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Kelly Fritsch is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and Director of the Disability Justice and Crip Culture Collaboratory at Carleton University, unceded Algonquin territory (Ottawa).
Robyn Lee is an Assistant Professor of Social Theory in the Sociology department at University of Alberta. She uses contemporary social theory to explore subjectivity, embodiment, and gender.
Carolyne Topdjian is an artist, writer, and educator whose work explores existential issues of aesthetics, consciousness, and identity.
Alumni List
| Name | Dissertation | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Rodrigues, Sara | Elective Breast Surgery and Body Image: A Poststructural-Phenomenological Investigation | 2017 |
| Preston, Jennifer | Racial Extractivism: Neoliberal White Settler Colonialism and Tar Sands Extraction | 2017 |
| O’Regan, Keith | Toward a Productive Aesthetics: History and Now Time in Blake and Brecht | 2017 |
| Nelson, Bryan | Democracy Against: The Antinomies of Politics | 2017 |
| Lewis, Clayton | After The Death Of God: From Political Nihilism To Post-Foundational Democracy | 2017 |
| Keikhaee, Aidin | For the Other, Beyond Ethics: Responsibility, Critique, and Praxis in Levinas and Adorno | 2017 |
| Jain, Dhruv | The Atomic Prince: A Lucretian Interpretation of Machiavelli | 2017 |
| Hayter, John Matthew | Quest(ion)s of Anarchist Power: Rethinking Power-To, Power-Over, and Power-With in the Radical Democratic Praxis of Consensus Decision-Making | 2017 |
| Araujo, Christopher | Nature, History and the Dialectic of Negativity: The Category of Nature in Marx's Writings | 2017 |
| Zeleke, Elleni | Social Science is a Battlefield: Theory and Practice and Contested Politics in Revolutionary Ethiopia | 2016 |
| Upadhyay, Nishant | "We'll Sail Like Columbus": Race, Indigeneity, Settler Colonialism, and the Making of South Asian Diasporas in Canada | 2016 |
| Nastovski, Katherine | Towards Transformative Solidarities: Wars of Position in the Making of Labour Internationalism in Canada | 2016 |
| Kalman-Lamb, Nathan | Athletic Labour, Spectatorship, and Social Reproduction in the World of Professional Hockey | 2016 |
| Cochrane, David (Troy) | What's Love Got to Do With It? Diamonds and the Accumulation of De Beers, 1935-55 | 2016 |
| Adjemian, Jonathan | To Hold the World Visible: Writing and History in the Work of Mohammed Dib | 2016 |
| McMahon, James | What Makes Hollywood Run? Capitalist Power, Risk and the Control of Social Creativity | 2015 |
| Kolia, Zahir | Colonial Theology: John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Charles Darwin and the Emergence of the Colonial-Capitalist World System, 1500–1900 | 2015 |
| Drapeau, Thierry | The Atlantic Roots of Working-Class Internationalism: A Historical Re-Interpretation | 2015 |
| Fritsch, Kelly Michelle | Neoliberal Biopolitics of Disability: Towards Emergent Intracorporeal Practices | 2015 |
| Gordon, Aaron Andrew | Eurocentric Archival Knowledge Production and Decolonizing Archival Theory | 2015 |
| Levine, Gabriel Jaime | Radical Vernaculars: Experiments with Tradition between Politics and Performance | 2015 |
| Ruddy, Karen Ann | Decolonizing Literacies: Transnational Feminism, Legacies of Coloniality, and Pedagogies of transformation | 2015 |
| Selimovic, Adnan | Stillborn: The Libidinal Economy of Gadgetized Mediation in the Era of Socialization for Consumption; An Explanatory Political Project | 2015 |
| Zinaic, Rade | A Materialist Critique of Critical Balkanologies | 2015 |
| Belmer, Stephanie Lynn | At the Intersection of Ethics and Aesthetics: Emmanuel Levinas and Theodor Adorno on the Work of Art | 2014 |
| Flemming, Gregory C. | In the Beginning… Was the Act!: Zizek, Marx, and the Question of Form | 2014 |
| Henderson, Christine Rose | Contemporary Ruins: Politics and Aesthetics Beyond the Melancholy Imagination | 2014 |
| Khimji, Mohamed | Thinking the End in Itself: a Critical Study of First Principles in Plato, Aristotle, The Bible, and Kant | 2014 |
| Lee, Robyn | Breastfeeding: Power, Ethics, Poetics | 2014 |
| Norys, Marnina Margaret Ann | Mere Sources of Error: Workers, patients, and the reductive logic of rationalized healthcare | 2014 |
| Sayer, David Andrew | Machiavelli on the Art of the State and the True Way | 2014 |
| Videkanic, Bojana | Non-Aligned Modernism: Yugoslavian Art and Culture from 1945-1990 | 2014 |
| Weisberg, Zipporah Leslie | Animal Dialectics: Towards a Critical Theory of Animals and Society | 2014 |
| Dionne, Emilie | Thinking the Pluri-Person through Ironic Practices of Storytelling | 2013 |
| Harman, Jason Malcolm | The Politics of Tragedy: The Reversal of Radical Democracy | 2013 |
| Kuhnle, Lee Christian | On the Concept of Religion in Walter Benjamin's Critical Theory | 2013 |
| Mccormack, Geoffrey Robert Macbride | The Causes, Characte and Consequences of Economic Growth in Canada, 1974-2008: A Classical Political Economic Analysis | 2013 |
| Potts, Graham Michael | Posthuman Punk'd | 2013 |
| Stewart, Fenn Elan | Naturalizing Canada: Settler Colonial 'Wilderness' and the making of race and place | 2013 |
| Burke, Donald | A Dialectical Approach to Aesthetics in the Age of Post-metaphysical Modernity | 2012 |
| Topdjian, Carolyne | "Post-Beautiful Bodies: New Ways of Representing Female in Contemporary Visual Culture" | 2012 |
| Badeen, Dennis | A Marxist Critique of the Ontological Foundations of Neoclassical Economics | 2011 |
| Chowdhry, Aniruddha | Post-Deconstructive Subjectivity and History: Phenomenology, Critical Theory, and Postcolonial Thought | 2011 |
| Georgiou, Andreas | Being and Time of the Everyday: A Critique of Distance and Engagement | 2011 |
| Kamenova, Kalina | The Public Communication and Biopolitics of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research in the United States and the European Union | 2011 |
| Kiloh, Kathy J. | Embodied Ethics and Corporeal Conscience: Levinas & Adorno Within & Beyond Totality | 2011 |
| Nagam, Julie | Alternative Cartographies: Grafting a New Route for Indigenous Stories of Place | 2011 |
| Resendes, Livia | Boehme and Hegel: Towards a Rational and Androgynous Spirituality | 2011 |
| Bojadzija, Amira | Narratives of Sense Memory in Holocaust Survival Literature | 2010 |
| Hamer, Edward | The Ethical Implications of Accomplished Rituals: Visual Art and Psychology | 2010 |
| Liinamaa, Saara | Experiments in Urban Knowledge: Contemporary Art as Urban Research | 2010 |
| Scherer, Frank F. | Freud's Orient: Early Psychoanalysis, "Anti-Semetic Challenge", and the Vicissitudes of Orientalist Discourse | 2010 |
| Sun, Feiyu | Social Suffering and Political Confession: Suku in Modern China | 2010 |
| Wells, Charles H. | The Subject of Liberation: Confronting Slavoj Zizek | 2010 |
| Norton, Glen W. | Exploring Lived Cinematic Moments in Italian Neorealism and the French Nouvelle Vague | 2009 |
| Arcila, Paola Bohorquez | Living Between Languages: Linguistic Exile and Self-Translation | 2008 |
| Campbell, Colin J. | Beyond Vengeance: Religion and Political Liberation in Bataille, Girard and Rousseau | 2008 |
| Chandler, Mielle | Creation, Sovereignty, Ethics: Private Property and the Infraction of Infinity | 2008 |
| Chang-Campbell, Gena | Mestizaje a la Mode: Women and Popular Religion in Brasiliadade and Cubanidad | 2008 |
| Clift, Sarah | Committing the Future to Memory | 2008 |
| Friedman, Elisabeth Ruth | Aesthetics of Incommensurability: Artworks, Archives and the Dilemmas of Holocaust Representation | 2008 |
| Hameed, S. Ayesha | Bricks and Blood: The Dialectical Image of the Black Atlantic in the Colonial Metropolis | 2008 |
| Krishnamurti, Sailaja Vatsala | "The Route to Your Roots": History, Hindu Nationalism and Comics in India and South Asian Diasporas | 2008 |
| Neimanis, Astrida G. | Bodies of Water | 2008 |
| Rosen, Joseph E. | Beyond Memory: From Historical Violence to Political Authority in Contemporary Space | 2008 |
| Scott, Sonya Marie | The Epistemological Constitution of Subjectivity in Economic Thought | 2008 |
| Short, Jonathan | A Life Undivided: On Agamben's Use of Heidegger and Benjamin | 2008 |
| Thompson, Chad D. | Epistemologies of Independence: Technology and Empire in the Post-Soviet Borderlands | 2008 |
| Bresnahan, Keith | Architectures of Affect: Form and Feeling Between Enlightenment and Modernity | 2007 |
| Levant, Alex | The Problem of Self-Emancipation: Subjectivity, Organization and the Weight of History | 2007 |
| Ma, Michael C.K. | Social Justice Exhaustion and Containment: An Investigation of the Chinese National Council — Toronto Chapter | 2007 |
| Mann, H. Molly | Hegel and Ricouer's Teleological Conception of the Ethical Aim: Social Justice as Civic Inclusion | 2007 |
| McMurtry, J.J. | Theory's Life Aporia: Understanding the Life Ground of Social and Political Thought | 2007 |
| Persaud, Walter H. | International Education in Thailand: A Postcolonial Analysis | 2007 |
| Shaw, Christine | Connect, Conjugate, Continue: Unfurling Thought and Creativity | 2007 |
| Andrade, Pablo | Democracy and Political Change in Ecuador: Liberalism, the Politics of Culture, and Industrial Reform | 2006 |
| Cauchi, Mark | The Creation of Deconstruction: the Greek, the Abrahamic, and the Sins of Jacques Derrida | 2006 |
| Heynen, Robert J. | Degeneration and Revolution: Radical Cultural Politics and the Politics of the Body in Weimar Germany, 1914-1933 | 2006 |
| Kamugisha, Aaron | Abducting Western Civilization: Colonality, Citizenship and Liberation in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition | 2006 |
| Mtshali, Khondlo | The Developmental Phases of a Healer in Ayi Kewi Armah's Novels | 2006 |
| Tahmasebi-Birgani, Victoria | The Ethical Work of Liberation: Levinas, Ghandi and Political Praxis | 2006 |
| Walker, Kathryn | All of Antigones | 2006 |
| Khan, Tariq Amin | Theorizing the Postcolonial State in the Era of Capitalist Globalism | 2005 |
| Parkins, Ilya | Material Modernity: A Feminist Theory of Modern Fashion | 2005 |
| Sliwinski, Sharon | Visualizing Human Rights: Photography, Atrocity, & the Ethical Imagination | 2005 |
| Armstrong, Sean David | Superstition and the Idols of the Mind: How the Witch-Hunt Helped Shape the Scientific Revolution in England | 2004 |
| Baker, Norma Jo | The Politics of Irresponsibility: Liberalism and Labour in YeltsinÕs Russia | 2004 |
| Blackell, Mark | Symptoms of Democracy: Ambivalence and its Limits in Modern Liberal Conceptions of the Liberal Democratic Bond | 2004 |
| Lokaisingh-Meighoo, Sean | The Return of Dialectics | 2004 |
| Travis, Ellen | The Material Production of Truth | 2004 |
| Anderson-Irwin, Chris | Hegel, Judaism, and Biblical Thought | 2003 |
| Cameron, Gregory | Project of Philosophy: Myth, Politics and Experience | 2003 |
| Lucas, Janet | Disruption of Human Subjectivity: An Exploration of Language and Psychosis | 2003 |
| McCullough, John | Tedium and Torture: Representations of Work, Class Relations and Nation at the Beginning of the 21st Century | 2003 |
| Song, Xingwu | Modernization and Individualization of Youth in Post-Mao China | 2003 |
| Suski, Laura | Anguished Humanists: International Development and the Humanitarian Impulse | 2003 |
| Vanstone, Gail | Documenting D: Studio D of the NFB and Its Representation of Women's Lives in Canada, 1974-1996 | 2003 |
| Verikukis, Hristos | Was Khun Really Revolutionary? Or, From Demarcation to the Choice of Critical Problems, From Khun to Popper and Althusser | 2003 |
| Wright, Robert Eric | The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism | 2003 |
| Cameron, Heather | The Promises and Perils of Practices of the Self: Foucault, Freud and the Fate of Critique | 2002 |
| Camfield, David | Class, Politics and Social Change: The Remaking of the Working Class in 1940s Canada | 2002 |
| Ferentzy, Alex | Gilles Deleuze and the Trajectory | 2002 |
| Foster, Cecil A. | Blackness and Canada: A Phenomenological Exploration | 2002 |
| Kispal-Kovacs, Joseph | Hollywood's Working Class: Class & Class Conflict in the Hollywood Cinema 1927-1941 | 2002 |
| Varga. Darrell | The Performance of Space in Canadian Film | 2002 |
| Arrowsmith, Douglas | Techniques of Self-Mastery: Montainge, Shakespeare, and Freud | 2001 |
| Burman, Jenny | Economies of Nostalgia and Yearning: Travelling the Route Between Toronto and Jamaica | 2001 |
| Driver, Susan | Queering Material Desires Through Dialogical Relations of Experience | 2001 |
| Heftler, Victoria | Just History? An Argument for Critical Cosmopolitan Histories of Harm | 2001 |
| Ironston–Catterall, Penelope | Crisis, Trauma, and Testimony: the Work of Mourning in the 'Age of AIDS' | 2001 |
| Simon-Aaron, Charles | Class Ideology and African Political Theory | 2001 |
| Arevalo, Marco Vinico Haroldo Fonseca | The Language of Human Rights in the Guatemalan Transition to Democracy | 2000 |
| Boyd, Stephen | Rethinking Market Society: Delineating the Historical Specificity of Capitalism | 2000 |
| Ferentzy, Peter L. | The Addiction Concept: How the Language of Sin was Replaced by that of Disease | 2000 |
| Fisher, Caitlin | Building Feminist Theory: a Hypertextual Heuristics | 2000 |
| Hennesy, Niamh | History, Space, and Language in the Work of Habermas and Bakhtin | 2000 |
| Lynn, Marion M. | The Process of Marital Disillusion/Dissolution | 2000 |
| Ramses, Veronique Tomaszewski | Aesthetic Heaven and Artistic Hell: An Intellectual Journey | 2000 |
| Schafer, Scott | Resisting Ethics | 2000 |
| Soron, Dennis | Economic Fatalism and Popular-Democratic Struggle | 2000 |
| Black, David J. | Wiring Birmingham: Cultural Studies, Romanticism, and the New Media | 1999 |
| Cosgrave, James Forbes | Identity, Particularity, and Value: Interpretive Conflict and the Collective Representation of Culture | 1999 |
| Druick, Zoe | Narratives of Citizenship: Governmentality and the National Film Board of Canada | 1999 |
| Indart, Rafael T. | Karl Popper's Philosophy of Social Science and the Problem of Tyrrany | 1999 |
| Lord, Susan | Sublime Machines: Time, Technology, and the Female Body of Ocular Modernity | 1999 |
| Ouellet, Eric | Management Consultants: A Sociology of Seduction | 1999 |
| Bradley, Dale A. | Unfolding a Strategic Space: a Discursive Analysis of Cyberspace's Power Relations | 1998 |
| Canefe, Negris | Sovereign Utopias: Civilizational Boundaries of Greek and Turkish Nationhood (1821-1923) | 1998 |
| Duncan, John Cameron | Nature, History and Critical Theory | 1998 |
| McCarron, Gary | Animals as Moral Others: Obligation in the Context of Animal Emancipation | 1998 |
| Mills, Megan Stuart | Ethnic Myth and Ethnic Survival — The Case of India's Anglo-Indian (Eurasian) Minority | 1998 |
| Ramsay, Christine Elizabeth | Masculinity and Processes of Intersubjectivity in the Films of David Cronenberg | 1998 |
| Salem-Wiseman, Jonathan | Beyond the Artist-God? Mimesis, Aesthetic Autonomy, and the Project of Philosophical Modernity in Kant, Nietzsche and Heidegger | 1998 |
| Steuter, Erin | Identifying Ideology: Media Representations of the Irving Oil Refinery Strike 1994-1996 | 1998 |
| Banks, Timothy Mark | Of Passions and Souls: Contemplating Willing, Ethics and Aids | 1997 |
| Carter, Stephen John | Implied Subjects: The Cultural Subject's Narrative Mediation of the Other | 1997 |
| Dufresne, Todd Raymond | Beyond Beyond: Tales From the Freudian Crypt | 1997 |
| Gillespie, James Loran | Art and Spectacle: The Dialectics of the Virtual Interface | 1997 |
| Kulak, Avron Paul | Origin and Critique: Reading Nietzsche's On The Genealogy of Morals | 1997 |
| Matthews, Edward J. | Hegel's Theory of the Modern Family and its Relation to Gender: Nature, Culture and the Anthropology of Power Relations | 1997 |
| Mookerjea, Sourayan | Recreating Art: Fetishes of Time: "Race" and Geopolitical Difference | 1997 |
| Ferguson, John Robert | What Sustains Sustainability? An Examination of Economic Visions of Sustainability | 1996 |
| Fielding, Helen Anne | Beyond the Surface: Towards a Feminist Phenomenology of the Body-As-Depth | 1996 |
| Fountas, Emily | The Body Without Organs or the Body As Flesh: | 1996 |
| Free, George Hector | Sociological Reflection: A Study in the Social History of the Sociology of Knowledge | 1996 |
| Ghisalberti, Giosue | Metaphysics of Finitude | 1996 |
| Morse, Michael William | The Tune in Jazz as a Social Process — Prolegomena to a Sociology of Music | 1996 |
| Ruhl, P. Lealle | Writing Human Reproduction Today: Liberalism and its Critics | 1996 |
| Taylor, Derek Hedley | Ecstatic Limits: On the Defense of Phenomenology | 1996 |
| Wynn, H. Francine | The Early Mother-Infant Relationship: Holding and Being Held | 1996 |
| Cocker, Brian Stephen | In the Event of the Future: From the Theory of Time to the Politics of Duration | 1995 |
| Duchesne, Ricardo | All Contraries Confounded: Historical Materialism and the Transition-To-Capitalism Debate | 1995 |
| Higgens, Delwyn Mae | Monuments/Memory/Meditation: The Rational Architecture of Postwar Italy | 1995 |
| Kellman, Tila Landon | Figuring Redemption: Enframing the Subject in Selected Work of Michael Snow | 1995 |
| Malszecki, Gregory Maurice | "He Shoots! He Scores!" Metaphors of War in Sport and the Political Linguistics of Virility | 1995 |
| Simmons, Deborah Lee | Against Capital: The Political Economy of Aboriginal Resistance in Canada | 1995 |
| Sinha, Amresh Kumar | Memory, Mimesis, Film: Readings in Benjamin, Adorno and Kluge | 1995 |
| Wickens–Feldman, Renate | Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake's Theory of Photography as the Containment of Communications Technology: A Hermeneutic Reading | 1995 |
| Markotic, Lorraine | Some are Born Pothumously: The Theoretical Writings of Lou Andreas-Salome | 1994 |
| Patroni, Viviana | The Long March To Neoliberalism: Crisis, Change, and the History of Development in Mexico and Argentina | 1994 |
| Jowett, Donna | Feminist Pedagogy in the Face of the Other: Emanuel Levinas and the Hermeneutics and Ethics of Emancipatory Knowledge | 1993 |
| Larrea, Carlos | The Mirage of Development: Oil, Employment, and Poverty in Ecuador (1972-1990) | 1993 |
| Longfellow, Brenda | Eccentric Subjcets: Feminist Film Theory and its Others | 1993 |
| Weir, Allison Elizabeth | Self-Identity and the Discourse of Repression: Feminist Theories of the Subject | 1993 |
| Wellen, Richard | Dilemmas in Liberal Democratic Thought Since Max Weber | 1993 |
| Conklin, William E. | The Language of Authority | 1992 |
| Enwerem, Iheanyi M. | The Politicization of Religion in Modern Nigeria: The Emergence and Politics of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) | 1992 |
| Flaherty, Peter A. | Psychoanalytic Histories: Freud's Writings in Their Contexts of Production and Reception | 1992 |
| Genosko, Gary Alan | Bar Games: Baudrillard's Encounters With the Sign | 1992 |
| Havers, Grant | Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: A Critical Study of Spinoza and Freud | 1992 |
| Hearne, Dana | The Development of Irish Feminist Thought: A Critical Historical Analysis of the Irish Citizen, 1912-1920 | 1992 |
| Kemple, Thomas M. | Ruptures in Reason, Melodrama, The Market, and Marx's Grundrsisse | 1992 |
| Koch, Robert | Science and Right: Critical Legitimation in Kant and Hegel | 1992 |
| Lehnerer, Melodye | Becoming Involved: Field Research at a Halfway House for Ex-Offenders | 1992 |
| Lippe, Richard | Cukor, Women and the Melodrama: Close Readings of Four Films | 1992 |
| Marchessault, Janine | The Moving Image in the Aura of Science: Identity, Technology, History | 1992 |
| Michie, Michael Hugh | From Moral Philosophy to Social Economy: The Conservatism of Sir Archibald Alison | 1992 |
| Miles, Geoffrey Alan | Gravida-Gradiva: Pregnancy and Death-Work in Freud's Pompeiian Fantasy | 1992 |
| Pinter, J. Steven | H.A. Innis, M.M. Bakhtin and Trends in Canadian Policy Reporting | 1992 |
| Spiteri, Anthony Domenic | The Poor Ye Will Have With You Always? From an Analysis of the Concept of Ideology to an Investigation of Faith that Does Justice | 1992 |
| Gismondi, Michael A. | Religion and Revolution in Nicaragua: An Historical Perspective | 1991 |
| Jacobowitz, Florence S. | Critical Realism: The Sternberg/Dietrich Collaborations | 1991 |
| Kompridis, Nikolas | Reconstructing Aesthetic Theory: Between Habermas and Adorno | 1991 |
| Moore, Carol Jane | The Maternal Imago: A Psychoanalytic-Feminist Study of Unconscious Representations of the Mother and their Role in WomenÕs Complicity in their Own Oppression | 1991 |
| Sawchuck, Kimberly Anne | Marketing Technology and the Body: A Foucauldian Report on Consumer Culture | 1991 |
| Baker, Langton G. | La Bette Philosophe: French Nietzsche Reception | 1990 |
| Plaats, Robert Glenn Vander | Capitalist Development and the State: England & the Netherlands, 1500-1800 | 1990 |
| Root, Deborah | Regimes of Inscription: Cultural Difference and the Spanish Conquest of Mexico | 1990 |
| Alia, Valerie | Toward a Politics of Naming | 1989 |
| Coston, Nevin | The Politics of Plenitude: A Panegyric To Participatory Democracy in an Age of Technology | 1989 |
| Danzig, Samuel | 2BV-2B: Towards a Uniphont Economy of Egalitarian Overletters | 1989 |
| Duncan, Colin Adrien Mackinley | The Centrality of Agriculture: Between Humankind and the Rest of Nature | 1989 |
| Elliot, Patricia May | Psychoanalytic Feminism: Toward a Critical Theory of the Gendered Subject | 1989 |
| Gauther, Lorraine Angeline | Citing/Siting Irigaray | 1989 |
| Sorenson, John | "An African Nightmare": Discourse on War and Famine in the Horn of Africa | 1989 |
| Stokes, Kenneth Michael | Toward Political Economy for the Epoch of the Noosphere | 1989 |
| Taylor, Angus Macdonald | Structure and Agency in Marx's Theory of History | 1989 |
| Shafer, John Jackson | The Repudiation of the Rights of Man in the Age of Revolution | 1988 |
| Swanson, G. W. | Conflicting Motifs in Max Weber's Theory of Modern Rationality with Special Reference to the Concept of Action | 1988 |
| Danik, Claude | Marx's Concept of Ground-Rent and Landowner Revenue: The Relation of Marx's Concept of Ground-Rent to the Historical Analysis of Landowner Revenue from the Production of Petroleum | 1987 |
| Forsyth, Scott | From Silver Screen to Red Flags: Marxism, Revolution and Popular Film | 1987 |
| Mooers, Colin Peter | State Formation and Economic Development in France and Germany: Absolutism to Capitalism | 1987 |
| Morgan, Brendan | Philosophy as Memento Mori in Early Works by Walter Benjamin | 1987 |
| Berland, Jody | Cultural Re/Percussions: The Social Production of Music Broadcasting in Canada | 1986 |
| Lyons, Lawrence Albert | Discourse Analysis, Social Theory and the Subject | 1986 |
| Mcmillan, Robert Lee | The Study of Anthropology, 1931-1937, at Columbia University and the University of Chicago | 1986 |
| Weir, Lorna | Studies in the Medicalization of Sexual Danger: Sexual Rule, Sexual Politics — 1830-1930 | 1986 |
| Briskin, Linda | Theorizing the Capitalist Family/Household System: A Marxist Feminist Contribution | 1985 |
| Burston, Daniel | Toward a Revised Freudo-Marxism: Labour, Sociability and the Origins of Patriarchy | 1985 |
| Cohen, Marjorie Griffin | The Razor's Edge Invisible: Women, Markets and Economic Development in Ontario, 1900-1911 | 1985 |
| Taylor, Patrick D.M. | The Narrative of Liberation: Historical Consciousness in the Afro-Caribbean | 1985 |
| Trumper, Ricardo Samuel | Domination and Resistance: The Chilean Countryside 1541-1850 | 1985 |
| Winslow, Edward George | The Philosophical and Psychological Presuppositions of KeynesÕs Economics | 1985 |
| Comninel, George C. | Historical Materialism and Bourgeois Revolution: Ideology and Interpretation of the French Revolution | 1983 |
| Harvey, Irene Elizabeth | The Economy of Differance | 1983 |
| Lum, Janet M. | Private Space and Public Order in Contemporary China | 1983 |
| McNally, David Joseph | The Political Economists and Agrarian Capitalism: A Reinterpretation of Classical Political Economy in Britain and France | 1983 |
| Mills, Patricia Jagentowicz | Woman, Nature and Psyche: The Domination of Nature in the Tradition of Critical Theory | 1983 |
| Nederman, Cary Joseph | State and Political Theory in France and England, 1250-1350: Marsiglio of Padua, William of Ockham and the Emergence of 'Natural' Traditions of Discourse in the Late Middle Ages | 1983 |
| Singer, Brian Charles Joseph | State, Society and the Revolutionary Imaginary 1789-1794 | 1983 |
| Boyd, Terrence | Truth and Its Expression: A Study of Soren Kierkegaard's Existence-Communication | 1982 |
| Daniels, David Allen | Theories of Peasant Society: A Critical Study | 1982 |
| Levine, Ellen Greengross | Psychoanalysis and Symbolism: The Space Between Self and World | 1982 |
| Valverde, Mariana | French Romantic Socialism and the Critique of Political Economy | 1981 |
| Vise, Gerald Harris | Biography and the Interpretation of Music | 1981 |
| Wolfe, Sandra Merle | A Psychoanalytic Theory of Artistic Creativity | 1981 |
| Angus, Ian H. | Technique and Enlightenment: Limits of Instrumental Reason in the Life-World | 1980 |
| Meiksins, Peter F. | The Social Origins of White Collar Work: A Study of the Evolution of Capitalist Social Structure | 1980 |
| Mendelson, Jack | Methodological Foundations of the Social Sciences: The Problem of Explanation and Understanding | 1980 |
| Morrow, John | Idealism and Socialism in Britain 1880-1920 | 1980 |
| Wolin, Richard B. | An Aesthetic of Redemption: A Study in the Philosophical Criticism of Walter Benjamin | 1980 |
| Hornosty, Jennie Mary | The Contemporary Marxist-Christian Dialogue: A Study in the Political Economy of Religion with Special Reference to Quebec | 1979 |
| Stamiris, Yiannis Emmanuel | Theories of Literature: (A Critique Towards a Dialectical Critical Enterprise) | 1979 |
| Walker, Charles Terrence | The Thought of R.G. Collingwood: Tradition as Tradition Overcome | 1979 |
| Name | Thesis | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Barfoot, Catherine | Free Learning In Ontario | 2017 |
| Lachowicz, Peter | An Existenital Investigation into the Powerful Uncertainty of Death and the resulting Gap that occurs between Phenomenal entities and their Apparent/Semblant counterpart in the interdependent relation of In-person Interaction and Digital Messaging: the Battle between Dasein either Being-with other Daseins or Being-Alongside-the-Other | 2017 |
| Kunze, Michael | Play and the Revolution of Everyday Life | 2017 |
| Brownrigg, Erik | Tracing Ethics: Derrida | 2017 |
| Lu, Jun | Preliminary Thinking: The Cultural Revolution as a Defense Against Persecutory Anxiety | 2017 |
| Mastrocola, Christopher | Marcuse on Primary Narcissism: A Reinterpretation | 2016 |
| Khan, Sadia | Adam Smith at the Margins The Colonial Question in the Wealth of Nations | 2016 |
| Nusbaum, Jordan | The Way Through Nietzsche's Garden | 2016 |
| Correia, Tyler | Coming to Terms with Modernity: The Possibility of Politics in the Works of Arendt and Rawls | 2016 |
| Friesen, Rachelle | Making Life Permanently Temporary: An Analysis of Settler Colonialism in Jerusalem | 2016 |
| Serykh, Darya | Gay Liberation Versus Soviet Oppression: Constructing and Regulating U.S. Homonational Identity during the Cold War | 2015 |
| Niloofar, Golkar | Rethinking the Center Critique of the Theory of the Primitive Accumulation and the Situation of the Temporary Working Women in Ontario | 2015 |
| Duncan, Maija | Politics and the Myth of Sovereignty: Affects of Nationalism and Protest in the 2012 Quebec Spring | 2015 |
| Leal, Severin | Building Knowledges of Love and Sex: A Review of Monogamy and Sex Work Literature | 2015 |
| Behnam, Amini | State Power and Class Power in the Post–Revolutionary Iranian State | 2015 |
| Placzek, Richard | "Melodramatic State Terror" | 2015 |
| O'Callaghan, Connor | Poverty as State Violence | 2014 |
| Abdul Hamid Khan, Salmaan | Reflections on Orthodox Marxism | 2014 |
| Bannis, Albert | The Socio-economic, Cultural and Political impact of Cell Phone Technology due to the Deregulation in Dominica | 2013 |
| Alamdar, Negar | Ontologizing Ideologies of Neoliberalism and the resistance of Transcending Identities | 2012 |
| Rodriguez, J. Santiago | The Significance of Social Imaginaries: Reading Cornelius Castoriadis and Benedict Anderson | 2012 |
| Anna McIntosh | Foundations for an Inclusive Approach to the Study of Psychology in an Interconnected World | 2012 |
| Yasar Bukan | Theory of State Relations in Ibn Khaldun's Philosophy | 2012 |
| Kerpel, Mark | Historical Specificity in the Thought of Karl Marx | 2012 |
| Dwyer, Asheda | The politics of chanting down Babylon: Re-reading the 1960 reports on the Rastafar-I of Kingston, Jamaica | 2011 |
| Malcolm, Cristopher | The Whole is False: Adorno's Negative Materialism | 2011 |
| Sarkeesian, Anita | "I'll make a man out of you": Strong women in science fiction and fantasy television | 2010 |
| Adjemian, Jonathan | Fanon: the uses of psychology Psychiatry, group dynamics and the work of social change | 2010 |
| Voegeli, Fabian | Temporality and Potentiality in Ancient and Modern Techniques of the Self | 2010 |
| Heer, Amrit | Postulating Chance in Deleuze | 2010 |
| Crighton, Claire | To put it briefly: Freshman composition and the politics of concise writing in modern America | 2010 |
| Upadhyay, Nishant | Building Consciousness and Redefining Politics: Going beyond class | 2010 |
| Harman, Jason | Nothing of Substance: A Spinozist Response to Emmanuel Levinas | 2009 |
| Selimovic, Adnan | Psychopolitics of Childhood: Trauma of Modernity and the Political Prospects of Bosnia Youth | 2009 |
| Cimino, Franco | Representation De-sutured: Between Pathos and Intermittency | 2009 |
| Araujo, Christopher | The Phenomenology of Labour: Reason, subjectivity, and freedom in Marx's writings from 1844 to 1867 | 2009 |
| Taylor, Cayley | Reproductive Rights and Legal Reform in Latin America: The Case of Mexico City | 2009 |
| Miceli, Vanessa | Dispossession as permanent temporariness: a comparative reading of poor laws in early nineteenth century england and refugee rights in the age of neoliberalism | 2009 |
| Gill, Sean | Towards a Post-human Marx: Rethinking Consciousness, Labour, and Human Difference | 2009 |
| Taylor, Cayley | Reproductive Rights and Legal Reform in Latin America: The Case of Mexico City | 2009 |
| Ali, Noaman G. | Repeating Anticolonial Nationalism: Mozambique and the Political Economy of Dominance and Hegemony, 1975-2009 | 2009 |
| Dang, Baolinh | The Concept of Natural History in Adorno and Marcuse | 2008 |
| Lafrance, Stirling | Direct to Consumer Advertising: How Subjective Governance Serves Capital | 2008 |
| Erin, Gray | Going Achitextural: Thinking Through Sensation in Gins, Arakwa and Brossard | 2007 |
| Lee, Andrew Michael | Querying the conditions for warfare: The political economy of U.S. military spending in 21st century | 2007 |
| Newson, Michael | Rawls' Concept of Political Society, Justice as Fairness and the Problem of Transnationalism | 2006 |
| Welburn, Jude | On the Image of History in Benjamin's "These" | 2006 |
| Bisnar, Danielle | Trauma, Witness, Testimony: Psychoanalysis and Narratives of Colonial Education | 2005 |
| Jull, Mark | Plato's wish: pleasure, metaphysics and sovereign being | 2005 |
| Thompson, Shawn | The Subject of Metapsychology: Working Through the Ethics of Desire with Freud and Kierkegaard | 2005 |
| William, Lane | Making it real: The Subject in Play | 2004 |
| Gasteiger, Tyler | A Study of Language and Desire in Hegels Phenomenology of Spirit | 2004 |
| Belmer, Stephanie | Art and Negative Dialectics In Constellation: Critical Theory and a Dialectical Negation of Identity-Thinking | 2004 |
| Robertson, Trevor | A Poetic Word: Manifestation in High Park | 2004 |
| Chang-Campbell, Gena | Retail Religion? Contesting the Cooptation and Commodification of Candomble in Salvador, Brazil | 2003 |
| Klement, Kristine | Psychoanalysis and Performativity: Theorizing Gender and Sexual Identity between the Psyche and the Social | 2003 |
| Lefebvre, Alexandre | Laws of Critique, speculative and ethical | 2003 |
| Alexander, Claudius | Bad Faith Bad Conscience & Forgetfulness: Three Perspectives on The [Im]-Possibility for Ethical Practice in Contemporary Human Attitude | 2003 |
| Hilary A., Schuldt | The Uncanny Life of Hope | 2003 |
| Bociurkiw, Marusya | Lucy, and Ellen, Rosanne and Ally: Sexed Bodies and the Construction of Normalcy in Television Comedy | 1999 |
| Hall, Micheal | Re-staging Performativity: Authourity and Acknowledgment from Benvensite to Butler | 1999 |
| Williams, James | Maurice Merleau-Ponty and the Practice of Policing | 1997 |
| Cemer, Brett | Rethinking Revolutionary History: Marxism and Working Class Unification | 1996 |
| Burman,Jenny | Waking Dreamscapes: Colonial Nostalgia and ethnographic representation in "North-South" tourism advertising | 1996 |
| Landolt, Patricia | The Indian Peasantry of the Western Highlands of Guatemala: Upholding Corporate Community and the Indian Identity | 1996 |
| Friedman, Elizabeth | Too Much and Not Enough: the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Art of Ambivalence | 1996 |
| Goldman, Daniel | Turning Politics around Theology: Negativity in Benjamin's Critique of Violence | 1996 |
| Borman, Jenny | Waking dreamscapes: Colonial nostalgia and ethnographic representation in "North South" tourism and advertising | 1996 |
| Resendes, Livia | Ethical Epistemologies | 1995 |
| Camfield, David | Towards a Social History of Foucault's Thought | 1995 |
| Kiefer, Theresa | Computer-Mediated Communication in the Workplace: An Evaluation of the Development of the Subject in the "New" Working Class | 1995 |
| Hennessy, Niamh | Defining Moments: Models of Public Space as Emancipation in Arendt and Habermas | 1994 |
| Baker, Norma | Reality as Oxymoron: Contingent Essentialism and Marx's Theory of Social Ontology | 1994 |
| Druick, Zoe | Adorno, Benjamin and the Dialectics of Culture | 1993 |
| Stolow, Jeremy | A Critical Report on The Bureaucratization of Multiculturalism | 1993 |
| Dufresne, Todd | Reading Towards an Understanding of Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle | 1992 |
| Ives, Peter | Gramsci and Feminism: From allusion to alliance | 1992 |
| Robertson, Kathleen | Use, Pleasure and Meaning: The Social Practices of Consumption | 1992 |
| Hiristos, Verikukis | Toward a Definition of the Proleteriat | 1992 |
| Ramsay, Christine | "Are you really royal or are you a derelict?" Abjection and the passive male hero in the films of David Cronenburg | 1992 |
| Kulak, Avron | Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and the Necessary Structure of the Interpersonal Origin | 1991 |
| Kontos, Louie | A Theoretical Inquiry into Cybernetics | 1991 |
| Macintyre, W.A. | The Post-Colonial State and the Global Economy: Dependence, Continuity and the Potential for Transformation in the Case of Trinidad-Tobago (1972-1984) | 1991 |
| Boucock, Cary | Michel Foucault and the 'Repressive Hypothesis': A Rejoinder for Herbert Marcuse | 1991 |
| Welch, Colin | Autonomy and Power: the Ethical Theory of Michel Foucault | 1990 |
| Freedman, Ben | Alienation, Reification and the Ontology of Social Being | 1990 |
| Laurie, Peter | Power in Development: Rethinking the Critique of Canadian Foreign Aid | 1989 |
| Fielding, Helen | Communicative Ethics and the Desiring Subject: A Feminist Rethinking of Habermas | 1989 |
| Colvin, Ian | Adorno and Humor | 1989 |
| De Villa, Gonzalo | Colonial Guatemala: Ethnicity and Social Classes, 1524 - 1821 | 1988 |
| Cosgrave, Jim | Intimate Strangers and Anti-Heroes or "Postmodern Aesthetics"/Sociological Poetics": A Dialogical Approach to Understanding Television Discourses | 1988 |
| Polster, Claire | Toward a Decentered Historical Materialism | 1988 |
| Waldorf, Lee | The Limits of Art: Theodor Adorno's Aesthetic Theory | 1988 |
| Havers, Grant | Existence-Communication and Greek Thought | 1988 |
| Lo, Marlow | Anti-pornography, sex negation and the expansion of state control: A critique of the critiques of pornography | 1987 |
| Clark, Donald | Language, Aesthetics, And Practice: Walter Benjamin and the Crisis of Marxism | 1987 |
| Shergold, Teresa | An Identity of One's Own: Femininity, Authority and Gender Domination in Critical Theory | 1987 |
| Davies, Philip | Idea and Information: Phenomenological and Cybernetic Aspects of Talcott Parson's Theory of Action | 1986 |
| Bondi, Lou | Rousseau and Political Action | 1986 |
| Colby, Marion | Women and Law In The Third World Strategies for Empowerment | 1986 |
| Farrell, Gilda | Cuba: The Transition Road Economy and Employment | 1986 |
| Sorensen, Carol J. | Cherchez la femme: Derrida, Irigaray, and the search for the "other woman" | 1985 |
| Elias, John Manuel | Phenomenology of Narrative: Existential Communication as Dialectical Practice | 1985 |
| Ifeanyi, Enwerem M. | Socialist Imperatives In Africa: A Critical Examination | 1985 |
| Zisman, Alex | La tia Julia y el escribidor and the object of Mario Vargas Llosa's literary creation as a novelist | 1985 |
| Mortimer, Christopher | Aspects of Disarmament | 1984 |
| Cechmistro-Michie, Olga | Rhetorical Strategies in Philosophical Writing | 1984 |
| Vanderplaats, Robert | Marx, Weber and the Interpretation of the Dutch Republic | 1983 |
| Duncan, Colin A. M. | The General Norms Of Economic Life | 1982 |
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