PhD Students

Research Interests:
Early Modern European Gendered Violence; Social history at the intersection of Law and Religion

Supervisor
Margaret McGlynn

E-mail
jbake58@uwo.ca

Office
Lawson Hall 2252

Research Interests:
Great Lakes History, Environmental History, Energy History

Supervisor
Alan MacEachern

E-mail
mbaxte32@uwo.ca

Office
Lawson Hall 2214

Dissertation Title:
Duty or Care? Canadian University Sponsored Medical Units During the First World
War

Supervisor
Shelley McKellar

E-mail
nbozzo@uwo.ca 

Dissertation Title:
Learning to Cook in Canada  

Supervisor
Keith Fleming

E-mail
lbuckle9@uwo.ca

Office
Lawson Hall 2241

Research Interests:
Imperial history; settler colonialism and genocide; nationalism, irredentism, and ethnic conflict; international communism; modern European/Russian history; geopolitics 

Dissertation Title:
The Boyne's Loins: The Orange Order's Role in Spreading and Nurturing Settler Colonialism in Canada and Ireland

Supervisor
Laurel Shire

E-mail:
lcliffo@uwo.ca 

Twitter:
@LNJClifford

Office:
Lawson Hall 1202

Research Interests:
Military History; Social History

Supervisor
Jonathan Vance

E-mail:

jcomstoc@uwo.ca 

Research Interests:
History of Science, History of public policies aimed at special education, Technologies applied to teaching and treating people with autism, History of the relationship between religion and science, Scientific evolution and social inequality.

Supervisor:
William Turkel

E-mail:
udagamas@uwo.ca 

Office:
Lawson Hall 2220

Research Interests:
Latin American sistory; Cold War history; American foreign intervention; Counterinsurgency; Governmental dissent

Supervisor:
Frank Schumacher

E-mail
jdavisab@uwo.ca

Office
Lawson Hall 2252

Dissertation Title:
Aftershocks: The Psychological Cost of the Great War

Supervisor
Jonathan Vance

E-mail
hellis3@uwo.ca

Office
Lawson Hall 2253

Dissertation Title:
The History of Eugenics in French Colonial Algeria

Supervisor(s):
Geoff Read and Laurel Shire

E-mail
bfarrel4@uwo.ca

Office
Lawson Hall 1209

Dissertation Title:
Sneaks, Jokers, Dudes, Ladies, and Tramps: The Embodied Precarity of American and Canadian Telegraphers, 1880-1929

Supervisor
Robert MacDougall

E-mail
mfeagan@uwo.ca

Office
Lawson Hall 2221

Research Topic:
Western Counties Veterans' Lodge and the rehabilitation of Canada's tubercular Second World War veterans

Supervisor
Jonathan Vance

E-mail
rgiles5@uwo.ca

Office
Lawson Hall 2214

Dissertation Title:
Negotiating Truth and Reconciliation in Namibia: Discourses on German Settler Colonialism and
Genocide in Southern Africa

Supervisor:
Laurel Shire

E-mail:
shislop@uwo.ca 

Office:
Lawson Hall 1215

Dissertation Title:
Bodies, Belonging, and Belief: Confronting Environmental Crisis in Nova Scotia, 1783–84

Supervisor
Nancy Rhoden

Email: eisaac3@uwo.ca

Dissertation Title:
"Barberton Daisies": The Role of White Women in the Settler Colonisation of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek and the Canadian Prairies in the Nineteenth Century.

Supervisor
Laurel Shire

E-mail
cjoubert@uwo.ca

Dissertation Title:
Representations of the West in Egyptian Popular Culture: How Egyptians Imagined Themselves and the Foreign Other on Film During the Nasser Era

Supervisor
Aldona Sendzikas

E-mail
skhorshi@uwo.ca

Office
StvH 2160

Research Interests:
Microhistory, Psychological Impacts of Warfare, Military Law, Soldier Suicide and Soldier Attempted Suicide

Supervisor
Jonathan Vance

E-mail
agood29@uwo.ca

Office
Lawson Hall 2214

Research Topic
Urban space of Jinan, capital city of Shandong Province

Supervisor
James Flath

E-mail
mma56@uwo.ca

Research Interests:
Museum Studies and Indigenous Representation in Museums

Supervisor
Michelle Hamilton

Email: emacd25@uwo.ca

Office:
Lawson Hall 2252

Dissertation Title:
NASA's Analog Missions: Terrestrial Visions of Celestial Bodies

Supervisors:
Alan MacEachern and William Turkel

E-mail:
cmandur2@uwo.ca 

Office:
Lawson Hall 2220

Research Topic:
The Sea is at her Gates: Canada, Britain, and the Evolution of British Maritime Imperial Defence

Supervisor
Jonathan Vance & Robert Wardhaugh

E-mail
wmclach@uwo.ca

Office
Lawson Hall 2214

Research Interests:
Canadian History, Modern American History, Environmental History and the History of Industrialized Food systems.

Supervisor
Alan MacEachern

E-mail
cpayne24@uwo.ca 

Office
Lawson Hall 2252

Research Interest
International history; British Empire; Immigration; Twentieth Century 

Co-Supervisors
Francine McKenzie & Stephanie Bangarth

E-mail
anicol24@uwo.ca

Office:
Lawson Hall 1209 

Research Interest
History of the Catholic Church; the history of resistance and national identity; the history of peoples and their rights

Supervisors:
Marta Dyczok 

E-mail
knyshche@uwo.ca 

Office:
Lawson Hall 2252 

Dissertation Title:
A historical study of blind people interacting with sites of nature in the United States

Supervisor
Alan MacEachern & Robert MacDougall

Email: kreill22@uwo.ca

Office:
Lawson Hall 1201

Research Topic:
"By no means easy work": Technology, Experience and Narrative in the Canadian Artillery, 1914-1918

Supervisor:
Jonathan Vance

Email: hscottpa@uwo.ca

Office:
Lawson Hall 2252

Dissertation Topic:
Quilting for a Cause: Community Fundraising and Canadian First World War Red Cross Quilts

Supervisor
Jonathan Vance

E-mail
hsmit47@uwo.ca

Office:
Lawson Hall 1209

Dissertation Title:
The Perpetual ‘Outsiders’: Romanian Policies Targeting Roma between 1859-1945

Supervisor
Frank Schumacher

E-mail
cstoica2@uwo.ca

Office
Lawson Hall 2253

Research Interests:
Canadian History, International relations history, political history, Latin America, Foreign policy history, and human rights history

Supervisors:
Stephanie Bangarth

E-mail:
tstroyan@uwo.ca 

Office:
Lawson Hall 2220

Dissertation Title:
"Supervision and Control": Civilian Internment in Canada in the First World War

Supervisor
Jonathan Vance

E-mail
svanwett@uwo.ca

Office
Lawson Hall 2221

Research Topic:
Refugee Violence in Post-War Europe

Supervisor
Marta Dyczok

E-mail
bvillani@uwo.ca  

Office
Lawson Hall 2252

Dissertation Title:
Islands of Contention: The American Influence on Maritime Territorial Disputes in East Asia during the Cold War

Supervisor
Carl Young

E-mail
cwhite53@uwo.ca

Office
Lawson Hall 2221

Dissertation Title:
Healing and Forming the Body Politic: Healthcare and Moral/Political Guidance in Imperial Outliers

Supervisors:
Marta Dyczok 

E-mail
awoodbal@uwo.ca 

Office:
Lawson Hall 2220