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Place Attachment, the Loss of Land, and the Effects on Community Identity,\u201d Major Research Paper in Canadian Studies (co-supervision with Dr. Susan Ross)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2024 Mathiew King, \u201cHail to the Merry Macs: Analyzing the Regulation of Women as Wage Earners and Athletes at McKinnon Industries in St. Catharines, Ontario: 1936-1964\u201d Master\u2019s Research Essay (co-supervision with Dr. Erica Fraser)\u00a0<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2024 Hannah Pinilla, \u201c<em>Los Sabores de Hogar<\/em>: The Transformation of Memory and Identity through the Food Practices of Colombian Migrants in Montreal,\u201d Master\u2019s Research Essay in Public History \u00a0(co-supervision with Dr. Sonya Lipsett Rivera)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2024&nbsp; Kari Valmestad, \u201c(Re)Building a Prairie Capital: Development, Gentrification, and Settler-City Making in Winnipeg\u2019s Exchange District,\u201d Master\u2019s Research Essay in Public History<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2024 Harris Barnard-Davidson, \u201cNostalgia and Race in Commemorative Photography of the Taylor Statten Summer Camps,\u201d Master\u2019s Research Essay in Public History<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2023&nbsp; Kirstan Schamuhn, \u201cStarting with the Small: Decolonizing Collections Management Policies for Small and Mid-Sized Alberta Museums,\u201d Sample Collections Policy and Major Research Essay in Public History (co-supervision with James Opp)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2023\u00a0 Sam Nicholls, \u201c \u2018Doing the Local\u2019: Public Histories, Curriculum, and Games-Based Learning in Kingston, Ontario,\u201d Major Research Essay in Public History<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2022 Chloe Dennis, \u201cRe-Visiting Beechwood Cemetery and Encountering the Past,\u201d Historical virtual tour and Major Research Essay in Public History<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2022 Danielle Mahon, \u201cMaking <em>Walking Africville<\/em>: Co-production and Intimacy in Public History,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/africvillemuseum.org\/uncategorized\/walking-africville-audio-tour\/\">Historical Audio Walking Tour<\/a> and Major Research Essay in Public History<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2022 Meranda Gallupe-Paton, \u201cMemories of Mechanicsville:&nbsp; A Personal Public History,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/4WD498CLvmpW8iWe7AvZTe\">Podcast Series<\/a> and MRE in Public History, Major Research Essay in Public History<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2022 Emmanuelle Masclet, \u201cGrosse \u00cele and the Marine Hospital for Emigrants in Quebec City: Perspectives from Government and Non-Government Institutions during the Typhus Epidemic of 1847,\u201d Major Research Essay in History (co-supervision with Roderick Phillips)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2022 Eliza Hinton, \u201cMargaret Carr\u2019s \u201cCooking Chat\u201d:&nbsp; 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