RECENT THESES

CSPT graduates have gone on to pursue doctoral studies at such universities as York, Hawaii, Monash, Toronto, Minnesota, Cambridge, Southampton, Denver, Carleton, Santa Cruz, and Johns Hopkins.

Recent theses are listed below; please follow the links through to DSpace, the University of Victoria's online thesis archive. Theses listed in italics have been published in book form.

2010

David Cecchetto, "A Practiced-Informed Critique of Technological Posthumanism and its Ideologies."

Sylvia Nicholles, “Spaces of Atrocity: Political Architecture and Visualizing Vancouver.”

2009

Seth Asch , "Relational ontology: an exploration through the work of M. Foucault."

Caroline Bagelman, “Tours of non-arrival: the politics of escape in tourist practices.”

Sagi Cohen, “Homo Perfidus: an antipathology.”

Victor Lorentz, “Producing the boreal: the politics of environmentalism, capital and nature in Canada's northern forests.”

Youcef Soufi, “At Home in One’s Habitus: The Accommodation of Communities of the Good Life.”

Daniele Taschereau Mamers, “Apprehending Abu Ghraib”

2008

Jennifer Bagelman, "Subverting the Spectacle of Sanctuary."

Adam Molnar, "Towards a Realist-Informed Integrated Theory of Justice."

Melissa Murdock, "Birthing at the Margins: (Re)conceptualizing Maternal Health Care in BC."

Timothy Paugh, "Gilles Deleuze and the Apolitical Production of Being."

Jennifer Vermilyea, "Borders, Statelessness, and Agency: Rethinking Political Space."

Rhéa Nadine Wilson, "Securing the Human: A Critique of Human Security and The Responsibility to Protect."

2007

Jarrad Reddekop, The Mournful Cage: Max Weber as Hunger Artist, VDM Verlag, 2008.

Timothy Eric Smith, "JS Mill and Liberal Imperialism: The Architecture of a Democratization Theorem."

Tobold Leif Rollo, "Mixed Emotions: The Phenomenal Experience of Recognition."

Mark Christopher Vardy, "Climate Change at the Intersection of Science, Society and the Individual."

2006

Delacey Tedesco, "Building the Good Life: The Politics of Sprawl in the Okanagan Valley"

2005

Stephanie Deborah Clare, "Queer Theory and Foucault's 'Self' as Reflexive Activity."

Chris Hurl, "Diversity of Tactics: Coalescing as New Combinations."

Serena Kataoka, "Re-acting Aesthetic Politics: From City to Red Zone to Scenes of Downtown Victoria."

James John McCrory, "A Program for a Better Life: Consumerism and Socialism in the Canadian Depression."

Anne Chieu Hien Nguyen, "Crossing the River: An Ethnohistorical Study of Ancestor Worship in Two Central Vietnamese Villages."

2004

Roman Joerger, "Practices of Resistance in Zapatista Politics."

Nicholas Matte, "Putting Patients First: Harry Benjamin and the Development of Transgender Medicine in the Twentieth Century."