Meet our Grad Students
Current Grad Students
Nabeel Al Jahan (MA, History)
Axel Brett (MA, History)
David Marks (MA, History)
Percy Potiuk (MA, History)
Ariana Williams (MA History)
Matthew Chechotko (PhD, CSPT)
Brenden Cummins (PhD, CSPT)
Mary Siever (PhD, CSPT)
Darcy Tamayose (PhD, CSPT)
Elaine Toth (PhD, CSPT)
Past Grad Students
Cassidy Ascione, MA '25: Parables of the lovers: The hermeneutics of divine love in medieval Islamic mysticism
Supervisor: Atif Khalil
Hannah Fantin, MA '25: Max and her 'pard': The Rocking P Gazette (1923-5) and and the cultural production of settler girlhood in southern Alberta"
Supervisor Kristine Alexander
LaRae Smith, MA '25: 'Toil': creating a research-based board game about southern Alberta farm families during the Great Depression
Supervisor Kristine Alexander
Don Smith, PhD CSPT: Agawaateyaa (illuminating shadows): Reconciling Indigenous and Canadian property systems
Supervisor Sheila McManus
Ryley Gelinas, MA '24: "'It was almost...always supposed to be the Indian bar": The American Hotel as a Contact Zone
Supervisor Kristine Alexander
Matthew Chechotko, MA '22: Experiencing the apocalypse: The Black Death and the cittadini of Italy
Supervisors David Hay and Kristine Alexander
Keiran Swayn, MA '22: Canada's identity crisis: Pierre Trudeau and the introduction of multicultural policy
Supervisor Amy Shaw
Mike Bruised Head, PhD CSPT '22: The colonial impact of the erasure of Blackfoot Miistakistsi place names in Paahtomahksikimi, Waterton Lakes National Park
Supervisors Leroy Little Bear and Sheila McManus
Jillian Rieger, MA '21: White nation-building and sex between men in the British Columbia and Washington Press, 1866 to 1910
Supervisor Sheila McManus
Darcy Tamayose MA '21: Southern Alberta Okinawan diaspora (1907-present): the kika nisei journey of Naoko Shimabukuro
Supervisor Gideon Fujiwara
Elaine Toth MA '20: "We came to Canada and we were going to make it": Oral history, agency, and post-Second World War Dutch immigrant children and adolescents in Alberta
Supervisor Amy Shaw
Danica Renke MA '20: "Oh! It's All One Big Happy Time": Examining the Emotional Experiences of Canadian Servicewomen during the Second World War
Supervisor Amy Shaw
Shannon Ingram MA '20: Silenced encounters: an affective history of accessing abortion in Alberta, 1969-1988
Supervisor Carol Williams
Peter Millman MA '19: African Nova Scotian Youth Experience on the Island, The Hill, and the Marsh: A Study of Truro, Nova Scotia in the 1950s and 1960s
Supervisor Heidi MacDonald
Kaitlynn Weaver MA '19 CSPT: "Growing the finest teachers possible": Theorizing how Young Teachers Challenge, (Re)produce, and are Subject to Discourses of Childhood, Adolescence, and Adulthood
Supervisor Kristine Alexander
Ashley Henrickson MA '19: "That old ocean is a tremendous barrier between us and home" How young people and their families spoke across distance during the First World War
Supervisor: Kristine Alexander
Zoey Lorne MA '19: The Construction and Regulation of Gendered Crime in Scottish Witchcraft Cases, 1560-1661
Supervisor Janay Nugent
Brenden Cumming MA '18: Heresey and Humbug: Mormons, Millerites, and the Protestant Evangelical Definition of Religious Freedom in the Burned Over District, 1830-1845
Supervisor Lynn Kennedy
Paul Esau MA '17: Disarming Security: Project Ploughshares, the Just War, and the New World Order
Supervisor Amy Shaw
Rae Stauffer MA '17: Early Modern Edinburgh: Identifying Spatial and Social Relationships through the Symbolic Dimension of the Built Environment
Supervisor Janay Nugent