Research Area 1: Politics of Diversity
Marie-Eve BeaulieuSettler Shifts? A Manitoba Public School’s Changing Perspectives on an Anishinaabe Community (Dissertation defended, August 2021).
Maria Teresa Cappiali, PhD
Activism and Political Participation Among People of Migrant Background: Discourses and Practices of Inclusiveness in Four Italian Cities (Dissertation defended, October 2015).
Paul Carls
The Morality of Politics: Germany’s Refugee Crisis (Dissertation defended, March 2020).
Sophie Devirieux
Politiques de la scène : une analyse comparative des scènes contemporaines de théâtre entre Montréal et Berlin (Dissertation defended, April 2021).
Stéphanie Gravel, PhD
L’impartialité des enseignants du programme Éthique et culture religieuse (Québec, 2008) et la diversité au Québec. La mise en pratique de l’impartialité professionnelle d’enseignants du secondaire et ses défis pédagogiques liés à la diversité (Dissertation defended, December 2016).
Ahmed Hamila, PhD
Sortir du placard, entrer en Europe : enquête au sein des autorités de l’asile en Belgique, France et Royaume-Uni (Dissertation defended, April 2020).
Bertrand Lavoie, PhD
La foi musulmane et la laïcité en France et au Québec, entre regulation publique et négociation quotidienne (Dissertation defended, January 2017).
Viktoria Lühr
Kulturelle Diversität im Spannungsfeld zwischen Globalisierung und (Re-)Nationalisierung. Eine Analyse des soziopolitischen Diskurses in Frankreich, Deutschland und Québec (2015-2019) (Dissertation defended, May 2023).
Dr. Lisa Schaub
Métis Communities in the Red River Settlement: Territory, Identity, and Racialization, 1821-1926 (Dissertation defended, May 2020).
Dr. Sophie Schram
Trade Policy and Province-Building: Québec and the Economic and Trade Agreement CETA, 2006-2014 (Dissertation defended, September 2017).
Kaisa Vuoristo, PhD
Republicanism Recast: How the "Veil Affairs" Transformed French Republican Ideology and Public Discourse (2004–2014) (Dissertation defended, May 2017).
Research Area 2: Practices of Diversity
Lucio Castracani, PhDLes "mains invisibles": les travailleurs migrants temporaires dans le secteur agro-alimentaire au Québec (Dissertation defended, December 2017).
Annika Enning
National Roles and International Initiatives: Canada's Engagement as an Elected Member of the United Nations Security Council.
Rebecca Ferrari
Making Sense of Spaces: Life-passages of First-Generation Algerian Women Living in Paris.
Marc-Antoine Frébutte
Création, orientation et évolution du milieu associatif et des espaces sociaux : Le cas des serbes de Vienne et de Toronto.
Gïti Hatef-Rossa
Representations of Disability in Children's Television Programmes: A Critical Analysis.
Dr. Lisa Johnson
Moves, Spaces and Places: Roots, Pathways and Trajectories of Jamaican Women in Montreal (Dissertation defended, July 2020).
Charlotte Kaiser
Agentivité queer. Une conceptualisation transdisciplinaire des féminités queer dans le film et le militantisme à Montréal et à Berlin (Dissertation defended, January 2023).
Julia Charlotte Kersting
It's the same difference – Literarische Übersetzung als Medium des Kulturkontakts in Quebec (Dissertation defended, October 2023).
Judith Lamberty
Le goût de la diversité linguistique. Création, promotion et réception de romans hétérolingues de la Suisse romande et du Québec (Dissertation defended, February 2022).
Pierre Lavoie, PhD
Mille après mille. Mobilité, célébrité et mémoire des artistes populaires après «l'exode» (Dissertation defended, December 2019).
Dr. Dave Poitras
Nationhood at Work: An Ethnography of Workplaces in Montreal and Brussels (Dissertation defended, July 2016).
Dr. Nikolas Schall
Auf der Suche nach Solidarität in Diversität – Eine Ethnographie des Weltsozialforums 2016 in Montreal (Dissertation defended, August 2020).
Mônica Schlobach, PhD
Migrants brésiliens hautement qualifiés : trajectoires migratoires, familles transnationales et incorporation socioprofessionnelle (Dissertation defended in December 2019).
Rosaria Maria Tagliente
La religion au quotidien. Ethnographie de la religion vécue à Taranto (Italie).
Saaz Taher
La parole des ‘femmes musulmanes’ est-elle audible ? Analyse des délibérations publiques sur l’interdiction des signes religieux au Québec (2010-2019) (Dissertation defended, April 2022).
Dr. Anna Xymena Wieczorek
Migration and (Im)mobility: Biographical Experiences of Polish Migrants in Germany and Canada (Dissertation defended, November 2016).
Zeynep Yokmac
Turkish Migrants as Urban Scale Makers in Transcultural Cities.
Research Area 3: Narratives of Diversity
Dr. Aliz AlföldiLes espaces transculturels de la dramaturgie québécoise: une analyse géocriticienne de la diversité entre 1975 et 1996 (Dissertation defended, October 2017).
Carola David
Héritage culturel et écriture de la mémoire collective dans la littérature haïtienne contemporaine.
Atalie Gerhard
Contemporary Contestations of Containment: Black and Indigenous Women’s “I”-Life Narratives from 21st Century Canada and the U.S.
Yulia Gordina
'A Boon to Our Quest for Continuity': The Politics of Cultural Memory, Orientalism and Racial Inbetweenness in Russian-North American Literature (Dissertation defended, July 2021).
Leon Grimard
Différence et variabilité chez les Gitans: un enjeu réel loin de l'évidence. / Difference and variability among Gypsies: a real challenge far away from being obvious.
Dr. Sarah Larsen-Vefring
Inszenierung von Diversität. Performanz kultureller Vielfalt und Differenz im Theater von Robert Lepage (Dissertation defended in December 2019).
Christoph Laugs
Clothing and Cultures of Remembrance: Constructions and Articulations of Metisness in Saint-Boniface and Batoche, 1885-2008 (Dissertation defended in July 2020).
Alice Lefilleul, PhD
Animismes. De l'Afrique aux Premières Nations, penser la décolonisation avec les écrivains (Dissertation defended, April 2018).
Isis Luxenburger
Mediating Industrial Culture in the Borderlands of Quebec and the Greater Region: Fictional and Non-fictional Films.
Rahab Njeri
Black Canadas: Constructions and Representations of Blackness in Halifax, Montreal, Toronto 1960-1990 (Dissertation defended in July 2020).
Sarah Pröwrock
Laïcité and the Nation: The Negotiation of Religion, Diversity and National Identity in Québec (2012-2014).
Geneviève Robichaud, PhD
The Poetics of Translation: A Thinking Structure (Dissertation defended in June 2019).
Tom Schira
Imagining Alterity: The Historicity and Transformation of Knowledge in John Jewitt’s Captivity Narrative (1807-2015).
Dr. Lena Schneider
The Transcultural Feminist Grotesque: Embodiment in Contemporary Anglophone Literatures (Dissertation defended, September 2019).
Dr. Svetlana Seibel
"Personal Totems": The Poetics of the Popular in Contemporary Indigenous Popular Culture in North America (Dissertation defended, July 2016).
Nari Shelekpayev, PhD
Ottawa, Brasília, Astana: the Construction of Capital Cities in Canada, Brazil, and Kazakhstan (1850-2000) (Dissertation defended, March 2019).
Michelle Stoffel
„Federkriege“ im Emanzipationsdiskurs Stimmen jüdischer und christlicher Autoren über die rechtlichen Daseinsbedingungen der Juden in den deutschen Staaten (1781 – 1848).
Diana Thiesen
An Intersectional Reading of Contemporary Chinese Canadian Fiction (Dissertation defended, October 2023).
Anna Weinand
A Voice of Their Own: A Childist Reading of Child-Narrators in Canadian Novels.
Dr. Julia Wurr
From Tahrir to Terror: (Neo-)Orientalism in European and North American Fiction since the ‘Arab Spring’ (2011-2015) (Dissertation defended, August 2019).