Past Theses and Dissertations

Below are past theses and dissertations from our MA and PhD students in both Art History (AH) and Communication Studies (CS). The McGill Library also offers electronic access to theses and dissertations through eScholarship@McGill.

Ph.D.

2023

SCOTT, BRADEN (AH)
Antiquity Expanded: Ancient West Asian and North African Architecture in European Art, c. 1450-1570
Supervisor: Angela Vanhaelen

2022

SARAH CARTER (AH)
Art, Eros and the British Enlightenment
Supervisor: Matthew C. Hunter

FARAH ATOUI (CS)
Migrant Syrian cinema: Countervisualizing the refugee crisis
Supervisors: Darin Barney, Jenny Burman

GUTIÉRREZ ARILLO, ITZAYANA (CS)
Forms of Violence: Comic strips, the comic magazine, and the anti-Chinese campaign in Mexico 1911-1940
Supervisor: Will Straw

2021

GALANTE, Deborah (AH)
Mediterranean routes: Migration and xenophobia in Italy: An art historian's perspective 1861-2020
Supervisor: Jenny Burman

KIELICH, Gabrielle (CS)
Road crews and the everyday life of live music
Supervisors: Will Straw and Dr. Martin Cloonan

MAKAROVA, Evgeniya (AH)
Artistic compliance in National Socialist Germany: The case of architectural and technical subjects painting
Supervisor: Christine Ross

MORGAN, Jas (AH)
Trans.NDN cyborgs at the end of man's world
Supervisor: Christine Ross

2020

DOZIER, Ayanna (CS)
Mnemonic Aberrations: Black Feminisms and the Counter-Poetics of Rhythm in Experimental Short Film and Video (1968-1998)
Supervisor: Carrie Rentschler

JOACHIM, Joana (AH)
There/Then, Here/Now: Black Women’s Hair and Dress in the French Empire
Supervisor: Charmaine Nelson

KNALL, Elisabeth (AH)
Still lifes, botanical illustrations, and garden design in seventeenth-century Sweden: a geo-history of art
Supervisor: Angela Vanhaelen

LYNCH, Robin (AH)
Packaging environments: the art and design of the container corporation of America
Supervisor: Christine Ross

PELLETIER, Johanne (CS)
A matter of time : digital patina and timeboundedness in new media
Supervisor: Will Straw

SAUTER, Mols (CS)
A Business Man's Risk: The Construction of Venture Capital at the Center of US High Technology
Supervisor: Darin Barney & Gabriella Coleman

TOUPIN, Sophie (CS)
Technically Subversive: Encrypted Communication in the South African National Liberation Struggle
Supervisor: Darin Barney

2019

ASKAR, Ali (CS)
The will not to count: Technologies of calculation and the quest to govern Afghanistan
Supervisor: Will Straw

COOPERSTEIN, Shana (AH)
Reading between the lines: drawing habits in nineteenth-century France
Supervisor: Mary Hunter

MASSE, Isabelle (AH)
Médium du portrait, portrait du medium. Les spécificités historiques du pastel dans le long XVIIIe siècle
Supervisor: Angela Vanhaelen and Richard Taws

SHERWOOD, Dana (CS)
The city as medium: infrastructural logic in building and operating systems in Hamilton, Ontario
Supervisor: Will Straw

2018

BISHOP-STALL, Reilley (AH)
Photography’s Crisis of Conscience: Distortion and Redirection from Photo-Colonialism to Contemporary Art
Supervisor: Christine Ross

CANDIDO, Anna (CS)
“Pigs Ate My Roses”: Media Moralities, Comedic Inversions, and the First Amendment
Supervisor: Carrie Rentschler

JEAN, Marie Josée (AH)
L’exposition comme pratique réflexive : une histoire alternative des expositions d’artistes
Supervisor: Christine Ross

SIMON, Victoria (CS)
From Difficulty to Delight: The History and Politics of Touchscreens for Music Production
Supervisor: Jonathan Sterne

SOROCHAN, Cayley (CS)
The Participatory Complex: Participation as Ideology in the Neoliberal Era
Supervisor: Darin Barney

TABATABAEI, Sami (AH)
Chronopolitics of Contemporaneity in Iranian Art
Supervisor: Becky Lentz

2017

AMEND, Elyse (CS)
Consuming Quantification and Recipes for Resistance Digesting Canada's Food Guide
Supervisor: Darin Barney

ANDERSEN, Tawny (AH)
Performativity as Critical Praxis: J.L. Austin, Jacques Derrida, Judith Butler, Catherine Malabou, c. 1955-2014
Supervisor: Amelia Jones

CORNFIELD, Li (CS)
Stages of Technology: Performance and Production in the Tech Industry
Supervisor: Jonathan Sterne

FONTAINE, Paul (CS)
The Institutionalization of Diasporic Identity: A Study of the University of the Fraser Valley’s centre for Indo-Canadian studies
Supervisor: Jenny Burman

GRUSIECKI, Tomasz (AH)
Globalising the Periphery: Poland-Lithuania and Cultural Entanglement, 1587–1668
Supervisor: Angela Vanhaelen

LAYWINE, Nathanial (CS)
Emotional Extractions: The Recruitment Practices and Experiential Dimensions of International Volunteerism
Supervisor: Carrie Rentschler

MOUILLOT, François (CS)
Distribution Ambiances Magnétiques Etcetera and Constellation Records: DIY Record Labels and the Montreal Music Scene
Supervisor: Will Straw

OUELLET, Maryse (AH)
Après l’imprésentable : contemporanéité du sublime dans les oeuvres de Shirin Neshat, Olafur Eliasson et Ryoji Ikeda  
Supervisor: Christine Ross

SALAMON, Errol (CS)
Journalists Organize the Thomson Newspaper Chain: A Labour Union Standpoint to News Organizations
Supervisor: Marc Raboy

SHAPIRO, Abigail (AH)
Ree Morton and Feminist Installation Art: 1968 – 1977
Supervisor: Amelia Jones

VERGARA-VARGAS, Erandy (AH)
Movement and Orientations: Four Interactive Installations from Latin America
Supervisor: Christine Ross

2016

ANDERSEN, Joceline (CS)
Stars, Nobodies, and Other Apparitions: Cameo Roles in Hollywood Film and Television
Supervisor: Will Straw

AVRAM, Horea (AH)
The Visual Regime of Augmented Reality Art: Space, Body, Technology, and the Real–Virtual Convergence.
Supervisor: Christine Ross

BELLON, Liana (AH)
Souvenirs of Venice: Reproduced Views, Tourism and City Spaces
Supervisors: Angela Vanhaelen and Bronwen Wilson

KING, Gretchen (CS)
The Radical Pedagogy of Community Radio and the Case of Radio Al-Balad 92.4 fm: Community Radio News Audiences and Political Change in Jordan.
Supervisor: Becky Lentz

MULVIN, Dylan (CS)
Reference Materials: The People, Places, and Things of Making Measurement
Supervisor: Jonathan Sterne

SIROIS, Guillaume (CS)
The art of being on top: power and prestige in the global art world
Supervisor: Marc Raboy

2015

BEM, Caroline (CS)
A Moveable Form: The Diptych in Art, Book Culture, and (post) Cinema
Supervisor: Will Straw

CASEY, Natasha (CS)
Converging Identities: Irishness and Whiteness in US Popular Culture
Supervisor: Will Straw

CHARLES, Morgan (CS)
Shaping time in the city: A cultural history of concrete modernity in Montreal, 1903-2015
Supervisor: Will Straw

GIBB, Alexandra Heather (CS)
Beyond the Decline: Revaluing Montreal’s Movie Palaces
Supervisor: Will Straw

GUTIERREZ, Chris (CS)
At Once Recognized, Remembered and Anticipated: Towards a Theory of Anxious Realism
Supervisor: Jenny Burman

MAWANI, Aysha (CS)
Of vuvuzelas and caxirolas: UNESCO’s policies on cultural diversity as expressions of the relationship between globalization and governance
Supervisor: Marc Raboy

2014

AKIYAMA, Mitchell (CS)
The Phonographic Memory: A History of Sound Recording in the Field
Supervisor: Jonathan Sterne

DE BLOIS, Ariane (AH)
Un renversement grotesque: les sculptures mi-humaines, mi-animales de Jane Alexander, de Patricia Piccinini et de David Altmejd
Supervisor: Christine Ross

DEL RE, Sonia Loredana (AH)
Reforming Images: Utrecht, Carvaggio, and the Body
Supervisors: Angela Vanhaelen, Bronwen Wilson

DIDUCK, Ryan (CS)
Global controller: making the musical instrument digital interface, 1983-1999
Supervisor: Jonathan Sterne

HECKER, Timothy (CS)
The era of megaphonics: on the productivity of loud sound, 1880-1930
Supervisor: Jonathan Sterne

JACQUES, Alison (CS)
The newspaperman and the Tabloid:  Recovering the History of Philip H. Daniels and Justice Weekly
Supervisor: Will Straw

LIN, FAN (AH)
Cartographic Empire: Production and Circulation of Maps and Mapmaking Knowledge in the Song Dynasty (960-1279)
Supervisors: Jeffrey Moser and Robin Yates

MAYNARD, Elizabeth (AH)
‘Monster’ Masculinity: The Veteran-Artist and Figural Representation in Postwar Chicago, 1946-1959
Supervisor: Amelia Jones

RADOVAC, Lilian (CS)
The muted city: New York, Noise control and the reconfiguration of Urban Space
Supervisor: Jonathan Sterne

RUIZ, Rafico (CS)
Sites of Communication: The Grenfell Mission of Newfoundland and Labrador
Supervisors: Darin Barney and Annemarie Adams

THOMPSON, Cheryl (CS)
Race and beauty in Canada: print culture, retail, and the transnational flow of products, images and ideologies, 1700s to present
Supervisors: Will Straw, Charmaine Nelson

VAN TOORN, Tai (AH)
On site, Out of Sight: Viewing Devices in Canadian Land Art, 1969-1980
Supervisor: Christine Ross

VAN VEEN, Tobias (CS)
Other Planes of There: the MythSciences, Chronopolitics and Conceptechnics of Afrofuturism
Supervisors: Jonathan Sterne, R. Philip Buckey

2013

EL-SHEIKH, Tammer (AH)
Strategies of Refusal: Art and Cultural Politics in the work of Edward W. Said and Hassan Khan
Supervisor: Amelia Jones

GOBIN, Anuradha (AH)
Representing the Criminal Body in the City: Knowledge, Publics and Power in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic
Supervisor: Angela Vanhaelen

KURD, Nadia (AH)
Competing Visions, Common Forms: The Construction of Mosque Architecture in Canada and the US
Supervisor: Charmaine Nelson

MANJIKIAN, Lalai (CS)
Refugee Narratives in Montreal: Negotiating everyday social exclusion and inclusion
Supervisor: Jenny Burman

MICKIEWICZ, Paulina Maria (CS)
The bias of libraries: Montréal's Grande Bibliothèque
Supervisor: Darin Barney

SILVER, Erin (AH)
Sites Unseen and Scenes Unsighted: Histories of Feminist and Queer Alternative Art Spaces, ca. 1970-2012
Supervisor: Amelia Jones

SIMONDS, Sylvie (AH)
A countercultural movement: examining Carlee Scheemann's kinetic theatre between 1963 and 1970
Supervisor: Christine Ross

VARGAS CERVANTES, Susana (CS)
Alarma!: Mujercitos performing gender in a pigmentocratic sociocultural system.
Supervisor: Will Straw

2012

BEJERMAN, Ingrid (CS)
Turning the inverted pyramid inside-out: Professional ideology, professionalization, and education of journalists reconsidered
Supervisor: Will Straw

BURTON, Samantha (AH)
Canadian Girls in London: Negotiating Home and Away in the British World at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Supervisor: Charmaine Nelson

HARVEY, Asia (AH)
Jan van Rymsdyk's Museum Britannicum: The Obstetric Image and Fetal Subjecthood in the Eighteenth Century
Supervisor: Angela Vanhaelen

KANG, Inhye (AH)
World Display, Imperial Time: The Temporal and Visual Articulation of Empire in Japanese Exhibitions (1890-1945)
Co-Supervisors: Hajime Nakatani, Thomas Lamarre

KELEBAY, Alexandra (AH)
The Art of Conversation: Imag(in)ing Art Galleries & Church Interiors in the Aftermath of Iconoclasm, 1550-1650
Supervisor: Angela Vanhaelen

LAURIN, Helene (CS)
La valorisation à travers les récits de vie mythiques: le projet autobiographique de Mӧtley Crüe au sein de la culture rock
Supervisor: Will Straw

MARTIN, Owen (AH)
Describing, Feeling: Description and Affect in the Visual Arts of the Dutch Republic
Supervisor: Angela Vanhaelen

NACHABE, Yasmine (CS)
Marie al-Khazen's photographs of the 1920s and 1930s
Supervisor: Will Straw

RAINE, Emily (CS)
On Waiting: A Political Economy of Affect in Restaurant Service
Supervisor: Jonathan Sterne

2011

BAKER, Michael (CS)
Rockumentary: Style, Performance & Sound in a Documentary Genre
Supervisor: Will Straw

CHAHINE, Joumane (CS)
Public Diplomacy: A Conceptual Framework
Supervisor: Will Straw

DAMIANO, Nelda (AH)
Entre espaces de création et réseaux de production: L'Imagination inventive de Francesco Salviati (1510-1563)
Co-Supervisors: Bronwen Wilson and Angela Vanhaelen

FROZZINI, Jorge (CS)
Comprendre l'intimité: une forme de pouvoir au sein des audiences de la commission Bouchard-Taylor
Supervisor: Darin Barney

LAMASANU, Stefana (CS)
Capturing the Romanian Revolution: Violent Imagery, Affect and the Televisual Event
Supervisor: William Straw

LANDRY, Normand (CS)
Les poursuites stratégiques contre la mobilisation publique : l'activisme citoyen et la juridicisation du politique au Québec
Supervisor: Marc Raboy

MITCHELL, Christine (CS)
Situation Normal All FAHQT Up: Language, Materiality and Machine Translation
Supervisor: Will Straw

SANTONE, Jessica (AH)
Circulating the Event: The Social Life of Performance Documentation 1965-1975
Supervisor: Christine Ross

SMYLITOPOULOS, Christina (AH)
A Nabob's Progress: Rowlandson and Combe's the Grand Master, a Tale of British Imperial Excess
Supervisor: Richard Taws

THOMAS, Neal (CS)
Social Computing as Social Rationality  
Supervisor: Darin Barney

WURSTER, Jessica Diane (CS)
The Logics of Good Exposure: Empowerment, Whore Stigma, and Free Labor in Suicide Girls' Social Network Porn
Supervisor: Carrie Rentschler

ZHANG, Yingxue (AH)
Inventing Exoticism: Creating Dutch Global Merchandise in Olfert Dapper’s Representation of Seventeenth-century China
Supervisor: Angela Vanhaelen

2010

AVERY, Dwayne (CS)
(Un)homely Cinema
Supervisor: Will Straw

BONIN, Geneviève (CS)
Accountability and the CRTC: An Evaluation of the Canadian Commercial Radio Licence Renewal Process (1997-2007)
Supervisor: Marc Raboy

BRAITHWAITE, Andrea (CS)
Triple Threats: Young Female Detectives and the Crimes of Postfeminism
Supervisor: Carrie Rentschler

KIM, Gye Won (AH)
Registering the Real: Photography and the Emergence of New Historic Sites in Japan, 1868-1882
Supervisor: Hajime Nakatani

LEE, YongWoo (CS)
Embedded Voices In-Between Empires: The Cultural Formation of Korean Popular Music in Modern Times
Supervisor: Will Straw

MOHAMED, Ali (CS)
Between the Hammer and the Anvil: Blogs, Bloggers, and the Public Sphere in Egypt
Supervisor: Darin Barney

MORRIS, Jeremy (CS)
Understanding the Digital Music Commodity
Supervisor: Jonathan Sterne

READ, Robert (CS)
A Squalid-Looking Place: Poverty Row Films of the 1930s
Supervisor: Will Straw

RODGERS, Tara (CS)
Synthesizing Sound: Metaphor in Audio-Technical Discourse and Synthesis History
Supervisor: Jonathan Sterne

TAYLOR, Gregory (CS)
Canadian broadcasting regulation and the digital television transition
Supervisor: Marc Raboy

TERZIC, Marilyn (CS)
Understanding television: the art and science of aesthetic response
Supervisor: Will Straw

THRIFT, Samantha (CS)
NAC, the news, and the neoliberal state 1984-1993
Supervisor: Carrie Rentschler

2009

CLARK, Leah (AH)
Value and Symbolic Practices: Objects, Exchanges, and Associations in the Italian Courts (1450-1500)
Co-Supervisors: Bronwen Wilson, Angela Vanhaelen

DUFORT, Danielle (AH)
Where Home Meets World: Domestic Genre Paintings as Part of Dutch Discussion Culture
Supervisor: Angela Vanhaelen

GIBSON, Andrew (AH)
What We Have Yet failed to Achieve: A Study of Charles Taylor's Canadian Social Criticism
Supervisor: Darin Barney

GILBERT, Gauius (CS)
No place, like home: a look at nature as artifact and the displacement of place
Supervisor: Will Straw

GOMEZ, Elizabeth (AH)
Voice and Identity in Contemporary Canadian Art: Perspectives on Vocality and Representation
Supervisor: Charmaine Nelson

JWEJATI, Rafah (AH)
Sur le chemin de Jérusalem: Étude archéologique et iconographique de mosaïques paléochrétiennes de la Syrie du Nord
​Co-Supervisors: John Fossey, Chantal Hardy, and Angela Vanhaelen

KINIK, Anthony John (CS)
Dynamic of the metropolis: the city film and the spaces of modernity
Supervisor: Will Straw

LAUZON, Claudette (AH)
Precarious Occupations: The Fragile Figure of Home in Contemporary Art
Supervisor: Christine Ross

MCLEOD, Erin (CS)
Leaving out of Babylon, into whose father's land? The Ethiopian perception of the repatriated Rastafari
Supervisor: Jonathan Sterne

SHAMY, Tania (AH)
Frederick the Great's Porcelain Diversion: The Chinese Tea House at Sanssouci
Co-Supervisors: Bronwen Wilson, Richard Taws

SLOMINSKA, Anita (CS)
Interpreting success and failure: the eclectic careers of Eva and Juliette Gauthier
Supervisor: Will Straw

TEMBECK, Tamar (AH)
Performative Autopathographies: Self-Representations of Physical Illness in Contemporary Art
Supervisor: Christine Ross

2008

BEAUCHEMIN, Anne (AH)
L'Image cubiste et la question de l'autoréférence
Supervisor: Bronwen Wilson

FEIGENBAUM, Anna (CS)
Tactics and technology: cultural resistance at the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp
Supervisor: Carrie Rentschler

GENNARO, Stephen
Selling youth: how market research at the J. Walter Thompson company framed what it meant to be a child (and an adult) in 20th Century America
Supervisor: Jonathan Sterne

LAVIGNE, Carlen (CS)
Mirrorshade women: feminism and cyberpunk at the turn of the twenty-first century
Supervisor: Will Straw and Edward Schantz

POCOCK, Valerie Anne (CS)
Cartographies of Cloth: Mapping the Veil in Contemporary Art
Supervisor: Christine Ross

ZIELINSKI, Gerald (CS)
Furtive, Steady Glances: On the Emergence and Cultural Politics of Lesbian & Gay Film Festivals
Supervisor: Will Straw

2007

ABRAHAM, Christiana (CS)
Images of Third World Women: Difference and Disjuncture in Development Representations
Supervisor: Will Straw

BOUTROS, Sandra  (CS)
Altered states : travel, transcendence and technology in contemporary Vodou

BOETZKES, Amanda (AH)
Beyond Perception: The Ethics of Contemporary Earth Art
Supervisor: Christine Ross

ÇELIK KUTLUAY, Burçe (CS)
Addicted Bodies: Cellular Telephony, Melancholia and Individual Articulation in Turkey
Supervisor: Jenny Burman

DAVIS, Blair (CS)
The 1950s B-movie : the economics of cultural production

GUIMOND, David (CS)
(Re)sounding : disintegrating visual space in music
Supervisor: Jenny Burman

MAK, Monica (CS)
Digital cinematic technology and the democratization of independent cinema
Supervisor: Will Straw

ROBERGE, Claire (CS)
L'espace transnational et la localité : le réseautage et la sédimentation du passage
Supervisor: Will Straw

2006

CLEARWATER, David A. (CS)
Full spectrum propaganda : the U.S. military, video games, and the genre of the military-themed shooter
Supervisor: Will Straw

DARROCH, Michael (CS)
Theatre and the materialities of communication
Supervisor: Will Straw

HUNTING, John (CS)
Affect, melodrama and cinema : as essay on embodied passivity
Supervisor: Will Straw

NELSON, Wade Gordon James (CS)
Reading cycles : the culture of BMX freestyle
Supervisor: Will Straw

RAULT, Jasmine (AH & CS)
Eileen Gray : new angles on gender and sexuality
Supervisor: Will Straw and Christine Ross

RAMLOCHAND, John (CS)
Japanese cinema : time space nation
Supervisor: Will Straw

KARAOSMANOǦLU, Defne (CS)
Cooking the past : the revival of Ottoman cuisine
Supervisor: Will Straw

WAGMAN, Ira
From spiritual matters to economic facts : recounting problems of knowledge in the history of Canadian audiovisual policy, 1928-61
Supervisor: Sheryl Hamilton

2005

ABDEL RAHIM, Yasser (CS)
Imaging identity : a study of Aljazeera's online news and its representation of Arabness with particular attention to "Arabs in diaspora"
Supervisor: David Crowley

AWWAD, Julian M. (CS)
Al-Jazeera's discourse of 'Arabness' : an examination of the discursive construction of identity in talk show programming
Supervisor: Sheryl Hamilton

DAYAN, Michael (CS)
Privacy Boundaries: Stories of Protecting Personal Autonomy in the Information Age
Supervisor: Sheryl Hamilton

FERREIRA, Maria José M. (CS)
Rethinking academic culture in the information age
Supervisor: Sheryl Hamilton

FITZPATRICK, Andrea José M.(AH)
Approaching the Dying and the Dead: An Analysis of Contemporary, Lens-Based Artworks and the Potential for Ethical Intersubjectivity
Supervisor: Christine Ross

LAVIGNE, Julie (AH)
L'Art féministe et la traversée de la pornographie: Érotisme et intersubjectivité chez Carolee Schneemann, Pipilotti Rist, Annie Sprinkle et Marlene Dumas
​Supervisor: Christine Ross

LEVY, Michelle (CS)
Nostalgia and renewal : the soundtracks of Rushmore and High Fidelity
Supervisor: Will Straw

LYNCH, Dianne (CS)
Rehearsing the real : children's identity development in virtual spaces
Supervisor: Sheryl Hamilton

POZAS, Maria Suescun (AH)
Modern Femininity, Shattered Masculinity: The Scandal of the Female Nude During Political Crisis in Colombia, 1930-1948
Supervisor: Christine Ross

SCHWARTZ, Danielle (CS)
From turnstile to transmitter : John Vassos, industrial designer, 1927-1941
Supervisor: Will Straw

WALKER, Lauren (AH)
Boiotian Black Figure Floral Ware: A Re-Analysis of the Southern Style with an Introduction to Floral Groups from Halíartos Volume I & II
Supervisor: John Fossey

2004

HODGES, Margaret (AH)
Blanche Lemco van Ginkel and H.P. Daniel van Ginkel: Urban Planning
Supervisor: Hans Böker

JIM, Alice (AH)
Urban Metaphors in Hong Kong Media Art: Reimagining Place Identity
Supervisor: Christine Ross

KADYSS, Sabine (CS)
Penetration: From Having a Body to Being a Body
Supervisor: Will Straw and Rose-Marie Arbour

URQUHART, Peter William (CS)
1979: Reading the Tax-Shelter Boom in Canadian Film History
Supervisor: Will Straw

2003

FARAG, Ahmed (CS)
The Internet in Egyptian Society and its use as a News Medium
Supervisor: Gertrude Robinson

FURSTENAU, Marc (AH)
Cinema, Language, Reality: Digitization and the Challenge to Film Theory
Supervisor: Will Straw

PINCHEVSKI, Amit (CS)
Interruption and Alterity: Dislocating Communication
Supervisor: Sheryl Hamilton

QUINN-LEANDRO, Jacqui Clarissa
Women's Professional Status in Caribbean Television: Parity: Perception and Reality

STAHL, Geoffrey (CS)
Crisis? What Crisis? Anglophone Musicmaking in Montreal
Supervisor: Will Straw

2002

COLLINS, Curtis (AH)
Sites of Aboriginal difference : a perspective on installation art in Canada
Supervisor: Christine Ross

FILICE, Eugenio (AH)
Figurations of ethics, configurations of power : Michel Foucault, Attila Richard Lukacs, and the New Painting
Supervisor: Christine Ross

FRASER, Kathryn Ruth (CS)
The Makeover and Other Consumerist Narratives
Supervisor: Will Straw

PIERCE, Alexandria (AH)
Imperialist intent - colonial response : the art collection and cultural milieu of Lord Strathcona in nineteenth-century Montreal
Supervisors: Ting Chang and Joanne Sloan

M.A.

2023

DE PENCIER, HANNIBAL (AH)
The Erotics of Reading in the Art of Henry Fuseli
Supervisor: Mathew Hunter

HALLER, GWEN (AH)
Beyond the Muse: The Representation and Self-Invention of Leonora Carrington and Dorothea Tanning
Supervisor: Mary Hunter

LIU, JENNIFER (AH)
Invisible Hands: Labour in the Seventeenth-Century Foundry and the Making of the Cathedra Petri in St. Peter's Basilica
Supervisor: Angela Vanhaelen

MACFARLANE, JOAN (AH)
The Frescoes of la Crociera at the Villa di Maser: Fosteringa Rite of Passage between Farmyard and Piano Nobile
Supervisor: Chriscinda Henry

MARTINO, MATTHEW (CS)
White Noise: Linguistic Appropriation, Corporate Advertising, and Social Media
Supervisor: Carrie Rentschler

MILLS, MAGGIE (CS)
When the net works: queer feminist creative practice on social media
Supervisor: Carrie Rentschler

STEINKE, EMMA (AH)
Poetics of the Body in Bronzino's "Portrait of Laura Battiferra"
Supervisor: Chriscinda Henry

2022

CICHAN, Alex (AH)
Multivalent Cultural Forces in the Siyah Qalam Lion Rider: A Case Study in Visual Transmission from the Persianate World
Supervisor: Cecily Hilsdale

GUTTORMSON, Kristian (AH)
Visualizing heterochrony: Evolution, spectacle, and the Victorian representation of time
Supervisor: Mary Hunter

KAZEMI, Mitra (AH)
Graffiti as Living Archive: Carceral Aesthetics at an Inquisitorial Prison in Sicily
Supervisor: Angela Vanhaelen

KIM, Miran (CS)
Racial melancholia: Feeling backward and structures of racial capitalism
Supervisor: Jenny Burman

WOODRUFF, Olivia (AH)
Visualising illness and wellness in the nineteenth-century home
Supervisor: Mary Hunter

2021

ALLEN-FLANAGAN, Tara (AH)
Powder puffs and porcelain: Women’s consumption in Édouard Manet’s Nana (1877) and Berthe Morisot’s Young Woman Powdering Herself (1877)
Supervisor: Mary Hunter

FENSKE, Leighton (AH)
Touching the Surface: Painting and Violence in Jusepe de Ribera’s Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew
Supervisor: Angela Vanhaelen

GILBERT, Sabine (AH)
Mater infirma: Merging pariah and Madonna in Pablo Picasso's blue paintings of prostitute-mothers
Supervisor: Mary Hunter

GOUIGAH, Lotfi (AH)
A work of life: Lynn Hershman Leeson and the multimedia performing of the life-like
Supervisors: Amelia Jones and Darin Barney

LIU, Yuting (AH)
The formation of tomb portraiture and the visual culture of the Northern Dynasties in China (4th-6th centuries)
Supervisor: Jeehee Hong

NIKCEVIC, Hana (AH)
The art of losing: performing ecological loss in contemporary art
Supervisor: Christine Ross

NOTHWEHR, Benjamin (CS)
Trans(formative) historiographies and speculative worlds: archival imaginaries in the work of contemporary transgender artists
Supervisor: Carrie Rentschler

SAJID, Andilib (AH)
Traceable Threads: A case study of a 12th century silk textile from Al-Andalus
Supervisor: Cecilily Hilsdale

VAN DEMBROUCKE, Celina (CS)
How photographs deliver a message: Personal photography in Latin America
Supervisor: Will Straw

2020

MASTERS, Saraphina (AH)
Three Traditions in the History Painting of Angelica Kauffman: Prudence, National Pride, and (In)famous Women in Vortigern, King of Britain, enamoured with Rowena and Interview of Edgar and Elfrida
Supervisor: Chriscinda Henry

VALENTINE-LEWIS, Andrea (AH)
A Garden of Unplanted Species: Andrew Dadson’s Countervisuality of Weeds
Supervisor: Christine Ross

2019

AUCOIN, Julia (CS)
Virtual commensality: Mukbang and food television
Supervisors: Carrie Rentschler & Thomas Lamarre

AUERBACH, Joel (CS)
Fragmented abundance: disjunction and uncertainty in a solar economy
Supervisor: Darin Barney

BENZSCHAWEL, Andrea (AH)
Coming to life: the illustrated novel and Theodor von Holst's creation of the 1831 "Frankenstein" frontispiece
Supervisor: Matthew Hunter

EAVES, Hayley (AH)
Pastoral and Pulcinella: Representations of a Commedia dell’Arte Character in the Countryside, 1791-1793
Supervisor: Chriscinda Henry

FLAVIAN, Emma (CS)
To name another life, already lived: blackness and queerness, in love and study
Supervisor: Bobby Benedicto

HARNISH, Lauren (AH)
Brushing the surface: Edgar Degas’s La Coiffure as site of experimentation and corporal dissolution
Supervisor: Mary Hunter

KLEIN, Rach (AH)
Deformity, Death, Decay: The Use of the Early Modern Freak as ​Memento Mori
Supervisor: Angela Vanhaelen

PLUMPTRE, Geneviève (CS)
Time Out of Joint: Temporal Rupture and Migration Management
Supervisor: Jenny Burman

TRAHAN-THOMASSIN, Marilous (AH)
Reinforcing racial hierarchy through visual culture: black enslaved children in New France and early Quebec (1700-1834)
Supervisor: Charmaine Nelson

ZHAO, Zifeng (AH)
Augustus II the Strong's Porcelain Collection at the Japanisches Palais zu Dresden: A Visual Demonstration of Power and Splendor
Supervisor: Angela Vanhaelen

2018

ATKIN, Jacqueline (AH)
Deconstructing the Modern Subject: Negotiating Identity in Pablo Picasso’s Kahnweiler and Gertrude Stein’s Picasso
Supervisor: Mary Hunter

DARE, Zoya (AH)
Locating the Viewer of Digital Art: A Case Study of Ian Cheng's Emissaries (2015-2017)
Supervisor: Christine Ross

EVOUGHLIAN, Sandra (AH)
Envisioning new futures: Portrait photographs of black Victorians in Montreal, 1861-1901
Supervisor: Charmaine Nelson

HAWKINS, Klea (AH)
The confrontation with horror and the practice of restraint: Jusepe de Ribera’s Ixion and Tityus in the seventeenth-century Spanish court
Supervisor: Angela Vanhaelen

MISENHEIMER, Sofia (CS)
Cherchez les femmes: Graffiti, street art & self-identity in Montreal
Supervisor: Carrie Rentschler

PORTULESE, Anthony (AH)
The Phenomenology of Display: Monet's «Water Lilies» of the Orangerie and the History of Proto-Installation Art
Supervisor: Mary Hunter

TOLLEFSON, Hannah (CS)
Lines, mines, and ports: The infrastructural politics of energy, extraction, and logistics in northwest BC
Supervisor: Darren Barney

2017

CASKANETTE, Stephanie (CS)
Tips of Fingers, Tips of Tongues: Emulating Authentic Dialogue in Roleplaying Video Games
Supervisor: Jonathan Sterne

CHATZIFILALITHIS, Maria (CS)
Peering into the Body: Tracing The Visual Culture of Magnetic Resonance Imaging and the Construction of a ‘Transparent’ Body
Supervisor: Darin Barney

COLE, Marianne (AH)
Secret Gardens: The Garden Room of the Villa of Livia ​Ad​ ​Galinas​ ​Albas​ at Prima Porta
Supervisor: Cecily Hilsdale

CORBETT, Lindsay (AH)
Liturgical Polyvalence and the Potential of Performance: Reassessing the London-Berlin Cross
Supervisor: Cecily Hilsdale

FELTS, Kyrtsin (CS)
The Millennial Politics of Tumblr Feminism
Supervisor: Carrie Rentschler

HALES, Katherine (CS)
(De)Constructing Canada: The use of museum spaces in disrupting settler narratives of Canadian identity
Supervisor: Jenny Burman

HALPERT COLE, Marianne (AH)
Secret gardens: The garden room of the Villa of Livia «Ad Galinas Albas» at Prima Porta
Supervisor: Cecily Hilsdale

HOWE BUKOWSKI, Anastasia (AH)
The promise of listening: contemporary art's karaoke
Supervisor: Christine Ross

LESSARD, Victoria (AH)
Marketing desire: The "Normative/Other" male body and the "Pure" white female body on the cover art of Cassie Edwards' «Savage Dream» (1990), «Savage Persuasion» (1991), and «Savage Mists» (1992)
Supervisor: Charmaine Nelson

MALDONADO DORANTES, Itzel Danae (CS)
Gendered Urbanness and Women’s Self-Defence in Mexico. From the Right to the City to the Right to Be Safe
Supervisor: Will Straw

2016

ALAIN, Hubert (CS)
Vegetal matter: the conflicting ecologies of corn agriculture from a new materialist perspective
Supervisor: Darin Barney

CAO, Mengge (AH)
Schematizing Plum Blossoms: Understanding Printed Images in Thirteenth-Century China
Supervisors: Jeffrey Moser, Chriscinda Henry

HELLEGREN, Isadora (CS)
Deciphering crypto-discourse: articulations of internet freedom in relation to the state
Supervisor: Becky Lentz

GOERZEN, Matthew (CS)
Critical Trolling
Supervisor: Gabriella Coleman

KIDANE, Luam (AH)
Cultural de-commodification: subverting value chains through liberatory cultural production.
Supervisor: Charmaine Nelson

LUTZ, Justin (CS)
Southern Strategies An architectural rapprochement of queer ethics and rural space in Alabama's black belt
Supervisor: Darin Barney

MATURO, Nicolas (CS)
Music as immaterial labour: soundCloud and the changing working conditions of independent musicians
Supervisor: Darin Barney 

MILLAR, Kristen (AH)
Traces left behind: the materiality of white supremacy in nineteenth century Anglo-Caribbean illustrated travelogues
Supervisor: Charmaine Nelson

SEN, Pooja (AH)
Invisibility for the hypervisible: Hito Steyerl, military surveillance, and the performance of identity
Supervisor: Yuriko Furuhata and Charmaine Nelson

VEMURI, Ayesha (CS)
After Nirbhaya: anti-sexual violence activism and the politics of transnational social media campaigns
Supervisor: Carrie Rentschler

2015

DI FRANSCESCO, Vanessa (AH)
A Pleasurable Anxiety: Viewing the Sabines on Fifteenth-Century Cassone Panels.
Supervisor: Chriscinda Henry

DUNN, Laura (CS)
Networks of resilience: online sharing and visions of community in Cambridge Bay, NU
Supervisor: Carrie Rentschler

HARATI, Asieh (AH)
Looking beyond the veil: strategies of representation in the works of contemporary Iranian women photographers
Supervisor: Amelia Jones

KARPETZ, Jonathan (CS)
Competitive Labour Practice in Creative Economies: Contemporary Contests in Electronic Dance Music Networks
Supervisor: William Straw

WYSOTE, Travis (AH)
“Risk your life accessing the museum”: The Canadian museum for human rights and the question of indigenous genocide(s)
Supervisor: Charmaine Nelson

2014

OLSON-MAYES, Liam (CS)
Detroit in Crisis: Baudrillard, Benjamin and the Limits of Misrepresenting a Cty
Supervisors: Thomas Lamarre, Darin Barney

TURNBULL, Alexandra (AH)
The Death of the Animal: Abundance and Decay in Horse Etchings of the Seventeenth Century
Supervisor: Angela Vanhaelen

VARGAS, Lorenzo (CS)
Producing Citizenship in Contexts of Conflict: Citizenship Practices Among Youth Participating in Save the Children’s Media Production Programs in Colombia
Supervisor: Becky Lentz, Jenny Burman

2013

BRAUN, Tyler (CS)
Priming the Senses: The Yes Men and the Affective Character of Disruption
Supervisor: Darin Barney

GIRARD, Claire (CS)
The Internet Table: how Canadian arts and culture organisations engage with telecommunication policy
Supervisor: Darin Barney

GOUIGAH, Mohammed Lotfi (CS)
Time Does Tell: On the Archival Potential of Films
Supervisor: Will Straw

PRINGLE, Wendy (CS)
Remediating Lost Pop: The Recirculation of North American B-Music.
Supervisor: Will Straw

2012

FRANCIS, Henry (AH)
Crusader Appropriation: A Closer Look at the British Museum’s St. George Icon
Supervisor: Cecily Hilsdale

HUI-BON-HOA, Alan (CS)
Identity and Marginality on the Road: American Road Movies of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1990s
Supervisor: Will Straw

LIN, Jonathan (CS)
The Historical Development of Criminological Thought and Theory as a Series of Successive Periods
Supervisor: Will Straw

LISTA, Elizabeth (CS)
Encountering Multiculturalism in Suburban Ontario: Sacred Hindu Space, Citizenship, and Canadian Multiculturalism
Supervisor: Jenny Burman

MACDONALD, Amy (CS)
Imagining the City of Festivals: Festivalization and Urban Space in Montréal
Supervisor: Will Straw

MCELGUNN, Hannah (CS)
The Discursive (Re)production and Transformation of Social Life at the Occupy Wall Street General Assembly
Supervisors: Becky Lentz, Will Straw

STRAUSS, Catherine (CS)
Mapping the carnival: conceptions of public safety in conservative prison policy and in the work of prison abolition
Supervisor: Carrie Rentschler

WHITTET, Julie (CS)
Wild nature, disciplined aesthetics: Framing environmental justice in the case of the Northern Gateway Pipeline project
Supervisor: Darin Barney

2011

BORLONGAN, Katherine (CS)
Frontline: NGOs and the changing nature of news witnessing in disaster and conflict zones
Supervisor: Becky Lentz

HABLUETZEL, Caroline (CS)
The telautograph, scenes of handwriting and the changing cultural appreciation of physical authenticity
Supervisors: Cornelius Borck, Darin Barney

MOODY-GRIGSBY, Daniel (CS)
The problem of containment: towards an alternative ontology of recorded sound
Supervisor: Jonathan Sterne

MULVIN, Dylan (CS)
"Human Eye Inadequate:" Instant Replay and the Politics of Video
Supervisor: Jonathan Sterne

REUVENI, Yifat (CS)
Iron wings and flying bodies: ideology and practice in the new economy - a case study of the middle-class workforce in the hi-tech industry
Supervisor: Will Straw

SANNICANDRO, Joseph (CS)
Nothing Behind the Mask: An Arendtian Approach to Virtual Worlds and the Politics of Online Education
Supervisor: Darin Barney

SUMNER, Lisa (CS)
'Known by the company it keeps': popularizing Seagram's in the Canadian imagination
Supervisor: Will Straw

2010

BLACKBURN, Richard (CS)
sentio, cogito, dictum, video
Supervisor: Will Straw

DOUCETTE, Valerie Anne (CS)
The art museum in code: display strategies of the National Gallery of Canada
Supervisors: Darin Barney

PATTEE, Julie Anne (CS)
A ceiling of blue: swimming pools, movie stars and manifest destiny
Supervisor: Will Straw

SCHMIDT, Patricia (CS)
Québec Electric: Montreal, Mutek and the global circuit
Supervisor: Will Straw

2009

BEM, Caroline (CS)
Cinema and Museum: Encounters
Supervisor: Will Straw

CHARLES, Morgan Julia (CS)
La Maison où j'ai grandi: the changing landscape of nostalgia in Quebec's contemporary coming-of-age films
Supervisor: Carrie Rentschler

POLETTI, Romy (CS)
The residual culture of roller rinks: media, music and nostalgia of roller skating
Supervisor: Will Straw

SOROCHAN, Cayley (CS)
Flash mobs and urban gaming: networked performances in urban space
Supervisor: Darin Barney

STARCK, Julia (AH)
Discovering the Reality of the Present: Olafur Eliasson‘s The Weather Project
Supervisor: Christine Ross

STARK, Trevor (AH)
The supersession and realization of art: Guy Debord between art and politics
Supervisor: Christine Ross

SUTHERLAND, Richard (CS)
Making Canadian music industry policy 1970-1998
Supervisor: Will Straw

SUTTON, Paul (CS)
Smoking is a socialist issue: health promotion and neoliberal politics in Canada
Supervisor: Darin Barney

2008

EDAMURA, Taisuke (AH)
Toward motional thinking: reflections on the movement of Gerhard Richter's glass works
Supervisor: Christine Ross

KOURI-TOWE, Natalie (CS)
War and pride: "Out Against the Occupation" and queer responses to the 2006 Lebanon War
Supervisor: Carrie Rentschler

LEVENTHAL, Anna (CS)
From garbage to Garbage Hill : public culture, memory, and community access television in Winnipeg
Supervisor: Carrie Rentschler

MAKI, Christine (CS)
The conservation of a gender fantasy: women and Top 40 radio in Montreal
Supervisor: Carrie Rentschler

MOSCOTE FREIRE, Ariana (CS)
Tuning into you: personalized audio streaming services and their remediation of radio
Supervisor: Jonathan Sterne

NOBLE-OLSON, Matthew (AH)
Images never again witnessed/concepts never again thought: (nostalgia) and utopia in the aporia of aesthetic theory
Supervisor: Jonathan Sterne

RANACHAN, Emma Kate (CS)
Cheering for Barça: FC Barcelona and the shaping of Catalan identity
Supervisor: Darin Barney

SPENCER, Justina (AH)
Baroque perspectives: looking into Samuel Van Hoogstraten's perspective box
Supervisor: Angela Vanhaelen

STEIGER LEVINE, Gabrielle (AH)
Deviance and disorder: the naked body in Chinese art
Supervisor: Angela Vanhaelen and Bronwen Wilson

SURCH, Matthew (CS)
Prosthetic tim/ing: selfhood and ethics amidst technological rationality
Supervisor: Darin Barney

VARGAS CERVANTES, Susana (CS)
El/La Mataviejitas: killing genders in Mexico City
Supervisor: Will Straw

2007

ANESTOPOULOS, Karolina (CS)
Sound travels : mapping trajectories of musical recordings towards and within sites of meaning-making

CHEBAB, Kreystel (AH)
A view onto the world: Tenochtitlan, travel and utopia in the early modern period
Supervisor: Bronwen Wilson

GABRYS, Jennifer (CS)
The natural history of electronics
Supervisor: Will Straw

GOBIN, Anuradha (AH)
Leaving a Bittersweet Taste: Classifying, Cultivating and Consuming Sugar in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century British West Indian Visual Culture
Supervisor: Charmaine Nelson

GRECO, Nicholas (CS)
"... Only if you're really interested" : celebrity, gender, desire and the world of Morrissey
Supervisor: Will Straw

KLINE, Katherine (CS)
Original alterity
Supervisor: Darin Barney

WILDER, Thomas (CS)
Patina and the Role of Nostalgia in the Field of Stringed Instrument Cultural Production
Supervisor: Jonathan Sterne

2006

DIGOUT, Amy Erica
Courting the West : Nicholas I, cultural diplomacy and the State Hermitage Museum in 1852

ELLER, Erin E. (AH)
A legitimate space for the consumption of art: how Sotheby's, London sells a cultural experience through fine art auctions

EXTIAN-BABIUK, Tamara
"To be sold, a Negro wench": slave ads of the Montreal Gazette, 1785-1805

GORDON, Aaron
Spaces and geographers of the 'Smart Border' technologies and discourses of Canada's post 911 borders

HEINRICH, Brittany Nicole
Satirical imagery of the grotesque body of Louis XIV: pushing the corporeal limits of France
Supervisor: Angela Vanhaelen

HUMAYUN, Saalem
Constructing family photograph albums : how the process of archival acquisition writes history

JANKO, Joan Paula
The Chapel of the Assumption of the Virgin in Spišský Štvrtok : Late Gothic architecture on the periphery

PERLINI, Tania (AH)
The case of immoral art : "uncensoring" BLIND DATE

ROCCO, Patricia
Performing female artistic identity: Lavinia Fontana, Elisabetta Sirani and the allegorical self-portrait in sixteenth and seventeenth-century Bologna

SOHAL, Rajdeep
Momentous movement : Janet Cardiff's audio walk

WARWARUK, Eric
The fearful touch of death : the philosophy of death and pain in aesthetics and media

YU, Miao
Space, vision and identity : imagining and inventing Shanghai in the courtesan illustrations of Dianshizhai Pictorial (1884-1898)

2005

BECKER, Anne Lynn (CS)
The layout of the land : the Canadian Pacific Railway's photographic advertising and the travels of Frank Randall Clarke, 1920-1929

BOBBETTE, Adam (CS)
Earthship space
Supervisor: Jonathan Sterne

BOYLE, Amy (AH)
Marcel Broodthaers and Fred Wilson : contemporary strategies for institutional criticism

BURNS, Ruth Barbara (AH)
Reading race in Western Christian visual culture: tracing a delirium from Renaissance art to the Chris Ofili affair and contemporary religious cinema

BURTON, Samantha (AH)
Re-mapping modernity: the sites and sights of Helen McNicoll (1879-1915)

CHASSIN DE KERGOMMEAUX, Cynthia (AH)
Autofictional Practices: Self-Fashioning in Diana Thorneycroft's Self-Portraits

DELMAS, Didier (AH)
Why 1839? : the philosophy of vision and the invention of photography

DICKENSON, Rachelle (AH)
The stories told: indigenous art collections, museums, and national identities

GANCZAK, Iwona (AH)
At the crossroads of politics and culture: Polish dissident art of the 1980s

HELLMAN, Michel (AH)
Art, identité et Expo 67 : l'expression du nationalisme dans les oeuvres des artistes québécois du Pavillon de la Jeunesse à l'Exposition universelle de Montréal

HERLAND, Karen (CS)
Organized Righteousness Against Organized Viciousness: Constructing Prostitution in Post World War 1 Montreal

KIRILOFF, Vera (AH)
How does what's bred in the bone come out in the flesh?: Devora Neumark's interventions and the concept of flesh

LAPP-SZYMANSKI, Jean-Paul (CS)
Technology inna rub-a-dub style: technology and dub in the Jamaican sound system and recording studio

MANJIKIAN, Lalai (CS)
Collective memory and diasporic articulations of imagined homes: Armenian community centres in Montreal

MITCHELL, Sarah (AH)
The Kunstkammer object in seventeenth-century Salzburg: a case study, early modern collections, transformation and materiality

RAINE, Emily (CS)
Baristi and the one best way: organizational structures of employment in specialty coffee chains

SAUVÉ, Jean-Sébastien (AH)
Un empereur dans sa ville: nouveaux points de vue sur la cathédrale Notre-Dame de Strasbourg

STAMOULOS, Eva (AH)
Mehmed II's portraits: patronage, historiography and the early modern context

TOMASZTCZUK, Daria Olana (AH)
Theodoric the Great's palace church of Christ the Redeemer at Ravenna, the later Sant' Apollinare Nuovo

TSOUMIS, Karine (AH)
Giovanni Battista Cavalieri's Ecclesiae militantis triumphi : Jesuits, martyrs, print, and the counter-reformation

VOUITSIS, Elpida (AH)
Camille Pissarro's Turpitudes sociales : challenging the medical model of social deviance

2004

BATES, Rae (AH)
On Sentimentality
Supervisor: David Crowley

BOZELKA, Kevin John (CS)
Getting Beyond: Spin Magazine in the Late 1980s
Supervisor: Will Straw

FOURNIER, Anik Micheline (AH)
Building nation and self through the other : two exhibitions of Chinese painting in Paris, 1933/1977

GUY, Stephen Andrew (CS)
The Nature of Community in the Newfoundland Rock Underground
Supervisor: Will Straw

PEITSCH, Edward Michael (CS)
Making Over Masculinity: the Metrosexual and the Rise of the Style-Conscious Male
Supervisor: Sheryl Hamilton

POPE, Richard
The Testimony of Other(s): Or How to Traverse the Fantasy of the Crypt-Other
Supervisor: Will Straw

POZNIAK, Jolene (AH)
Beneath the multicultural mosaic: representing (im)migration displacement, and home in contemporary Canadian art
Supervisor: Charmaine Nelson

ROSSHANDLER, Michelle (AH)
A historiography of idealized portraits of women in Renaissance Italy : the idea of beauty in Titian's La Bella
Supervisor: Bronwen Wilson

VAN VEEN, Tobias (CS)
Reconstruction & rhythm science: networks and properties of remix culture
Supervisor: Will Straw

VIGNEAULT, Karine (CS)
Le Sujet des médias alternatifs: Un Citoyen néolibéral modèle?
Supervisor: Will Straw

WILSON, Angela (CS)
After the Riot: Taking New Feminist Youth Music Subcultures Seriously
Supervisor: Will Straw

ZHA, Yu (CS)
The Mythology of Hero: A Study of Chinese National Cinema
Supervisor: Will Straw

2003

CHBIB, Bachar (CS)
The Politics of Silence
Supervisor: Will Straw

GAMACHE, Geneviève (AH)
L'architecture de Northumbrie à l'époque anglo-saxonne : une remise en question des liens entre Northumbrie, l'Irlande et la France mérovingienne
Supervisor: Hans Boker

2002

BOETKES, Amanda (AH)
Berlin in disorder: the representation of nature in the works of George Grosz
Supervisor: Johanne Sloan

BRAUN, Lori (CS)
Montreal Suburban Nonplaces: Famous Players Theatres and the Deterioration of Urban Community
Supervisor: Will Straw

COCHINA, Claudia (CS)
International Cultural Policy in Canada: Exploring Dialogues in an Emerging Practice
Supervisor: Sheryl Hamilton

CURTIS, Liane (CS)
Global networking for change: virtual women's organizations
Supervisor: Sheryl Hamilton

FERANDES, Denise (CS)
The new "role model" for the hip-hop generation: dissecting the hype to locate Eminem, Slim Shady, and Marshall Mathers through race relations, black cool, media coverage, and the search for hip-hop credibility
Supervisor: Will Straw

FERANDES, Nelson (CS)
Trippin' the body electric: Towards a Discourse on a Tecnological Body-Subculture: the Case of Rave
Supervisor: Will Straw

GAUTIER, Alba (CS)
Producing a Popular Music: The Emergence and Development of Rap as an Industry
Supervisor: Sheryl Hamilton

KANYWANI, Maroushka (CS)
Talking taboo: representations of female genital mutilation (FGM) in feminist debates, human rights discourse & the media
Supervisor: Sheryl Hamilton

MCCANDLESS, Kaisa Montana (CS)
Beyond the Stakeholder Paradox: To Meaningful Consultation with Community Stakeholders
Supervisor: Sheryl Hamilton

SHIGA, John Patrick
Copy, alter and control: the déjà entendus of disc jockey culture
Supervisor: Sheryl Hamilton

SHULMAN, Frederika Bettina
The representation of memory: Susan Shulman and the In our memories forever series
Supervisor: Christine Ross

TAYLOR, Chloë (AH)
The aesthetics of sadism and masochism in Italian renaissance painting /
Supervisor: Bronwen Wilson

TOMIC, Aleksandra (CS)
The media in Bosnia and Herzegovina: a case study of international intervention in media democratization
Supervisor: Gertrude J. Robinson

WURSTER, Jessica (CS)
"Taking 'girly music' seriously": femininity and authenticity in indiepop
Supervisor: Will Straw

ZHANG, Runfang (CS)
Lost calligraphy or reinvented motif : Chinese pictograms in Western fashion
Supervisor: Sheryl Hamilton

2001

BOIVIN, Lawrence (AH)
The depiction of boxing in classical Athenian art
Supervisor: John Fossey

BUSHNELL, Taissa (AH)
Thronis meis binis : validation through history in the court art of Charles IV
Supervisor: Hans Böker

CHINAPPI, Franco (CS)
Character culture : the cultural bargain between ownership and appropriation
Supervisor: Sheryl Hamilton

KLYVE, Christoffer Ringnes (CS)
Public opinion and international development
Supervisor: Will Straw

MAHDAVIANI, Bita (CS)
Towards the legitimation of cinema : coverage of urban entertainment in the Toronto World and the Globe, 1896-1920
Supervisor: Will Straw

MORRIS, Samantha Mary (CS)
Much more than music video : an examination of Canadian response to American paradigms
Supervisor: Will Straw

MAK, Monica (CS)
Racial diversity's journey to constancy : initiatives for redressing the colour imbalance in documentary filmaking at the National Film Board of Canada
Supervisor: Sheryl Hamilton

POUILOT, Simon-Pierre (CS)
Politics and emotions : making sense of the emotional component in political communications
Supervisor: Will Straw

PREVOST, Roberta (AH)
Nicolas Poussin's Self-portraits for Pointel and Chantelou
Supervisor: Thomas L. Glen

SCHAAP, Jessica (CS)
Electronic shoeboxes? : the database for historical research
Supervisor: Will Straw

VÖLSER, Ingrid (AH)
The theme of death in Italian art : the triumph of death
Supervisor: Hans Böker

WU, Leslie (CS)
Netting the news : redefining space, time and interactivity for the online newsmagazine
Supervisor: Sheryl Hamilton

2000

BALFOUR, Joya (CS)
The (dis)information highway: conspiracy theories on the Internet
Supervisor: Berkely Kaite

DELOREY, Robin (CS)
Nursing and the computerized age
Supervisor: Jocelyne Picot

MCALL, Tara (CS)
Barbie's wearing "phat" pants : rave culture, emergence to convergence
Supervisor: Will Straw

MCSORLEY, Tom (CS)
Modern times : time and the modern in the fiction films of William D. MacGillivray
Supervisor: Will Straw

MURTHY, Jaya D. (CS)
Evolution of the Internet and its Impact on Society
Supervisor: Alain Pericard

ROY, Francine (AH)
"...Templum nova forma constructum..." : early 17th-century late Gothic churches in Wolfenbüttel and Bückeburg
Supervisor: Hans Böker

WILLIAMS, Suzanne Elizabeth (CS)
The flâneur goes shopping: An inquiry into the flâneuse as consumer
Supervisor: Will Straw

Back to top