Dissertation Topics of PhD's Awarded
2021
Gloria Adagbon
The "Dream" Team? Immigrants, Multilevel Marketing and Integration
Giselle Thompson
National Debt and Public Education in Jamaica: "Glocal" Challenges and Responses
2020
Nicholas Cristiano
Managing Risk Environments: An Ethnographic Study of Club Drug Use and Harm Reduction in the EDM Scene
Colin Hastings
Writing for Digital News: The Social Organization of News Stories About HIV Criminalization in an Age of Convergence Journalism
2019
Bojan Baca
From Revolution to Referendum: Processes of Institutionalization and Practices of Contestation in Post-Socialist Civil Society Building, 1989-2006
Carmen Grillo
Autonomy, Identity and the Right to Die: A Qualitative Study of Medically Assisted Death Attitudes in the Canadian Context
Sarah Hornstein
On Alienation and Imperialism: Synthesizing the Work of Herbert Marcuse and Samir Amin
Adam King
The Making and Reproduction of Male Working Class Identity in a Mining Town
Azar Masoumi
The Paradox of Refugee Protection in Canada: Law and Bureaucratic Politics of Efficiency
2018
Aliya Amarshi
From Pain to Power: A Socio-Psychological Investigation of Anti-Racist Feminist Ressentiment
Bianca Baggiarini
Drone Warfare and the Governing of Sacrifice
Krista Banasiak
"Make Your Belly Dance": An Exploration of Feminism, Orientalism and Embodiment in the Lived Experience of Belly Dance
Penny Dowedoff
A Feminist Political Economy Analysis of Medical Broker and Fertility Clinic Websites
Guadalupe Dyson
In the Hands of Strangers: The Myth of Choice and Self-Determination for Chronic Pain Patients in Ontario
Vivian Stamatopoulos
Young Carers in Canada: An Examination of the Prevalence, Policy and Practice of Young People Providing Unpaid Care
Shaira Vadasaria
Temporalities of 'Return': Race, Representation and Decolonial Imaginings of Palestinian Refugee Life
2017
Benjamin Christensen
The Struggle For Security: Risk, Politics and Pension Policy in Ontario, 1960-2016
Julianne DiSanto
Imagining the Unimaginable: Psychopathy, (Un)Criminality and the Body
Tobias Timm
Recovering Richard Rorty's Sense of Experience
2016
Anke Allspach
Modern Imperialism: Canadian Renditions to Torture and the Production of Impunity for Sovereign Racialized State Violence
Angele Alook
Indigenous Life Courses, Racialized Gendered Life Scripts, and Cultural Identities of Resistance and Resilience
Andrea Campbell
Invisible Work(ers), Invisible Hazards: An Examination of Psychological and Physical Safety Amongst Frontline Workers in Long-term Residential Care Facilities in the "New" Global Economy
Jesse Carlson
The Kenosis of Sociology, or Essays Toward a 'Weak Program' in the Sociology of Morality
Craig Fortier
Unsettling Movements: Decolonizing Non-Indigenous Radical Struggles in Settler Colonial States
Markus Kip
The Ends of Union Solidarity: Undocumented Labour and German Trade Unions
Patricia Phillips
The Nation's Gardeners: Social Work Professionalization and Interpretation Work in Scientific Adoption Practice, 1930-1960
2015
Alan Bourke
Universities, Community Engagement, and Democratic Social Science
Jordan Cicalo
Solving the Unsolvable: Western Responses to Otherness From Saint Augustine
Democratia Dafnos
Negotiating Colonial Encounters: (Un)Mapping the Contemporary Policing of Indigenous Protests in Canada
Suzanne Day
Making It Work: A Study of the Decision-Making Processes of Personal Support Workers in Long-Term Residential Care
Michael Follert
From Foundation to Dissolution: Rethinking the Social Contract Tradition
Jennie Haw
From the Incinerator to the Bank: A Feminist Qualitative Study of Private Cord Blood Banking in Canada
David Moffette
Governing Irregular Migration: Logics and Practices in Spanish Immigration Policy
Katherine Pendakis
Political Genealogies of a Generation: Kin, Movement and Party in the Greek Diaspora
Luz Maria Vazquez Garcia
Adaptation Narratives: Climate Change and Environmental Politics in Mexican Coastal Communities
2014
Mike Christensen
Expert Interventions for Democracy: The Historical and Epistemological Foundations of International Democracy Assistance
Karine Cote-Booucher
The Micro-Politics of Border Control: Internal Struggles at Canadian Customs
Erkan Ercel
Psychoanalysis, Fantasy, Postcoloniality: Derivative Nationalism and Historiography in post-Ottoman Turkey
Brian Fuller
Adorno, Hegel and the Philosophical Origins of Classical Social Theory
Alison Jenkins Jayman
Health Insurance Coverage for Breast Cancer Care: A Feminist Political Economy Perspective on Women's Experiences in Ontario and New York
Kate Laxer
Mapping the Division of Labour in Long-Term Residential Care Across Jurisdictions
Latoya Lazarus
The Church and the Law: Examining the Role of Christianity in Shaping Sexual Politics in Jamaica
Stephen LeDrew
Scientism, Humanism and Religion: The New Atheism and the Rise of the Secular Movement
Craig McFarlane
Early Modern Speculative Anthropology
Severine Minot
Subjective Experiences of Expats in Vietnam: Linking Relative Social Position, the Habitus and Practic to Cross-Cultural Adapation
Vanessa Rosa
Remaking the Nation-State: Multiculturalism, Neoliberalism, and Urban Revitalization
Carlos Torres
The Myth of Martial Law: The Dynamics of Crisi Management and Fragmented Human Rights Boom in Argentina
Milos Vasic
Becoming Economic: A Political Phenomenology of Car Purchases
2013
Jeff Butler
Tomorrow's Godly Americans: Citizenship Education and National Identity in Conservative Christian Homeschools
Kelly Holloway
The Pharmaceutical Industry and Student Resistance: A Political Economy Perspective on Pharmaceutical Industry Influence in Medical Education in the United States and Canada
Jasmin Hristov
Violent Systems of Capital Accumulation: Paramilitarism and the Colombian Armed Conflict
David Lavin
The Union is the Message: Messenger Work and Messenger Organizing in the Same–Day Courier Sector
Patricia MacMillan
Science, Conflict and the Devotional Artifact: A Social Cartography of the Turin Shroud Controversy
Jennifer Mills
Conference Connections: Identity, Ideology and Institutions in the Congress of Black Women of Canada (CBWC), 1973–2003
Ryan McVeigh
Mind and Self in Society: From the Standpoint of a Cognitive Sociologist
Andrea Quinlan
Stabilizing the Technoscientific Witness: A History of Controversity, Medicolegal Practice, and the Ontario Sexual Assault Evidence Kit
Chris Sanders
Ontario Public Health Counseling Practice Following the Criminalization of HIV Non-Disclosure: A Contribution to the Sociology of Public Health
2012
Mark Ayyash
Speaking with Violence: An Exploration of Violent Dialogue in Israel–Palestine
Gulhanim Caliskan
Forging Diasporic Citizenship: Berlin's German–Born Turkish Auslander
Maria de los Dolores Figueroa Romero
Comparative Analysis of Indigenous Women's Participation in Ethno–politics and Community Development. The Experiences of Women Leaders of Ecuarunari (Ecuador) and Yatama (Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua)
Diego Llovet
Public Health, Medicine and the Ideal of Self–Governance: Conflicts in the Modern Culture of Health and Well–Being
Morgan Poteet
'Can't Imagine Being Without Friends': How Central American Male Youth in Toronto Seek to Belong
Research Review Paper/Thesis Topics of MAs Awarded
2021
Merna Fatohi
The Evolution of Workers' Compensation in Ontario: From Tort Regime to Common-sense 1830-2019
Alexander Haley
Sociological Perspectives on Representations of Mass Shootings in U.S. News Media: A Review
Carly Luchuck
The Child Welfare System: A Tool to Assimilate and Oppress Black Canadians
Candace Trusty
The Politics of Respectability: A Racialized and Colonial Discourse, A Site of Black Queer Refusal and Resistance
Ana Vujosevic
Post-Yugoslav Diasporas: Racialization and Whiteness in the Settler Colonial States
2020
Benjamin Blaney
A Unique Exposure: The Social Determinants of Health and Mental Health and the University Student
Tamayah Edwards
Crime and Race: Unmasking the Falsehood of Equality in the Courtroom
Toby Anne Finlay
Between Feminist Psychoanalysis and Deleuze: Bisexuality and the Transgender Subject in Feminist Theory
Chanelle Gallant
Can Sex Be Work? A Critical Reflection
Victoria Ogley
Exploring the Return Movement of Children of Hong Kong Immigrants Through the Lens of Transnationalism, Social and Cultural Reproduction, and the Intersections of Class, and Race/Racialization
Angela Ostrikoff
Breaking Ground and Changing Her-story: Reimagining Business as Usual Through Women's Entrepreneurship
Camille Pawelczak
More Than a #Selfie: Exploring the Affective Dimensions of Self-Imaging Practices
Charlotte Smith
But Who Are Our Theories For? Problematization, Lines of Flight, and the Practical Relevance of Drugs Research in the Ontological Turn
Samantha Teichman
The New Mourning Routine: Online Mourning and Ritual Practices in the Digital Age
Yue Teng
Work-family Conflict in Canadian Families: Gender Inequality Over the Life Course
2019
Santhia Akram
The Significance of Pre-Migration and Transnational Influences on the Migrant Incorporation Process
Yasmin Ali
'Ma I Fahmeysa?' Representations of 'Somali Canadians' in Academic Literature
Anna Benker
A Case for Qualitative Methodologies of Anti-Muslim Attitudes
Alina Budhwani
Patterns of Violence: How Gender and Race Considerations Shape Conceptions of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)
Jessie Lou Helmkay
Structural Determinants of Youth Delinquency in Urban vs. Rural Canada: Space, Race and Class
Kara Inzirillo
Bonds: A Sociological Analysis of the Relationship Between Incarcerated Mothers and Their Children in Canada
Kayla Jeffrey
The Geographical Imagination: Imaginative Geographies and Its Influence on Development in the Global South
Nishan Kaushall
Of Hand-Spun Nations and Its Estranged Familiars: A Struggle For Ancient Futures
Theodora Kyriakakos
Barriers to Mental Health Services Among Chinese Immigrants in Canada
Melissa McLetchie
Unemployed, Under-Educated, and Over-Incarcerated: The Macro-Streaming of Black Canadians.
Olivia Messina
The Crisis of Wasted Potential: Structural Violence and Underemployed Graduates in Canada
McKenna Norgaard
The Labor of Pleasure and Pain: Exploring Intimacy and the Therapeutic Aspect of Professional BDSM Through Emotional Labor
Monisha Poojary
South Asian Identity: Negotiating Identity Through a Panethnic Perspective
Mark Strauss
The Differential Impact of Multiculturalism on the Polish Diaspora: Promises and Paradoxes
Kathryn Wells
Activism in a Post-Disaster Setting: How Displacement Contributes to Participation in Environmental Justice Movements
2018
Carlo Charles
Black Refuge: The Interplay Between Ethno-Racialization and Nationalism in the Reception of Haitians in Canada
Rubina Karyar
A Marxist, Feminist and Intersectional Critique of Homeless Women's Shelter Institutionalization and Bureaucratization in Canada
Emma Lindala
The Insidious Contagion in Health Care
Anna Lippman
Growing Roses From Concrete: Exploring How Racialized Youth Create Resistance Identity Through Hip-Hop Culture
Zeleco Persaud
Looking Through a Gendered Lens -- Exploring Social Control and Discipline of Youth in Transitional Homes
2017
Sara Arya
Islamophobia in Citizenship and Nation-building Practices in the UK
Jana Borras
Puzzling Through Transience: A Conceptual Analysis of Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker Program
Nathali Bortei
Give It To Me Straight: "Professionalism" and Black Hair Politics in the Workplace
Evander Cobbold
"A Beauty Project": The Effects of the Mass Media and Western Body Ideals on Women's Body Dissatisfaction
Leigha Comer
"I Had a Lore More Faith in Doctors Back Then:" An Analysis of Chronic Pain Content in Ontario Medical Curricula
Leigh Denholm
The Potential Praxis: Material and Philosophical Affinities of the Early Church and Marx
Amrit Dhillon
Lighten Up: Exploring Skin Lightening Practices Among Canadian South Asian Women
Gillian Elliott
Women's Experiences With Breastfeeding Support: Conflicting Practices and Discourses
Sara Louie Tehrani
Revisiting Transnationalism in the Context of the Iranian-Global Baha'i Diaspora
Jocelyn MacDonald
Examining the Cost of Kindness: Food Insecurity in Canada
Eni Mema
The Evolution of Cuba's Symbolic Regime: Fidel Castro's Revolution, Results, Future Prospects and Legacy
Janice Phonepraseuth
Who We Are: An Examination of Ethnic Identity Formation Among Second-Generation Chinese Youth
Talisha Ramsaroop
Murals Talk Back: An Understanding of Community Murals in Jane Finch
Jessica Thyriar
How Do Government, Post-Secondary Institutions and External Organizations Respond to Sexual Violence on Campus?
2016
Babak Amini
Dissemination and Reception of Karl Marx's Capital in the United States, Britain, and Canada
Navneet Aujla
Temporary Employment Agencies in Ontario: Experiences of South Asian Immigrant Women
Miriam Hird-Younger
Reimagining Participation: The Need to Consider Trust in Participatory Approaches to Development in Ghana
Keith Joe
An Investigation Into Police Resistance to Reforms
Peter Karambelas
Thinking and Internal Conversation in the Networking Age
Kazhal Mohammadi
Diasporic Kurds and Identity Politics: The Internationalization and Europeanization of the Kurdish National 'Struggle'
Christine Montgomerie-Mione
Exploring the Emergence of Social Movements During Times of Economic Crisis
Maigan Newson
Promoting Positive Community-School Relations: Using Place-Based Education to Engage Students Within Urban Communities
Nilum Panesar
The "New" Second Generation: Hows Does a Transnational Orientation Reconceptualize Second-Generation Youth Identity in Canada?
Viet Phan
Immigration Through Education: A Framework on the Immigration Considerations of International Students in Higher Education
Connie Phung
Bourdieu in China: A Study of Migration, Reception and Adaptation of Sociological Concepts
Rodney Rennis
Ending Carding: Police Resistance to Change
Emily Zimmermann
'Sexy' Empowerment: Analyzing the Postfeminist Neoliberal Rationalities Underlying the Government of Women's Sexuality
2015
Rawan Abdelbaki
Neoliberalism and Canadian Immigration: Rethinking the Land of (In)Opportunity
Grace Barakat
Generation Debt: Student Debt in Canada
Mary Choy
Re-conceptualizing "Contributing": Homelessness and Unpaid Labour in a Neo-liberal Climate
Devin Clancy
Policing Settler Colonialism. An Analysis of Policing Indigenous Land Reclamations From Ipperwash to Caledonia
Markus Gerke
The Second Sex of Tomorrow? Constructions of Masculinity in the Moral Panic About Boys' Education. A Content Analysis of Canadian News Media
Jelena Golubovic
The Eastward Expansion of the European Union: Perspectives From University Students in Belgrade, Serbia
Mandi Gray
Segged Out: The Segregation of Women in Manitoba's Provincial Jails
Sarah Haque
Examining the Abject and Identity: Embodied Cancer Experiments in Adolescents and Young Adults
Betty Ann Henry
The Socio-Economic Marginalisation of Fat Black Women (fBw) and its Relevance for Contemporary Labour Practices
Danielle Landry
Madness in the Method: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Psychiatric Survivor Research From Canada and the UK
Robyn LeBlanc
The Privatization Paradox: Understanding Community Care and its Challenges Under Neoliberalism
Ali Abbas Mehboob Hirji
Hearing the Voice From the Veil. An Ethnogrpahic Inquiry Into the Mourning For Lady Zaynab by Toronto Shiites
Nadia Nassar
Mixed Metaphors: An Exploration of Discourses Surrounding 'Multiracial' People in Canada
Khalida Ramyar
Afghanistan Before the Invasions: The Subversion of Democracy in 1973
David Spina
Queering Intimacy: The Subculture of Barebacking and Breeding New Forms of Masculinity and Kinship
Christopher Zakher
Race Reification in the World of Warcraft
2014
Wendy Chappel
Bullying Discourses in Academic Literatue and Young Adult Novels: Do They Tell the Same Story?
Michael Cifelli
Gladue Courts: Navigating Contradictory Orientations to Rehabilitate and Punish
Mary El'Bably
Canadian On-line Surrogacy Agencies and the Assisted Human Reproduction Act on Reimbursement of Expenditures
A.J. Lowik
Trans-Feminisms and Trans-Inclusive Abortion Clinics: The Tension Between Gender Identity and Corporeality
Erika McDonald
The Search for an Alternative: A Theoretical Comparative Assessment of Capitalism and Cooperative Enterprises
Sandra Morelli
Figuration/Process Sociology: Critiquing Wilson's Consilience Into Practice
Samantha Posluns
The Neoliberal Impact on Canadian Health Care: The Case of the Chronically Ill and Their Caregivers
Jordana Reinstein
The Origin and Effects of 'Learning Disability': A Review of the Latter 20th Century North American Construction of the Learning Disability Label and its Impact on Self-Concept
Christie Thorkildsen
Precarious Employment and Well-being: Where is Precarious Employment in Indices of Well-being From Advanced Capital States?
Jonathan Zissakos
The Allure of Ethno-Nationalism: Analyzing Genocide Justification in Rwanda
2013
Phylicia Armstrong
Considering the Role of Heritage Language Education in Empowering Minority Immigrant Youth in Toronto Schools
Susan Cake
An Ideal Type: The Instability of Victimhood in Television
Janine DeLorey
Creating Material Things: Meaning in Contemporary Re–appropriations of Creative Domestic Skills
Angelina Duhig
Examining Solidarity in an Individualized Economy: From Industrialization to Advanced Global Capitalism
Brendan Forsyth
An Analysis of Education Curricula With IndigenousYndash;Centred Approaches: Decolonizing the Knowledge Hierarchy
Maria Teresa Greco
Precarious Employment in Canada: The Importance of the Non-Citizenship of Low–Skilled Migrant Workers
Bahar Hashemi
Political Transnational Engagements Among the Iranian Diaspora
Sam Hudyma
Young Adult Carers in Canada: How Caregiving Shapes Their Educational and Work Opportunities
Shirin Khayambashi
"Minorities Among Minorities": Deconstruction of Diasporic Identity
Gayle Lesmond
Racial Differences in Post–Secondary Education: A Review of the Literature on Minority Student Academic Achievement
Adela Ludin
Beyond a Violence Against Women Approach: Understanding Violence Against Women in Afghanistan
Frank Meraglia
Safe Schools for (Almost) Everyone: The Christian Right's Resistance to Ontario's LGBT Inclusive 'Accepting Schools Act'
Jessica Rayne
But Is It Really Worth It? Examining the Economic Returns on Higher Education for Caribbeans and Latin Americans in the Greater Toronto Area
Raquel Teixeira
Youth Leisure, Social Capital and Community Engagement
2012
Jackie Boyce
Biomedicalization and Gendered Pharmaceuticals: An Examination of the HPV Vaccine and Viagara
Heather Brady
"Putting a Foot in the Door": An Exploration of NGO Advocacy and the Framing of Asylum in Canada
Paulette Campbell
Policing Race: A Case Study of Media Coverage of Police Shootings
Enio Chiola
The 'Stop Murder Music' Campaign: Cultural Regulation of Jamaican Dancehall Music
Natalie Field
Messages From Home: The Purposes, Meanings and Significance of Communication During Deployment
Nadia Guiliano
Accentuating the Social in the Study of Addiction: The Analysis of How Relationships and Social Interaction Contribute to the Development and Transformation of the Addict Identity
Renee Nadeau
Investigating the Impacts on Temporary Migrant Work Programs of an Overarching Political Shift Towards Neoliberalism in Canadian Governance
Sugandha Nagpal
Exploring Explanations for Sex–Selection in Indo–Canadian Communities
Shelagh Ois
Moving In and Moving Out: Negotiating the Computer–Mediated Self
Krystle Stubbs
A Review of Critical Race Theory and Affirmative Action Programs and Policies
2011
Muna Ali
From 'Exceptional State' to 'Exceptional Measures'
Natasha Armstrong
Let Us In! Non–Status Children and the Students Without Immigration Status Policy
Andrea Barbera
Aboriginal Overrepresentation in the Canadian Justice System: Toward an Anti–Colonial Perspective
Patrycja Budzynska
It's a Girl! The Re–Birth of Midwifery in Ontario in the Context of Neo–Liberal Weflare State Restructuring
Kristin Ciupa
Post–Neoliberal Alternatives? Exploring New Left Government Responses to Neoliberalism in Latin America
Giselle Dias
Structural Violence and the Discourse on HIV/AIDS and Prisons: Implications for Policy Development
Alana Gentile
Cultural Abuse: An Examination of How Cultural Constraints Impede Abused Immigrant Women's Access to Social Services
Stefan Lazov
The European Union and Roma Inclusion: A Governmentality Study
Darcy L'Heureux
A Sad 'State' of Affairs: Understanding the Role of the State in HIV/AIDS Literature
Thandiwe Ncube
J. Marion Sims: Use or Abuse of Enslaved African Women? Medicine, Slavery, and the Production of Medical Knowledge in 19th Century America
Craig Ross
"The Mere Fact of Being": The Nonprofitisation of the Two–Spirit Movement
Amanda Salerno
Insufficient Funds: The Role of Minimum Wage in the Feminization of Poverty
Olivia Scobie
"It Was Easier to Say That I Didn't Have kids": Mothering, Incarceration and Policy
Jason Webb
Bridging Social Science and Social Justice: Ethnographic Action Research Among the Urgan Homelessness
Debra Wong
The Scent of Difference: A Content Analysis of Women's Perfume Advertisements in 'Ebony', 'Essence', and 'Glamour' Magazines—A Comparative Lens on White and Black Representation
