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Spring 2020

Wagner, Suzanna C.

During the First World War, 2,845 fully trained nurses served with the Canadian Army Medical Corps. Although Canadian combat troops were focused on the Western Front in France and Belgium, more than 500 of Canada’s military nurses, called ‘Nursing Sisters,’ worked in hospital units which were...

Fall 2020

Walker, Meaghan

During the British involvement in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1793-1815, the Royal Navy contracted for, inspected, and distributed clothing to naval warships in British ports and abroad. This dissertation examines the Admiralty in-letters stored at the British National Archives,...

Fall 2018

Danser, Kathleen A.

Black musicians in string-bands in the American South during the period 1920–1950 were remarkably resilient to social, political, and cultural forces while also actively creating cultural products. The breadth of their musical activities and networks of interconnectivity expands our knowledge and...

Fall 2021

Flores Oviedo, Ximena

In this thesis, I explore how constructed spaces become bound and localized places and how, within the context of Edmonton, Canada, places naturalize the presence of white settler bodies on Indigenous lands, extending the colonial project. I consider the colonial history of my hometown, Mexico...

Fall 2009

Tchir, Trevor

Hannah Arendt argues that political action is only meaningful through the disclosure of who the actor uniquely is, and that this disclosure is the basis of human dignity. Arendt’s notion of performative disclosure helps us to rethink the individuated actor, not as a sovereign and...