Graduate Info & Advising
For more information on our Graduate program, contact us at histgrad@sfu.ca
For academic advising, contact the Graduate Chair:
Joseph Taylor
Office AQ 6233
Email: taylorj@sfu.ca
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Completed PhD Defences
Recently Completed
- PhD Thesis Defence: Noyan, Ismail: Man of Empire: A Connected History of Ahmed Cevdet Pasha (1823-1895)
- PhD Thesis Defence: Tao, Le: The Rise and Fall of a Working-Class Game: Soccer in Shanghai, 1945鈥�1993
- PhD Thesis Defence: Sharif, Shams: The Welcome[d] War: The Soviet War in Afghanistan and the Political Reordering of Pamiri Lives Across Borders
- PhD Thesis Defence: Burton, Joseph: Democracy and Revolution: Frederick W. Thompson, the Wobblies, and Twentieth-Century Anarchism
All Completed Defences (by Geographical Region):
Africa
- Martens, Daisy
1980 - Kelly, Nora
1979 - Vincent, Brian Ben
1977 - Spencer, Ian Robert
1976 - Steele, Murray Cairns
1972
Asia
- 脟ahit, Mete O臒uz
2023 - Zhang, Rui
2022 - Shi, Yifan
2021 - Golbasi, Edip
2018 - Duguid, Stephen
1977
Canada
- Wiener, Leah
2023 - Harter, John-Henry
2019 - Knickerbocker, Madeline
2018 - Verzuh, Ron
2017 - Martin, Eryk
2016
- Nickel, Sarah
2015
- Milloy, Jeremy
2015 - Schmidt, Bonnie
2013 - Abbott, Francis
2012 - Dummit, Christopher
2004 - Janovicek, Nancy
2002 - Healy, Theresa
Trouble Enough: Gender, Social Policy and the Politics of Place In Vancouver and Saskatoon, 1929-1939.
1999 - Campbell, Robert
Hotel Beer Parlours: Regulating Public Drinking and Decency in Vancouver, British Columbia, 1925-1954.
1998 - Roome, Patricia
1997 - Sandwell, Ruth Wells
1997 - Lux, Maureen
Beyond Biology: Disease and it's Impact On The Canadian Plains Native People, 1880-1930.
1996 - Sutherland, J. Dufferin
1995 - Verma, Archana
1994 - Wade, Catherine Jill
1991 - McPherson, Kathryn M.
1990 - Bernard, Elaine
1989 - Gray, Stephen
1989 - Hak, Gordon Hugh
1986
Europe
- Crompton, Nathan
Autogestion: Workers, Masses, and New Political Subjects in France, 1970鈥�78
2022 - Bozanich, Stevan
鈥淔or King and Fatherland鈥�: Collaboration and Genocide in Wartime Yugoslavia
2022 - Delis, Panagiotis
Notions of Violence and Ethnic Cleansing on the Eve of the First World War: The Balkan Wars of 1912-13
2021 - Jovanovic, Aleksandar
Michael VIII Palaiologos and the Nikaian Generation: Roman Political Culture in the Years of Exile
2019 - Horncastle, James
The Pawn that Would be King: Macedonian Slavs in the Greek Civil War, 1946-49
2016 - Brooks, Julian
Managing Macedonia: British Statecraft, Intervention, and 'Proto-peacekeeping' in Ottoman Macedonia, 1902-1905
2013 - Hill, Robert Adam
The Reformation of the Bells in Early Modern England
2012 - Petrovic, Aleksandar
The Transformation of Mihailovic's Chetnik Movement: from Royalist Yugoslav Forces to Serb Nationalist Guerillas
2011 - Leach, Christopher
Scarlet and khaki, fire and steel: Representations of warfare in British mass culture, 1870-1914.
2009 - Turcato, Davide
Making Sense of Anarchism: The Experiments with Revolution of Errico Malatesta, Italian Exile in London, 1889-1900
2009 - Cousins, James
Without a "Dog's Chance:" The Devlinite Irish News, Northern Ireland's "Trapped" Nationalist Minority, and the Irish Boundary Question, 1921-1925
2008 - Webb, Alisa
Harmsworth鈥檚 Girls: Constructing Identity in the British Popular Press, 1898-1916
2008 - Morden, Lesley
How Much Material Damage Did the Northmen Actually Do to Ninth-Century Europe?
2007 - Power, Jane
Different Drummer, Same Parade. Britain's Palestine Labour Department, 1942 - 1948
2007 - Mulligan, Theresa
R.H. Tawney: the Integrated Life And The Reform of Education in England 1905-1944
2007 - Williamson, Darren
Erasmus of Rotterdam's Influence upon Anabaptism: The Case of Balthasar Hubmaier
2005 - Lanthier, Michael
Women Alone: Widows in Third Republic France, 1870-1940
2004 - Greenberg, Devorah
Reflexive Foxe: The Book of Martyrs Transformed, Foxe Reinterpreted, Sixteenth Through Twenty-First Centuries.
2002 - Fuhr, Enid M.
Strategy and Diplomacy in British India Under Marquis Wellesley: The Second Maratha War, 1802-1806.
1994 - McLaren, Martha
Writing and Making History: Thomas Munro, John Malcolm and Mountstuart Elphinstone: Three Scotsmen in the History and Historiography of British India.
1992 - Roberts, Frank
The Political Thought of Henry Hyndman.
1988 - Weber, Peter
Continental Policy and Weltpolitik: German Relations with Continental Western Europe, 1890-1914.
1974
United States
- Grueter, Mark
2018 - Mayer, Heather
2015 - Goings, Aaron
2011 - Oakes, John
2008 - Unger, Walter
1982
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