Katherine Walker, A gendered History of Pain, circa 1620-1740. History Department – McMaster University, 2011. Katherine Walker questioned certain areas of the history of medicine through a study of gendered pain as conceived and perceived by physicians and patients English in modern times. In constant dialogue with the relevant historiography, she manages to transcend the

Helen Mary Dewar. ¨Y establir nostre auctorité ¨: Assertions of Imperial Sovereignty through Proprietorships and Chartered Companies in New France, 1598-1663¨. History Department –University of Toronto, 2012. Helen Mary Dewar opens new perspectives on the history of the first decades of New France by inscribing this troubled period in the Atlantic context, from a perspective

Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda, “Mujeres Que Se Visualizan”: (En)Gendering Archives and Regimes of Media and Visuality in post-1968 Mexico, University of British Columbia – Department of History.  Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda’s thesis is a very engaging and captivating work that provides a complex, rigorous and sophisticated analysis of gender and politics in post-1968 Mexico. Through a local and

Nicholas Paul May, Feasting on the AAm of Heaven: the Christianization of the Nisga’a 1860-1920. University of Toronto – History Department. Through a novel approach, Nicholas Paul May’s insightful thesis examines the adoption and appropriation of Christianity by the Nisga’a people of British Columbia between 1860 and 1920. Rather than describing the process in the

Brittany Luby,  “Drowned: Anishinabek Economies and Resistance to Hydroelectric Development in the Winnipeg River Drainage Basin, 1873–1975.” History Department, York University. Weaving together oral histories and documentary sources, Indigenous and western paradigms, social and environmental perspectives, and personal and shared experiences, Brittany Luby’s analysis of Anishinibek (Ojibwa) responses to waiâbishkiwedig (Settler) hydroelectric development in the

Sarah Ghabrial, “Le ‘fiqh francisé’?: Muslim Personal Status Law Reform and Women’s Litigation in Colonial Algeria, 1870-1930”, Department of History and Classics, McGill University. In this beautifully written dissertation, Sarah Ghabrial brings together judicial, missionary, medical, and government documents from multiple archives in Algeria, France and Italy to provide a multilayered history of law, gender,

Isabelle Bouchard. « Des systèmes politiques en quête de légitimité: terres « seigneuriales », pouvoirs et enjeux locaux dans les communautés autochtones de la vallée du Saint-Laurent ». Thèse. Montréal (Québec, Canada), Université du Québec à Montréal, Doctorat en histoire, 2017.  Demonstrating an impressive understanding of the historical method, Isabelle Bouchard’s thesis brings to light Indigenous people’s land management

Stephen Fielding, “Sporting Multiculturalism: Toronto’s Postwar European Immigrants, Gender, Diaspora, and the Grassroots Making of Canadian Diversity”. PhD dissertation, University of Victoria, 2018https://dspace.library.uvic.ca//handle/1828/9276. Stephen Fielding’s dissertation opens with a discussion of an iconic photograph taken in Toronto in July 1982. From a rooftop vantage point, we see a massive crowd of flag-waving soccer fans filling

Crystal Fraser. T’aih k’ìighe’ tth’aih zhit dìidìch’ùh (By Strength, We Are Still Here): Indigenous Northerners Confronting Hierarchies of Power at Day and Residential Schools in Nanhkak Thak (the Inuvik Region, Northwest Territories), 1959 – 1982. PhD Dissertation, University of Alberta, 2019. Gwichyà Gwich’in scholar Chrystal Fraser’s PhD dissertation draws on the Dinjii Zhuh philosophical concepts of t’aih, vit’aih,

Bocar Niang Bocar Niang’s study of mass broadcasting is an important reflection on the dominant role of this medium in the construction of state authority and the official ideology of negritude in the history of Senegal and of West Africa.  From the introduction of the radio in 1939 by France, through the period of independence,

Colin Murray Osmond, “Paycheques and Paper Promises: Coast Salish and Mi’kmaw Work and Family Life under Canadian Settler Colonialism,” PhD dissertation, University of Saskatchewan, 2021.  Colin Osmond’s dissertation is an outstanding example of community-engaged research that amply illustrates the strengths of this framework while making a substantial contribution to the scholarship on First Nations labour