List of Completed Major Papers

Interested in doing your Masters?

The History Department of the University of Windsor offers candidates a wide range of historical topics and expertise to explore for papers.  Here is a list of the MA graduating papers that have been written by Windsor History graduates over the last five years.

2011

Nusrat Rahman, "Tale Padre, Tale Figlio: The Father-Son Relationship in Renaissance Florence and its Representation in Literature and Portraits, 1400-1600"

Lisa Serwatkiewicz, "We were too damned polite about it": Canadian Jewish Response to Anti-Semitism in Canada, 1929-1939"

Charles McMillan, “Par Sit Fortuna Labori (Let the Success Be Equal to the Labour): Freemasonry and the Emergence of a Civil Society in Canada West”

Sean Morton, "An Empire in Print: Imperial Print Culture, Identity, and Enlightenment thought in Halifax Nova Scotia, 1752-1783"

Jennifer Massender, "'Ours was a Revolutionary Role': Vietnam Veterans Against the War, the Winter Soldier Investigation and Race in Radical Detroit"

Amanda Mariuz, "Molson's Man: Masculinity and Nationalism in Molson's Beer Advertising in the 1960s and 1970s"

Andrea Camillo, "'The Italian hokey-pokey man and his immoral ice cream': Food, Identity and British Xenophobia, 1850-1914"

Mathew Pritchard, "Frederick Taylor, Henry Gantt, and the Canadian Pacific Railway's Angus Work Shops: The Scientific Management Experiment, 1904-1920" 

Joelle Fitzgerald, "A Study of George Burnfield and Thomas Stisson Jarvis: Victorian Canadian Travel Writers Discovering the Others in Egypt"

2010

Mark Conte, “L’Arte Del Padre E Mezzo Imparta: The Italian Immigration Garden in Post-War Toronto”

Steven Dale, “Textbooks, Teachers and the Current Status of the Canadian Grand Narrative”

Sarah Doran, “Engaging With the 'Other': Cosmopolitanism and English-Language Culture in Montreal in the 1940s and 1950s”

Grace Sara Harwood, “How the 'Curwen Mansion' Became the 'Witch House': The Antebellum Beginnings of the Salem, Massachusetts Museum”.

Rebecca Hill, “Hadigehjiso: oh Hadihso:da: Oga:doh: An Oral History of Two Six Nations Vietnam Veterans”

Steven Malone, “Genetic Communities and the Politics of Prevention: Screening for Tay-Sachs Disease and Beta-Thalassemia in Montreal, 1972 to the Present”

Jason Hatch, “An Examination of the Relationship Between Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison”

Jacob Miller, “Red Flux: The Shifting American Perspectives Towards Russians and the Soviet State, 1937-1955”

Brian Rooney, “The Changing Face of 1759: The British Conquest In Quebec Historical Writing, 1944-1976"

Agatha Kubiak, “Pamietamy-Polish Historiography of the Polish-Soviet War: 1919-1939"

Malinda Shaw, “The Reverend George Trosse’s Descent into Hell: The Medicalization of Demonic Possecion in Early Modern Seventeenth-Century England"

Nicole Tate, “The Problem of Studying Anne Boleyn: The Interpretive Dilemma” 

2009

Charles R.G Bain, “Myth and History: Aboriginal Peoples, Canada, and the First World War”

Meganne Cameron, “Searching For Susanna Moodie: the Performance of Class, Gender, and Ethnicity in Roughing It In The Bush and the Victoria Magazine”

Justin Fantauzzo, “He Made Our Lives Worth Living: Masculinity, British Soldiers, and the Image of General Edmund Allenby in the Palestine Campaign, 1915-1918”

Adam Haeusssler, “'Living by the Axe and the Sword': Working Soldiers in Braddock’s Expedition of 1755”

Sarah Kantarzhi, “Wealth! Class! Clout!: Economic Growth and the Visual Representation of Women, Sexuality, and Power in Vogue Magazine, 1971-1988”

Candace Nast, “'We Worked at Everything': Childbirth and Women’s Work on Pelee Island, Ontario, 1940-1960”

Natalie Rubino, “Monitoring Morals and Molding the Ideal Student at Assumption University in the 1950s”

William Toffan, “Bad-Boys, She-Devils, and Hogs: Changing Notions of Gender in Biker Film, 1953-2007”

Jason Underhill, “Masculinity, Patriarchy and Witchcraft in Early Modern England, 1550-1650”

2008

Nicolina Baccari, “From Medical Evidence of Neglected Duties to the People to People Diseases: Anne Keyl, the Women’s College Hospital, and the Transformation of VD Treatment in Toronto, 1964-1975”

Nadine Blacklock, “Faith and Reason: An Examination of the Religious and Secular Response to the 1832 Cholera Epidemic in Montreal”

John Conlon, “The Power of Propaganda and Other Factors that Influenced the Morale of Canadian Troops in World War One”

Jeff Leonard, “'Astride On A Fence': Sacred and Secular Interaction and the Cultivation of a 'Golden Age' In Chicago’s Black Metropolis (1900-1963)”

Erica Lyons, “Circulating a Culture of Fear: Redbook, Ladies’ Home Journal, and Good Housekeeping, 1950-1955”

Krista Montelpare, “A State of Transition: Immigration and the Emergence of Medical Institutions in Saint John, New Brunswick, 1830-1960”

Lorene Bridgen, “On Their Own Terms: Temperance in Southwestern Ontario’s Black Community (1830-1860)"

2007

Melissa Baker, “Cakchiquel 'Traditional' Midwives: Harmonizing Biomedicine and Beliefs”

Anne Marie Bowie, “A Historiography of Female Same-Sex Sexuality: Tracing the Origins of a Modern Lesbian in North America and Britain, from 1600 to 1960"

Valeria Yvonne Danieli, “The Partido Independiente De Color and the 1912 Massacre: Repossessing Masculine Identities in the Cuban Republic”

Tom Henderson, “The Strange Case of Joe Assed: The Windsor Police Corruption Scandal of 1950”

Karis Hurst, “Voluntary Motherhood: The Birth Control Movement in Windsor, Ontario During the 1930s”

Matt Kostiuk, “The Whiskey Rebellion: Western Farmers Challenge for the Soul of the American Revolution”

Kevin Spiteri, “Empire and Masculinity in the Boy's Own Paper, 1879-1899”

2006

Patrice Allen, “The Black Body: Claude Mckay's Gender Politics in Home to Harlem”

Tanya Beilhartz, “Sexual Harassment in the 'City of Sin': Windsor, Ontrario, 1965-1980"

Brandon Dimmel, “Domestic Diplomacy: Regional History and the Connection Between Windsor and Detroit During the First World War, 1914-1918”

John Lamming, “Nationalism in Moderation: The Popular Daily During the Boer War and the Irreconcilability of French and English National Identity in Canada”

Fred Francis, "Prelude to War: Abraham Lincoln, The Detroit Free Press, and the Civil War”

James Frost, “From Theory to Practice: Liberalism and the Struggle for Reform at Kingston Penitentiary, 1835-1848”

Margeret Green, “The Quaker Women of the West Lake Monthly Meeting 1800-1865: 'Well behaved women rarely make history'”

Christopher J. Lucki, “Public Spectacles and the 1953 Coronation in Windsor, Ontario”

Kevin Naidoo, “More Than a 'Tool of Imperialism': Gamal Abdel Nasser’s Pan-Arab Discourse on Israel, 1954-1966”

Rochelle Pereira, “Alcohol and the Male Image: Representations of Gender, Race, and Class in Canadian Club Whisky and Guinness Stout Advertisement from 1930-1965”

 2005

Beth Fowler, "Mad To Be Saved: The Influences of Rock and Roll On Racial Attitudes in America During the Civil Rights Movement"

Robert Laurent, “Billy Graham and the Fourth Great Awakening, 1949-1953”

Bernadette Revenberg, “Breaking The Silence: Women and Arts in Renaissance Italy”

Tessa Mancini, “Sex and the City: The Art of Courtesanry in Renaissance Venice”

Katherine Tuitman, “Prostitution and Morality In Sixteenth Centruy Nuremberg”