All theses or projects completed by Cultural Studies students are listed below by date. Click on the title of a thesis or project to see its abstract; it may be possible to review the whole work. Some theses may be restricted, which means they are unavailable to the public for 5 years. If you wish to see a restricted thesis you can submit a request by following the link to the thesis and using the form provided. Please note the decision to share the document is at the discretion of the author.
PhD Graduates
| Name | Title of Final Project or Thesis |
|---|---|
| Pia Banzhaf | Towards a Cognitive Poetics of Puppetry |
| Leah Decter | Per/forming Memoration: Integrative Artistic Strategies for Unsettling From a White Settler Perspective |
| Elizabeth Diggon | Exhibiting Diplomacy: Art and International Cultural Relations in Canada |
| Ian Fanning | Ininí Ádisókán (Man Stories): Masculinities Among the Mámíwininí (Algonquin People) |
| Steven Maynard | A Preface to Perversion: Foucault, Archives, Evidence |
| Freddy Monasterio-Barso | Music Production and Cultural Entrepreneurship in today’s Havana: Elephants in the Room |
| Shawn Newman | Unsettling Hegemonic Whiteness in Cultural Production: Praxis-based Approaches in Concert Dance |
| Name | Title of Final Project or Thesis |
|---|---|
| Ian Alexander Cuthbertson | Everyday Enchantments and Secular Magic in Montréal |
| Lisa Figge | Need To Be Adored |
| Meaghan Frauts | Cultural Politics of Resilience in Kingston, Jamaica |
| Lara Fullenwieder | Unsettling Histories: Representation and Indigenous Creative Art Praxis in Official Indian Residential School Redress |
| Name | Title of Final Project or Thesis |
|---|---|
| Jobb Arnold | Inside and Outside Peace and Prosperity: Post-Conflict Cultural Spaces in Rwanda and Northern Ireland |
MA Graduates
| Name | Title of Final Project or Thesis |
|---|---|
| Re Parsons | Dancing Change: Embodied Cross-Currents Between Radical Dance Pedagogy and Decolonial Futures |
| Toleen Touq | Unruly Moments: Temporal Politics and Imaginaries in Artist Residencies, Retreats, and Gatherings |
| Emily Veysey | Mom-Bots and Cyborg Babies: Artificial Life and Artificial Reproduction in Contemporary Science Fiction Narratives |
| Name | Title of Final Project or Thesis |
|---|---|
| Paul Clifford | Improvised Music in Kingston |
| Tianna Edwards | Kingston, The Black Experience |
| Em Harmsen | Inclusive, Accessible, Sustainable – Designing A Different Future |
| Christopher Hemer | The Making of Martyrs: Musicians, Mythmaking, and Counter-Discourse |
| Melissa Morris | Seeking Sugar: An Exploration of Verbatim Musical Theatre |
| Evalyn Parry | Distant Early Warnings: Arts Leadership and Creative Practice in Unsettled Times |
| Xavier Philippe-Beauchamp | Reading Class : Investigations in Critical Phenomenology and Critical Pedagogy |
| Name | Title of Final Project or Thesis |
|---|---|
| Usman Ahmed | Chinese-Canadian relations: Highlighting the Unifying Past, Tense Present, and Uncertain Yet Hopeful Future (From an Insider’s Perspective) |
| Danae Elon | The Master Plan: Power, Design and the Making of a Place. |
| Megan LaPierre | Transposing Resonance: Towards an Embodied Poetics of Music |
| Rebecca Marquez | A Story of Storytelling: Listening to Narratives of Belonging within the Indigenous Art Centre |
| Barbara Constance Matthews Wiedmaier | On Care & Carcerality at the Prison for Women (P4W) |
| Lea Mauas | A Rose in the Forgotten Paradise |
| Lauren Paparousis | (Re)Framing Resistance: The Role of Indigenous Comic Books in the Past, Present, and Future |
| Isabel Whitehead | Siding with the Bad Guys: Villainous Protagonists in Crime Media |
| Name | Title of Final Project or Thesis |
|---|---|
| Alejandro Bascope Alipaz | Bien Orgullosx: Communicating narratives of pride from youth in EI Alto |
| Emma Bass | Tracing Incense: The Affective Power of Objects |
| Joshua Hawley | One Bad Board Away from Bankruptcy: Housing Co-operatives, Self-Management, and the Landlord–Tenant Relationship |
| Lisa Ravensbergen | Defiance, Reclamation, and a Call to Mino Bimaadiziwin/ The Good Life Through Ceremonial Performance Praxis |
| Xenia Reloba de la Cruz | How to Stay Connected in an 'Offline' Country? Stories of Cubans' Internet Experience |
| Dana Sidebottom | Distinguishing Ritual from Theatre |
| Daniel Simpson | Hays Gone By: The Proto-Feminism of Pre-Code Hollywood and the Films of Mae West |
| Rachel Wyatt | "A New Race, Invincible and Vast': An Exploration of the National Socialist Thingspiel Das Frankenburger Würfelspiel’s Attempts to Create Community |
| Name | Title of Final Project or Thesis |
|---|---|
| Adil Ahmed | American Islam X |
| Maria Kyres | From the Yonge Street Riot to the Carding Controversy: Policing and Surveilling the Black Community in Toronto, Canada, 1992-2016 |
| Chengcheng Ma | Deadpool Playing Myth: An Analysis of the "Secondary Narrative" in Deadpool's Promotional Images |
| Julia Blakey | Beyond "The Henry Report": Racism and Diversity Practices at Queen's University |
| Andrea Ried | "It's a Practice, Not a Performance": Unraveling the Atomized Self and Becoming Nomadic Through Ashtanga Yoga |
| Victoria Sicilia | From the Inside Out: Discussing Women's Empowerment with the Women's Studies Department at the University of Calicut |
| Kristen Cochrane | Queering the Rural in Contemporary Argentine Cinema: Taekwondo, Esteros, and Como Una Novia Sin sexo |
| Name | Title of Final Project or Thesis |
|---|---|
| Pansee H. Abou El Atta | Curating Resistance, Resisting Curation: The possibilities and limitations of objects in institutions |
| Jessica Burgess | Why Stay: Young Independent Filmmakers in Contemporary Havana |
| Elena Cecchetto | Visual Entrapment in Colonial Discourse: Perpetuation of New Racism through Forms of Stereotyped Bodies in Food Products Logos |
| Filza Naveed | Examining Pakistani Identities in Non-Western Cinema in the Post 9/11 Landscape |
| Lorinda Peterson | A Trauma of Two Mothers: How to Make Art With Marshmallow |
| Lisa Pietersma | “A Shimmer in Depth”: Farming, Memory, and the Domestic Rural Aerial |
| Karen Raddon | A Prisoners’ Project in Emergent Ethics |
| Name | Title of Final Project or Thesis |
|---|---|
| Craig Berggold | Precarious Life, Work and Culture |
| Paul Ebbs | A Free-Agent of Embodied Subject |
| Adam Lewis | Decolonizing Anarchism: Expanding Anarcha-Indigenism In Theory And Practice |
| Smita Mitra | Can the Baul Speak? Development Hegemony and Baul cultural production in West Bengal |
| Christine Shu | Wooing the Domestic Audience: Recent Trends in Contemporary Taiwan Cinema |
| Emily Tamfo | AIDS, Citizenship & Multiculturalism: An Analysis of Canadian HIV/AIDS Media Discourses and Representations |
| Jennifer Turner | From Swimming to Singing: Life after High Performance Sport – Exploring the Embodied Experience of a Female in Sport and Music |
| Name | Title of Final Project or Thesis |
|---|---|
| Nicole Bedford | What Elders Want: A Qualitative Meta-Synthesis of Elders' Views on Interactions with their General Practitioners |
| Julie Bourassa | Radio, What’s New? Exploring the Meaning of Web-Based Radio in Canada |
| Mohammad Dokhanchi | Islamic Governmentality –Was Foucault wrong about Iran? |
| Alia Elmasry | The why now question: Egyptian revolution and the role of visual media (Aperture) |
| Amy Freier | Memorial Museums And Material Witnesses: Framing Objects As Witnesses To Trauma |
| Colin Hastings | Living Learning Space: Recognizing Public Pedagogy In A Small Town AIDS Service Organization |
| Raissa Killoran | Curatorial Analysis: Spoken Word Performance Through The Lens Of Narratology, Narrative-Making And Auto-Ethnography |
| Nafisa Murji | Multiplicity in Cinema: Filmic Representations of South Asian Canadian Experiences |
| Sarah Stanley | Failure Theatre: An Artist's Statement |
| Name | Title of Final Project or Thesis |
|---|---|
| Gianna Aldrovandi | Screened Latinas: The Changing Stereotypes of Latinas in Modern American Television |
| Sara Aly | “Reviving the Islamic Spirit Convention”: Re-Thinking Muslim Religious Diasporic Identity |
| Zhi Lei | The Portrayal of Vancouver's Chinatown as a Porous and Transgressive Contact Zone in Contemporary Chinese Canadian Fiction |
| Cynthia Mykytyshyn | “Where the Wild Things…Aren’t?” |
| Aida-Sofia Rivera-Sotelo | Interrogating Sustainable Development: A Case Study Of Large-Scale Mining In Colombia |
| Fumi Sakata | A Critique Of Critical Race Theory: A Textual Analysis Of The ‘Mr. Gaijin’ Mask |
| Erin Sutherland | Terrance Houle And Adrian Stimson: Exploring Indigenous Masculinities |
| Victoria Millious | Babes, Booby Traps and Milk Banks: Healthism and the ontology of breastfeeding |
| Name | Title of Final Project or Thesis |
|---|---|
| Ellyn Clost | Voluntourism: The Visual Economy Of International Volunteer Programs |
| Meredith Dault | The Last Triangle: Sex, Money And The Politics Of Pubic Hair |
| Carissa Di Gangi | Clarity And Cacophony In Canadian Literacy Discourse: New Directions For A National Literacy Policy |
| Claire Grady-Smith | Overcoming A Culture Of Whiteness: Remaking Queen’s University As A First Nations Thirdspace |
| Nadia Franceschetti | Place Marketing And Place Making: Toronto, Tourism, And The Fractured Gaze |
| Ciara Murphy | Playing Soldier?: Combining Theatre And Theory To Explore The Experiences Of Women In The Military |
| Sharday Mosurinjohn | Gender, Christianities, And Neo/Liberal Hegemony: An Ethnographic Exploration Of Gender Discourse In A United Church Women’s Group |
| Jessica Parker | Exhibiting Nationalism: Representations of Israel in the Permanent Exhibition of the Museum of the Jewish Diaspora |