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PhD alumni (Dissertation Titles and Supervisors)

2011

Dr. Duncan Scott Campbell  
Dissertation Title: Unsettled: Discourse, Practice, Context and Collective Identity among Mad People in the United States, 1970-1999
(Supervisor Dr. Geoffrey Réaume)

Dr. Tanya Chung Tiam Fook  
Dissertation Title: Sustaining Indigenous Lifeways through Collaborative and Community-led Wildlife Conservation in the North Rupununi,
Guyana
(Supervisor: Dr. Leesa Fawcett)

Dr. Richard Fehr (2006)
Dissertation Title: Who has Traded Cash for Creation? Approaching an Anishinaabeg Informed Environmental History on Bkejwanong
Territory
(Supervisors: Dr. Joe Sheridan and Dr. David McNab)

Dr. Alfred Metallic
Dissertation Title: Reclaiming Mi’gmaq History and Politics: Living our Responsibilities, Ta’n Teliangweiasu ‘ltigw Gespe’gawa ‘qi
(Supervisor: Dr. Anders Sandberg)

Dr. Roxana Salehi  
Dissertation Title: Access to sexual health information and services for newcomer youth
(Supervisor: Dr. Sarah Flicker)

Dr. Gavan Watson  
Dissertation Title: Assembling the Bird(er): Multiple Acts of Birding  
(Supervisor: Leesa Fawcett)

2010

Dr. Janet Fishlock
But the White Man Peeked: Impacts, Opportunities and Dilemmas within Social Development and Private Sector Cooperation in the
International Mining Sector in Sub-Saharan Africa
(Supervisor: Dr. Ellie Perkins)

2009

Dr. Lauren Baker
Emerging Biocultural Agrifood Relations: Local Maize Networks in Mexico
(Supervisor: Dr. Deborah Barndt)

Dr. Bruce Erickson
Canoe Nation: Race and Gender in the Making of a National Icon
(Supervisor: Dr. Cate Sandilands)

2008

Dr. Suna Bayrakal
Canadian Environmental Policy and Technology Change: Air Pollution and the Automobile
(Supervisor: Dr. Liora Salter)

Dr. Richard Oddie
Alternative Routes, New Pathways: Development, Democracy and the Political Ecology of Transportation in Hamilton, Ontario
(Supervisor: Dr. Liette Gilbert)

Dr. Catherine Phillips
Saving More than Seeds: Natures, Technology and Politics with/in Seed Saving
(Supervisor: Dr. Liette Gilbert)

Dr. Stephanie Rutherford
Manufacturing the Wild: Nature, Power and Green Governmentality
(Supervisor: Dr. Gerda R. Wekerle)

Dr. Megan Salhus
Resistance and Conformity: The Dialectic of Urban Co-housing
(Supervisor: Dr. Cate Sandilands)

Dr. Jocelyn Thorpe
Temagami’s Tangled Wild: Race, Gender and the making of Canadian Nature
(Supervisor: Dr. L. Anders Sandberg)

2007

Dr. Pablo S. Bose
Towards a Global City of Joy: Transnational Practices and Peri-Urban Transformations in Contemporary Kolkata
(Supervisor: Dr. Peter Penz)

Dr. Susannah Bunce
Gentrifying Sustainability: Policy, Planning, and the Development of Sustainability on Toronto's Central Waterfront
(Supervisor: Dr. Gene Desfor)

Dr. Jenny Kerber
Apotheosis of Fecundity, Empire of Dust: Reading the Prairie Ecocritically
(Supervisor: Dr. Cate Sandilands)

Dr. Tim Leduc
Myth of Climate Change to Mything Climate Change
(Supervisor: Dr. Raymond Rogers)

Dr. Roronhiakewen Dan Longboat
Owehna’shon:a (The Islands) The Haudenosuanee Archipelago: The Nature and Necessity of Bio-Cultural Restoration and Revitalisation
(Supervisor: Dr. Raymond Rogers)

Dr. Leela Viswanathan
Postcolonial Planning: The Alternative Planning Group and the Transformation of Social Planning in Toronto at the Turn of the 21st Century
(Supervisor: Dr. Barbara Rahder)

Dr. Traci Warkentin
Captive Imaginations: Affordances for Ethics, Agency and Knowledge Making in Whale-Human Encounters
(Supervisor: Dr. Leesa Fawcett)

Dr. Douglas Young
Rebuilding the Modern: City After Modernism in Toronto and Berlin
(Supervisor: Dr. Roger Keil)

2006

Dr. Jennifer Foster
The Social Construction of Landscape Continuity on the Niagara Escarpment and Oak Ridges Moraine: Whose Continuity? Whose Landscape?
(Supervisor: Dr. L. Anders Sandberg)

Dr. Nicholas Garside
Feral Citizens, Democratic Ideals and the Politicization of Nature
(Supervisor: Dr. Cate Sandilands)

Dr. Cheryl Lousley
Subject/Matter: Environmental Thought and Contemporary Literature in English in Canada
(Supervisor: Dr. Mora Campbell)

2005

Dr. Bipasha Baruah
A Study of Challenges and Opportunities in Land and Property Ownership for Urban Self-Employed Indian Women in the City of Ahmedabad, Gujarat
(Supervisor: Dr. Bonnie Kettel)

Dr. Colin Chambers
The Implications of Globalization on the Environmental Regulation of Mining: The Case of Junior Mining in Canada
(Supervisor: Dr. Liora Salter)

2004

Dr. Peter Andrée
The Global Politics of Agricultural Biotechnology and the Environment: Canada and the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
(Supervisor: Dr. Cate Sandilands)

Dr. John Sandlos
Northern Wildlife, Northern People: Native Hunters and Wildlife Conservation in the Northwest Territories, 1894-1970
(Supervisor: Dr. L. Anders Sandberg)

Dr. Lenore Newman
The Tangled Garden: Complex Adaptive Systems and Sustainability
(Supervisor: Dr. David Morley)

2003

Dr. Carole Leclair
Metis Environmental Knowledge: La tayr Pi Tout Li Moond
(Supervisor: Dr. Peter Homenuck)

Dr. Richard Milgrom
Sustaining Diversity: Participatory Design and the Production of Urban Space
(Supervisor: Dr. Barbara Rahder)

Dr. Rita Lindayati
Ideas and Policy Change: Indonesia’s Locally-Based Forest Management Policy
(Supervisor: Dr. William Found)

Dr. Mark Meisner
The Symbolic Domestication of Nature: Environmental Discourse and Ideology in the Mainstream Media Landscape
(Supervisor: Dr. Fred Fletcher)

2002

Dr. Barbara Cassidy
Getting Rid of the Indian Problem: Aboriginal Suicide as a Manifestation of Genocide
(Co-supervisors: Dr. Ellie Perkins and Dr. Deborah Barndt)

Dr. Andil Gosine
‘Race’-Racism in Popular Environmentalism
(Supervisor: Dr. Ilan Kapoor)

Dr. Lori Letts
Participatory Research for Health Promotion: Seniors Organizing for a Voice in the Newly Amalgamated City of Toronto
(Supervisor: Dr. Barbara Rahder)

Dr. Michael Poslun
The Public Emergence of the Vocabulary of First Nations’ Self-Government: A Study of the Language as an Indicator of Ethical and Social Attitudes in the Formation of Metapolicy and the Discourse of First Nations Autonomy
(Supervisor: Dr. David Bell)

2001

Dr. David Duval
When Hosts Become Guests: Visits Among Members of the Carribean Community in Toronto
(Supervisor: Dr. Paul Wilkinson)

Dr. Elizabeth MacEachren
Craft-Making: A Pedagogy for Environmental Awareness
(Supervisor: Dr. Carol Carpenter)

Dr. Sherylin MacGregor
Beyond Mothering Earth: Ecological Citizenship and the Gendered Politics of Care
(Supervisor: Dr. Cate Sandilands)

Dr. Sherry Rowley
Paths of Resistance, Tracks of Disruption: On Stereotypes, Native/Women’s Spirituality, and the Problems of Functionalism and Cultural Appropriation in the ‘Nature’ of Dominating Western Cultures
(Supervisor: Dr. Mora Campbell)

Dr. Jean Paul Van Derlinden
Property Rights, Risk and Development: Community Level Range Management in Niger
(Supervisor: Dr. Paul Wilkinson)

2000

Dr. Elisabeth Abergel
Growing Uncertainty: The Environmental Risk Assessment of Genetically Engineered Herbicide Tolerant Canola in Canada
(Supervisor: Dr. Mora Campbell)

Dr. Anne Bell
Storied Experiences of School-Based Habitat Restoration
(Supervisor: Dr. Luce Heshusius)

Dr. Sophia Huyer
What Constitutes a Social Movement? The Action Canada Network and Free Trade Opposition in Canada, 1983-1993
(Supervisor: Dr. Liora Salter)

Dr. Anne Phillips
Mobilizing Community and Healing Ourselves: A Feminist, Anti-Racist, Participatory Action Research Approach to Understanding Women’s Health Based on Experiences in Jardin Sao Saverio, Brazil
(Supervisor: Dr. David Morley)

1999

Dr. Andy Fisher
Nature and Experience: A Radical Approach to Ecopsychology
(Supervisor: Dr. Mora Campbell)

Dr. Helen Hambly
The Implementation and Institutionalisation of Agroforestry in Western Kenya: A Gender and Agency Analysis
(Supervisor: Dr. William Found)

Dr. Hugh George McCague
Building with God: Anglo-Norman Durham, Bury St. Edmunds and Norwich
(Supervisor: Dr. M. Thurlby)

Dr. Michael Polanyi
A Qualitative Analysis and Critique of a ‘Future Search’ Conference: Reframing Repetitive Strain Injuries for Action
(Supervisor: Dr. Reg Lang)

1998

Dr. Joanna Beyers
The Forest Unbundled: Canada’s National Forest Strategy and Model Forest Program, 1992-1997
(Supervisor: Dr. L. Anders Sandberg)

1997

Dr. Adrian Iwachiw
Places of Power: Sacred Sites, Gaia’s Pilgrims, and the Politics of Landscape
(Supervisor: Dr. Jody Berland)

Dr. Douglas Charles MacDonald
Policy Communities and Allocation of Internalized Costs: Negotiation of the Ontario Acid Rain Program, 1982-1985
(Supervisor: Dr. Liora Salter)

Dr. Andrew John Satterthwaite
Public Voices and Wilderness in Environmental Assessment: A Philosophical Examination of Resource Policy Decisions
(Supervisor: Dr. Liora Salter)

1995

Dr. Femida Handy
A Microfoundational Analysis of Non-profit Organisations
(Supervisor: Dr. Peter Penz)

Dr. Michael Shannon Quinn
The Natural History of a Collector: J.H. Fleming (1872-1940), Naturalists, Ornithologists and Birds
(Supervisor: Dr. Neil Evernden)

1994

Dr. Raymond Rogers
Nature and the Crisis of Modernity: A Critique of Contemporary Discourse on Managing the Earth
(Supervisor: Dr. Paul Wilkinson)