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Graduate Student Profiles



A selection of graduate students in various programs offered by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences


Rebecca Babcock
PhD,
English
SSHRC Doctoral Fellow
Dissertation Topic:  Researching w
ork on contemporary Canadian ethnic minority writers of prose fiction with the object of understanding how suffering, trauma and masochism shed light on the ways in which the cultural, racial or sexual Other situates herself in relation to mainstream cultural and socio-economic Canadian culture.
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Clarence Batan
PhD,
Sociology
Project support from IDRC
Dissertation Topic:
  Sociology of children and youth in developing countries.
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Nicole Beare
PhD,
English
SSHRC Doctoral Fellow
Killam Doctoral Fellow
Dissertation Topic:
  'Tale Tellers and Lyeris': Tale-telling and the Writing of Truth in Late Fourteenth-and Early Fifteenth-century Middle English Literature.
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Sarah Emsley
PhD,
English
SSHRC Doctoral Fellow
Dissertation Topic:
  Jane Austen and her connections with such writers as Dante and Shakespeare, with the tradition of the classical and theological virtues, and with novelists from the 19th century to the present who inherited aspects of Austen’s approach to questions of both ethics and genre. 
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Jonathan T. Goossen
PhD,
English
SSHRC Doctoral Fellow
Dissertation Topic:
  The 'feigned death' motif in Shakespeare drama.
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Warren Heiti
MA, Philosophy
Winner 2007, President's Graduate Teaching Assistant Award

Erin Hemmens
MA,
Social Anthropology
Thesis Topic:  Prenatal Education and Women's Experiences of Childbirth.
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Eric Lehre
PhD, Political Science

SSHRC Doctoral Fellow
Dissertation Topic:
  Military Interoperalization.

Kelly-Anne Maddox
PhD, French
SSHRC Doctoral Fellow
Killam Doctoral Fellow
Dissertation Topic:
  An examination of the topics of exile, memory, interpersonal relationships and artistic creation as they relate to the formation of identity in the Quebec novel of the 1990s.
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Anika Marcotte
MA, French
SSHRC MA CGS Fellow
Thesis Topic:
  An examination of the cyclical concept of aging through the various aging characters in Abla Farhoud’s work.
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David S McDonough
PhD, Political Science

SSHRC Doctoral Fellow
Dissertation Topic:
  An examination of the American post-Cold War nuclear strategy and the impact that previous nuclear policies and evolving US threat perception towards "rogue states" and the proliferation of WMD has had on this strategy.

Shana McGuire
PhD, French
SSHRC Doctoral Fellow
Honourary Killam Scholar
Dissertation Topic:
  An exploration of representations of the body in contemporary French cinema.
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Marie-Claude Michaud
MA, French
SSHRC MA CGS Fellow
Thesis Topic:
  An analysis of women figures in the work of Sergio Kokis, a contemporary "migrant" writer from Québec.
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Julia Poertner
MA, German
Thesis Topic:  The Fiction of Elisabeth Mann Borgese.

Markus Poetzsch
PhD,
English
SSHRC Doctoral Fellow
Killam Memorial Scholar
Dissertation Topic:
  A reconceptualization of the Romantic sublime (and of an aesthetic of transcendence more generally) as an everyday or quotidian event.
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David Puxley
MA, Classics
Teaching Fellow, Foundation Year Program, University of King's College 

Meredith Schwartz
PhD, Philosophy
Trudeau Scholar
Dissertation Topic:
  Adult Genetic Screening and Individual Responsibility.
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Jane Sears
MA, Political Science

SSHRC MA CGS Fellow
Thesis Topic: The environmental implications of development in the Palestinian Occupied Territories.
  

Meagan Timney
PhD,
English
SSHRC Doctoral Fellow
Dissertation Topic:
  Working-Class Women’s Poetry in 19th-Century England.
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LiLynn Wan
PhD, History
SSHRC Doctoral Fellow
Dissertation Topic:
  Citizenship and race in the city of Vancouver during the interwar period.
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