Completed Theses and Research Essays

Kenya Thompson – Prefigurative Care: Everydayness and Activism in Nova Scotia’s Childcare Deserts
Research Essay Completed 2022
Supervisor: Fiona Robson, Department of Political Science

Valerie Gilbert – Canada’s National Identity and Images of Wilderness: Reconciling Canadian Extractive Industries
Research Essay Completed 2022
Supervisor: Peter Andreé, Department of Political Science

Alexander King – From Class War to Race War: Historicizing the Devolution from New Deal Populism to “Trumpism”.
Thesis Completed 2022
Supervisor: Andrew Johnson and Melissa Haussman, Department of Political Science

Sarah Wade-West –
Research Essay Completed 2022
Supervisor: Randall Germaine, Department of Political Science

Alicea Yiu –
Research Essay completed 2022
Supervisor: Michael Mopas, Department of Sociology and Anthropology

Danielle Saj – “Labour Activists Always Find a Way”: Social Reproductive Unions and their Social Unionism During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Thesis Completed 2022
Supervisor: Susan Braedley, School of Social Work

Sophie Robinson – Redistribution, Equity, and the End of Poverty… All for One Low Price? Basic Income and Social Reproduction in Canada
Research Essay Completed 2021
Supervisor: Justin Paulson, Department of Sociology and Anthropology

Madeleine Henderson-Tweedie – Valuing Refugees: A genealogical review of the Economic Mobility Pathways Pilot
Research Essay Completed 2021
Supervisor: Jean – Michel Landry, Department of Sociology and Anthropology

Alexander Quesnel – The Commodification of Data Labour under Platform Capitalism: Liberal and Critical Approaches
Research Essay Completed 2021
Supervisor: David Hugill, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies

Stuart Trew – International regulatory cooperation and the making of “good” regulators A case study of the Canada–U.S. Regulatory Cooperation Council
Thesis Completed 2021
Supervisor: Laura MacDonald, Department of Political Science

E. Snider – The political ecology of sustainable livelihoods in Kakisa, NWT: Fish waste composting for enhancing soil productivity and waste management capacity in northern Indigenous communities
Thesis Completed 2021
Supervisors: Peter Andrée, Department of Political Science and Patricia Ballamingie, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies

Molly Stollmeyer – Tensions in fostering ‘local food’ in the Northwest Territories: Contending with Settler Colonialism in Northern Research
Thesis Completed 2021
Thesis Supervisor: Peter Andrée, Department of Political Science

Isaac Botham – The Condition of Alienation in the Internet Age: Towards an understanding of the phenomenology of ‘online’
Research Essay Completed 2021
Supervisor:  Randall Germain, Department of Political Science

Thomas Dicsi – Authoritarian Neoliberalism: Viktor Orbán’s and the EU’s Symbiotic Relationship
Research Essay Completed 2021
Supervisor: Ania Zbyszewska, Department of Law and Legal Studies

Clay Duncalfe – The Contradictions of Social Democracy in the 20th Century: The Political Economy of the Meidner Plan in Sweden
Research Essay Completed 2021
Supervisor:  Randall Germain, Department of Political Science

Declan Walker – The Political Economy of Intergenerational Inequality
Research Essay Completed 2021
Supervisor:  Randall Germain, Department of Political Science

Jonah Somers – Exploring the Nature of Modern Technology: A Philosophical Perspective on Big Tech and Technological Society
Research Essay Completed 2021
Supervisor:  Geoffrey Kellow, The College of the Humanities

Abram Lutes – Crisis Eruptions: A Comparative Analysis of Right-wing Populism in El Salvador and Guatemala
Thesis Completed 2021
Supervisor: Laura MacDonald, Department of Political Science

Samuel Evans – A critique of smart cities: Sidewalk labs’ project in Toronto
Thesis Completed 2021
Supervisor: David Hugill, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies

Maria Lorena Zarate – The right to the city, the new municipalism and the feminist politics of the commons: Contributions and challenges from Mexico City, Barcelona and beyond.
Thesis Completed 2021
Supervisors: Julie Tomiak, School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies and Cristina Rojas, Department of Political Science

Patricia Wallinger – Who Supports Basic Income? Constituency as a Constraint in Political Feasibility Testing
Thesis Completed 2021
Supervisor: Scott Bennett, Department of Political Science

Romnick Villanueva –  A Study of the Canadian Extractive Sector in the Philippines: Canada’s Corporate Social Responsibility, Imperialist Propensities and Human Rights Abuses
Research Essay Completed 2021
Supervisor: Lisa Mills, School of Public Policy and Administration

Kyla Piccin – Imagining anti-colonial, abolitionist futures in so-called ‘Canada:’ A place-based analysis of land and nature in critical scholarship
Research Essay Completed 2021
Supervisor: Emilie Cameron, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies

Diana Kolesnik – The Reception of the Ladies Paradise in 19th Century England and the fight against sensualist capitalism.
Thesis Completed 2021
Supervisor: Danielle Kinsey, Department of History

Ndeye Aminata Kane – From CFA to the ECO: Diving Deeper
Research Essay Completed 2021
Supervisor: Randall Germain, Department of Political Science

Janna Bryson – Refusing and Redressing Gestational Labour: A Social Reproduction Analysis of Abortion
Research Essay Completed 2021
Supervisor: Megan Rivers-Moore, Pauline Jewett Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies

Darrin Antler – The Political Economy of Psychiatry – Power, Knowledge, and Subjectification in the State/Psychiatry Apparatus
Thesis Completed 2020
Supervisor: Marc-Andre Gagnon, School of Public Policy and Administration

Sarah Otto – “Have some respect! Black people died here!” The Politics of Modern Blackness at Cape Coast Castle
Research Essay Completed 2020
Supervisor: Augustine Park, Department of Sociology and Anthropology

Jessica GamarnikEmpowerment throughout Poverty Policy: The Evolution of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs in Mexico
Thesis Completed 2020
Supervisor: Laura Macdonald, Department of Political Science

Zaee Deshpande – ‘The Chaebol are Complicit’: An Analysis of Labour Insecurity in Post-Developmental South Korea
Research Essay Completed 2020
Supervisor: Jeremy Paltiel, Department of Political Science

Kerri Carisse – Towards More Ethical Futures: Workplace Cooperative Practices’ Contributions as Demonstrated by the Mondragon Corporation
Thesis Completed 2019
Supervisor: Cristina Rojas, Department of Political Science

Qasim Kareemi – The Baloch Ethnic Movement: a Study of Ethno-nationalist Conflict
Thesis completed 2019
Supervisor: Gopika Solanki, Department of Political Science

Nikolas Harrison – Global Capitalism and the Japanese Welfare State: An Institutional Analysis of a Loveless Affair
Research Essay Completed 2019
Supervisor: Jeremy Paltiel, Department of Political Science

Benjamin Bestvater – A Common Future for Whom: A Discourse Analysis on the Sustainable Development of Lithium Extraction in South America
Research Essay Completed 2019
Supervisor: Peter Gose, Department of Sociology and Anthropology

Matthew Peters – From ‘first-best’ to best guess: Assessing the power of carbon-pricing to transform Canada’s fossil capital landscape
Research Essay Completed 2019
Co-advisors: Judy Meltzer and Randall Germain, Department of Political Science

Nicholas Favero – A Philosophical Examination of International Political Economy: Foundations for a new disciplinary classification
Research Essay Completed 2019
Supervisor: Randall Germain, Department of Political Science

Leigh McDougall – “Better Living Through Chemistry”?: The Impact of Private Property Mechanisms on the Metabolization of Space in the Petrochemical Age
Research Essay Completed 2018
Supervisor: Pablo Mendez, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies

Christopher Fairweather – Left Nationalism and Globalism: Strategy, Identity, and the Fight to Save GM Oshawa
Thesis completed 2018
Supervisor: Randall Germain, Department of Political Science

Christian Filip – The Coloniality of Paid Domestic Work in Mexico: Proximity and Dehumanization
Research Essay completed 2018
Supervisor: Cristina Rojas, Institute of Political Economy/Department of Political Science

Jennifer Lawrence – Examining the Neoliberalization of Social Policy in Ontario and its Impacts on Provincial-Municipal Relations: 1995-2002
Research Essay completed 2018
Supervisor: Allan Moscovitch, School of Social Work

Michael James – An Inquiry into Nature and the Causes of the Health of Nations
Research essay completed 2018
Supervisor: Randall Germain, Department of Political Science

Carlie Visser – Re-examining Tricky Dick and the Pink Lady: Helen Gahagan Douglas, Gender, and New Deal Liberalism in the United States Senate Election in California, 1950
Thesis completed 2018
Supervisor: Andrew Johnston, Department of History

Darroch Thomas Harrop – Canadian Political Economy and Industrial Policy: A Re-examination in the Context of Free Trade
Research essay completed 2018
Supervisor: Laura Macdonald, Department of Political Science

Nathan Taylor – A Challenge to the Discourse of Development or Development Done Differently: The Discourse of Experts in the WTO Agreement on Trade Facilitation
Thesis completed 2018
Supervisor: Doris Buss, Department of Law and Legal Studies

Meghan Graham –  Salmon Kin: Disrupting Industrial Fish Farming and Re-establishing Reciprocity in Human-Salmon Relations
Research Essay completed 2018
Supervisor: Karen Hébert, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies

Carla Johnston – Using Participatory Action Research to Support Civil Society Action for a Sustainable Food System in Yellowknife
Thesis completed 2018
Supervisor: Peter Andrée, Department of Political Science

Carter Vance – Towards a Historical Materialist Concept of Asexuality and Compulsory Sexuality
Research Essay completed 2018
Supervisor: Patrizia Gentile, Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies

Emma Limingcui Huang – A Critical Approach to the Efficacy of the Economic Development Strategy in Interethnic Conflict Prevention and Resolution
Thesis completed 2018
Supervisor: Mira Sucharov, Department of Political Science

Vanessa Leeman – Challenging the American Hegemony: The Re-Awakening of the Networked Dragon
Research Essay completed 2018
Supervisor: Randall Germain, Department of Political Science

Taras Matkovsky – How Blue is Their Backyard: Suburban Party Preferences in the 2015 Canadian Federal  Election
Research Essay completed 2017
Supervisor: Stephen White, Department of Political Science

Sean Colby – A Study on the Operation of Relational and Structural Power
Research Essay completed 2017

Mackenzie MacLeod – Monetary Policy at the Limit: Problem Identification and Decision-Making in the Post-Crisis Environment
Research Essay completed 2017

Madeleine Nadeau – Saying what we mean and meaning what we say: deliberative democracy and the Crown’s duty to consult the Clyde River Hamlet
Research Essay completed 2017

Charlotte Caza – Precariousness and Resistance: Temporary Migrant Caregivers in Canada
Research Essay completed 2017

Nadia Ibrahim – Adopting a Food Systems Approach: A Case Study of Just Food, Ottawa
Research Essay completed 2017

Theo Hug – ‘It doesn’t always do justice to people’: Neoliberalism’s Reorganization of Social Services Delivery in Ontario
Thesis completed 2017

Kayleigh Thompson – “A War for a Foreign Woman”: Gender, Power and Economic Tension in Negril
Thesis completed 2017

Jacob Forrest – A Machine for Governing: Technical Standardization, Mass Housing  Provision, and the State in Mid-Twentieth-Century Canada
Thesis completed 2016

Sarah Phinney – Detroit’s Municipal Bankruptcy and the Case of Austerity Urbanism
Thesis completed 2016

Miles Krauter – The unacknowledged implications of inequality for the Left
Thesis completed 2016

Allyson Fradella – The Rise of the Economic Freedom Fighters in South Africa
Research Essay completed 2016

Julia Sterparn – Agents of change? Inuit Teacher Education programs and Decolonization in Nunavut
Research essay completed 2016

Leslie Munoz – State-led Forced Migration in the Canadian Context: A Look into Canada’s Deportation Flights
Thesis completed 2016

Russell Burgess – Competition or Liberation: Implications of Labour Automation in the Context of Cognitive Capitalism
Thesis completed 2016

Vladimir Diaz Cuellar – Mining the Extractivism Literature
Research Essay completed 2016

Charles Andrew Barclay – Microfinance in South Africa: Where are the Savings Products?
Research Essay completed 2016

Margaret Crump – “The Beginnings of Learning”: Attempting to Understand Poverty and Poverty Reduction in Nunavut
Thesis completed 2016

Scott Jarosiewicz – Basic Income and Housing Satisfaction: Evidence from the Mincome Experiment
Thesis completed 2016

Jon Careless – Tracking Evolutions in CMHC Policy (1965-2006) Using Bob Jessop’s Strategic Relational State Theory
Thesis completed 2015

Christine Stenton – Struggling for the ‘right to the city’: In situ informal settlement upgrading in Kibera, Nairobi
Thesis completed 2015

Benjamin Johnson – Cost Control and Flexibility: Retail Labour in the Post-industrial Era
Research essay completed 2015

Lesley Cornelisse – Organizing for Social Policy Change: Child Care Policy Advocacy in Canada
Thesis completed 2015

Jessica EggintonTrickle-Down Discourse: Exploring the Impact of Standardized Text on Paradigm, Measurement and Locality at Women’s Organizations in Toronto
Research essay completed 2015

Katalin Koller – Toward a political economy of on-reserve Indigenous education in Canada: Problematizing Bill C-33
Thesis completed 2015

Norman Kearney – Democratizing the State, or Dominating Civil Society: The Risks and Potentials of Participatory Budgeting
Thesis completed 2015

Philip Billingham – The Struggle for a Living Wage: Origins and Implications of the Marikana Massacre
Research essay completed 2015

Dax D’Orazio – The Demise of Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act: Reappraising the ‘Battle for Free Speech’
Thesis completed 2015

Maggie FitzGerald-Murphy – Ethics of Care and the Newfoundland Paid Family Caregiver Program: An Assessment
Thesis completed 2015

Isaac Gray – European-level Industrial and Class Relations in the Wake of the Eurozone Crisis
Thesis completed 2015

Chris Peppin – Ratings in Crisis: Credit Rating Agencies, Epistemic Authority and the Subprime Financial Crisis
Research essay completed 2015

Mark Robbins – Towards a Political Economy of Military Spending
Thesis completed 2015

Matt Banninga – The Pacification of Indigenous Resistance: An Anti-Security Analysis of Idle No More Protest Policing and Surveillance Operations
Thesis completed 2015
Supervisor: Rebecca Schein, Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies – Human Rights

Kathleen Dyson – Canada’s new medical marijuana regulations: Examining patient impacts through an access framework  
Research essay completed 2014

Jay Tyler Malette – Marx, Labouring Bodies, and the Materiality of Affect: Toward a Corporeal Materialistic Politic
Research essay completed 2014

Damira Grigorieva Kedik – Austerity and Societal Response: The Double Movement in Post-Crisis Canada
Thesis completed 2014

Sarah-Jane Hamilton – Geographies of Power, Subjectivity and Belonging: Campesino Land Claims in Inza, Cauca, Colombia
Thesis Completed 2014

David Barrios Giraldo – NGOs and Memory in Colombia: The case of Medellin
Thesis completed 2014

Glennys Egan – ‘Actually-existing’ Neoliberalism in Nairobi, Kenya: Examining Informal Traders’ Negotiations over Access to the Entrepreneurial City
Thesis completed 2014

Graham Macdonald – Disabled by Nature? The Care Economy: History, Critique and Ethnography
Thesis completed 2014

Jason Dolny – Gramsci and the Ghost-Management of Medical Research: Revisiting Medical Journal Conflict of Interest Politics in an Age of Neoliberal Science
Thesis completed 2014

Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood – Unmasking the Trans-Pacific Partnership:  A Critical Canadian Political-Economic Analysis
Research essay completed 2014

Wesley Michael Petite – Participation by Praxis: A Study of How Participatory Budgeting Deepens Democracy by Institutionalizing Critical Consciousness
Thesis completed 2014

Sophie O’Manique – From Prohibition to Decriminalization: Interrogating the Emerging International Paradigm Shift in the War on Drugs Discourse
Thesis completed 2014

Yumi Kotani – Envisioning Equity: Coalition and Partnership Strategies of Ottawa’s Equity and Inclusion Lens
Thesis completed 2014

Paul Whiteley – Innis and Posthumanism: an exploration
Research Essay completed 2013

Christina Muehlberger – Building an Engaged University: The River Building as a Spatial Reflection of Carleton University’s Social Mission
Thesis completed 2013

Erin Callary – CIDA and NGO-Mining Partnerships: Common-Sense Development?
Research Essay completed 2013

Stephen Piazza – Food Access and Farm Livelihoods:  Policy Reflections from Stakeholders in Eastern Ontario
Thesis completed 2013

Michael Bueckert –  Reification and Alternatives to Development
Thesis completed 2013

Tessa Blaikie –  From the Roots of Violence to the Route for Allied Relationships
Research essay completed 2013

Darrin Cohen – Engine of Growth or Stuck in a Trap? The Political Economy of the Alberta Oil Sands and the Impact it has on the Canadian Economy
Research essay completed 2013

Stephanie Kittmer – Neoliberal conservation: legitimacy and exclusion in the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement
Thesis completed 2013

Cameron Esler – The Operations of Power:  Federal Government Discourse and the Northern Gateway Pipeline
Research essay completed 2013

Catalina Prada – Balancing International Imperatives and Domestic Demands: The Implementation Process of the Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement
Research essay completed 2013

Ben Dick – Saving Space for Place:  municipal cultural planning as a tool for resisting the making of placeless space in cities
Thesis completed 2013

Alicia Baker – Securing Bodies:  Performances of Security by Transgender Travelers in Canadian Airports and Borders
Thesis completed 2013

Samantha Ponting – A Political Economy of Contemporary Border Security Walls
Thesis completed 2012

Kritee Ahmed – Forming Working Selves:  Flexibility and Governmentality and Generational Identity Formation in the Public Library
Thesis completed 2012

Tyler Levitan – Impact and Benefit Agreements in Relation to the Neoliberal State:  The Case of Diamond Mines in the Northwest Territories
Thesis completed 2012

Aidan Macdonald – The Development Program in Palestine: Expanding Imperialism, Entrenching Settler Colonialism
Research Essay  completed 2012

Kirsten Francescone –  Paths of Development in Bolivia:  Contradictions of the Procesdo de Cambio
Thesis completed 2012

James Braun – The Commonwealth Caribbean Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program in Postcolonial Context
Thesis completed 2012

Brynne Sinclair-Waters – Towards a Feminist Political Economy Reading of the Local Food Movement:  Care and Cooperation in Eastern Ontario
Research Essay completed 2012

Sabrina Fernandes – The cursinho industry and the advancement of the neoliberal agenda for access to education in Brazil; a case study in the city of Goiânia
Thesis completed 2012

Ryan MacLean – The Social Economy:  Challenges and Opportunities for the Nonprofit Sector
Research Essay completed 2012

Krista Wray – The Ripple Effects of HIV/AIDS and the Water Crisis:  a feminist political ecology study of South Africa
Research Essay completed 2012

Frank GaleMarshalling Resources:  Crisis Citizen Engagement and the Marshall Decisions
Thesis completed 2012

Nathan Wynes – Livelihoods on the Cusp of Citizenship: Strategies, Vulnerabilities and Durable Solutions in Tanzania’s Old Settlements
Research Essay completed 2012

Brian Kominar –Barred Brewers:  Ontario’s Discriminatory Beer Distribution System
Research Essay completed 2012

Patrick Gorman – Human Flesh Search:  The Governmentality of Mass Surveillance in China
Thesis completed 2012

Brandon Chavarie – Venezuela’s Socialist Economy: An Evaluation Using Democratic Planned Participatory Socialism 
Research Essay completed 2012

Sarah Brickell – Selling Home Ownership: Federal housing policy and income polarization
Research Essay completed 2011

Emily Norgang-Woodward – The Political Economy of Meat Regulation and the Sustainability of Alternative Food Networks
Thesis completed 2011

Austin Miller – Scaling Up or Selling Out?  A Critical Appraisal of Current Developments in Vertical Farming
Thesis completed 2011

Besmira Alikaj – The Corporate Socially Responsible University:  A Case Study of Carleton University’s Transportation Demand Management
Research Essay completed 2011

Justin Taylor – Creating Integration
Research Essay completed 2011

Eric Smith – An urban epicentre of decolonization in Canada: the Indigenous-settler alliance to make a place for peace at Asinabka
Thesis completed 2011

Matthew Palmer – Usury or a Consumer Convenience?  Historicizing the Payday Loan
Thesis completed 2011

Sarah Ryan – Challenging employee status using legal mobilization:  Home-based child care workers and rural and suburban mail carriers
Thesis completed 2011

Kurt Rafuse – Challenging the Trucking Industry’s Deregulation Narrative:  A Material Account of Transformation in Canada and the United States’ Trucking Industries and its Implications for an Effective Politics
Thesis completed 2011

Alexandra Mullins – Social Media as a Political Tool:  Creating a Political Landscape of Twitter
Research Essay completed 2011

Emily Harris – Cities for city-building?  Own source revenues in Halifax and Edmonton
Thesis completed 2011

Otim Harris Okwir – Nyerere’s Socialism:  The Rationalization of Ujamaa
Research Essay completed 2011

Matthew Hawkins – Plurinationality:  A Revolutionary Myth for Ecuador’s Indigenous Movement
Thesis completed 2010

Aaron Henry – Export Development Canada, Capital and Political Risk:  from a keynesian to a neoliberal regime of spatial-production
Thesis completed 2010

Ryan Katz-Rosene – Transformism in Alberta:  The Environmental Political Economy of the Bituminous Sands
Thesis completed 2010

Sarah Martin – Farming the Margins of Neoliberalism:  Food Sovereignty in Canada
Thesis completed 2010

Vladimir Aleman Delfs – Neoliberal Globalization at the Fringe:  Microfinance and the Creation of the Entrepreneurial Homo Oeconomicus
Research Essay completed 2010

Meby Ayres – Striking a Balance:  State Power and Economic Volatility in the United States
Research Essay completed 2010

Miranda Cobb – Meaningful Consultation?  Nation-to-Nation or Domination and Assimilation?
Research Essay completed 2010

Deborah Rachlis – Opportunistic Rendition, Citizenship and the ‘War on Terror’
Thesis completed 2010

Ben Saifer – Jewish-Arab/Muslim ‘Dialogue’ and Palestine Solidarity on Canadian Campuses
Research essay completed 2010

Trevor Smith – Anti-Political Impulses:  Neoliberal Globalization and the Resurgence of Religion
Thesis completed 2010

Ali Zeren – Political Economy of National Market Formation:  Italy’s Southern Question in Historical Perspective
Thesis completed 2010

Yuichi Amano – Democratization and Power-sharing for Alternative Social Orders: Lessons from Economic Liberalization and Water Conflict in India
Thesis completed 2009

John Morton – Governing a Tangled Web:  ICANN and Internet governance
Research Essay completed 2009

Matthew Morgan – At the Limits of Politics:  Italian Autonomia and the World Social Forum
Thesis completed 2009

Allison Sylvia Bone –Cleaning up the Harbour:  The Hamilton Harbour Remedial Action Plan as a Sustainable Common Property Institution
Thesis completed 2009

Fatma Armagan Teke – Strike, Struggle, and Scale:  Union and Feminist Challenges to a MNC in the Antalya Free Zone, Turkey
Thesis completed 2009

Frank Josef Richter – The Power of Money: Neoliberalism, the Federal Reserve and Monetary Government in the United States
Research Essay completed 2009

Thomas Abrams – Infernal Liberation? Emancipatory Research and the Social Model of Disability
Thesis completed 2009

Christopher Alderson – From Migrations to Migration: Birth of a Phenomenon
Thesis completed 2009

Morgan Lloyd – The Great Rejection: Modernism, Eurocentrism and Cultural Resistance in Mexico
Thesis completed 2009

Daniel Tubb – Citizenship and Violence in Antioquia, Colombia
Thesis completed 2009

Jason Wenczler – The Review of Bill C-91: Pharmaceutical Policy Development under a Majority Liberal Government
Thesis completed 2009

James Dooley – Noise Annoys: Pirate Radio and the Distribution of Music in the Digital Age
Thesis completed 2008

D. Allan Bevan – Non-State Actors, Structure and International Cooperation: How Competitive Domestic Lobbying Shapes the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America
Research Essay completed 2008

Matthew Lymburner – Edgard Leuenroth – The Formative Years, 1881-1917: Exploring Anarchist Ideology in São Paulo through Critical Biography
Thesis completed 2008

Michelle Nelson-Barrett – Traveling Third Class: Regulating the Transport of Farm Animals in Canada
Thesis completed 2008

Eliot Che – Making the Ethical Turn? International Relations Theory & Critical Human Rights
Research Essay completed 2008

Emma Lui – Networks of Power: A Feminist Political Ecology Analysis of the World Water Council
Thesis completed 2008

Robert MacDonald – Reconnecting with the Food that Feeds the Soul: Considering the Emancipatory Possibilities of the Intersection of a Local Food Movement with a Professional Restaurant
Thesis completed 2008

David Cavett-Goodwin – The Hollowing-Out of Corporate Canada: Quantitative vs. Qualitative Analysis
Thesis completed 2008

Sinan Erik – An Inquiry Concerning the World-picture: Kojeve, Schmitt and Strauss
Thesis completed 2007

Sam Cartmell – Al-Hurra is Al-Murra: United States International Propaganda from The Committee for Public Information to The United States Information Agency to the Middle East Broadcasting Network, Inc.
Research Essay completed 2007

Joel Barros – The Political Economy of Capital Controls and Chaebols in South Korea
Thesis completed 2007

Kate Rexe – A Nation in Distress: a Political Economy Critique of Urban Aboriginal Poverty
Thesis completed 2007

Anna Torgerson – Fair Trade and Global Justice: The Radical Possibilities of Reform
Thesis completed 2007

Phil Mount – Local Food Consumers and Reflexivity: Determining the Conceptual Boundaries Behind Community Supported Agriculture
Thesis completed 2007

Gulden Ozcan – On the Prospect of a New Theoretical Framework: Reading Marx and Foucault together to Reexamine Capitalist Exploitation
Thesis completed 2007

Ross Sutherland – Biting the Hand that Feeds You: The Political Economy of Ontario’s Community Laboratory Services
Thesis completed 2007

David Orfald –  Learning to Change? Union Renewal and the Challenge of Intentional Organizational Change
Research Essay completed 2006

Brent Lawlor – Same Difference? The Contemporary Division(s) of Knowledge Labour
Research Essay completed 2006

Stephanie Kale – Beyond Gender?: Women in the Cultural Economy of Electronic Music
Thesis completed 2006

Heather Whiteside – Casting a Shadow from the Shadows: An Examination of the Power & Authority of Rating Agencies in an Era of Neoliberal Globalization
Thesis completed 2006

David Le Blanc – Walking Along the Klong: Social Institutions as a Vehicle for Progressive Change in Thailand
Research Essay completed 2006

Lincoln Addison – Frontier Farm Labour:  A Study of Neoliberal Restructuring and Zimbabwean Migrant Farm workers in Limpopo Province, South Africa
Thesis completed 2006

Berrak Kabasakal – A Neoliberal Assault Through Employment Relations: Turkish Labour Market Flexibilization
Thesis completed 2006

Dale Clark –Permanently Precarious?  Collective Bargaining and Health Benefits for Permanent Part-time Public Sector Workers
Thesis completed 2006

Hilary Seddon – Living in the Shadows: Client-Politics and U.S. Immigration Policy since 1986: California and the Nation
Research Essay completed 2006

Caleb Michael Sunstrum Lauer – From a Bookshop in Riga: Edward Hallett Carr’s Debt to Fyodor Dostoevsky
Thesis completed 2005

Todd Culbert – Psychotherapeutic Drug Use and Technologies of the Self: A Study of the Intersection of Bio-power and Nihilism
Thesis completed 2005

Elayne Oliphant – “Il n’y a pas de ‘potentially hot issues'”: Paradoxes of Displaying Arab-Canadian Lands within the Canadian Museum Of Civilization After 9.11
Thesis completed 2005

Kathryn Fredericks – Dispute Resolution in NAFTA’s Investor-State Chapter:  A Shift to Market-Dominated Governance
Research Essay completed 2005

Seth Sazant – Greedy Goons:  The Political Economy of NHL Labour and Fan Reactions to the 2004 Lockout
Research Essay completed 2005

Kirsten Leng – “Eine Politikerin von top to bottom”?:  Rethinking the life and legacy of Eleanor Marx
Thesis completed 2005

Justin Mondoux – Morality, Mediocrity and the New Middle Class: A Social Contract for the New Middle Class?
Research Essay completed 2005

Evren Tok – “A la Turca” Ways of Maintaining Social Cohesion from a Polanyian Perspective:  Transformation of Gecekondus to State Spaces in Turkey’s Neo-liberal Era
Thesis completed 2005

Kevin Young – Der Mittelstand Macht Mobil: The Transnational Mobilization of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Interest Organizations in the European Union
Thesis completed 2005

Aysegul Ergul – An Interrogation of Habermas’ Moral Politics: Evacuation of ‘the Political’
Thesis completed 2005

Olena Kobzar – Mark Neocleous: All Roads Lead to Class
Thesis completed 2005

Sabrina Alton – Understanding Government Procurement Liberalization in Canada and Its Implications for the Federal Procurement Process
Thesis completed 2004

Janice Cudlip – Power to Choose: Collective Action Framing for Citizens/Consumers in a Neo-Liberal Context
Thesis completed 2004

Morgan Duchesney – The Treatment of Welfare Fraud by the Ontario Government: 1995-2003
Research Essay completed 2004

Agnieszka Czajka – Inclusive Exclusion: Rethinking American Prisoners and Prisons
Thesis completed 2004

Catherine Macnab – Sex, Trust and Consequences: Rethinking HIV Prevention in Sub Saharan Africa
Thesis completed 2004

Trevor Rous – Canadian Telehealth Networks and the Mapping of Telehealth’s Virtual Regions: A Critique of Anthony Giddens’s Structuration Theory
Thesis completed 2004

Matthew Seguire – “Preserving the Value of Place”: Restructuring Urban Governance Through Third Sector Initiatives
Thesis completed 2004

Oguz Kolasin – Geopolitics of Governing Human Mobility: The EU, Turkey and Illegal Immigration
Thesis completed 2004

Alice Mah – Limitations and Contradictions: Corporate Social and Environmental Responsibility
Thesis completed 2004

Roger M. Picton – De-congesting City-zenship: Seeing the Green Political Economy of “New” and “Old” Parkway Modernization in the National Capital Region
Thesis completed 2003

Kari Glynes Elliott – Public Opinion, Public Policy and Privatization in the Debate Over Reforming Medicare: How Do Governments Respond to the Conflicting Demands of Different Sectors of the Public?
Thesis completed 2003

Haeli Goertzen – “Choking on the Smell of Money”: Resistance, Economic Development and the Hog Industry in Rural Manitoba
Thesis completed 2003

Marc Thomson – The Federal Public Service: Towards a New Direction
Research Essay completed 2003

Ian Anthony Morrison – Whither Liberalism? Power, Equality and the Prospects of a Radical Liberal Project
Research Essay completed 2003

Richard Girard – (de)Constructing Class: Towards an Understanding of Transition in the Relations of Production in Cuban Agriculture
Research Essay completed 2003

Ozgur Emrah Gurel – Decision and Plurality: The Specificity of the Political in Carl Schmitt and Hannah Arendt
Thesis completed 2003

John Grundy – Staging Queer Differences in the Entrepreneurial City: The Politics of Pride Toronto
Thesis completed 2003

Glen Bornais – Mining the ‘Raw Materials of the 21st Centurey Economy’: Innovation and Economic Development in Canada
Thesis completed 2003

Angela V. Carter – ‘Sure There’s Nothing in There Only Water?’: Environmental Ethics in the Gisborne Lake Debate
Thesis completed 2003

Justina Dugbazah – The Political Economy of Women in Rural Development in Ghana: Gender Analysis and Policymaking for Development
Research Essay completed 2003

Kalapi Roy – Political Encounters in Benevolence: Canada, Contraception, and Women Having Babies Abroad
Thesis completed 2002

Al Scobie-Vachon – Beyond Marxian Nature Theory: Understanding and Contesting Japanese Social-Environmental Relations (1955-1985).
Thesis completed 2002

Adele Mugford – Challenging the Harris Government’s Mandate to Improve the Quality of Public Education with Less Public Expenditure: The Political Economy of Public Education Reform in Ontario
Thesis completed 2002

Timothy Gravelle – John Maynard Keynes’s Potential Contribution to International Political Economy: Reflections on Liberalism, Global Distributive Justice and International Financial Institution Reform
Research Essay completed 2002

Dao Luu – Reconstituting Employment Regulatory Strategies In Ontario: The Employment Standards Act 2000
Thesis completed 2002

Alison Howell – Peaceful, Tolerant and Orderly: Post-Cold War Foreign Policy and ‘Canadian’ Subjectivity
Thesis completed 2002

David A. Bennett – The Political Economy of Canadian Broadcast Policy
Research Essay completed 2001

Omar Khalifeh – Water Sharing Between Jordan and Israel: A Model for Arab-Israeli Conflict Resolution
Research Essay completed 2001

Lindsey McKay – Seeking to Cure by Replacement: The Political Economy of Organ Transplantation
Thesis completed 2001

Franca Piccin – The Political Economy of Efficiency: The ‘Revving-up’ and ‘Throttling Down’ of Canadian Labour Market Development Policy
Research Essay completed 2001

Lucy Sharratt – Deconstructing a “Science-Based” Regulation: Towards Rendering the Risks of Genetic Engineering Visible
Thesis completed 2001

Michael James Bassett – Challenging the FTAA Disconnect: The Political Economy of State-Civil Society Relations in the Free Trade Area of the Americas Process
Thesis completed 2001

Tanya Dawn Hyland – A Critical Analysis of the Ontario Disability Support Program Act and Social Citizenship Rights in Ontario
Research Essay completed 2001

Colin Curtis Lund – Redefining the Public Interest in Rural Alberta: Health, Environment, and Economics in the Heartland of the Oil and Gas Industry
Thesis completed 2001

Elizabeth Friesen – The Polanyian Double Movement and the Context of International Finance: An Examination of Emerging Countermovements
Thesis completed 2000

Sabrina Barker – Software for Develoment: The Case of Chile
Thesis completed 2000

John Hollingsworth – Hard Times in the ‘New Times’: The Institutional Contraditions of an Emergent Local Workfare State (Ontario Works in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)
Thesis completed 2000

James C.J.D. McGillivray – Toward a Political Economy of the Public Sphere: A Critique of the Charter and Newspaper Concentration
Thesis completed 2000

Jerry Samuel – The Political Economy of ‘British’ Virgin Islands Development: 1838-1998
Research Essay completed 2000

Omar A.A. Sharmarke – The Problems of State Collapse: A Political Response to the Cultural, Economic and Psyho-social Needs of the Somali Nation
Research Essay completed 2000

David A. Brook – Civil Society and the State
Thesis completed 1999

Mathew Coleman – Nomadic Bodies and Environmental Degradation: A Lefebvrian Response to the Scarcity-Conflict Methodology
Research Essay completed 1999

Patricia Jane Stinson – Ontario Pay Equity Results for CUPE Service Workers in Ontario Hospitals: A Study of Uneven Benefits
Thesis completed 1999

Zdenek Hanzlicek – Effect of Information Technology on the Reproduction of the Dominant Class
Thesis completed 1999

Steven J. Jackson – Communication, Modernization and Information-led Development: The Case of Malaysia’s Multimedia Super Corridor
Research Essay completed 1999

Özgü Karasipahi – Development of Canadian Science and Technology Policy
Research Essay completed 1999

Po Land Lai – The Disappearance and Displacement of Deliberation: The Case of the Economic and Monetary Union
Research Essay completed 1999

Adam Seddon – The Political Economy of Financial Liberalization: “Price Stability,” Unemployed and Neo-Liberal Restructuring
Research Essay completed 1999

Jessie R.A. Smith – “We Are Not Profitable” Neoliberalism and the Peasant Sector in Nicaragua
Thesis completed 1997

Daniel R. McGregor – Metropolis and Hinterland: Transportation Policy in Canadian Development Strategy
Research Essay completed 1998

Carlos Novas – Governing the Appropriation of Life: Science, Regulatory Knowledge and Reforms to Canada’s Patent Regime (1984-1995)
Thesis completed 1998

Richard McGrath – The Political Economy of Information and Technology: As If People Mattered
Research Essay completed 1998

Richard McGuire – Mexico: A Prisoner of the Past
Research Essay completed 1998

Markus Sharaput – Bill C-91 as a Symbolic Moment: An Enquiry into Political Conceptions of the Pharmaceutical Industry in Canada, 1987 to 1998
Research Essay completed 1998

James Michael Walsh – Governmentality and the Canadian Political Economy: the past and present of monetary policy
Research Essay completed 1998

Geoffrey Dell Webb – Medical Turbulence: Physicians in Ontario’s New Hospital Economy
Research Essay completed 1998

Eric Sauvé – The Crisis of the object: case Study of late 17th and early 18th century trade in Indian calicoes
Research Essay completed 1998

Meibing Fu – Foreign Direct Investment in China: How China Directs and Regulates FDI through Its FDI Policy
Research Essay completed 1997

David Tiley – Post-Fordist ‘Ideal Type’? – The Labour Process in the Japanese Manufacturing Sector, 1967-1990
Thesis completed 1997

Lisa Drouillard – Cuban Miami: Exile Nation in a Global City
Thesis completed 1997

Margaret Moore – Inside/Outside Myths of Northerness Aboriginal Struggles for Self-Governed Homelands in the Post-War Canadian Political Economy
Research Essay completed 1997

Jennifer Quaile – Women and the Canadian State: Reforming Child Support
Thesis completed 1997

Killaine K. Sharman – The Theory and Practice of Risk in Private Infrastructure Projects: An Analysis of the CIDA Industrial Cooperation Program’s Experience to Date and Policy Recommendations for Tomorrow
Thesis completed 1997

Jessie R.A. Smith – “We Are Not Profitable” Neoliberalism and the Peasant Sector in Nicaragua
Thesis completed 1997

Dominica Babicki – Scope and Limits of Community Action for Improving the Environment: A Sudbury Case Study
Research Essay completed 1996

Robert Nugent – Post-Fordism in the Provinces: The Case of New Brunswick, 1990-95
Research Essay completed 1996

Tess Sliwinski – Foreign Direct Investment in the Post-Communist Economies in Transition: Evidence from Western Investor Surveys
Research Essay completed 1996

Chris Hunt – The Internationalisation of the State: Economic Restructuring in New Zealand
Research Essay completed 1995

Fuyuki Kurasawa – Globalizations, Power, Marginality: Transnational Migrations and the Restructuring of the Urban
Thesis completed 1995

Tong Jiang Long – Using FDI or Being Used by FDI – An Analysis of China’s Foreign Investment Policy
Research Essay completed 1995

Heather Mair – New Spaces in Atlantic Canada: Towards the Future of the Atlantic Groundfishery
Research Essay completed 1995

Gail Mitchell – “From Stone Age to Atomic Age” Towards a Political Economy of the Northwest Territories 1950-1969
Research Essay completed 1995

Stephanie Ross – Las Madras de la Plaze de Mayo and the Political Economy of Resistance
Thesis completed 1995

Susan Usher – Czechoslovak Energy Policy in the Period of Transition: New Options and Old Constraints
Thesis completed 1995

Derrick Deans – The Guaranteed Annual Income and the Fordist Regime
Research Essay completed 1994

Kevin Skerrett – Hegemony, State, and the Role of Finance in Early Canadian Industrialization
Thesis completed 1994

John Lee – “Progress–not politics”: Social Credit Hegemony and the De-Politicization of British Columbia Forest Policy, 1952-1972
Research Essay completed 1994

Catherine Pal – From Standardization to Flexibility: The Political Economy of Working Time in Canada’s Potential Transition from Fordism/Neofordism to Postfordism
Research Essay completed 1994

Pamela Scholey – Development as a Mode of Resistance: Women and Struggle in Palestine
Thesis completed 1994

Navsharan Singh – The New International Trade Regime of GATT and The TRIPS Issue: An Indian Peoples Perspective
Research Essay completed 1994

Jacqueline Booth-Bourdeau – Post-Fordist Restructuring in the North American Automobile Industry: Prospects and Implications
Research Essay completed 1993

Peter Brander – Regional Development Policy and the Single Industry Town: Dalhousie, N.B., 1869-1990
Thesis completed 1993

Merrill O’Donnell – Global Warming, Energy & EMR Policy
Research Essay completed 1993

Carlos Yuste – European Commission Agency for An Industrial Strategy
Research Essay completed 1993