Recent Theses
SAINT MARY’S
Alo Greening, Aug 24, 2024, "History, Huh: A Post-Modern Study of the Consumption of Queer Romance" (Supervisor Dr. M. Byers, Second Reader Dr. D. Rehberg Sedo)
Rachel Ludwin, Aug 19, 2024, “God Should Have Made Girls Lethal When She Made Monsters of Men”: Personal Reflections on Representations of Rape and Women’s Rage in Rape and Revenge Films" (Supervisor Dr. M. Byers, Reader Dr. L. Macumber)
Emery Levi Langille, Apr 23, 2024, “In The Name Of The Fear, The Shame & The Hegemonic Guilt:” A SIRmon From Trans Christian Men To The Church" (Supervisor Dr. S. Krishnamurti, Second Reader C. Bombardier)
Alexandra Taylor Grimes, Apr 24, 2024, "The Matriarchs of Crime: A Feminist Content Analysis of Mother-Son Relationships in Animal Kingdom and Sons of Anarchy" (Supervisor Dr. M. Byers, Second reader Dr. T. Takseva)
Loretta Baidoo, Jan 23, 2024, "Transnational Feminisms and the Politics of International Development in Ghana" (Supervisor Dr. B. Bunjun, Reader Dr. M. Motapanyane)
Crenda Obenewaa Marfo, Sep 8, 2023, "Trokosi Tradition: Navigating Through Traditional Practices, Gender, Human Rights, and Reproductive Rights in Ghana" (Supervisor Dr. T. Takseva, Second Reader Dr. G. Hlongwane)
Ahrthyh Arumugam Aug 24, 2023, "Tenancy and Housing Rights of Racialized International Students" (Supervisor Dr. S. Krishnamurti, Reader Dr. M. Byers)
Gabrielle Smith, Jul 24 2023, "One Size Fails All: Reconceptualizing Eating Disorders Through an Intersectional Feminist Lens" (supervisor Dr. B. Bunjun, Reader Dr. M. Byers)
Tamsin Sloots, Jun 5, 2023, "Through Rows and In Stitches – Entangled a sweater as (an) archive" (Supervisor Dr. M. Byers, Second Reader Dr. J. Hollenbach)
Jodi VanderHeide, Mar 23, 2023, "Modest it Hottest: Deconstructing Female Sexuality in Evangelical Communities" (Supervisor Dr. M. Gonick, Second Reader Dr. S. Krishnamurti, External Reader Dr. M. Hale)
Claire Yurkovich, Sep 1, 2022, "Poetry and Healing: Addressing Trauma Through Creative-Writing Workshops" (Supervisor Dr. L. Hathaway, Second Reader Dr. M. Byers)
Joanne Metlej, Aug 19, 2022, "Fitting in and/or standing out: Lebanese-Canadian women’s experiences of beauty culture" (Supervisor Dr. A. MacNevin, Second Reader Dr. K. A. Malinen)
Mavis Durowaa Mainu, Aug 12, 2022, "Gender and Climate Change : migration as an act of agency among women from the northern regions of Ghana" (Supervisor Dr. C. Conrad, Second Reader Dr. T. Takseva)
Liz Borden, Jun 6, 2022, "The Stories We Tell: On Representations of Non/Monogamies in Popular Culture" (Supervisor Dr. M. Byers)
Charlotte A. Grace, Apr 2022, “Build-A-Betch”: An Analysis and Critique of Popular Feminism on Instagram" (Supervisor Dr. D. Rehberg Sedo, Internal Reader Dr. S. Stoneman, External Reader Dr. A. Whynaught)
Bryn Shaffer, Apr 7, 2022, "If you can’t tell, does it matter?”: Race, Gender, Sex and the Cybergaze of Westworld’s Gynoids" (Supervisor Dr. T. Heffernan, Second Reader Dr. A. Enns)
Ama Serwaa Asubonteng, Sep 2, 2021, "The Opportunity to be Both: A Look at Christianity and Feminism in Ghana" (Supervisor Dr. R. Zellars, Reader Dr. S. Krishnamurti)
Miriam Schroeder, Sep 1, 2021, "Systemic Fibrosis: An Intersectional Feminist Analysis of Cystic Fibrosis" (Supervisor Dr. S. Krishnamurti, Second Reader Dr. R. Bannerjee)
Alexia Mercedes Lopez Romo, Aug 10, 2021, "Queer(ed) Fairy-Tales of Valor : Sapphic Love in All-Ages Graphic Narratives" (Supervisor Dr. M. Byers, Reader Dr. G. Stanivukovic)
Sue Goyette, May 2021, "Anthesis" (Co-Supervisor Dr. M. Byers, Dr. M. Gonick, Second Reader Dr. D. Rehberg Sedo)
Michelle Bona, Apr 23, 2021 "Vulgar Discourses of Power: The Discursive Construction of Ideal Heavy Metal Subjectivity and the Erasure of Black, Indigenous, and Women of Colour in Heavy Metal Music Culture" (Supervisor Dr. T. Takseva, Reader Dr. T. Moniz)
Tammy Williams, Apr 16, 2021, "A Further Decolonization of the Indigenous Research Paradigm : A 7-Direction Medicine Wheel Indigenous Research Model" (Co-Supervisor Dr. S. Pictou, Dr. H. Weigand, Elder Supervisor D. Eisan)
Ebunoluwa Oladele, Dec 18, 2020, "A Feminist Analysis of the Global Adoption of the Hashtag #BringBackOurGirls" (Supervisor Dr. M. Gonick, Reader Dr. M. Byers)
Julianne Acker Verney, Nov 27, 2020, "Claiming Our Space: Embedding Intersectionality in Research with Diverse Women with Disabilities" (Co-Supervisor Dr. M. Byers, Deborah Stienstra, Reader Dr. X. Thuy Nguyen)
Keif Godbout-Kinney, Nov. 2020, "AI and Sex Robots: An Examination of the Technologization of Sexuality" (Supervisor Dr. M. Byers, Reader Dr. T. Heffernan)
Caroline Chamandy, Sept 8, 2020, "Reconceptualizing De-stigmatization: A Content Analysis of the Term ‘Minor-Attracted Person(s)’ on the Internet Forum Reddit" (Supervisor Dr. S. Adnan Hussein, Reader Dr. M. Byers)
Ashley Beairsto, Sept. 20, 2019, "Postfeminism and Female Friendship: A Content Analysis of Parks and Recreation and Girls" (Supervisor Dr. M. Gonick, Reader Dr. M. Byers)
Isalean Phillip, Nov. 30, 2018, "Where are the Black Female Faculty?: Employment Equity Policy Failures and the Overrepresentation of Whiteness" (Supervisor Dr. B. Bunjun, Reader Dr. S. Krishnamurti)
Fallen Matthews, Aug. 28, 2018, “Lateral Likeness and Legion: A Psychoanalytic Film Study of Siblingship in The Color Wheel”, (Co-Supervisor Dr. M. Byers, Dr. S. Krishnamurti, Reader Dr. B. Bunjun)
Heather MacLean, Dec. 7, 2017, “She Deserves Better”: A Feminist Exploration of Gendered Bullying" (Supervisor Dr. M. Gonick, Reader Dr. M. Byers)
Hyunjoo Faustina Woo, June 7, 2017, "The Stories of South Korean Religious Lesbians: The Voices of the Women Struggling with Ceaseless Conflicts" (Supervisor Dr. M. Byers, Reader Dr. V. Johnson), Class Valedictorian 2017
Heather Baglole, February 3, 2017, "Speak: Questioning Ethics, Feminism, and Representation in Verbatim Theatre", (Supervisor Dr. M. Byers, Reader Dr. M. Gonick)