• Représentation du sujet féminin dans les romans francophones de l’Île Maurice et l’archipel des Comores de 1990 à 2020 : entre soumission et désir d’agentivité 

  Dusowoth, Sushma (University of Waterloo, 2023-03-29)

  La présente étude a pour objectif de faire connaître les auteurs moins connus de la région indianocéanique. De plus, il s’agit de démontrer que les écrivains contemporains de la région insulaire indianocéanique ont recours ...

• Surveilling Queerness and Queering Surveillance: The Techno-Social Making of Queer Identity in the US and Canada, 1939-Present. 

  Schram, Brian (University of Waterloo, 2023-03-22)

  This dissertation positions itself at the intersection of two disparate areas of study: Queer theory and surveillance studies. It aims to tease out the ways that technologies of surveillance and Queer lifeways evolved ...

• Fictocritical Cyberfeminism: A Paralogical Model for Post-Internet Communication 

  Pearl, Zachary (University of Waterloo, 2023-03-13)

  This dissertation positions the understudied and experimental writing practice of fictocriticism as an analog for the convergent and indeterminate nature of “post-Internet” communication as well a cyberfeminist technology ...

• “The Art of Getting Drunk:” Martial Masculinity, Alcohol, and the British Army in the Canadas in the War of 1812 

  Abbott, Jesse (University of Waterloo, 2023-02-14)

  This thesis argues that alcohol consumption, both real and perceived, played a key role in the construction and negotiation of masculine identities within the British army in the Canadas during the early nineteenth century. ...

• Xenophobic citizenship, unsettling space, and constraining borders: Assembling refugee exclusion in South Africa’s everyday 

  Kandjii, Jennifer (University of Waterloo, 2023-01-31)

  This dissertation investigates how myriad actors, including the state, citizens, civil society, refugees, and the media, intersect to shape refugee experiences in urban centers in South Africa. Building on six months of ...

• Another Life, Another World: The Spiritual Origins of Spaceflight 

  Snopek, Ryan (University of Waterloo, 2023-01-26)

  This work reassesses the origins of the idea of humanity’s destiny in outer space, examining the development of popular enthusiasm about extraterrestrial life and reincarnation in Europe and America from the early nineteenth ...

• An Archaeobotanical Analysis of the Iler Earthworks Macro Remains 

  Matthews, Carey (University of Waterloo, 2023-01-23)

  This thesis examines the archaeobotanical remains from the Iler Earthworks, a Springwells-Wolf phase site within the Western Basin Tradition (WBT) of Southwestern Ontario. Excavations between 2015 and 2018 resulted in soil ...

• Masks and Caricatures: Prosopopoeia, Ethopoeia, and the Effect of Social Media on Canadian Political Leaders’ Debates 

  Kampherm, Monique (University of Waterloo, 2023-01-20)

  This dissertation examines the recent effect of social media on televised political leaders’ debates through the lens of ethos. It features two case studies from two Canadian federal elections: the 2015 Maclean’s Leaders’ ...

• The Red Road to Victory: Soviet Combat Training 1917-1945 

  Parkhomenko, Anton (University of Waterloo, 2023-01-20)

  This thesis provides a comprehensive account of early Soviet combat training and its associated attitudes from 1917 to 1945. From its inception in 1918 and throughout the evolution of Soviet military doctrine and practice, ...

• An Analysis of a Perplexing Group of Graves from Ancient Corinth, Greece 

  Lenz, Grace (University of Waterloo, 2023-01-19)

  In 2019 a post-12th century C.E. cemetery was identified at Ancient Corinth, Greece, in the area northeast of the ancient theatre. The 2019 and 2022 excavation season uncovered a perplexing group of graves with limited ...

• Accessibility in Bioarchaeology: Methods of 3D Imaging of Entheses 

  Homerski, Nathan (University of Waterloo, 2023-01-19)

  This thesis examines accessibility within the field of bioarchaeology in two methods of generating 3D models of human remains, laser scanning and photogrammetry. These were analyzed for the following attributes: cost, time ...

• Springwells Pottery Production at the Iler Earthworks 

  Dasilva Furtado, Andrew (University of Waterloo, 2023-01-18)

  This thesis examines the pottery assemblage from the Iler Earthworks (AaHr-22), a Late Woodland (Western Basin Tradition) Springwells Phase occupation in Essex County, Ontario. An assemblage of 3724 pottery sherds was found ...

• Moving On Up: Investigating the Embodied Metaphor of Verticality and its Effect on Overconfidence 

  Murynka, Anna (University of Waterloo, 2023-01-12)

  As investment in Virtual Reality (VR) continues, we sought to better understand the unique value proposition this technology has to offer by testing the impact of a virtually embodied metaphor on self-evaluation. In both ...

• An Analysis of Optimal Agricultural Fertilizer Application Decisions in the Presence of Market and Weather Uncertainties and Nutrient Pollution 

  Yang, Xinyuan (University of Waterloo, 2023-01-12)

  This thesis addresses the questions of how uncertain corn market and weather factors affect optimal fertilizer application decisions of the farmer and the social planner, and what factors drive the divergence between the ...

• Alone Together - Convergence Culture and the Slender Man Phenomenon 

  Morton, Robert Travis (University of Waterloo, 2023-01-10)

  This project engages in a close examination of the Slender Man phenomenon, an online practice in which a community of pseudonymous enthusiasts share scary stories featuring a faceless, long-limbed, humanoid monster in a ...

• Native speaker constructions in multilingual families 

  Kat, Regan Marie (University of Waterloo, 2023-01-09)

  This thesis addresses the well-established subject area of native speaker research. Previous research into the native speaker has addressed the history of the concept of the native speaker, criticisms of this concept, and ...

• Close Others as Context: Understanding Treatment Attitudes in Anxiety and Related Disorders 

  Merritt, Olivia (University of Waterloo, 2023-01-03)

  Up to one-quarter of the North American population suffers from excessive anxiety and the associated impaired quality of life. While there is evidence that anxiety treatment is effective, it is underutilized, with most ...

• Plastic Pollution in the Canadian Great Lakes: Drivers, Barriers and Policy Recommendations 

  Le, Trang (University of Waterloo, 2022-12-23)

  Plastic pollution is detrimental to the economy, the environment and human health. More research have been conducted on marine plastic pollution than on freshwater plastic pollution, even though rivers and lakes are ...

• Phantoms of the Sea: Phokaian Colonies of the Far Western Mediterranean 

  Chen, Stone (University of Waterloo, 2022-12-20)

  Phokaian settlement and expansion in the western Mediterranean constitute an integral and distinctive part of the broader phenomenon of Greek colonization in the Archaic period, yet many aspects of Phokaian colonization ...

• The Idea of a Follower: An Investigation of Implicit Followership Theories and Their Correlates 

  Evans, Rochelle (University of Waterloo, 2022-11-28)

  Implicit followership theories (IFTs) are our subjective assumptions, or lay beliefs, about characteristics of followers. These beliefs can exert a powerful influence on workplace relationships between leaders and followers. ...

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