Former Graduate Students and Theses

2020

Cassidy Shuvera
MA Interdisciplinary Studies 
Supervisor: Dr. Gary Wilson
Thesis topic: Issues of accessibility in the north: An analysis of transportation and the highway of tears.

Tsatia Adzich
MA Interdisciplinary Studies 
Supervisor: Dr. Gail Fondahl
Thesis topic: Storying urban indigeneity in the Russian far east: Eveny and Evenki women navigating Yakutsk, Sakha Republic

Michael Landry
MA Interdisciplinary Studies
Supervisor: Dr. Michel Bouchard
Thesis topic: The Iroquois: "Voyageurs of the North-West and Oregon Territories"

Sean O'Rourke
MA Interdisciplinary Studies
Supervisor: Dr. Gail Fondahl
Thesis topic: "It's good for the soul": Eveny traditional land-use and meaning in life

Nicole Schafenacker
MA Interdisciplinary Studies
Supervisor: Dr. Sarah de Leeuw
Thesis topic: Embodied narratives: A qualitative study with public spaces and creative bodies in Northern British Columbia using arts based methods and social justice methodologies.

Alina Schroeder
MA Interdisciplinary Studies
Supervisor: Dr. Sheona Mitchell-Foster & Dr. Tina Fraser
Thesis topic: Support for people living with HIV: Insights into knowledge acquisition and personal wellbeing.

2019

Keith Tedford
MA Interdisciplinary Studies
Supervisor: Dr. Jacqueline Holler
Thesis topic: "Where the pocket starts": Resisting oppression with graphic narratives, critical pedagogy, transformative learning, and adult learners.

Katronia Auerbach
MA Interdisciplinary Studies
Supervisor: Dr. Sarah de Leeuw
Thesis topic: Hunting, healing & human-land relationships: A reflective inquiry into health and well-being explored through indigenous-informed hunting practices, land-relationships & ways of knowing

Melissa Johnson
MA Interdisciplinary Studies
Supervisor: Dr. Sarah de Leeuw
Thesis topic: Stories we tell about "others": Pathologizing discourses in mainstream media and their role as a distal determinant of indigenous peoples' health

2018

Kirk Walker
MA Interdisciplinary Studies
Supervisor: Dr. Catherine Nolin
Thesis topic: Landscape and collective memory in post-conflict Ayacucho, Peru: Narratives and photography of survivors

Spencer Greening
MA Interdisciplinary Studies
Supervisor: Dr. Ross Hoffman
Thesis topic: Raven bloodlines, Tsimshian identity: An autoethnographic account of Tsimshian Wil'naat'al, politics, pedagogy, and law

 

2017

Cory Hackett
MA Interdisciplinary Studies
Supervisor: Dr. Farid Rahemtulla
Thesis topic: Smoke on the water: uncovering a socially complex pre-contact Babine fishing village at Nass Glee (GISQ-4)

Erica Henderson
MA Interdisciplinary Studies
Supervisor: Dr. Catherine Nolin
Thesis topic: Seeking justice in Guatemala: dignifying the 'disappearance' in a context of impunity

Tyler Wood
MA Interdisciplinary Studies
Supervisor: Dr. Michel Bouchard
Thesis topic: Perspectives of the influence of stigma on care-seeking behavior among ethnic Russians living with HIV/AIDS in Ida-Virumaa, Estonia

Kimberly Scofield
MSc Interdisciplinary Studies student
Supervisor: Dr. Ling Chen
Thesis topic: Architecture for automatic poetry generation through pattern recognition

Michael Kantakis
MA Interdisciplinary Studies student
Supervisor: Dr. Farid Rahemtulla
Thesis topic: Babine wood-stake fish weirs in an eleven kilometer stretch of the Babine River and Nilkitkwa Lake, north central British Columbia

2016

Alycia Mutual
MA Interdisciplinary Studies
Supervisor: Dr. Gary Wilson
Thesis topic: Resource development in the Beaufort Sea region through the lens of the media

Carolyn Emon
MA Interdisciplinary Studies
Supervisor: Dr. Neil Hanlon
Thesis topic: Human trafficking: an examination of available services and support in Prince George, BC

2015

Barbara Willmer
MA Interdisciplinary Studies
Supervisor: Dr. Richard Lazenby
Thesis topic: A study of skeletal trauma, gender, and testimonio concerning the 1984 massacre at Putis, Ayacucho, Peru

2014

Michael Craig
MSc Interdisciplinary Studies
Supervisor: Dr. Sarah Gray
Thesis topic: Investigation into the mechanisms of beta-cell specific overexpression of peroxisome proliferator activated receptors in obesity-induced type 2 diabetes

2012

Leana Garraway
MA Interdisciplinary Studies
Supervisor: Dr. Neil Hanlon
Thesis topic: Knowledge to Action: First Nations Engagement with Research for Community Benefit

Alexander Oehler
MA Interdisciplinary Studies
Supervisor: Dr. Michel Bouchard
Thesis topic:  Inuvialuit Language and Identity: Perspectives on the Symbolic Meaning of Inuvialuktun in the Canadian Western Arctic

Jeremy Staveley
MA Interdisciplinary Studies
Supervisor: Dr. Angèle Smith
Thesis topic: Go to the River: Understanding and Experiencing the Liard Watershed

K-Lynn Hogh
MSc Interdisciplinary Studies
Supervisor: Dr. Sarah Gray
Thesis topic: Characterization of PPAR-Alpha Overexpression in Beta-Cell Lipotoxicity and its Effects on Obesity-Induced Type 2 Diabetes

Lorenz Bruechert
MA Interdisciplinary Studies
Supervisor: Dr. Farid Rahemtulla
Thesis topic: Tool Stones from the Punchaw Lake Village Site (FIRS-1), Nechako Plateau, British Columbia, Canada

2011

David Mills
MA Interdisciplinary Studies
Supervisor: Dr. Blanca Schorcht
Thesis topic: Tangled Root: The Paradoxical Development of British Columbia’s Tree Planting Culture

Nadine English
MA Interdisciplinary Studies
Supervisor: Dr. Angèle Smith
Thesis topic: Sharing Stories: Marginalized Women’s Experience with Depression

Cristian Silva Zuniga
MA Interdisciplinary Studies
Supervisor: Dr. Catherine Nolin
Thesis topic: Exhuming Guatemala’s Gender-Based Violence: Justice, Truth-Telling, and Rebuilding in a Post-Conflict Society

Stephanie Sellers
MSc Interdisciplinary Studies
Supervisor: Dr. Geoff Payne
Thesis topic: Lymph Node Vascular Plasticity During Herpes Simplex Virus Type II Infection

Petter Jacobsen
MA Interdisciplinary Studies
Supervisor: Dr. Karyn Sharp
Thesis topic: “With a Connection to the Land, Our Sprit is Strong” Tlich Traditional Knowledge of Climate Change and Impacts for Caribou Hunting: Implication for Traditional Knowledge Research

Gheorge Bogdan
MA Interdisciplinary Studies
Supervisor: Dr. Michel Bouchard
Thesis topic: Memory, Identity, Typology: An Interdisciplinary Reconstruction of the Vlach Ethnohistory within the Balkan Cultural Area

Thu Vu
MA Interdisciplinary Studies
Supervisor: Dr. Angèle Smith
Thesis topic: Divergent Voices: Reflections of Power Dynamics in Vietnamese Women’s Wartime and Postwar Stories

2010

Allison Nyce
MA Interdisciplinary Studies
Supervisor: Dr. James McDonald
Thesis topic: Wilksilaks Transfer of Knowledge: A Working Model for Maintaining Tradition

Keli Watson
MA interdisciplinary Studies
Supervisor: Dr. Farid Rahemtulla
Thesis topic: Perspectives on the Organization of Lithic Technologies at the Punchaw Lake Site – FiRs-1

Natalya Veresovaya
MA Interdisciplinary Studies
Supervisor: Dr. Michel Bouchard
Thesis topic: Beyond ‘La Baguette et le Fromage’: Studying Minority Francophone Culture and Community in Western Canada

2009

Anne Hill
MA Interdisciplinary Studies
Supervisor: Dr. Margaret Anderson
Thesis topic: Singing to Remember, Singing to Heal: Ts’msyen Music in Public Schools

Brenda Guernsey
MA Interdisciplinary Studies
Supervisor: Dr. Angèle Smith
Thesis topic: Un-Layering Landscapes: A Post-Colonial Critique of “Wilderness” in Tsimshian Territory, Northern British Columbia 

David Gamble
MA Interdisciplinary Studies
Supervisor: Dr. Kristen Guest
Thesis topic: Planning Utopia: Control Over Women and Nature in Mary Shelley’s The Last Man, William Morris’s New from Nowhere and M.P. Shiel’s The Purple Cloud

Travis Allen
MSc Interdisciplinary Studies
Supervisor: Dr. Geoff Payne
Thesis topic: The Impact of Vasoactive and Inflammatory Reagents on Arteriolar Vasomotion in the Gluteus Maximus of Mice 

Robert Williams
MA Interdisciplinary Studies
Supervisor: Dr. Robert Budde
Thesis topic: Robin Mathews and the Canadian Dialectic: Forms of Nationalist Thought in Canada

2008

Earl Henderson
MA Interdisciplinary Studies
Supervisor: Dr. James McDonald
Thesis topic: Listening to the Spirit Voices: Honoring our Ancient Traditional Ways of Healing

Kelly Wintemute
MA Interdisciplinary Studies
Supervisor: Dr. Karin Beeler
Thesis topic: Reading Forests: Contested Ideologies and Forest Use in British Columbia

Erin Robinson
MA Interdisciplinary Studies
Supervisor: Dr. James McDonald
Thesis topic: The Cross-Cultural Collaboration of the Community Forest

Michal Latala
MA Interdisciplinary Studies
Supervisor: Dr. Robert Budde
Thesis topic: Language, Truths: Power, Disenfranchisement, and Politics in Northern British Columbia Poetics

Aaron Shapiro
MSc Interdisciplinary Studies
Supervisor: Dr. Laurie Chan
Thesis topic: Characterization of Methylmercury Demethylation in the Central Nervous System

2007

Georgina Martin
MA Interdisciplinary Studies
Supervisor: Dr. Paul Madak
Thesis topic: The Erosion of the Rights of Indigenous People to Self Determine their Identity

Pamela Tobin
MA Interdisciplinary Studies
Supervisor: Dr. Neil Hanlon
Thesis topic: The Social and Cultural Experience of Food Security in the Takla Lake First Nation: Informing Public Health

Lori Lees
MA Interdisciplinary Studies
Supervisor: Dr. Stan Beeler
Thesis topic: “They Can’t Occupy this Country”: A Symbolic Anthropological Approach to Extraterrestrial Encounter Narratives in American Culture

2006

Andrea Palmer
MA Interdisciplinary Studies
Supervisor: Dr. Stan Beeler
Thesis topic: Anarchy Sounds Good to Me/Then Someone Asks, ‘Who’d Fix the Sewers?’: The Dialectic Relationship between Punk Rock and the Mainstream

Heidi Standeven
MA Interdisciplinary Studies
Supervisor: Dr. John Young
Thesis topic: Swinging Pendulum: Church-State Relations in Russia

Suzanne Mitchell
MA Interdisciplinary Studies
Supervisor: Dr. Angèle Smith
Thesis topic: Minding the Gap: An Exploration into the Social Landscapes of Rock Art at Stuart Lake Nak’al Bun, British Columbia

David Drysdale
MA Interdisciplinary Studies
Supervisor: Dr. Stan Beeler
Thesis topic: “And Hell’s Coming with me”: Wyatt Earp Encounters the Cold War

2005

Jacqueline Stephens
MA Interdisciplinary Studies
Supervisor: Dr. Catherine Nolin
Thesis topic: Conflicting Perspectives: Neoliberal Resource Development, Indigenous Communities, and Modern Canadian Imperialism in Guatemala

Jennifer Reade
MA Interdisciplinary Studies
Supervisor: Dr. Catherine Nolin
Thesis topic: Mujeres Autorizadas: Women’s Empowerment Programs as a Form of Community Development in Guatemala

Sarah Carr-Locke
MA Interdisciplinary Studies
Supervisor: Dr. Richard Lazenby
Thesis topic: Sharing the Past: Aboriginal People and Community-based Archaeology in Canada

Michael Brisbois
MA Interdisciplinary Studies
Supervisor: Dr. Stan Beeler
Thesis topic: Where the Shadows Lie: Nature, Modernity and the Audience of Middle-earth

Danielle Saradon
MA Interdisciplinary Studies
Supervisor: Dr. Dee Horne
Thesis topic: Brown Sheep, Brown Landscape: Australia as I Remember It

2004

Anna McLauchlan
MA Interdisciplinary Studies
Supervisor: Dr. Kristen Guest
Thesis topic: Gypsies and Jews: George Eliot’s Use of “Race” in the Spanish Gypsy and Daniel Deronda

 2003

Pamela den Ouden
MA Interdisciplinary Studies
Supervisor: Dr. Karin Beeler
Thesis topic: Mapping the Ground: A Critical and Creative Exploration of the Diary of Ada Sykes, 1912-1915

2002

Sarah de Leeuw
MA Interdisciplinary Studies
Supervisor: Dr. Julia Emberley
Thesis topic: Along Highway 16: A Creative Meditation on the Geography of Northwestern British Columbia

2001

Danielle Fletcher
MA Interdisciplinary Studies
Supervisor: Dr. Stan Beeler
Thesis topic: Precocious Girls and Ambiguous Boys: Vampires and Sexual Identity in Laurell K. Hamilton’s Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter and Nancy A. Collins’s Midnight Blue

Shannon Whissell
MA Interdisciplinary Studies
Supervisor: Dr. Kate Lawson
Thesis topic: Lone, Lorn Creatures: The Matrix of Trauma, Memory and Identity in Dickens’ Orphan Heroes