Our Ph.D. and Master's Graduates
Leah Schmidt, M.A. Political Science/Transitional Justice and Post-Conflict Reconstruction (2013)
I just accepted a position with the Ministry of Northern Development and Mines as an Aboriginal Liaison with the roles and responsibilities of rebuilding the relationship between the Ontario government and northern First Nations communities. I was able to get this job because I applied the skills and technical knowledge I learned during my Master's, as well as additional experience I have gained over the years working with Aboriginal communities. I focused my MRP on the Missing and Murdered Women's Inquiry and Aboriginal rights in Canada, and this topic continues to be a passion of mine, and has actually driven my career path and career aspirations. During my Master's, I developed a passion for Aboriginal rights and I plan on utilizing this passion within my new role and hope to transform (while this may be a little lofty) the way we do business with First Nations communities in the government.
Theses and Major Research Papers Completed by Students in the
Collaborative Graduate Program in Transitional Justice and Post-Conflict Reconstruction
| 2021 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Bayor, Isaac | 2021 | PhD, Political Science | How can Local Transitional Justice Mechanisms Work Towards Measures of Non-Recurrence? |
| Lefurgey, Mayme | 2021 | PhD, GSWS | Turned on its Head: Elicitive peacebuilding and non-rational approaches to post-conflict reconciliation |
| Nimigan, Sarah | 2021 | PhD, Political Science | The Problems Facing the International Criminal Court: African Perspectives |
| 2020 | |||
| Agroam, Floranda | 2020 | MA, Political Science | Syrian Refugees in Canada Transition to Resettlement: Through the Perspectives of Housing, Income, Female Resettlement, and Mental Health |
| Lamanna, Sabrina | 2020 | MA, GSWS | Overcoming Settler-Colonial Power Relations: An Investigation of the Relationship between the ‘Politics of Recognition’ and Reclaiming Power and Place: The National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls |
| Lambert, Tammy | 2020 | PhD, Political Science | The Goldstone Commission in South Africa’s Transition: Linking Gradual Institutional Change and Information-Gathering Institutions |
| Hinan, Tamara | 2020 | PhD, Political Science | Exhuming norms: Investigating forced disappearances in Ireland and internationally |
| Poon, Jenny | 2020 | PhD, Law | Safeguarding the Principle of Non-Refoulement in Europe: Counteracting Containment Policies in the Common European Asylum System |
| 2019 | |||
| Anderson, Amaru | 2019 | MA, History | Colonel Garnet Wolseley and the Expansion of Surveillance in the British Empire, 1869-1885 |
| Pinkham, Jayme | 2019 | MA, History | The Continued War against Women: Bosnia’s Failure to Bring Justice to Rape Victims |
| Brabaharan, Thurka | 2019 | MA, Political Science | The Sino-Lankan Relationship: Challenging Liberal Foundations of Transitional Justice |
| Callahan, Melinda | 2019 | MA, Political Science | Theories of Foucault and Agamben: the Issues of Borders and Sovereignty” |
| Spear Chief-Morris, Joy | 2019 | MA, Political Science | Indigenous Land Claims and Reconciliation: The Importance of Land and Relationship between Indigenous Nations and the Government of Canada |
| Brown, Emma | 2019 | MA, Sociology | The Effect of the Analyst-Officer Relationship on Crime Analysis: Experiential Knowledge vs. Data-Driven Decisions |
| Stefanik, Kirsten | 2019 | PhD, Law | Improving Civilian Protection during War through Conflict-Specific Behavioural Regulation of Combatants |
| 2018 | |||
| Hillard, Emily | 2018 | MA, Political Science | Indigenous Genocide in Canada |
| Trafford, John | 2018 | MA, Political Science | Genocide in Rwanda |
| Beier, Merlin | 2018 | MA, Political Science | The Failure of Ethnic Federalism |
| Ghebrai, Sam | 2018 | MA, Sociology | I think we created a criminal: Examining the consequences of surveillance in Intensive Supervision Programs |
| Hendsbee, Lucas | 2018 | MA, Sociology | Corporate Social Responsibility and Wokewashing |
| Burke, Andrea | 2018 | MA, WSFR | Gender and Land Rights in Post-Conflict Tanzania |
| Cullen, Laura | 2018 | MA, WSFR | The Role of Women as Victims and Combatants in the Conflict (including as “bush wives”) and their Non/Recognition in DDR |
| 2017 | |||
| Bigras-Dutrisac, Hélène | 2017 | MA, WSFR | Re-envisioning "Little Red Riding Hood", Feminist, Postcolonial lens, Anti-racism, Indigenous feminisims, Decolonization |
| Biskupski-Mujanovic, Sandra | 2017 | MA, WSFR | Post-conflict justice initiative by women |
| Dhaliwal, Hardeep | 2017 | MA, Political Science | International Law and Transitional Justice |
| Greco, Matthew | 2017 | MA, History | Historical and contemporary human rights violations/issues in relation to disabled people |
| Guzzi, Daniella | 2017 | MA, Political Science | Gendered Structural Inequalities in Conflict and Post-Conflict Contexts |
| Hoyos, Christopher | 2017 | MA, Political Science | Truth commissions, human rights, Columbia |
| Muzima, Anaïse | 2017 | MA, LLM | Human rights, Child soldiers, Terrorism, Africa |
| Silfo, Lokuju Arkanjelo | 2017 | MA, Political Science | State formation, democratization, ethnic division |
| 2016 | |||
| Caldwell, John | 2016 | MA, Political Science | A Self-Undermining Paradigm: A Critique of America’s Liberal Internationalist Framing of Transitional Justice |
| Mohamed, Surer | 2016 | MA, Political Science | "Doing Justice to Justice? Entanglements with Hegemony and Transitional Justice" |
| Tuczynski, Nicole | 2016 | MA, Political Science | Examining the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia: Has it achieved its objectives? |
| Wnuk, Jessica | 2016 | MA, WSFR | India’s Daughter: Violence Against Women in India and the Legacy of Colonialism |
| 2015 | |||
| Damstra, Jacob | 2015 | MA, History/J.D., Law | Canada's Court? Canadian Diplomacy at the Rome Conference and the Making of International Criminal Law |
| Lamoureux, Désirée | 2015 | PhD, French | La dialectique du bourreau : étude du bourreau nazi dans la littérature contemporaine française |
| Cody, Caylee | 2015 | MA, Sociology | The Social Costs of Industrial Growth in the SubArctic Regions of "Canada" |
| Kur, Malith | 2015 | MA, Theology | New Pardigm for South Sudan: The Christian Contribution to South African TRC |
| Bejtic, Narcis | 2015 | MA, Political Science | Transitional Justice in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Examining the Efforts of Post-Conflict Statebuilding, Transitional Justice and Reconciliation |
| Howsam, Jessica | 2015 | MA, Political Science | The Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Healing, Reconciliation, Resolution? |
| Ephgrave, Nicole | 2015 | PhD, WSFR | Sexual Violence at Nyarubuye: History, Justice, Memory. A Case Study of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide |
| Ward, Rachael | 2015 | MA, History | We will not forget you: The Morality of Continued Nazi Hunting |
| Schloss, Daniel | 2015 | MA, Political Science | Elusive Peace, Security, and Justice in Post-Conflict Guatemala: An Exploration of Transitional Justice and the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) |
| 2014 | |||
| Andrew, Rachael | 2014 | MA, Political Science | Hybrid Models of Justice and Rwanda’s Post-Genocide Response |
| 2013 | |||
| Stefanik, Kirsten | 2013 | LLM, Law | Restoring Humanity to Humanitarian Law: Borrowing from Environmental Law to Protect Civilians and the Environment |
| Schmidt, Leah | 2013 | MA, Political Science | Success or Failure? Evaluating the Effectiveness of The Missing Women Inquiry |
| Biring, Kelsi | 2013 | MA, Political Science | Local Ownership, Local Engagement and the Gacaca Courts: The Impact of Legal Pluralism on Rwanda’s Transitional Justice Process |
