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Spring 2018

Boucher, Cynthia C.

Although music scholarship has addressed queer topics in the past, a focus on lived experiences and community interactions has been notably absent in the literature. This work considers some of the challenges that may be inhibiting the emergence of a queer focus for fieldwork-based music studies:...

Fall 2018

Lesueur, Aurélie G

This study investigates the ways some queer collectives have organized DIY (Do-It-Yourself) festivals in Edmonton to address the oppression faced by their communities in arts and music scenes. Focusing my research specifically on the Brown, Black, and Fierce! Collective (BB&F) and Not Enough Fest...

Spring 2018

Oneschuk, Nadya

Project SUCH (Save the Ukrainian Canadian's Heritage) was conducted in the summers of 1971 and 1972 in the provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Ontario. Young, largely untrained fieldworkers were tasked with interviewing Ukrainian pioneers in the target areas about their immigration...

Fall 2018

Smith Elford, Jana R

This dissertation explores how the networked feminists of the late-nineteenth century gave rise to a particular type of feminism that I call “idealist feminism.” Beginning in the 1870s, largely after undertaking study at the first institutions of higher education in the world to admit women,...

Fall 2018

Jang, Jeongsuk

This dissertation includes two studies. The first study investigated the relationship between psychological factors related to linguistic differences and reading outcomes among North Korean students in South Korea. Specifically, the study assessed if North and South Korean children studying in...

Fall 2018

Collin James Mastrian

1917 god v derevne: vospominaniia krest'ian [1917 in the Countryside: Peasant Memoirs] is a censored volume of a vast collection of peasant memoirs and writings on the Revolution of 1917. These writings were sent by peasants in response to “an appeal to the countryside” published by future...

Fall 2018

Chee, Ryan

Molecular imaging is allowing researchers to make ground breaking strides in science and medicine by imaging molecular processes in vivo. Applications include detecting disease biomarkers, improving drug efficacy, studying biochemistry, and understanding disease mechanisms of action....

Fall 2018

Moghaddam, Fatemeh

The mechanical behavior of the individual cervical tissues as well as the head-neck complex kinematics plays a very important role in proper functioning of the cervical spine and is a key factor in more appropriate understanding of injury mechanism, prevention, detection, control and treatment....

Spring 2018

Ramakrishnan, Parthasarathi

Supply chain (SC) systems are often subject to high operational dynamics due to the large number of resources involved, frequent interaction between them, exhaustive human participation and timely decisions being made. This dynamic nature of SCs can be organized more efficiently by adopting...

Fall 2018

Kathrin Kapfinger

This thesis examines the securitization of migration in Europe and the responses to the 2015 refugee crisis – specifically the reintroductions of intra-Schengen border controls. The project explores two central research questions: In what ways have securitization discourse and European...