{"id":15921,"date":"2015-03-27T16:26:41","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T20:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/its-cuthemedev1.carleton.ca\/law\/?p=15921"},"modified":"2025-06-23T11:43:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T15:43:12","slug":"congratulations-to-first-phd-legal-studies-program-graduate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/2015\/congratulations-to-first-phd-legal-studies-program-graduate\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to First PhD Legal Studies Program Graduate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Congratulations to First PhD Legal Studies Program Graduate\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">It is with great pleasure that the Department of Law and Legal Studies announces the successful thesis defence by PhD Candidate <strong>Rebecca Bromwich.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Rebecca went&nbsp;before the Examination Board on March 26, 2015, in defense of her PhD thesis&nbsp;entitled,&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;Re-Reading Ashley: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Figures of Ashley Smith as Girl&#8221;<\/strong>.&nbsp;The panel&nbsp;was pleased with the thesis defence, noting the importance of Rebecca&#8217;s dissertation in&nbsp;helping others to understand the relationship of female agency to current structures of power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">The completed&nbsp;defence is&nbsp;a noteworthy milestone in the history of the Department &#8211; Rebecca is the&nbsp;first candidate to graduate from the PhD in Legal Studies program, which had its inaugural cohort in 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">&#8220;The Department is tremendously excited about crossing this threshold,&#8221; adds&nbsp;the Department&#8217;s Chair, Prof. Ron Saunders. &#8220;We&#8217;re especially proud to mark this occasion with the excellent work of such a strong candidate.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> The completed thesis is set to be published as a book through <a href=\"http:\/\/demeterpress.org\/product\/looking-for-ashley-re-reading-what-the-smith-case-reveals-about-the-governance-of-girls-mothers-and-families-in-canada\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Demeter Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-medium wp-image-30773\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"181\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Bromwich_thesis-defense-26Mar2015-cropped-400x235-1-240x181.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30773\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Bromwich_thesis-defense-26Mar2015-cropped-400x235-1-240x181.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Bromwich_thesis-defense-26Mar2015-cropped-400x235-1-160x121.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Bromwich_thesis-defense-26Mar2015-cropped-400x235-1-200x151.jpg 200w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Bromwich_thesis-defense-26Mar2015-cropped-400x235-1.jpg 311w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">L-R: Prof. Doris Buss, Rebecca Bromwich, Prof. Lara Karian, Prof. Sheryl Hamilton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"congratulations-rebecca\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Congratulations Rebecca!<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is with great pleasure that the Department of Law and Legal Studies announces the successful thesis defence by PhD Candidate Rebecca Bromwich. 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