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 21st 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 |