of Thomas of Ireland’s Manipulus florum in Calvinist Geneva: Sex and Marriage in Jacob Stoer’s 1593 Edition.” Supervisor: Chris Nighman

REDSTONE-LEWIS, Julie, “The Creation of the Women’s Royal Canadian Naval Service and Its Role in Canadian Naval Intelligence and Communications, 1939-1945.” Supervisor: Roger Sarty

TAM, Kenneth, “The Caribou Hut: Newfoundlanders Servicement and the St. John’s Home Front During the Second World War.” Supervisor: Roger Sarty

Recently Completed Major Research Papers (since May 2007)

BROWN, Dan, “Britain: and Hungary before the Peace.” Supervisor: Eva Plach

CHANG, Ted, “Chinese Nationalists in Sino-American Relations.” Supervisor: Blaine Chaisson

CRUPI, Elena, “Prescriptive Sources and Social Norms: A Comparison of Wives and Marriage in the Manipulus Florum and the Compendium Mora Notabilum.” Supervisor: Chris Nighman

LEPPARD, Christine, “Canada’s Solider-Scholars in Sunny Italy: No 1 Canadian Field Historical Section, Nov. 1943-May 1944.” Supervisor: Roger Sarty

MCGOWAN, Katharine, “Each man with his carbine and steed: The Contested Identity of Lord Strathcona’s Horse in the Boer War (1899-1902).” Supervisor: John Laband

MCMAKIN, Vanessa, “Rearranged Snowdrops: The Construction of Memory of Executed Prisoners of War in Normandy, June 1944.” Supervisor: John Laband

MUNROE, Andrew, “Operation Red Leaf: Armenian Terrorism in Canada.” Supervisor: Gavin Brockett.

MUSLEH, Malik, “The Dispossessing Discourse: The Palestinians in Canadian Political Discourse, 1948-73.” Supervisor: Gavin Brockett

SMITH, K. Mike, “The Making of Montgomery: A Case Study in the Popular Press and the Reputations of Allied Generals in the Second World War. ” Supervisor: Roger Sarty

SYMES, Matt, “The Process of Commemoration: The Constructed Memory of the Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada and the North Shore (New Brunswick) Regiment in Normandy.” Supervisor: John Laband

THOMPSON, Robert, “We Need You!: The Coast Artillery Corps on the Western Front, 1917-1918.” Supervisor: Roger Sarty