Recent Graduates - Department of Sociology and Anthropology

Ph.D. Theses
M.A. Theses
M.A. Research Essays
M.A. Coursework

Ph.D. Theses

Year	Student	Title	Supervisor(s)
2021	Bing, Alex	Extrinsic Learning, Corporate Streaming, and Ungrounded Voting: The Role of STEM Schooling in the Political Socialization of Asian Canadian Youths	Kennelly, J.
2021	Brown, Vanessa	Integrating gender and cultural perspectives in Canada’s Professional Military Education: transforming military culture through informed leadership	Gerlach, N.
2021	Daroya, Emerich	From Condoms to Antiretrovirals: A Posthumanist Performative Account of Men Who Have Sex with Men’s (MSM) Condomless Sexual Practices	Shotwell, A.
2021	Klostermann, Janna	Leaving Care Work? Moral Femininities, Caring Limits and Creative Possibilities	Braedley, S.
2021	Montgomery, Lauren	“Carceral Harm Reduction”: A Critical Analysis of the Municipal Licensing of Body Rub Centres in Edmonton, Alberta	Carrier-Moisan, M.E.
2021	van Beinum, Amanda	Reimagining Death: A Posthuman Analysis of Life Support and the Concept of Death in the Intensive Care Unit	Novas, C.
2020	Amirault, Jenna	A Political Strategy for the Liberation of Women: Socialist Feminist Political Practice in Canada *Specialization in Political Economy	Paulson, J.
2020	Bueckert, Michael	Boycotts and Backlash: Canadian Opposition to Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) Movements from South Africa to Israel *Specialization in Political Economy	Paulson, J.
2020	Coulling, Ryan	Of Vice and Men: An Ethnographic Content Analysis of the Manosphere	Mopas, M.
2020	Curran, Amelia	Slipping the Line: The Embodied and Affective Materiality of Gang Territories	Doyle, A. & Walter, W.
2020	Jones, Zoey	Pleasure, Community, and Marginalization in Rope Bondage: A Qualitative Investigation into a BDSM Subculture	Khan, U.
2020	McDonald, Deirdre	Risk Classification and Municipal Policing in Canada: Altered Practice and Innovation	Mopas, M.
2020	Primeau, Phillip	The Business of Resilience: Philanthropy, Partnerships, and Politics	Curtis, B.
2020	Sanscartier, Matthew	Populist Counterpublics: Exploring Populist Mobilization, Crises of Representation, and Popular Subjectivities in Canadian Politics	Chen, X.
2020	Steckle, Rhys	Rule of the Routes: Infrastructure, Colonization, and ‘the Social Science’ in the Canadas from Conquest to Confederation	Walters, W.
2019	An, Jiyoung	Marriage Migration and National Boundary-Making: A Comparative Study of Marriage Migration in South Korea and Canada	Stasiulis, D.
2019	Brown, Gregory	To Swerve and Neglect: De-Policing Throughout Today’s Front-Line Police Work	Doyle, A. & Keown, L.A.
2019	Castleton, Alexander	Ageing and Technology: The case of a one-table-per-senior program in Uruguay	Novas, C.
2019	Dolek, Caglar	Thieves, Kabadayis, and Revolutionaries on the Margin: A Social History of the Police in the Altindag Slums in Ankara, Turkey (1920s – 1970s) *Specialization in Political Economy	Rigakos, G.
2019	Garrod, Joel Zackary	From the National to the Global: The Transformation of the Royal Bank of Canada, 1864-2014 *Specialization in Political Economy	Clement, W.
2019	Golestaneh, Mehrnaz	Making Modern Self Through White Marriage: Living Together Without Marriage in Tehran, Iran	Chen, X.
2019	Hernandez-Ramirez, Jesus Alejandro	Mexican Youth in Canada: A Political Economy Analysis of Their Immigration Reasons, Labour Market Integration, and Transnational Practices *Specialization in Political Economy	Stasiulis, D.
2019	Johnston, Matthew	Stories of Madness: Exploring Resistance, Conformity, Resiliency, Agency, and Disengagement in Mental Health Narratives	Karaian, L.
2019	Petoukhov, Konstantin	Violence, compensation, and settler colonialism: Adjudicating claims of Indian Residential School abuse through the Independent Assessment Process	Park, A.
2019	Rivas Sanchez, Hector Eloy	Deportability, Labour and Health in Canada’s Late Capitalism	Paulson, J.
2019	Simmons, Victoria	Un/Settlement: Counter-Memories of Migration and Railways in Southern Mexico	Walters, W.
2019	Stam, Valerie	“It is not possible to be Dutch, and Muslim, and Black:” Second-Generation Youths’ Everyday Practices of Resisting Racism and Islamophobia in the Netherlands	Kennelly, J.
2018	Coady, Kyle	Observing youth punishment in the social systems of law and education	Carrier, N.
2018	Klassen, Aaron	Rob “Fresh I.E.” Wilson: A Socio-analysis of Musical Self-Transformation	Curtis, B.
2018	McKendy, Laura	The Pains of Jail Imprisonment: Experiences at The Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre	Doyle, A.
2018	Milford, Trevor	Lessons From #GamerGame: Complicating Virtual Harm and Reassessing Frameworks for Virtual Harm Assessment	Karaian, L.
2018	Murphy, Erin	Less is More Work: A Governmentality Analysis of Authenticity Within Minimalism Discourse	Gerlach, N.
2018	Pich, Christine	The Complexities of Unknowns: Knowledge Contestations and Occupational Disease Recognition	Siltanen, J.
2018	Rodimon, Sarah	“We Have the Law, We Need the Access!”: Activism, Access and the Social Organization of Abortion in New Brunswick	Shotwell, A.
2018	Rousell, Davina	Indigenous Theories of Knowledge of Racism and its Mediation	Kelly, K.
2017	Charbonneau, Mathieu	Insurance Risks as Fictitious Commodities: The Institutional Constitution of Insurance Markets *Specialization in Political Economy	Doyle, A.
2017	Fernandes, Sabrina	Crisis of Praxis: Depoliticization and Leftist Fragmentation in Brazil *Specialization in Political Economy	Paulson, J.
2017	Lait, Michael	The Rotting Heart of Gatineau Park: How and Why the Kingsmere-Meech Lake Privatopia Prevented a National Park Near Canada’s Capital	Ballamingie, P.
2017	Ozcan, Gulden	Orchestrating the Public: A Contribution to the Critique of Modern Police Power	Chen, X.
2016	Brisson-Boivin, Kara	The Matter of Penal Standards: The Material Politics of Penal Government in Haiti and Nunavut	Walters, W.
2016	Burkay, Helin	The Olive as an Object of Rural Development: The Cultural Politics of Organic Food and the Making of the Local	Siltanen, J.
2016	Conners, Deborah	Who Do We Think They Are? Transformations in Feminist Knowledge Production Regarding Men Who Have Used Violence in Their Heterosexual Relationships in Canada	Kennelly, J.
2016	Cooper, Ian	Fragmented Social Exclusion and Rural-Urban Migration in China: A Case Study of Xi’an	Lin, Z.
2016	Henry, Aaron	District Space: A Nineteenth-Century Technique of Rule *Specialization in Political Economy	Paulson, J.
2016	Jull, Margaret	Dissipating Interpersonal Argument: An Autoethnographical Study of Intersubjectivity, Conflict and Change	Siltanen, J.
2016	Mondoux, Justin Robert	Class Implications of a Mortgaged Economy: Reflections on Building a Sociology of Debt	Clement, W.
2016	Patzer, Jeremy	Histories That Bind: Doctrinal Productivity and Legal Governance in Canadian Aboriginal Law	Hunt, A.
2016	Thomas, Holly	Preaching to the Converted: Making Responsible Evangelical Subjects Through Media	Chen, X.
2015	Abbas, Jihan	Invisible Bodies: Revealing the Unseen Contributions of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities	Doucet, A.
2015	Boon, Johannes (Jan)	Corporate Social Responsibility, Relationships and the Course of Events in Mineral Exploration – an Exploratory Study	Clement, W.
2015	Fairbairn, Jordan	Ecologies of Change: Violence Against Women Prevention, Feminist Public Sociology, and Social Media	Doyle, A.
2015	Landon, Kelly	Getting There: Generations X and Y on Changing Ages, Stages and Processes of Social Maturation in Postmodern Times	Hunt, A.
2015	Lefebvre, Priscillia	Medicating the Crisis: Investigating the Links Between Precarious Employment, Mental Health Issues, and the Reliance on Antidepressants as Treatment *Specialization in Political Economy	Shotwell, A.
2015	McKay, Lindsay	Structured Forgetting and the Social Organization of Kidney Exchange in Ontario *Specialization in Political Economy	Clement, W.
2015	Mondoux, Justin Robert	Class Implications of a Mortgaged Economy: Reflections on Building a Sociology of Debt	Clement, W.
2015	Santos, Madalena	Circulating Texts: Challenging Zionist Myths Through Narratives of Creative Palestinian Resistance and Solidarity	Abdo, N.
2015	Tuey, Catherine	Remainders of Loss: Memorialization Beyond the Funeral	Hunt, A. & White, M.
2015	Wilson, Amanda	Sowing the Seeds of a Collective Autonomy: An Analysis of Post-Capitalist Possibilities in Food-Based Livelihoods *Specialization in Political Economy	Siltanen, J.
2014	Abrams, Thomas	The Ontological Politics of Disablement: Heidegger, Disability, and the Ontological Difference	Novas, C.
2014	Brownlee, Jamie	Irreconcilable Differences: The Corporatization of Canadian Universities *Specialization in Political Economy	Clement, W.
2014	Gorkoff, Kelly	From Plan to Market…Marketizing the Non-Economic: The Economy of Higher Education: Markets and Marketization of Canadian Post-Secondary Education	Clement, W.
2014	Hughes, Christine	At Home and Across Borders: Gender in Guatemalan Households and Labour Migration to Canada *Specialization in Political Economy	Stasiulis, D.
2014	Hurl, Christopher	Public Works: State Formation, Class Composition, and the Making of Ontario’s Public Sector *Specialization in Political Economy	Clement, W.
2014	MacKenzie, Andrew	Divergent Disability Rates in Canada: Analysis of the Social Determinants of Disability	Hanes, R.
2014	Mathieu, Sophie	Labour Markets, Family- Relevant Policies and Reproductive Behaviours: Quebec’s Fertility Regimes Between 1960 and 2010	Clement, W.
2014	Salhany, Susan	“Marching Must Be Dignified”: The Government of Parades in Northern Ireland	Curtis, B.
2014	Smith, Lisa	Girls and the Pill: Sex, Health and Managing the Self	Curtis, B.
2013	Braun, Daniel	The Aesthetic Intensity Of Superheroes: An Autoethnographic Interpretation of Contemporary Superhero Popularity	Curtis, B. & White, M.
2013	Caron, Christian	Reflexivity At Work: Making Sense of Mannheim’s, Garfinkel’s, Gouldner’s and Bourdieu’s Sociology	Curtis, B.
2013	Fanelli, Carlo	Fragile Future: The Attack Against Public Services and Public Sector Unions In an Era of Austerity *Specialization in Political Economy	Paulson, J.
2013	Superle, Tamy	“I Just Really Like Walking, to Tell You the Truth”: Gendered Discourses of Safety and Danger in Urban Public Spaces	Doucet, A.
2013	Whitson, Jennifer	Game Design by Numbers: Instrumental Play and The Quantitative Shift In The Digital Game Industry	Doyle, A.
2012	Anais, Seantel	Disarming Intervention: A Genealogy of Non-Lethality	Gerlach, N.
2012	Foster, Karen	Relating to Work: Generation, Discourse and Social Change	Doucet, A. & Siltanen, J.
2012	Graydon, Michael	(Out)Standing in their field: A Qualitative Study of Gays of Ottawa, 1971-1984	Doucet, A.
2012	Lyons, Tara	A Critical Ethnography of the Ottawa Drug Treatment Court: Linking Discourses of Addiction, Addicted Subjects & Treatment Practices	Dell, C.
2012	Piché, Justin	“The Prison Idea (Un)interrupted: Penal Infrastructure Expansion, Research and Action in Canada”	Doyle, A.
2012	Scott, Nick	Reassembling Urban Travel: Mobilities, Neighbourhoods, and Off-Car Possibilities	Siltanen, J.
2012	Soucie, Riva	So Long Little White Fence?: Young Adults Confront and Transform Notions of Home	Siltanen, J.
2012	Wrye, Jennifer	Nutritionism and the Making of Modern Pet Food	Stasiulis, D.
2011	Gardezi, Fauzia	From Social Reform to Neoliberalism: Islamization, State Formation and Gender Formation in Pakistan, 1850-1988	Curtis, B.
2010	Landry, Deborah	Justification By Faith: The Communication of Risk, Science and Social Control in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000-2009)	Gerlach, N.
2010	Leroux, Darryl R.J.	Commemorating Quebec: Nation, Race, and Memory	Chen, X. & Curtis, B.
2010	Sharkey, Andrea	Mosaic of Silence – Hearing What Young People in Canada Have to Say About Citizenship	Siltanen, J.
2010	Spencer, Dale	Battling Bodies: An Ethnography of Mixed Martial Arts	Gerlach, N.
2010	Valiani, Salimah	Gendered Wages, Deepening Unequal Exchange and the Global Integration of Nursing Labour Markets	Clement, W.
2010	Walby, Kevin	Touching Encounters: The Sex and Work of Male-For-Male Internet Escorts	Doyle, A.
2009	Aggor, Adolphine	Changing Actors, Unchanging Policies: A Case Study of Ghanaian Women’s Organizations and the State	de la Gorgendière, L. & Gerlach, N.
2009	Bromberg, Heather	Reproduction Disruptions: An exploration of personal and social meanings of conception difficulties	Kellner, F.
2009	Hannem, Stacey	Marked by Association: Stigma, Marginalisation, Gender and the Families of Male Prisoners in Canada	Doyle, A.
2009	Lord, Stella	The Politics and Processes of Social Assistance Gender Regime Shift in Nova Scotia: From Voluntary ‘Rehabilitation’ to Compulsory ‘Employability’, 1980-2001	Mahon, R.
2009	Peters, Christopher	The Truthiness Factor: Blurring Boundaries and the Shifting Status of Objectivity and Emotion in Television News	Doyle, A.
2009	Pocock, Joanne	Language, Gender and Generation: The Social Economy Approach to Health and the Case of Estrie’s English-speaking Communities	Doucet, A. & Clement, W.
2008	Connell, Erin	Expelling Pleasure? School-Based Sex Education and the Sexual Regulation of Youth	Curtis, B.
2008	Datta, R. Paul	Foucault and the Battle for Politics Itself: An Aleatory Materialist Intervention	Hunt, A.
2008	Deisman, Wade	Securing Cyberspace: Neo-liberalism, Risk and Child Safety	Doyle, A.
2008	Fish, Kenneth	Giving Life to the Labour Process: Transgenic Biotechnology and the Meaning of Nature	Clement, W.
2008	Fitzgerald, Robin	Assessing parenting from an ecological perspective in a Canadian city	Lin, Z.
2008	Galloway, Anne	A Brief History of the Future of Urban Computing and Locative Media	Shields, R.
2008	Gottschall, William Peter	Imaging Men, Masculinity and Fatherhood in Magazine Advertising: Ideological and Hegemonic Constructions of Masculinity and Fatherhood in magazine Advertising (1960-2000)	Martin, M.
2008	Petrella, Serena	Erotic Civility: Normative Monogamy as a Technology of Governance and Self-Governance in North America, 1850s to the Present	Curtis, B. & Hunt, A.
2007	Garabedian, Karen A.	Study on the Drinking Patterns of male and Female Employees in Alberta: the Impact of Work Environment and Job Stress	Kellner, F.
2007	Scobie, Willow	Adulthood and Other Horizons: The Complexities of Temporalities and Orientations to the Future	Siltanen, J. & Armstrong, H.
2007	Smith, Robyn	Exploring the ‘As Yet Unknown’ in Historical Epistemology, Experimental Systems and Contemporary Nutrition	Curtis, B.
2006	Ford, Kimberly-Anne	Mefloquine Dreams: Exploring the Subjective Experience of Risk and Safety and its Role in the Regulation of Pharmaceutical Drugs in Canada	de la Gorgendière, L. & Kellner, F.
2006	Harling Stalker, L. Lynda	Crafting on the Fringe: A Contextualized Analysis of Government Development Policy and Self-Employed Commodity Production in Newfoundland	Clement, W. & Siltanen, J.
2006	Pulla, Siomonn	Anthropological Advocacy?: Frank Speck and the Mapping of Aboriginal Territoriality in Eastern Canada, 1900-1950	Smith, D.
2006	Yeager, Matthew	Constructing the Dangerous Offender: A Test of Quinney’s Social Reality of Crime	Neugebauer, R.
2005	Hermiston, Alan	“If it’s good for you, it’s good for the nation!” The Moral Regulation of Nutrition in Canada, 1930-1945	Hunt, A.
2005	Maidment, MaDonna	‘Doing Time on the Outside’: Transcarceration and the Social Control of Criminalized Women in the Community	DeKeseredy, W.
2005	Powell, Christopher	Civilization and Genocide	Curtis, B.
2005	Rajiva, Mythili	Racing Through Adolescence: Becoming and Belonging in the Narratives of Second Generation South Asian Girls	Curtis, B.
2005	Rimke, Heidi	Ungovernable Subjects: A Radical Genealogy of Moral Insanity	Kellner, F. & Thurtle, P.
2005	van Veldhoven, Friskjen	Making a Claim on the State: The experiential Accounts of Repetitive Strain Injury Sufferers in Different Policy Regimes	Clement, W.
2004	Dignard, Louise	Reconsidering Staple Insights: Canadian Forestry and Mining Towns	Clement, W.
2004	Donnan, Mary Ellen	The Meanings of Citizenship: Homelessness in Relation to Extra-local Civic Republicanism in Local Community Spirit in Ottawa	Clement, W.
2004	Felix Bortolotti, Marguerite	The Political Economy of Nursing in the Industrialized World: Impacts of Caring, Professionalism and State Policy on the Everyday Practice of Nurses	Armstrong, H.
2004	Leduc, Lisa	Understanding Female-to-Male Violence in Canadian University and College Dating Relationships: A Test of the Rebellion Thesis	DeKeseredy, W.
2004	Moss, Kathleen	Inside Pandora’s Box: Addressing Abuse Screening Practices of Health Care Providers in the Emergency Department	Kellner, F.
2004	Selbee, L. Kevin	Volunteering in Canada: An Application of Social Resources Theory to the Likelihood of Being a Volunteer, and to the Determination of Volunteer Effort	Reed, P.
2004	Smolik, Irene	The Glossolalic Utterance: What Does it All Mean	Laughlin, C.
2004	Stratton, Mary	Getting an Education: Students’ Views on Entering and Exiting High School	Richer, S.
2004	Tonmyr, Lil	Child Abuse and Disability in an Ontario Community Sample – Does Social Capital Matter?	Kelly, K.
Theses completed 1992 – 2003

M.A. Theses:

Year	Student	Title	Supervisor(s)
2021	Curley, Evan	Normalism and Legal Representation in Canadian Art	Leistle, B.
2021	George, Sarah	Pan-Africanism in Canada: Anti-Blackness and Black Consciousness in Canada’s Capital	Rutherford, B.
2021	Peters, Mathew	Reading Subject, The Problematic and The Outcasts: A Semiotic Model of Ideology & The Ideo-Material Subject	Gerlach, N.
2021	Sharp, S.	Restart the ‘World’ with Revolutionary Ruptures: Imagining Identity through War & in Crisis – Apocalyptic Rhetoric & the American Civil Religion	Gerlach, N.
2021	Tompalski, Jaclyn	Under-serving the Over-represented: Indigenous Peoples’ Access to Specialized Courts	Doyle, A.
2020	Jessome, Mary	Securitizing the Canadian Family Through Transnational Reproductive Governmentality and Citizenship	Stasiulis, D.
2020	Johnstone, Lindsay	Exclusionary Inclusion?: The Realities of Academic Accommodation at University for Students with Invisible Physical Chronic Conditions	Mopas. M.
2020	Manning, Natalia	Investigating Indigeneity within Incarceration: Healing Lodges in the Canadian Media	Tfaily, R.
2020	Stavretis, Olivia	An Examination of the Desistance and Risk Paradigms in Correctional Service Canada Policies	Doyle, A.
2020	Stewart, Hanna	From China to Canada: The Identity Formation of Chinese- Canadian Adoptees	Shotwell, A.
2019	Guo, Feng	The Rise of “Doll-Mommies” and “Doll-Daddies” in China: Chinese Youth Meet BJD Culture	Chen, X.
2019	Kiefer, Janine	Shielded from Public View: An Analysis of the Media’s Construction of Deaths in Canadian Custody	Carrier, N.
2019	Klim, Evan	Satirizing Ethics	Pollard, G.
2019	Krantz, Trina	Celebrating Survival: Decolonizing Practices at Aazhoodena	Rosenblatt, D.
2019	Reid, Kishelle	Medical Narratives of Military PTSD: Moving Beyond the Biomedical Approach	Gerlach, N.
2019	Séguin, David	Deconstructing Decriminalization: A Genealogy of the Provincial Offences Administration, the Modern Fine, and Penalization in Ontario	Carrier, N.
2019	Sherry, Mikayla	Towards a More Critical Consciousness: Race-Making, Affect, and Counter-Knowledges	Paulson, J.
2019	Ward, Gavin	Get Out of La La Land! Naturalizing the Colour Line Through “Colour-Blind” Cinema	Mire, A.
2019	Wildgen, Adam	Searching for justice (and evidence) in public health: Exploring health equity in Canadian public health discourse and practice	Gerlach, N. & Denny, K.
2018	Badets, Nadine	Social Determinants of Health among off-reserve First Nations, Métis and Inuit youth in Canada	Tfaily, R. & Chen, X.
2018	Coligado, Marie	In Defense of Invisiblized Noncitizens: Seeking Justice in the Canadian Immigration Detention System	Stasiulis, D.
2018	Normandeau, Dani	Touching Theory: AIDS Activisim and Disability Justice	Shotwell, A.
2017	Charbonneau, Mathieu	Insurance Risks as Fictitious Commodities: The Institutional Constitution of Insurance Markets	Doyle, A.
2017	Christianson, Adam	The mutable dynamics of HIV-prevention: Insights from Ontarian MSM on pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)	Novas, C.
2017	Driscoll, Declan	Transformations in the Ottawa Taxi Industry: A Sociological Perspective	Curtis, B.
2017	Fernandes, Sabrina	Crisis of Praxis: Depoliticization and Leftist Fragmentation in Brazil	Paulson, J.
2017	Knox, Mira	The Boy Who Lived: How Canadian Newspapers Used the Image of the Death of Aylan Kurdi	Abdo, N.
2017	MacDonald, Cora	The usual suspects and invisible victims: Exploring homeless youths’ experiences with policing in Ottawa	Kennelly, J.
2017	MacKenzie, Kaitlin	Marks you cannot erase: Exploring the impacts of false positive ion scanner hits on families of Canadian prisoners	Doyle, A.
2017	Manuel, Gazel	Serving Resistance on the Menu: The cultural politics of Filipino cuisine in Winnipeg and Ottawa	Chen, X.
2017	Mast, Tammy	Ordinary Apocalypse: Zombies, Feminism and the Unmaking of Self	Kennelly, J.
2017	Todd, Jordan	Memorial Assemblages: An Actor-Network Theory Account of Collective Memory, Commemoration and the National Holocaust Monument in Canada	Mopas, M.
2017	Wallis, Allison	Who Cares?: Women, Emotion, and Bodies in Animal Activism	Kennelly, J.
2016	Crosby, Oliver	In Pursuit of Victory: League of Legends and a Project of the Self	Curtis, B.
2016	Graham, John	Making Money: Alternative Currency Use in Canada	Pollard, G.
2016	Hall, William K.	‘Games Climbers Play’: Critical Sensuality in Movement, Ethics, and Sport	Mopas, M.
2016	Mackin, Jennifer	Blue is For Boys, Science is For Boys, What’s For Girls? A Critical Look at Gender Constructs in Science Toys	Pollard, G.
2016	Spofford, Victoria	Exploring the Competing Risk Rationalities Surrounding Surgical Birthing Interventions: The Risk Positions of Expectant Mothers and Issues Surrounding Informed Choice	Keown, L.A. & Prus, S.
2015	Bogeljic, Bojana	Third-Party Assisted Reproduction: Assisted Reproductive Technologies, Commodification and Biopolitics	Mire, A.
2015	Graham, John	Making Money: Alternative Currency Use in Canada	Pollard, G.
2015	Chewinski, Maximilian	Knots that Strain and Threads that Bind: NGO Grassroots Dynamics in the Movement Web Challenging Canadian Resource Extractivism	Kennelly, J.
2015	Dobson, Lydia	Sex Sells: An Analysis of Gendered Exploitation in Ontario Restaurants	Gerlach, N.
2015	Eastman Timmons, James	Taxing Away Citizenship: Do American-Canadian dual citizens consider their status to be an inconvenience?	Stasiulis, D.
2015	Hawkins, Louisa	Thinking Through the Future of Care: Elder People’s Understandings of, and Feelings About, Robotic Interventions in Elder Care	Shotwell, A.
2015	Luscombe, Alex	Where States Lie: A Historical Sociological Investigation into the Art of Cover Storying in a Secret Cold War Intelligence Operation	Walters, W.
2015	Prentice, Rachel	“It’s a game, you’ve got to play the game”: Motivation and ‘Being Employable’ in Ontario Unemployment Supports	Siltanen, J.
2015	Symons, Emily	“I’m Not Looking for Mr. Right, Just Mr. Right Now”: Men Clients of Men Escorts	Doyle, A.
2015	Tomblin, Jordan	The Rehearsal and Performance of Lawful Access	Mopas, M.
2014	Baldwin, Simon	Excited Delirium Syndrome (ExDS): Understanding the Issues and Reducing the Risks Associated with Police Use of Force	Lin, Z.
2014	Castleton, Alexander	From the land to the virtual: An exploration of the use of Facebook by Inuit youth	Novas, C.
2014	Clarke, Brian	In Technology We Trust: Cloud Computing, Technical Breakdowns and the Protection of Privacy	Novas, C.
2014	Rotenberg, Cristine	Cutting Knowledge: The Pathologization of Self-Injury in Correctional Discourse	Doyle, A.
2014	Silva, Derek	Committing Sociology (of Law): The Autonomy of Law in Canada’s ‘War on Terror’	Carrier, N.
2014	Tetrault, Justin	Reclaiming Visual Sovereignty: A Theoretical Critique of Facial Recognition Technology	Rigakos, G.
2014	Todd, Benjamin	Negotiating Social Practices: The Role of Ubiquitous Computing In Students	Shotwell, A.
2014	Van Meyl, Katherine	On the Separation of Personal and Professional: Sex, Work, Law, the Girlfriend Experience, and the Interpersonal Relationships of Independent Escorts	Shotwell, A. & Carrier-Moisan, M.E.
2014	Williams, Rhys	Policing the Pub	Rigakos, G.
2013	Aucoin, Chantal	It Is A Big Deal! It’s Not Just A Dirty Kitchen: Examining The Gendered Division of Housework	Doyle, A.
2013	Brown, Gregory	Fragile Future: The Attack Against Public Services and Public Sector Unions In an Era of Austerity	Doyle, A.
2013	Crete, Jean-Philippe	A Disciplined Healing: The New Language of Indigenous Imprisonment in Canada	Carrier, N.
2013	Enright, Brian	“Washed up? An Analysis of Water Access, Sanitation and Hygiene Programmes”	Doyle, A.
2013	Ghazzawi, Chanel	Proactive Control The Case of Community Policing in Ottawa	Mopas, M.
2013	Groh, Pamela	The Identity Formation Experiences of Second Wave Argentinian Immigrants to Canada	Chen, X.
2013	Hall, Tiffany	The Social Constructions of Hoarding Behaviour: Accumulation and Discard in Liquid Modern Consumer Society	Hunt, A.
2013	Herman, Alexandra	The Art of The Christian Pastorate: Shepherding The Barnardo Home Children To Canada, 1867-1905	Pollard, G.
2013	Nellis, Brent	Ottawa Liberating: Self-Referential Systems of Communications and Municipal Policing Responses to Occupy Ottawa	Kennelly, J.
2013	Peck, Vanessa	‘Celebrating Cancer’: Young Women Negotiating the Cultural Politics of Survivorship	Siltanen, J. & Chen, X.
2013	Perry, Jennifer	Developing the Volunteer Tourist Identity through Meaningful Interaction: A Critical Comparison of the Lived Experiences of Childcare and Animal Care Volunteers in South Africa	March, K.
2013	Primeau, Philip	Crafting the Machinery of Municipal Rule: The Board of Police in Nineteenth Century Brockville, Upper Canada	Curtis, B.
2013	Scrivens, Alanna	In Neoliberal Times: How Non Profit Organizations Are Responding to Housing Need and Affordability in Ottawa	Moscovitch, A.
2013	Williams, Jenelle	Reading Lips: Exploring Emotive Responses to Labiaplasty	Kennelly, J.
2012	Boyd, Ryan	Boat People and Terrorists: The media-driven moral panic and double consciousness of the Tamil diaspora in Canada	Kennelly, J.
2012	Hoyland, Patricia	Youth, Media and Moral Panic: A Sociological Investigation of Dalton McGuinty’s “Rethink” of the 2010 Health and Physical Education Curriculum	Karaian, L.
2012	Pearson, Caryn	Minding Positive Mental Health: Exploring Theoretical Explanations for Positive Mental Health with Canadian National Surveys	Lin, Z.
2012	Richardson, Steven	Where are the Faceless Masses?: Studying Users and Non-Users of Technology	Novas, C.
2012	Roscoe, Alana	International Development Policy and Practice: The Translation of a Children’s Rights-Based Approach	Caputo, T.
2011	Allaire Sevigny, Christophe	Starting From Refugees Themselves: A Study on the Resettlement of Government-Assisted Refugees in Gatineau, Quebec	Stasiulis, D.
2011	Conway, Kevin	Zombies at Work: The Undead Face of Organizational Subjectivity	Gerlach, N.
2011	Daroya, Emerich	“Potatoes and Rice: Exploring the Racial Politics of Gay Men’s Desires and Desirabillity	Gentile, P.
2011	Finestone, Elana	“Just trying to avoid doing it”: Exploring Gendered Interpretations and Discussions of Sexual Assault Media Campaigns for Men on Campus	Doucet, A.
2011	Gilroy, Holly	En(Gulf)ed: Frame Analysis of New York Times Online News Coverage following the 2010 BP Oil Spill	Doyle, A.
2011	Matsunaga, Jennifer	Publics in the Making: A Genealogical Inquiry into the Discursive Publics of Japanese Canadian Redress	Walters, W. & Henderson, J.
2011	Palmer, Amber	Love Quest: The Pursuit of a ‘Rational’ Love Online	Hunt, A.
2011	Warden, Rebecca	Entering Through The Green Door: Exploring the Value of ‘Fresh’	Mopas, M.
2011	Wright, Lisa	Drug and Sex Education: A Case Study of the Operation of Social Control	Carrier, N.
2010	Aylsworth, Laura	Harmless Victims or Harmful Villains: The Representation of Criminalized Women in Public Discourse	Park, A.
2010	Gaudet, Joanne	Greening of the Canadian Engineering Profession (1970-2009): A Comparison of Professional Envirosponsibility in British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario	Clement, W.
2010	Gray, Lyndsay	The Cancer Hierarchy: Risk, Responsiblization and Morality	Hunt, A.
2010	Hallman, Jennifer	Agents at Work: Examining Intergenerational Relations	Hunt, A.
2010	Hazelwood, Tracey	Investigating Social Policy Relationships: A critical analysis of understandings of First Nation family violence	Siltanen, J.
2010	Lymburner, Matthew	Excluding the Included: Citizenship, National Identity Discourse and Racialized Welfare Stratification in Brazil	Stasiulis, D.
2010	Murphy, Erin L.	Ask The Audience: The Role of Technology in Students’ University Education	Siltanen, J.
2010	Paradis, Tamara	Neoliberal digitality, labour and leisure in a MMOG: An ethnography of analysis	Paulson, J.
2010	Rogers, Byron	Controlling tobacco: From moral regulation to governing the neurochemical self	Hunt, A.
2010	Simonetto, Deana	Who is Karla Homolka? A Case of Media Identity Transformations	March, K.
2010	Solc, Katherine	The United Way/Centraide Ottawa: Tackling Social Exclusion on the Ground	Mahon, R.
2010	Stock, Anthony	The Impact of the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test on L2 Students	Patrick, D.
2010	Wilson, Elisabeth	Who Will Be Rocking The Cradle and When? How Young Women and Men Envision Parenting	Doucet, A.
2009	Giroux, Maxine	Clarifying the Sociological Meanings of Peace and War in Pursuit of Peace	Gerlach, N.
2009	Longtin, Christopher	Left Out of The Picture: Intersections of Gender Dis/ability	Siltanen, J.
2009	Shoemaker, Esther	Perfect Babies – Perfect Parents – Perfect Pregnancies: The Routinization of Prenatal Testing	Doucet, A.
2009	Welsh, Siobhan	Socializing Civility: Empathy in the Contemporary Citizenship Education Project	Hunt, A.
2008	Christensen, Benjamin	State Reorientation and Discursive Strategies of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives	Clement, W.
2008	Gomes, Lee	A Call for Contest: Exploring the Situational and Relational Characteristics of Heavy Drinking By Canadian Adults	Dell, C.
2008	Holm, Vanessa	Acting in solidarity with the Natural World: Conscious Living and the Case of Vegetarianism	Siltanen, J.
2008	Krzyzanowski, Erin	Explaining the Differential Distribution of School Engagement Among 10 to 15-Year Old Canadian Students: Do Ethnicity and Parental Immigration Status make a Difference?	Tfaily, R.
2008	Subissati, Andrea	Sociology of the Living Dead	Curtis, B.
2007	Beauchamp, Tara	The Role of Social Support in the Well-Being of First Nations and Inuit Youth Following Treatment for Volatile Solvent Abuse	Dell, C.
2007	Desjardins, Patricia	In Defiance of Childhood? An Exploration of Children’s Activism	Doyle, A.
2007	Scott, Nick	The Social Dynamics of Canadian Protest Participation	Siltanen, J.
2007	Scribner, Jenn	Dual Citizenship: Examining Belonging, Identity and Racialization in the Lives of Transmigrants	Stasiulis, D.
2007	Smith, Josée	Police Perceptions of the Youth Criminal Justice Act and its Implementation: Ontario Case Study	Caputo, T. & Vallée, M.
2007	Solecki, André	Cannabis and the Courts: An Examination of Judicial Responses to Cannabis	Caputo, T.
2007	Timco, Kristy	“Not Everyone Who Wanders is Lost” Exploring Street Youths’ Decision Making Processes in Relation to the Problematic use of Substances and its Possible Solutions	Dell, C.
2006	Campeau, Aimee	Cultivating Gendered ‘Underdeveloped’ Subjectives: Tracing the Constitution of ‘Girlhoods’ within Mainstream Development Discourse	Doucet, A.
2006	Gibney, Charles	Making People Good, Down to the Last Drop: Toward a Genealogy of the Government of Water	Hunt, A.
2006	Leslie, Sarah	A Call to Duty: How Women’s Magazines, circa 1935-1980, Contribute in the Formation of Responsible Citizens	Pollard, G.
2006	Maslov, Anton	Property Crime Reporting: Examining the Effects of Victims’ Perception of Their Social Context on Their Reporting Behaviours	Gerlach, N.
2006	Peters, Sheryl	The Social World Reversed: Towards a Sociology of Activist Community Arts Practices	Siltanen, J.
2006	Snyder, Emily	Injecting Freedom? Examining Depo-Provera’s Discourse of ‘Freeing’ Women from Menstruation and Women’s Perception of It	Hunt, A.
2006	Thomas, Holly	The Atkins Diet and the Internet: Exploring Lay Challenges to Contested Medical Expertise	O’Malley, P.
2005	Ayyash, Mark	War and Politics: The Neoconservative Plan of Iraq	Hunt, A.
2005	O’Connor, Christopher	Auto Theft and Youth Culture: A Nexus of Masculinities, Femininities and Car Culture	Kelly, K.
2004	Burke, Patrick	Media Representation and the Case of Tracy Latimer	Thurtle, P.
2004	Denis, Chantale	A Sociological Socio-Psychological Analysis of Substance Abusers in Recovery While in the Course of Early Residential Treatment	Dell, C.
2004	Fletcher, Kate	Modelling Masculinity: The Return of the Dandy in Contemporary Society	Hunt, A.
2004	Jarvis, Saskia	Healthy Living and the Anti-Diet: The Weight Watchers Approach to Weight Maintenance	Hunt, A.
2004	Kaloczi, Kornelia	The Implications of Self-Government with Respect to Aboriginal Justice Initiatives	O’Malley, P.
2004	Kerr, Susan	The Schizoid Presentation of Self in Everyday Life: A Phenomenological Analysis of Dundonald Park (Concentration in Quantitative Methodology)	Kellner, F.
2004	McFarlane, Craig	Michael Foucault’s Analytic of Power Relations	Thurtle, P.
2004	Meyer, Jeffrey	Evaluating the Punitive Turn Thesis: Is Canadian Penal Discourse Officially Exemplifying a Punitive Mentality	O’Malley, P.
2004	Peters, Christopher	Hate Expectations: A Narrative of the Conceptualisation of Criminal Hatred in Canada	Curtis, B.
Theses completed 1992 – 2003

M.A. Research Essays

Year	Student	Title	Supervisor(s)
2021	Cielen-Gough, Mackenzie	Thinking through the Colonial Imagination: An Anti-Capitalist Critique of Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy	Abdo, N.
2021	Dustan, Harrison	Performative Embodiment in Mormon Conversion and Deconversion	Leistle, B.
2021	Nowlan, Tyler	Piracy as an Option: A Sociological Review of Scanning Communities	Prus, S.
2021	Racioppo, M.	Family Structure and Children’s Academic Performance and Behavioural Tendencies	Tfaily, R.
2021	Xu, Xiaohan	Rejecting Citizenship, Affirming Community: Solidarity City as a Shared Positive Vision for a Decolonized Future	Shotwell, A.
2020	Arcand, Jessica	Who’s Hungry? An Analysis of Food (In)security among Canadian Indigenous Peoples	Tfaily, R.
2020	Aziz, Syeda (Ayesha)	A Spade Is a Spade, Name the Hate: Islamophobia in Western Societies	Abdo, N.
2020	Huybregts, Ekaterina	Healing from shame: an analysis of the experience of fat shame in fat positive memoirs	Shotwell, A.
2020	Rocha, Stephanie	Challenging assumptions: Youth sexting and concerns surrounding technology and youth sexual expression	Mopas, M.
2020	Wright, Abbey	Assemblages of Victimhood: The UK’s Modern Slavery Act, the Police, and Migrant Victims of Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking	Stasiulis, D.
2019	Bathurst, Ryan	Vulnerable Users: Affect and fringe politics in a post-truth web 2.0	Mopas, M.
2019	Bond, Sarah	Transforming the Paralympic Narrative: A Feminist Disability Studies Approach to Analyzing Canadian Mainstream Media	Fritsch, K.
2019	Gobeil, Justin	Opaque Securitization: Discourses of Accountability in Bill C-59	Monaghan, J.
2019	Karam, Maisie	Contemporary Representations of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in the Canadian News Media: A Case Study of Jeanenne Fontaine	Mopas, M.
2019	Rouleau, Brandon	The Normative Impact of Marijuana Legalization on Canadian Adolescents: A Social Determinants of Health Perspective	Prus, S. & Tfaily, R.
2019	Snoeks, Jennifer	Back to the Future: How Management Consulting Firms are Narrating Prospective Labour Force Changes	Gerlach, N.
2019	Xiong, Yiran	The Relationship Between Social Capital Factors and Trust in the Police: A Case Study of Canada	Lin, Z.
2018	Branswell, John	An Analysis of Sociological Covariates of Confidence in the Police in Canada	Lin, Z.
2018	Koudys, Kevin	Neoliberalism and School Security: The Utilisation of Zero-Tolerance Policies and Black Student Exclusion in New York City and Toronto	Monaghan, J.
2018	Partington, Zackary	Community Policing and Minority Youth Relations: Exploring Ottawa Community Policing Officers’ Experiences of a Reactive Policing Shift and its Impact on Public Relationships	Mopas, M.
2018	Vigneault, Hannah	Who’s Leaning In? A Critical Analysis of Neoliberal Feminist Discourse on Women and Work	Rivers-Moore, M.
2017	Jollymore, Michael	The Changing World of Policing	Vallée, M.
2017	Rochon, Morgan	The GIFT Box: Unwrapping the “Truth” about Sex Trafficking at Sport Mega Events	Carrier-Moisan, M.E.
2017	Rogers, Zoe	Strategic Planning in Canadian Policing: Adapting for the Future	Caputo, T.
2017	Smith, Jenna	(Re)Articulations of Subjects and Agency: Ontology, Epistemology and Environmental Relationships	Siltanen, J.
2016	Buck, Jeff	Neoliberalism and its impact on community-based crime prevention: some important considerations for community planners	Chen, X.
2016	Hood, Nicole Anne	Traditional Values and the Religious Right: An In Depth Examination of Sex Education and Legislation in the U.S.	Hunt, A.
2016	Hothi, Gurpreet	Reconceptualizing Citizenship: Beyond Neoliberal Understands of Diversity and Global Citizenship Education	Siltanen, J.
2016	McCarthy, Kylie	Professional Female and Male Mixed Martial Artists’ use of Twitter for Fighting Identity Construction	Gerlach, N.
2016	Murphy, Evan	Through the Skeletal Looking-Glass: Corpses, Subjectivity and the Normative Power of Revelation	Curtis, B.
2016	Nazemroaya, Mahdi Darius	The Whitening of Russia	Rutherford, B.
2016	Nearing-Guibord, Danette	The Lived Experience of Adults with Disabilites who have been victims of crime or abuse	Hanes, C.
2015	Rygas, Jessica	The Capitalization of Fear: An Intersectional Analysis of Anti-Ageing in the Media and in the Beauty Industry	Mire, A.
2014	Hawkins, Emma	Food Insecurity and Social Capital in the Canadian North	Lin, Z.
2014	Read-Hobman, Taryn	Why do they leave? An examination of young, male infantry attrition in the Canadian Forces from the perspectives of ex-members	March, K.
2014	Savage, Kathleen	The Will to Host? Assembling Publics in the Ontario Wind Farm Controversy	Walters, W.
2013	Chapman, Justine	Towards a Solidaristic Understanding and Responsibility	Hunt, A.
2013	Hussen, Nezifa	A Critical Examination of International Gender Equality Norms and the Empowerment of Women in Ethiopia	Chen, X.
2013	McKendy, Laura	The Implications of a New Media Exology and Changing Modes of Public Order Policing on Journalistic Paradigms for Reporting on Social Protest	Doyle, A.
2013	Turpin, Kayla	The Meaning of Nostalgia: Organizing People, Managing Histories	Mopas, M.
2012	Bell, Sesadri	Subtly Unsettled: A Post-Colonialist Analysis of Environmental Racism Against Indigenous Peoples	Chen, X.
2012	Dwyer, Patrick	Predicting Dangerousness: Risk, Security and Danger in Contemporary Society	Carrier, N.
2012	Golestaneh, Mehrnaz	Similarities and Differences between the Victorians and Post-revolutionary Iran regarding Sexual Moralities and Sexual Relationships	Tfaily, R.
2012	Islam, Farhana	Intersectional Analysis of Healthy Immigrant Effect: Considering Ethnicity, Place of Birth, and Immigrant Status	Tfaily, R.
2011	Gallant, Chantal	Finding a Place Called Home: Examining the impact of domestic violence on refugee women and the role of the state	Park, A.
2010	Conte, Melissa	Muslim Women and the Veil: An Exploration of Diversity and Complexity	Chen, X.
2010	Holmes, Shawna	The Revolution Will Not Appear in your News Feed: An Analysis of Activism in Online Social Networking	Paulson, J.
2010	Loewen, Benita	Putting the “I” in “Team”: An Exploration of Incivility in the Workplace	Mopas, M.
2010	Saleh Rad, Sarah	Western Media Coverage of Iran’s Nuclear Program: A Case Study of The New York Times	Park, A.
2010	Wiseman, Danielle	Wikipedia, Transformation or Status Quo? An Examination of Editing Practices in Wikipedia	Novas, C.
2009	Campbell, Rebecca	An Exploration of the Experiences of Historical and Contemporary Women Jazz Instrumentalists: 1900-2009	Shepherd, J. & Doucet, A.
2009	Hossen, Mohammad Anwar	Natural Disaster, Inequality, and Vulnerability: A Case Study in Rural Madame Zajj	Keil, J. & Siltanen, J.
2009	Polowyk, Lauren	Redefining Social Capital: Historical Origins, Pragmatic Contentions and Alluring Outcomes	Siltanen, J.
2009	Waitschat, Katherine	One Less! Exploring Motherhood and Gardasil	Pylypa, J.
2008	Barry, Amanda	Understanding the Social Construction of Scale through the Analysis of Scalar Narratives: Building a Sustainable Community in New Brunswick	Siltanen, J.
2008	Pearson, Julie	Mainstream Media Representation of Roma in the Canadian Context: The Discourse on Invisible Canadians	Stasiulis, D.
2008	Tatai, Mohtahsham	Kurdish Nationalism in Turkey: PKK and the Legacy of State	Abdo, N.

M.A. Coursework

Year	Student
2021	Chahrour, Hibah
2021	Golub, Michelle
2021	Moreau, Christine
2020	Dabboussy, Maria
2020	Wagorn, Miranda
2019	Zand Vakili, Deena
2018	Nairn, Anthony
2015	Ang, Steven
2014	Gilmer, Jennifer
2012	Maru, Kyle
2006	Burczycha, Marta