Memorial University and the Department of History provide all of the resources necessary for the successful completion of Masters and Ph.D. degrees in history. To see what our recent students have accomplished view the lists of completed M.A. theses and Ph.D. dissertations below.

Recently Completed Graduate Dissertations, Theses, and Major Research Papers

• John Davis Abraham, 'Have Our Values Been So Twisted?' American Governmental Dissent in the Guatemalan Civil War, 1960-1996 (Supervisor: M. Kirkpatrick)
• Norma Alford, The Rough Food Mystique: The Evolution of Newfoundland Food Culture, 1945-1975 (Supervisor: T. Bishop-Stirling)
• Leonidas Argyros. Burrell & Son of Glasgow: A Tramp Shipping Firm, 1861-1930 (Supervisor: L. Fischer)
• Christopher Aylward. The Beothuk Story: European and First Nations Narratives of the Beothuk People of Newfoundland (Supervisor: P. Pope and J. Webb)
• Jim Armour, Castles in the air: the life, times and influence of the Reverend Moses Harvey (Supervisor: S. Cadigan)
• Sandra Badcock, The Modern King of Camelot: An Image of John F. Kennedy through LIFE from 1953 to 1968 (Supervisor: D. Brégent-Heald)
• Rachel Barnes, Soldier-Tourism in First World War Africa: Photography of Adventure, Comradeship, and the 'Other' (Supervisor: J. Fantauzzo)
• Allison Bennett, British Refugee Policy and the Kindertransport, 1938-1945: The Evacuation of Jewish Children from the Third Reich and their Experiences in Britain (Supervisor: E. Bosák)
• Patricia Boulter, The Survival of an Arctic Boom Town Socio-Economic and Cultural Diversity in Rankin Inlet, 1956-63 (Supervisors: J. Sandlos & A. Keeling)
• Hanna Bostick, Marriage, Gender, and Sexuality under God: Inuit and Moravian Cultural Differences and Impacts in Labrador, 1750-1860 (Supervisor: K. Korneski)
• Philip-Antoine Breau, French Soldiers' Experiences of Malaria on the Macedonian front (1916-1918) (Supervisor: J. Fantauzzo)
• Marc Brouillette, Confederation as a Process and not an Event: A Case Study of the Politics of Confederation Between 1902-1919 (Supervisor: M. Humphries)
• Travis Brown, The Freedom Narrative of Benjamin Benson (Supervisor: N. Kennedy)
• Miranda Burrage-Goodwin, Baleia á Vista, Whale in Sight: Whaling and Tourism in the Azores, 1765 to Present (Supervisor: J. Sandlos)
• Shannon (Paul) Burton, The Lions Remember: British Veterans, Long Memory, and the First World War, 1973-1991 (Supervisor: J. Fantauzzo)
• Sydney Burton, The Role of Vitae in the Construction of Female Identity (Supervisor: M. Cassis)
• Warren Oliver Bush, Industrial Disasters at Sea Around Newfoundland & Historicizing Maritime Peril: 1914-1918 (Supervisor: S. Cadigan)
• Howard Butler, The Lineup to Kill Gorbachev was too long! Anti-alcohol reform in the Soviet Union under Gorbachev (Supervisor: E. Bosák)
• Bruna Cardoso, Oil on Top of the World: Colonialism and Narratives in the History of Oil Exploration in Norman Wells (Supervisor: J. Sandlos)
• Ryan Chafe, Re: Thinking Globally, Reacting Locally: Reviewing and Remembering the "Forgotten Pandemic" of 1918/1919 and Writing about the Spanish Flu in Newfoundland and Labrador (Supervisor: J. Connor)
• Keith Collier, Clearing the Slums: The Evolution of Public Housing in St. John’s, Newfoundland, 1910-1956 (Supervisor: S. Cadigan)
• Paul Collins, Starting From Scratch: St. John’s, Newfoundland as a Case Study in Second World War Naval Base Development (Supervisor: L. Fischer)
• Margo Connors-Stack, Plebian Born: An Examination of the Life of T.M. White (1861-1938) (Supervisor: T. Bishop-Stirling)
• Margaret Connors, An Historical Register: Chinese People in Pre-Confederation Newfoundland (Supervisor: R. Sweeny)
• Shannon Conway, The Transformation of English Canadian Identity, 1960-1971 (Supervisor: K. Korneski)
• Mariah Cooper, A Female King or a Good Life and Great Mother: An Analysis of Contemporary Gendered Representations of the Empress Matilda (Supervisor: S. Rossignol)
• Katie Cranford, "The High Priestess of Folk": Race, Gender, and Authenticity in Greenwich Village's American Folk Music Revival Movement and the Curious Case of Odetta, 1958-1970 (Supervisor: D. Brégent-Heald)
• Justin Crosby, The Rebirth of Empire: Roman Inheritance during the Ottonian Age (919-1024 CE) (Supervisor: S. Rossignol)
• Alexander Dezan, “The Only Course to Follow:” The Banff Springs Golf Course and Improving Nature in Banff National Park (Supervisor: J. Sandlos)
• Edward Dodd, Engineering Men: Masculinity, the Royal Navy, and the Selborne Scheme (Supervisor: V. Burton)
• Jean-Philippe Dubois, Forward! For the Rescue of the Republic: Structures of Change and the Making of Kansas Populism, 1828-1896 (Supervisor: M. Kirkpatrick)
• Allan Dwyer, 2012. Atlantic Borderland: Natives, Fishers, Planters and Merchants in Notre Dame Bay, 1713-1802 (Supervisor: S. Cadigan)
• Andrew Eng, Pulcheria's Power: Empresses Livia, Helena, Pulcheria and the Creation of Gendered Political Authority (Supervisor: M. Cassis)
• Matthew Field, The Influence of Experience and Operations on Mental Health in 405 Squadron (RCAF) (Supervisor: M. Humphries)
• Donovan Fifield, Savagely Factious: Commercial Integration and Social Conflict in Colonial Massachusetts (Supervisor: N. Kennedy)
• Trevor Ford, Dreaded Tempest: How the Military Intelligence Branch of the Department of Militia and Defence Conducted Intelligence Operations against One Big Union and Sinn Fein in Montréal, 1920-1921 (Supervisor: M. Humphries)
• Jim Gash, The Securitzation of Disease: Kingston, Ontario and the 1918 Influenza Epidemic (Supervisor: K. Korneski)
• Jeremy Gillam, "The Winds of the West have been Blowing East": The British Press and the Egyptian Revolution, 1919-1922 (Supervisor: J. Fantauzzo)
• Samantha Goodine, Elite Perceptions of Radicals During the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike (Supervisor: K. Korneski)
• Roza Gabdullina, Scandinavian Nature in the Period of Christianization, According to Latin Sources (Supervisor: S. Rossignol)
• Corinne Graffin, Mills in Narratives: Representations of Molendina and Millers in Frankish Hagiographies and Histories (Supervisor: S. Rossignol)
• Heather Green, Life After Closure: Deindustrialized Landscape and Memories of the Polaris Mine, 1973-2012 (Supervisors: J. Sandlos & A. Keeling)
• Sarah Hall, Criminalizing Women in the Last Best West: Gender, Race, and Class in the Alberta Criminal Justice System, 1892-1920 (Supervisor: K. Korneski)
• Jane Hammond, Labrador City: Gender, labour and community in a remote mining town (Supervisor: J. Sandlos)
• Sarah Hannon, Constructing Kindness: Emancipation in Bermuda's Historiography and the Caribbean Context (Supervisor: N. Kennedy)
• Kevin Hennessey, The Enemy Without, The Enemy Within: the Siege of Leningrad and a People's Struggle against Hitler, Stalin, Classism, and Perceiving Memory (Supervisor: E. Bosak)
• Darrell Hillier, Stars, Stripes, and Sacrifice: A Wartime Familial Experience of Hope, Loss, and Grief, and the Journey Home of an American Bomber Crew (Supervisor: M. O'Brien)
• Ben Jesseau, The Ten-Cent Apocalypse: Depictions and Portrayals of Atomic Energy in Cold War Comic Books, 1945-1962 (Supervisor: L. Fischer)
• Kyle Johnson, Spatial Authority: Law Enforcement and the Making of Space in Bermuda, 1622-1834 (Supervisor: N. Kennedy)
• Robert Keenan, Nation Building One Division at a Time: Local Government and the Development of the Multi-Ethnic Kenyan State, 1920-1965 (Supervisor: C. Youé)
• Caroline Kennedy, The Re-Creation of the American Ideal: Nostalgic Television Programming of the 1970s (Supervisor: D. Brégent-Heald)
• Matthew King, Black, White, and Blue Collar Noir: A Study of Changing Depictions of Race Relations in Film Noir (Supervisor: D. Brégent-Heald)
• Meghan Korten, The Role of Women in Vadmál Economy in Landnám and Pjodveldi Iceland (Supervisor: L. Bryan)
• Diana Kreuger, Six-Guns and Spaceships: The Space Western Film as Perpetuated Frontier Mythology (Supervisor: D. Brégent-Heald)
• Carolyn Lambert, Far from the Homes of their Fathers: Irish Catholics in St. John’s, Newfoundland, 1840-86 (Supervisor: P. Hart)
• Kyle Landry, An Independent Financial State: Arthur Griffith and Sinn Féin, 1909-1912 (Supervisor: M. O’Brien)
• Heather Leard, The More Things Change, The More They Stay the Same: Native Employment in the Northwest Territories, Canada, as Seen through Government Reports, 1960-1990 (Supervisor: J. Sandlos)
• Kaitlyn Little, Pacific Intersections: Indigenous Hawaiians, the Indigenous Peoples of North America, and British Colonial Enterprise (Supervisor: K. Korneski)
• Hereward Longley, Razing Athabasca: Bitumen Extraction and the Industrial Colonization of North-Eastern Alberta, 1967-1983 (Supervisor: J. Sandlos)
• Katherine MacDonald, Women, Magazine, and the War: Middle-Class Female Gender Roles Represented in Ladies’ Home Journal from 1935 to 1945 (Supervisor: L. Fischer)
• Jay McGrath, The Road to Cooperation: Fogo Island, 1967 (Supervisor: J. Webb)
• Nigel Markham, Labrador Inuit and the World's Columbian Exposition (Supervisor: K. Korneski)
• Kane Master, Re-Examining Canada’s Role in the Cuban Missile Crisis: A Vindication of John G. Diefenbaker (Supervisor: K. Korneski)
• John R. Matchim, Making Jack Tar Healthy: Medicine, Hygiene, and the Victorian Royal Navy (Supervisor: J. Connor)
• Erin Mick, "As if she had actually been born free": Understanding Manumission, Self-Purchase, and Freedom in 19th Century Bermuda (Supervisor: N. Kennedy)
• William Miles, Captains and Colonies: Royal Navy Service in the North Atlantic World, 1660-1739 (Supervisors: L. Fischer and O. Janzen)
• Rodrigo Miranda, The Influence of Hugh of Fouilloy's De Avibuson Gerald of Wales Topographia Hibernica (Supervisor: S. Rossignol)
• Jeffry Neuhouser, Mistaken Identity: Same-Sex Attraction and Social Order in Southern Colonial America (Supervisor: N. Kennedy)
• Katie O'Brien, Undue Harm: Health over Wealth (Supervisor: J. Sandlos)
• Liam O’Keefe, “Turn On, Turn Up, Drop Out”: Questioning the existence of ‘psychedelic rock’ (Supervisor: L. Fischer)
• Christopher Penney, Proceedings at Variance with Practice: An examination of the interactions between Custom and Statutory Law during the final years of the Naval Gov in NL with regrets to the case of Deputy Naval Officer Peter W. Carter (Supervisor: J. Webb)
• Caitlin Piercey, “This sissy would fight”: The Transsexual Community in 1960s San Francisco and the Compton’s Cafeteria Riots of 1966" (Supervisor: L. Fischer)
• Alexander McHenry Pietrantoni, Defeated by Tradition: Italian Neofascist Ideological Evolution, 1946-1991 (Supervisor: E. Bosák)
• Andy Post, Newfoundland, Reeveland: Chief Justice John Reeves as Conservation Reformer, 1791-1793 (Supervisor: J. Webb)
• Norman Potter, "An Inveterate Jealousy of Strangers and So Much Perfidy": Anglo-American Perspectives of Tejano People in Mexican and Revolutionary Texas, 1821-1846 (Supervisor: D. Brégent-Heald)
• Cynthia Power, Signing On: Literacy, Knowledge and Seafaring Work in Newfoundland, 1860-1930 (Supervisor: V. Burton)
• Meredith Quaile, Sisters in Toil: The Progressive Devaluation and Defeminization of Ontario Dairywomen’s Work and Tools, 1813-1914 (Supervisor: A. den Otter)
• Christopher Reid, Come Follow Me: A Study of Morale, Discipline, and Effectiveness in the Newfoundland Regiment 1914-1919 (Supervisor: M. Humphries)
• Christopher Reid, Islands at War: Identity, Empire, and the British West Indian Experience of the First World War, 1914-1927 (PhD Supervisor: J. Fantauzzo)
• Lucas Reid, “Do Your Thing”: A Comparison of Urban and Rural American Hippie Communes, 1965-1970 (Supervisor: L. Fischer)
• Phillip Reid, 'A Very Good Sailer': Merchant Ship technology and the Development of the British Atlantic Empire 1600-1800
  (Supervisor: N. Kennedy)
• Jessica Riches, The Conflagrations of St. John's, Newfoundland: Catalysts of Societal Change (Supervisor: K. Korneski)
• Ashley Ring, Reel Images, Real Women: Indigenous Women and Assimilation in Early Cold War Westerns (Supervisor: D. Brégent-Heald)
• Brianna Robertson-East, Isolated and Independent: Nurses’ life writings and Newfoundland’s rural medical history (Supervisor: T. Bishop-Stirling)
• Curtis Robinson, Ethnic Elites, Propaganda, Recruiting and Intelligence in German-Canadian Ontario, 1914-1918 (Supervisor: R. Sweeny)
• Adam Ronan, An Island Divided: National Identity and the Confederation Debate of 1948 (Supervisor: S. Cadigan)
• Lyndsay Rosenthal, “Upon Fertile Soil”: C.B. Farrar, Psychiatry, and the Treatment of Shell Shocked Veterans in Canada, 1917-1939 (Supervisor: M. Humphries)
• Nakita Ryan, A Liminal Gentleman: The Case of Admiral William Kennedy in Newfoundland (Supervisor: K. Korneski)
• Hannen Sabean, Networks of Exposure: The Creation and Management of Waste along the Highway of the Atom (Supervisor: J. Sandlos)
• Katherine Saunders, There Was No Warning: The Distant Early Warning Line and Northern Colonization, 1954-2012 (Supervisor: J. Sandlos)
• Frank Sinclair, Shipowning and Investment in the Port of Sydney, Nova Scotia, 1820-1914: A Preliminary Analysis (Supervisor: L. Fischer)
• Rebecca Smith, Uncertain Medicine and Medical Uncertainty: Ronald Ross, Medical Infrastructures and the Treatment of Malaria Amongst British Soldiers, 1914-1939 (Supervisor: J. Fantauzzo)
• Chris Stevens, Sport-Hunters, Their Subjects, and Their Vantage Points in Newfoundland: Travel Narrative, Empire, and Identity in Late-Nineteenth/Early Twentieth Century Newfoundland (Supervisor: K. Korneski)
• Mariana Spilborghs, Brazilian Cinema and Hollywood: The Influence of the Good Neighbor Policy (Supervisor: D. Brégent-Heald)
• Debra Spurvey, Magic Spells and Charmed Objects: Women’s Agency in Late Antiquity (Supervisor: M. Cassis)
• Jessica Steffler, Morale and (Im)morality in Wartime Newfoundland: American Servicemen's Relations with Local Newfoundland Women, 1941-1945 (Supervisor: T. Bishop-Stirling)
• Julia Stryker, “To Contemplate the Species” Seafaring Stewardesses in the Atlantic Canadian Merchant Marine, 1862-1913 (Supervisor: N. Kennedy)
• Joshua Tavenor, Early Newfoundland and the Atlantic World: Imports to Newfoundland in the Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries (Supervisor: P. Pope)
• Brent Temple, Barbarians, Infidels and Heretics: Perception of the “Other” in the Primary Sources of the Crusades (Supervisor: M. Cassis)
• Mark Trainor, "Mercy we will take, and mercy we will give:" protests and justice in early nineteenth century Newfoundland (Supervisor: J. Webb)
• Kimberly Unruh, “Let them have their fun at home”: Britain, the Decline of the ‘General Settlement’ and the German Reintroduction of Conscription, 1935" (Supervisor: E. Bosák)
• Ally Vonk, "I Was Proud to Call Myself a Feminist": Student Second Wave Feminist Activism at Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1960-1989 (Supervisor: T. Bishop-Stirling)
• Meaghan Walker, Dead Men Do Tell Tales: The Inventories of British Merchant Seafarers, 1863-1879 (Supervisor: V. Burton)
• Andrew Walsh, Treating the Sick Man of Europe: British Soldiers and the Eastern Question in the Nineteenth Century (Supervisor: J. Fantauzzo)
• Brandon Welcher, "An Awful Formula": Acts of Violence Amongst Malarial British Veterans, 1919-1927 (Supervisor: J. Fantauzzo)
• Michael Westcott, Defending the Dominions: Canada, Newfoundland, and the Naval Defence of the British Empire in the First World War (Supervisor: M. Humphries)
• Michael Westcott, Transforming the liberal state: gender, class and ethnicity on the Newfoundland home front, 1914-1918 (PhD Supervisor: S. Cadigan)
• Sally Western, Arsenic's Lost Years: Pollution Control at Giant Mine from 1978 to 1999 (Supervisor: J. Sandlos and A. Keeling)
• Linda White, The General Hospital School of Nursing St. John's, Newfoundland 1903-1930 (Supervisors: J.K. Hiller and T. Bishop-Stirling)
• Hugh Whitney, “The Count” A Biography of Allan Coats Rankin, MD (1877-1959) (Supervisor: J. Connor)
• Christopher Winsor, Hegemony without Dominance: Racial Ideology and the Colonial Project in British Honduras, 1847-1867 (Supervisor: M. Kirkpatrick)
• George Withers. Reconstructing Rural Communities and Economies: the Newfoundland Fisheries Household Resettlement Program, 1965-1970 (Supervisor: J. Webb)
• Aileen Worrall, Noblesse Oblige to the Empire: Class, Gentility, and the Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire in Winnipeg, 1909-1914 (Supervisor: K. Korneski)