Student theses

Recent theses published by our graduates

MA theses

• Going With the Grain: Development, Knowledge Creation, and Database use at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT). Samuel Burnett, 2013.
• Recombinant Economics: Exploring Distributed Agency in Consumer Finance. Thomas Robbins, 2013.
• Integration, Conversion or Conflict? A Critical Ontology of the Integration of 'CAM' into Biomedical Education. Cathy Fournier, 2013.
• Out of the Same Waters: Contemporary Relations between Mi'kmaq and Settler Fishers. Caitlin Krause, 2013.
• Guarded Borders:  Colonially Induced Boundaries and Mi'kmaq Peoplehood. Rebecca Thomas, 2012.
• Ethical Consumption in a Fair Trade Town:  Global Connections in Local Places. Anne Spice, 2012.
• Regulation, Recycling and the Rise of Informality: Deposit Beverage Container Collection on the Halifax Peninsula. David Atchison, 2012.
• Remaking the Fort: Familiarization, Heritage and Gentrification in Sri Lanka's Galle Fort. Nethra Samarawickrema, 2012.
• Experiences of the Gift, Perceptions of the Commodity: An Examination of the Affects of Commoditization on Educational Relationships in an International Education Program. Colin Christie, 2011.
• "We Will Help Each Other to be Great and Good": The Memorial to Sir Wilfrid Laurier And Resolving Indigenous-State Relations in Canada. Emma Feltes, 2011.
• Romanian Labour Migration in the Context of EU Expansion. Erzsebet Vincze, 2011.
• Risk, Responsibility and Relationality: Positioning the Subjects of Psychiatric Genetic Testing. Rachel Haase, 2010.
• Corruption and Politics in Argentine Soccer. Eugenio Paradiso, 2010.
• Making Connections: The Relationship Between Science and Traditional Ecological Knowledge in a Prince Edward Island Lobster Fishery. Candice Rogers, 2010.
• Re-engineering Work and Reworking Engineers:  High-Tech Worker in the Post-Industrial Context. Jasmin Folz, 2009.
• Other People's Children: Social Reproduction in Romanian Orphanages, 20 Years Later. Jenny Leon, 2009.
• Agents for Social Change? Itinerant Engineers in a Post-Industrial Society. William Silver, 2009.
• Saving Face:  The Offline Implications of Behaviour on Facebook. Jenny Benson, 2009.
• Understanding the Pregnancy Experiences of Black Women Living in Lower-Income Communities in the Halifax Regional Municipality. Nena-Rae Watson, 2009.
• Out Back Home: An Exploration of Queer Identify & Community in Rural Nova Scotia. Kelly Baker, 2009.

PhD theses

• The Maritimer Way? Mobility Patterns of a Small Maritime City. Natasha Hanson, 2013.
• Seeds, Scientists and Genetically Modified Organisms: Genetic Engineering Practices and Global Connections. Christina Holmes, 2008.