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 |