{"id":28139,"date":"2026-10-19T09:12:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T13:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=28139"},"modified":"2026-10-19T09:12:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T13:12:14","slug":"owen-deis","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/people\/owen-deis\/","title":{"rendered":"Owen Deis"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em class=\"myprefix-text-italic\">Candidate M.A. History (2026)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">Degrees and Institution:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">B.A. Hons. 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Peace Studies (University of Saskatchewan)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">Supervisor:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/people\/jennifer-v-evans\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/people\/jennifer-v-evans\/\">Dr. Jennifer Evans<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">Academic Interests:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">20th-Century Germany, Photographic History, German Memory Politics and Vergangenheitsbew\u00e4ltigung, Visual and Cultural History, the Holocaust, Nazi Germany, Memorialization, Genocide Prevention<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><th>Publications and Current Projects:<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td><em class=\"myprefix-text-italic\">Published<\/em><br>Deis, Owen. &#8220;Ideology, Occlusions, and Individualism in Memory Narratives at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.&#8221; USURJ: University of Saskatchewan Undergraduate Research Journal 11 no. 2 (2026).<br><br>Deis, Owen. &#8220;Framing the Reich: Visual Narratives of Guilt in American-Occupied Germany.&#8221;<br>USURJ: University of Saskatchewan Undergraduate Research Journal 11 no. 1 (2025).<br><br><em class=\"myprefix-text-italic\">Accepted<\/em><br>Basaraba, Jael; Carr, Autumn, Deis, Owen, Rioux, Julian, Hoy, Benjamin. &#8220;Learning the Past Through Game Design.&#8221;Journal of the Canadian Historical Association (accepted 2026).<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><th>Description of Research:<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>My research will examine how material and visual culture, particularly photography, has shaped memory of 20th-century German history and ascribed meaning to it. 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