Recent Graduates

Ph.D. Theses

Year	Student	Title	Supervisor(s)
2021	Muller, Megan	Nursing and Nation Rebuilding: An Ethnography of Care in the Context of Indigenous Self-Determination	Patrick, D.
2021	Rogei, Daniel Salau	Mediating Maendeleo: Examining the Nexus Between Geothermal Extraction, Wildlife Conservation and Community Well-being in Olkaria-Suswa, Southern Kenya	Rutherford, B.
2019	Graham, Megan	Performing veteranhood through the creative arts: An ethnographic study of recognition and sociality among veterans living in a Canadian seniors’ village	Leistle, B.
2019	Liu, Ying-Ying Tiffany	Intra-Migrant Economy: Chinese Restaurant Entrepreneurship and Zimbabwean Migrant Workers in South Africa	Rutherford, B.
2019	Rao, Sheila	Women’s Sweet Success? Interrogating Nutritionism in Biofortified Sweet Potato Promotion in Mwasonga, Tanzania	Rutherford, B. & de la Gordendière, L.
2018	Houser, Dan	Feeding the Wrong Wolf: Work, Gender, and Generosity in a Northern Alberta Oil and Gas Community	DiNovelli-Lang, D.
2018	Matthew, Cheryl	The Indigenous Experience and Cultural Renewal, Decolonization, and Transformation in the Ottawa Area	Patrick. D.
2018	Mohammadi, Fatemeh	Youth Clubs as Men/Women Caves: Exploring an Emerging Muslim Youth Subculture Creating a New Canadian Religious Identity	Given, B.
2017	Hawkins, Matthew	“This is Boedo”: Stories of a Lost Football Stadium, a Buenos Aires Barrio, and How the Hinchas of San Lorenzo Fought to Return	Gose, P.
2014	Sax, Marieka	Sorcery and Morality in the Andes: Illness, Healing, and Brujeria in Kanaris (Lambayeque, Peru)	Gose, P.
2014	Tubb, Daniel	Gold in the Choco, Columbia	Gose, P.

M.A. Theses:

Year	Student	Title	Supervisor(s)
2021	Hodgins, Seamus	Brewing Authenticity: Production, Consumption, and Middle-class Work Within the Ontario Craft Beer Community	Rosenblatt, D.
2021	Scott, Erin	Dirtbags and Bougie Boats: Precarity, Authenticity, and Experiences with Nature Among the Young Middle-Class	DiNovelli-Lang, D.
2020	Hill-Smith, Emilie	“They Just Don’t Get It”: Snapshots from Siblings of Children with Life Limiting Conditions	Pylypa, J.
2020	Yabe, Mitsuyoshi	Landless Souls Are Still Living: The Kwupahag and Muanbissek	DiNovelli-Lang, D.
2019	Conty, Sheridan	The National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls: A Counter-Archive	Carrier-Moisan, M.E. & Todd, Z.
2019	Di Renzo, Frankie	No hay comunistas en Cuba: There are no communists in Cuba	Gose, P.
2019	Macaulay, Jasmine	Reframing MAiD in the Media: Rationalizing and Normalizing a New Mode of Dying in Canada	Pylypa, J.
2019	Nokleby, Rebecca	Navigating Conservatism in Trump's America: How the Penn State College Republicans Construct and Perform Political Discourses and Realities on Campus	Rosenblatt, D.
2018	Benincasa, Erin	Moving Identities: An exploration of the Lived Experiences of Chinese International Students at a Private School in Ontario	Caputo, V.
2018	Bider, Emma	The Sound of Home: Tuareg Women’s Tendé Drumming in France and Belgium	Rutherford, B. & Ramzy, C.
2018	Vicencio Diaz, Liz Veronica	Gender and Sexual Fluidity in Veracruz, Mexico	Carrier-Moisan, M.E.
2017	Decontie, Faith	Remembering Why We Sit at the Table	Patrick, D.
2017	Langille, Justin	"As It Flows Down from the North": Confluences of water stewardship emerging from the Ottawa River watershed	Slaney, F.
2017	Vandervalk, Sandra	Line Dancing: A Performative and Phenomenological Study of the Borderlands Region of Stanstead, Quebec, and Derby Line, Vermont	Leistle, B.
2016	Auclair, Karina	Tensions on Erraid: How the Need for "Human Sustainability" Challenges an Intentional Spiritual Community	DiNovelli-Lang, D.
2016	Reilly, Barbara	Monumental Meaning-Making: Interpreting Westport, Ontario's Cemeteries	Given, B.
2016	Hale, Tyler	More Than Material: The Vibrancy of the Car in the Volkswagen Diesel Scandal	DiNovelli-Lang, D.
2015	Boon, Dirk	Living After Prison: The Experience of (Re)integration to Society after Release from an Ontario Correctional Facility	Given, B.
2015	Cameron, Courtney	Dedicated Athletes, Deviant Women: The Experience of Being an Amateur Sportswoman in a Contemporary Canadian Context	Pylypa, J.
2015	MacNeil, John	The Construction of Identity Among Inuit Men in Ottawa Through Foodways	DiNovelli-Lang, D.
2015	Shalaby, Carina	Leaving Little Great River: An Ethnography of the Inuit Experience of Travelling Down South to Face Justice	Rosenblatt, D.
2015	Spry, Melinda	Living with Lupus in Ottawa, Ontario: An Exploration of Illness Narratives	Pylypa, J.
2014	Guigue, Samantha	Flat, Frozen and Everlasting: Cosmetic Surgery Abroad and the Production of Feminine Bodies in Neoliberal North America	Pylypa, J.
2014	Horsfall, Johanne	Signifying Difference: Muslim Experiences with Dogs in Canada	DiNovelli-Lang, D.
2014	Kidd, Abigail	Challenging Categories: An Ethnography of Young Adults with Down Syndrome in a Community in Ontario	Shotwell, A. & Pylypa, J.
2014	O'Sullivan, Sarah	The Politics of Triage: International aid and AIDS care in Northern Uganda	Pylypa, J.
2014	Rickert, Melanie	Propaganda? What Propaganda?: Discourse, Identity, and Queer Activism in St. Petersburg, Russia	Carrier-Moisan, M.E.
2013	Graham, Megan	Between Pre-Objectivity and Objectivity: A Phenomenological Study of Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapists' Experiences of Healing in Music	Leistle, B.
2013	Jones, Angeline	The Impact of Socio-cultural Issues on Mature Women and Alcohol Use in Glasgow, Scotland: An Anthropological Exploration	de la Gorgendière, L.
2013	MacLeod, Katie	Displaced Mixed-Blood: An Ethnographic Exploration of Métis Identities in Nova Scotia	de la Gorgendière, L.
2013	Pockele, Samantha	Ned Aesthetics in Contemporary Glasgow: Preforming Classes, Appropriating Races	de la Gorgendière, L.
2013	Robinson, Marion	Training Our Bodies to Defend Ourselves: Self-defence Training as Embodied Learning	Leistle, B.
2013	Sanderson, Matthew	The Embodiment of Post-Concussion Syndrome: Reflexive Research, Acting Athletes, Managing Medical Professionals, and Moral Trepidation	Leistle, B.
2013	Verardi, Cassandra	Perceptions of Voluntourism	de la Gorgendière, L.
2013	Williams, Tabitha	Life History of a Calumet: Social History through the Life History of An Object	DiNovelli-Lang, D.
2012	Ellis, Natalie	Beyond "Good" and "Evil": Illuminating the Complex Realities of Experience in Glasgow's Regenerated Retail Spaces	Rosenblatt, D.
2012	Fox, Graham	Belonging Behind Walls: Race, Security, and Citizenship amongst Euro-Kenyans in Nairobi	Rutherford, B.
2012	Jezari, Arianna	Through Their Eyes: Insights from the Lived Experiences of Blind Youth in Uganda	de la Gorgendière, L.
2012	Johnston, Lina	Discourses of Security, Agricultural Innovation and Nature: the Cuban Transition to Agro-Ecology and the Construction of Campesino Identity	Ballamingie, P. & Aporta, C.
2012	Liu, Ying-Ying Tiffany	Falun Gong, the Diaspora and Chinese Identity: Fieldwork amount the Practitioners in Ottawa	Given, B. & Rutherford, B.
2012	Mason, Miranda	HIV and Gendered Migrations: an articulation of young women's diverse migration experiences on the Thai-Lao border	de la Gorgendière, L.
2012	Nham, William	Digging Up Zimbabwean Gold Miners: An Anthropological Study of Artisanal Gold Mining in Central Mozambique	Rutherford, B.
2012	Poole, Joanne	The Little Iron Horse in Post-Humanist Perspective: Contemporary Engagements with the Canadian Horse in Rural Quebec	de la Gorgendière, L. & Pulla, S.
2012	Shen, Yu	Articulating Chinese Cultural Identity through Participating in Teaching Chinese Mandarin Heritage Language	Given, B.
2012	Tetroe Robinson, Nicole	An Ethnographic Exploration of the Work of Aboriginal Social Workers: Examining the Applicability of Foucault's Governmentality	Rosenblatt, D.
2012	Tran, Chi Kim	An Ethnographic Analysis of the Current Whistleblowing Landscape in the Canadian Public Service	Rutherford, B.
2012	Wilson, Amy	The Dys-Appearing Body: Understanding the Everyday Lived Experience of Women with Fibromyalgia	de la Gorgendière, L.
2011	Conway, Alana	Examining the "illegitimate" refugee label: A case study of Roma refugee claimants in Canada	Rutherford, B.
2011	Fonesca, Ana	"It's not just about money": An Ethnography of Rebusque Performances and Life-Stories on Public Transportation Buses in Downtown Bogotá, Colombia	Slaney, F.
2011	Kamari, Wangui	Learning to be Black: The Afrocentric "Word" as Anti-racism Mobilization in Salvador, Brazil	de la Gorgendière, L. & Gose, P.
2011	Panday, Aruna	From Kapahaka to Hip Hop: Maori Popular Music in Aotearoa/New Zealand	Rosenblatt, D.
2010	Agrawal, Anita	Life After Wife Abuse South Asian Women in the Greater Toronto Area	Pylypa, J.
2010	Baglow, John	Foreign Bodies: the Etiology of Nunavut Governance	Keil, J. & Aporta, C.
2010	Clarke-Nolan, Katherine	The Macro Vs. The Micro: The Cultural Dialogues of Compensated Surrogacy	Rosenblatt, D.
2010	Harrison, Brendan	Kiva: An Analysis of Microfinance, NGOs and Development Discourses	de la Gorgendière, L. & Rutherford, B.
2010	Karpala, Kelly	Adapting to a World of Change: Inuit Perspectives of Climate Change in Igloolik, Nunavut	Aporta, C. & Laidler, G.
2010	Morgan, Matthew	"The One That Cuts the Path Doesn't Know it is Crooked": Ghanaian NGO Workers' Perspectives of Development in the Multi Donor Budget Support Era	de la Gorgendière, L. & Rutherford, B.
2010	Seabrook, Christopher	"It Gives Me Thunder": Reflections on "Becoming Fur"	Given, B.
2010	Thomson, Charisma	Roadside Memorials in Rural North America: Symbolic performance of double burial	Slaney, F.
2010	Tsiknis, Stella	Hellas and Hellenes: An Ethnography of Transnationalism	Keil, J. & Patrick, D.
2009	Davis, Leanne	Negotiating social space through fair trade coffee consumption	Slaney, F.
2009	Owen, Wendy	Rwandans in Ottawa-Gatineau, Canada: Interactions and Relationships within the Diaspora	de la Gorgendière, L.
2009	Patrick, Caryl	Home Care for the Homeless: Experiences of Infirmary Clients at the Sherbourne Health Centre in Toronto	Pylypa, J.
2009	Slawich, Jennifer	Bilateral Development: Assessing the Strengths and Weaknesses of the Canadian-Tanzanian Partnership Through HIV/AIDS Indicators	de la Gorgendière, L. & Pylypa, J.
2008	Lazarus, Joanne	Filipino ‘Nursing Medics’: Why are Doctors Retraining as Nurses in the Philippines?	Pylypa, J.
2008	Myles, Bryan	Mother Nature’s Best Kept Secret”: The Principles and Practices of Ecotourism in Belize	Gose, P.
2008	Rotman, Amy	Making Meaning of Racial Cosmetic Surgery: Its Implications and Effects on the Lives of Women in America	Pylypa, J.
2008	Sax, Marieka	Feeding as a Force of Production and Advancement in the Peruvian Andes	Gose, P.
2008	Schissel, Paul	Muai Thai and the Embodiment of Fighting Forms in a Rural Northeast Thai Household	Slaney, F.
2008	Stegner, Irmgard	The History, Symbolism, Spirituality, and Transformation of the Jingle Dress and Dance of the North-Eastern Woodland Indians	Smith, D.
2008	Zubi, Hadaf	The Mano River Conflict Complex	Keil, J.
2007	Bell, Alison	From Pond to Pro: Hockey as a Symbol of Canadian National Identity	Given, B.
2007	Blancette, Laurie	The Link Between Gendered Violence and HIV/AIDS: Black Women in South Africa	Rutherford, B.
2007	Chao, Hui-Min	Women in Cyakang Village Taiwan	Keil, J.
2007	Kenny, Mary Ellen	The Integration Experience of Somali Refugee Youth in Ottawa, Canada: "Failure is not an option for us"	de la Gorgendière, L.
2007	Mohamed, Hodan	Somali Single Mothers in Ottawa: Challenges and Opportunities of Resettlement and Implications on Health and Well-being	Pylypa, J.
2007	Neelin, Lyndal	Anglophone ‘habitus’ in the Making and un-Making of South African Apartheid	Gose, P. & Keil, J.
2007	Nguyen, An	Cyberculture from the East: Japanese Rock Music Fans in North America	Given, B.
2006	Ahmed, Kazi Afzal	Formation of Identities of Bangladeshi Immigrants in Ottawa	Rutherford, B. & Smith, D.
2006	Birch, Jennifer	Public Archaeology and the Cultural Resource Management Industry in Southern Ontario	Smith, D. & Pilon, J.L.
2006	Hanson, Natasha	The contemporary Canadian Tattoo as Symbolic Adoption and Adaptation	Given, B.
2006	Kanagasabapathy, Manivillie	Post-War Identity Re-construction in Sri Lanka: Negotiation of Gendered Identity between the Local and Diaspora Community	Keil, J. & Rutherford, B.
2006	Lundy, Colin	Wither Biodiversity, Whither Food Security? Participatory Analyses of Mixed Cropping System With Adivasi Communities in India	Chevalier, J.
2006	Lynk, Wendy	Cultural Colour Construction: A Case of the Pharmaceutical Industry	Pollard, G.
2006	Nelson, Rodney L.	Forget Bricks and Mortar, It’s about the People: Views and Techniques of an Anthropologist in the Corporate World	Smith, D.
2006	Prest, Leslie Erin	Technopagans: Neopagans on the Internet and the Emergence of Virtual Communities	Given, B.
2005	Belanger, Julie	The Colombian Coca Industry and the Indigenous Movement: Mediating the Effects of Fumigation, Displacement, and Violence	Chevalier, J. & Rutherford, B.
2005	Kim, Elizabeth	‘Get a Life!’: An Anthropological Assessment of Public Bioethical Debate	Smith, D. & Thurtle, P.
2005	Loewen, David	Imagining Prairie Community: The Settlement and Retention of South African Physicians in Rural Saskatchewan	Rutherford, B. & Klausen, S.
2005	Louttit, Stanley	Diabetes and Glimpses of a 21^st Century Eeyou (Cree) Culture: Local Perspectives on Diet, Body Weight, Physical Activity and ‘Being’ Eeyou Among an Eeyou Youth Population of the Eeyou (Cree) Nation of Wemindji, Quebec	Patrick, D.
2005	MacKinnon, Marianne	Anthropology, Tourism and Protecting One’s Own: The Ethics of Representing Polynesian Cultural Identity	Keil, J.
2005	Varghese, Anupa	Experiences of Displacement, Migration, and Settlement Among Afghans in Ottawa	Given, B. & Keil, J.
2004	Baxter, Stephen	An Anthropological Examination of the Reformation: Egalitarianism Versus Hierarchy	Keil, J.
2004	Elgersma, Dawn	The Ritual Efficacy of Modern Dancesport	Prattis, I.
2004	Friesen, Kathryn	Constructing Refugees: A Case Study of the 'Safe Third Country' Agreement	Given, B.
2004	Ghosh, Hasu	Antecedents and Social Consequences of Type 2 Diabetes Among Urban First Nations People Especially Women, of Eastern Ontario: Western Science and Indigenous Perceptions	Smith, D. & Keil, J.
2004	Gough, Meagan	Repatriation as a Reflection of Sto:Lo Cultural Values: Tset Thayeltswem Te Lalem S’olh Etawtxw (We are building a House of Respect	Blundell, V.
2004	Jendzjowsky, Lidia	Memorializing Historical Imprints: Analysis of Historical Texts and Photographs at Kitselas, 1850-1930	Smith, D. & Laforet, A.
2004	Kingfisher, William	Constructing Locality in Contemporary Canadian	Blundell, V.
2004	McKay, Colleen	Beyond the Rhetoric: Exploring the Reality of North – South Ngo Partnerships	de la Gorgendière, L. & Rutherford, B.
2004	Roby, Nadja	From Amateur to Professional: Placing Harlan I. Smith in the History of North American Anthropology	Smith, D.
2004	Stinson, James	Exploring a Middle Ground for Ecotourism Research: A Stakeholder Analysis of the Indian Creek Trail Project in Belize	Chevalier, J. & Rutherford, B.
2004	Turcotte, Manon	Examining Information on Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV/AIDS: THE Influence of Organisational Concepts on Counsellor Training Documents in Areas of High HIV Prevalence	Chevalier, J. & de la Gorgendière, L.
Theses completed 1992 - 2003

M.A. Research Essays

Year	Student	Title	Supervisor(s)
2021	Bogaski, Deanna	Urban Indigenous Food Sovereignty and Sustainability: Breaking Boundaries and Binaries	Patrick, D.
2020	Hersey, Emily	A New Normal for Ethnography? Instagram as a Fieldsite and Decoloniality during COVID-19 and #BLM	DiNovelli-Lang, D.
2020	Jacox, Travis	The Canadian Settler Complex in the Era of Liberal Multiculturalism	Abdo, N.
2020	Nasrat, Eman	Performing an ‘Identity’ Influenced by Ancestry tests	Rutherford, B.
2015	Vu, Lan	Mothering in Transnational Context: Mediating through Dichotomies	Given, B.
2014	Addelman, Carolyn	Post-Hybrid Moments: An Anthropological approach to contemporary indigenous art	Rosenblatt, D.
2014	Harron, Jennifer	Sex Work in Canada: Practice, limitations, and ongoing debates	Given, B.
2014	Pellerin, Julie	Voices in Motion: Teaching through stories at Elsipogtog School	DiNovelli-Lang, D.
2013	Lord, Courtney	The Way Back: Psychiatry and the Treatment of Nonsuicidal Self-Injury from an Anthropological Perspective	Leistle, B.
2010	Kirby, Christine	Title not available	Given, B.

M.A. Coursework

Year	Student
2021	Bastin-Millar, Matthew
2021	Bruinsma, Tera
2021	Vargas, Alvaro
2021	Zamojski, Sydney
2020	Francis, Michaela
2020	Hine, Alexandra
2018	Cook, Stacey
2018	Yeo, Miranda
2017	Zafrin, Liza
2016	van den Kerkhof, Brenda
2015	Roddick, David
2014	Woodward, Jennifer
2013	Chen, Chih
2013	Hussain, Batoul
2013	Rutkowski, Sarah
2013	Sewell, Trevor
2010	Kemp, Amanda

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