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AUGUSTUS, Camie
- Supervisor: Jim Miller and Jim Handy
- Dissertation topic: Indigenous Mixed-Blood Identities: A Comparative Approach (Canada, US, Mexico, Australia)
- Other academic interests: First Nations and Metis history in Canada; Indigenous history in Latin America; world indigenous peoples; colonial law and policy; 19th century; scientific racism
@ : camie.augustus@usask.ca

BAKER, Leslie
- Supervisor: Erika Dyck
- Dissertation topic: Institutionalizing Eugenics: Class, Gender, and Education in Nova Scotia's Eugenic Policies 1910-1960. My research explores the twentieth century eugenics policies in Nova Scotia through the multiple lenses of class, gender, and education to examine how these categories impacted the decision to pursue institutionalization rather than sterilization in the province.
@ : leslie.baker@usask.ca

BENINGER, Carling

BRAIN, Rebecca

BURROWS, Paul

BUTLER, Kelly
- Supervisor: Jim Handy
- Dissertation topic: My dissertation explores the continual interplay between indigenous worldviews and Western Christianity over a five-hundred year period in the municipality of Esquipulas in eastern Guatemala, with an emphasis on shrines and the phenomenon of pilgrimage. My interest in this topic extends across all of the Americas, and it focuses on ways in which indigenous spiritual practices inform and ultimately alter the manner in which non-indigenous peoples practice and approach Christianity.
- Other academic interests: Aboriginal/Indigenous/Native studies; religious hybridity; Catholic colonialism in the Americas; counter-discourse/counter-hegemony
@ : kelly.butler@usask.ca

BUTT, Omeasoo
- Supervisor: Keith Carlson
- Dissertation topic: My dissertation will explore how human beings inscribe their values on their home architecture and conversely how homes shape both values and human interactions. To explore this topic I will be working with several Canadian Indigenous communities and examining Indigenous architecture through the period of colonization.
@ : omeasoo.butt@usask.ca

CHASSE, Pat

CLAPPERTON, Jonathan

CROSSON, Selena

DeWITT, Jessica

DUGAL, Marie-Christine

DUNLOP, Andrew

ELCOCK, Christian

FEHR, Amanda

FEHR, Carla
- Supervisor: Jim Handy
- Dissertation topic: State and Community in Guatemala. My research will examine the continuing nature of pressure on community resources in several Guatemalan communities from the late 19th century to the end of the 20th century. This pressure may help explain contemporary tension between these communities and the state in Guatemala. My research will include an exploration of the community identity that often forms around struggles to resist dispossession of resources.
@ : cjf497@mail.usask.ca

GOUGH, Meagan

HAGGARTY, Liam

HARE, John

HATCHER, Rachel

JOZIC, Jennifer
- Supervisor: Bill Waiser
- Dissertation Topic: Data-mining the Legacy of Natural History on the Northern Great Plains
19th century natural history, more commonly known as inventory science, is enjoying a revival in environmental history circles. Once dismissed as antiquated and lacking in theoretical vigour, the massive collections of plants, birds, and animals are now being used today to measure temporal and geographic change in diversity. In this project, I will apply new technological and analytical methods to a study of the Missouri Coteau, located in the heart of the great plains of North America. I will compile and analyze recent statistical and modelling work on the climatic cycles, changes in flora and fauna populations, human migration paths, and land use methods in the Coteau, and compare the results with the existing narratives, emphasizing concurrent landscape use by aboriginal groups. I will also incorporate the numerous early specimens in the herbaria of the universities of Saskatchewan, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Montana; the records of the amateur Natural History societies in Saskatchewan and North Dakota; and ornithological data. Synthesized, this will contribute to the historical baseline used to measure changes in land use and ecology over the past two centuries. After a ‘snapshot’ of the region is assembled, the role of amateurism in the study and development of the region will be examined in greater detail, including aspects of the political and legal apparatus that permitted science expeditions to be undertaken, the funding and recruitment drives that were required, and the instructional literature on collecting that was circulated. The interaction between naturalists, government, universities, museums, and herbaria will be emphasized.

KIRKPATRICK, Michael
- Supervisor: Jim Handy
- Dissertation topic: The Culture of Modernity in Guatemala City, 1873-1986
- Other academic interests: Consumerism, fine arts (architecture, Impressionism, Art Nouveau, Arte Naif), spatial analysis, urbanism, bourgeois cultural formation
@ : kirpak@hotmail.com

KRUSHELINSKI, Colleen

LAMB-DROVER, Victoria
- Supervisor: Valerie Korinek
- Dissertation topic: ParticipACTION: A Legacy in Motion. An exploration of the social and cultural impact of Canada's first multi-media public service campaign from its creation in Saskatchewan in 1971 to its loss of federal funding in 2001
@ : victoria.drover@usask.ca

MacDONALD, Marc
- Supervisor: Dr. Larry Stewart
- Topic: Early Modern and Modern cultural history of science and industry
- Dissertation title: Crossroads of Enlightenment, 1685-1850: Exploring Scientific and Industrial Traffic Across the English Channel and Beyond
@ : jmm328@mail.usask.ca

MacDONALD, Katya

McCULLOCH, Mark

MONTGOMERY, Adam

MORLEY, Rob
Hons. BA (McMaster), MA (Saskatchewan)
- Supervisor: John McCannon
- Dissertation topic: Aviation and British Cinema during the Interwar Period.
- Other academic interests: Modern European history but more specifically cultural and intellectual history, aviation history, military history, and the World Wars.
@ : r.morley@usask.ca

REILLY, Frances
- Supervisor: Valerie Korinek
- Dissertation topic: Canada in the Cold War and public anxiety (focusing on the fear of invisible menaces, such as communism, radiation, and homosexuality, and the desire to detect Cold War threats through modern science, technology, and medicine)
@ : f.reilly@usask.ca

ROBERTS, Sara

SAMSON, Amy

SCOTT, Elizabeth A.
- Supervisor: C. A. Kent
- Dissertation topic: East London Emigration and Perceptions of the British Empire, 1880-1922
- Other research interests: Modern British Social History; The British World with emphasis on the relationship between Canada and Britain; Colonialism; East London and Urban Poverty; Environmental History; History of Food and Food Security; Grassroots Political Activism in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century London. I also retain an interest in Canadian Native-Newcomer History.
@ : eascott1979@gmail.com

SMITH, David

SPINNEY, Erin

STANLEY, Heather

STEVENSON, Allyson
- Supervisor: Valerie Korinek
- Dissertation topic: A Comparative History of Aboriginal Transracial Adoption in Canada and the US: The Sixties Scoop in Saskatchewan and South Dakota
@ : allyson.stevenson@sasktel.net

TODD, Matt

UNDERHILL, Jason
- Supervisor: Frank Klaassen
- Dissertation topic: Social History of Early Modern Magical Practitioners
@ : jason.underhill@usask.ca

WICKHAM, Blaine


BELLISSIMO, Stephanie

BOLAH, Ciprian

DANYLUK, Stephanie

DAVIDSON, Melissa

DIENER, Deanna

DOBSON, James

DUMONCEAUX, Scott

ELLIOT, Ian

GIBBONS, Sheila

GRIER, Jason

GRIEVE, Adam
- Supervisor: Gary Zeller
- Topic: Impact of Canadians on Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West

KOSTUCHENKO, Amber

LARSEN, Laura

LECKIE, Tina

MELENCHUK, Maria

MORRIS, Brandon

NOVAKOVIC, Ana

SMITH, Brenan

WATSON, Heather

WIEBE, Lesley

YORK, Sarah