Graduate Cognate Papers / Major Research Project (2007 to present)
The table lists the year and title of Cognate Papers written in partial fulfilment of the Master of Arts in History. In 2010-11 a program stream name change was made to Major Research Project (MRP).
| 2023 | Christine Green | "A Case Study of Responses to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by Community Museums in Northwestern Ontario | Michel S. Beaulieu |
| 2023 | Haileigh Riddell | "Eugenics in Canada: New Insight through a Comparison of Two Eugenic Bodies" | Michael S. Beauleu and Michael D. Stevenson |
| 2023 | Kaitlyn Kilburn | "A Visual Narrative of Nazi Propaganda from 1925 to 1945" | Valerie Hebert |
| 2023 | Sienna Fonzo | "The Mendoza Wine Industry (1885-1910): The Provincial Government and Italian Immigration in Developing Industry in the Interior Provinces" | Ronald Harpelle |
| 2022 | Michael McNeil | "Advocate for Empire: Franz Nopcsa and the Future of Austria-Hungary, 1903-1914" | Steven Jobbitt |
| 2022 | Laura Polcyn | "Between Theory and Practice: The National Democracy and Poland's Economic Policy between 1918 and 1926" | Steven Jobbitt and Livio di Matteo |
| 2022 | Sabrina Nordlund | "Subverting Tradition: Femininity, Feminism, and the Cuban Revolution" | Ronald Harpelle |
| 2022 | Bryson Irvine | "Howard Charles Green and the Canadian Conduct of the Second World War" | Michael D. Stevenson |
| 2022 | Ximena Geron Fonseca | "Xochicalco: A History of Dispossession in Mexico's Central Highlands" | Ronald Harpelle |
| 2022 | Richard Mullin-Cote | "The Thunder Bay Militia District and Canadian Defence Policy in the 1980s" | Michel S. Beaulieu |
| 2022 | Sierra Lemonius-Walker | “A Museum’s Role in Heritage Community and Citizenship: The Case of the Thunder Bay Museum” | Michel S. Beaulieu |
| 2021 | Hanna Johnson | "A History of Swedish Lutheranism and Immigration to Port Arthur and Fort William, 1880-1914" | Michel S. Beaulieu |
| 2021 | Christopher Omeljaniuk | "French Canadian Labourers in the North West Company, 1783-1821" | Michel S. Beaulieu |
| 2020 | Emily Hodgins | "Scientific Forestry as an Instrument of the Colonial Project: A Case Study of Germany, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain" | Steven Jobbitt |
| 2020 | Yawei Zhang | "Memory and Commemoration in Post-Communist Eastern Europe: A Comparative Study of the Memorial Museums in Berlin and Budapest" | Steven Jobbitt |
| 2020 | Peter DeLorenzi | "The Downfall of Austria-Hungary Through the Eyes of its Jewish Population: Background on the Life of Joseph Scher" | Steven Jobbitt |
| 2020 | Mary Francis Maarup | "The Contribution of Women to the Social Service Sector at the Lakehead, 1960-1990" | Michel S. Beaulieu |
| 2019 | G. Douglas Sanders | "From Britannia to Brussels (or, How to Live Between a Rock and a Hard Place): A Study of British Attitudes Toward European Integration Since 1945" | Steven Jobbitt |
| 2019 | Courtney Turner | "A Nation Suffering: Ukrainian Nationalism, Genocide, and the Holodomor Mobile Classroom" | Steven Jobbitt |
| 2019 | Jasmine Hyslop | "The Port Arthur Mechanics' Institute: Education and Entertainment in a Northern Town" | Michel S. Beaulieu |
| 2018 | Brett Starrs | "An Analysis of Canadian Immigration Policy: A Case Study of Fort William and Port Arthur Through Print Media in the 1950s and 1960s" | Michel S. Beaulieu |
| 2018 | Kyle Gaudreau | "Illiberalism and the Problem of Equality, 1830-1890: Kierkegaard and Nietzsche Against Modernity" | Steven Jobbitt |
| 2018 | Greg Johnsen | "The Game Comes Here: The Origins of Organized Sport in Thunder Bay" | Michel S. Beaulieu |
| 2018 | Kimberlee Young | "Islamophobia in Context: A History of Anti-Muslin Sentiment in France Since the Eleventh Century" | Steven Jobbitt |
| 2017 | Anna England | "In Search of Freedom, Equality, and Opportunity: African American Sojourners in the Soviet Union, 1920-1940" | Steven Jobbitt |
| 2016 | Michael Lucifora | "Canada and the 1958 Crisis in Lebanon" | Michael D. Stevenson |
| 2016 | Luana Buckle | "Foodway Transitions from Middle-Class Britain to Nineteenth Century Ontario" | Michel S. Beaulieu |
| 2016 | Kimberly Crawford | "The Development of Federal Job Training and Vocational Education Policies in the 1960s and 1970s affecting Canada's Aboriginal Population" | Michael D. Stevenson |
| 2016 | Kyle Duckworth | "The Hunt for the Arctic: Re-Evaluating Arctic History and Mutiny" | Michel S. Beaulieu |
| 2016 | Richard Mastrangelo | "Echo and Features: Steep Rock Iron Mine and the Shaping of Corporate Culture" | Michel S. Beaulieu |
| 2015 | Patrick Schmidt | "Nowhereans: The Evolution of the West Indian Community of Panama, 1850 - 1926" | Ronald Harpelle |
2015 | Aaron Macmillan | "Postwar Removal of Discriminatory Clauses from Immigration Policy, 1947-1976" | Michel S. Beaulieu |
2015 | Joe Michalik | "Proving Ground: U.S. Involvement in Guatemala, 1954-1983" | Ronald Harpelle |
| 2015 | Nicholas Sottile | "One Trick Ponies: A Comparative Analysis of the Development of Two Single-Industry Towns in Northwestern Ontario" | Michel S. Beaulieu |
2015 | Ka Lun Wong | "Understanding the Dragon: Ethnicities of Chinese-Canadian Immigrants, 1858-1997" | |
2014 | Jordan Lehto | "Queering the Postwar High School: Queer Male Youth at the Lakehead, 1945-1965" | |
2013 | Denise Munro | "Moral and Social Reform at the Lakehead: Conceptualized Anglo-Protestant Notions of Race, Class, and Gender within Two 1913 Social Surveys" | |
2012 | Justin O'Brien | "Movie Messages: Volkische Doctrine in Nazi Cinema" | |
2012 | Ulysses Patola | "Ice-Hockey and its Changing Masculinities: Hyper-Masculinity, Helmets, Disability and the Early Concussion Debate in the National Hockey League, 1947-2000" | Jane Nicholas |
2012 | Sabrina Del Ben | " 'A Veritable Epidemic': Canadian Newspaper Media, First Nations Motherhood, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, and the Settler State" | Kristin Burnett |
2011 | David Blanchard | "Terrace Bay and the North Shore's Post-war Economic and Cultural Identity, 1947-1967" | |
2011 | Julie Follis | " 'Myths and Misconceptions' - The Construction of Female Sexual Asault Victims in R. v. Larry Runholm" | Kristin Burnett & Lori Chambers |
2011 | Dave George | "The Postwar Lakehead: Postwar Planning Projects in fort william and Port arthur following the Second World War" | Patricia Jasen |
2011 | Brent Rosborough | "Understanding History: Irish Immigration and Settlement in Ontario and the United States" | Kristin Burnett & Victor Smith |
2011 | Gordon Stover | "Thunder Bay's Response to Trudeau Government Policies" | |
2011 | Matthew Wiseman | "Did He Sign His Own Defeat? John G. Diefenbaker and the NORAD Agreement: 1957-1963" | Jane Nicholas |
2010 | Chelsea DeGagne | "Soldiers and Politicians: Civil-Military Relations in Fort William and Port Arthur, 1850-1938" | |
2010 | Joe Peotto | "Modern Sport and the 'Greater Game' Sporting Culture and the Great War -- A Transatlantic Comparison | Victor Smith |
2010 | Whitney Wood | " 'Delicate Women' and the Ordeal of Childbirth: The Construction of Women's Pain and Medical Response in Late-Victorian North American" | Patricia Jasen & Jane Nicholas |
2009 | Nicole Durocher | "Imperialism or Social Reform: An Examination of Attention Paid to Immigrant Mothers in Port Arthur and Fort William in the Early Decades of the Twentieth Century" | Michel S. Beaulieu & Ernest Epp |
| 2009 | Edward Pugliese | "The Normalization of the Soviet-Cuban Alliance, 1958-1973" | Jean-Yves Bernard |
2009 | Steve Ross | "William Lyon Mackenzie King, Domestic anti-Japanese Hostility, and Foreign Policy Determinants: 1907 - 1942" | Michel S. Beaulieu & Jean-Yves Bernard |
2009 | Ronnie Smith | "The Evolution of Political Idealism in Tokugawa Japan and its Manifestations in the Meiji Restoration" | Syed Serajul Islam |
| 2008 | Ryan Duplassie | "Ottawa Stands For Independent Foreign Relations: Canada's Policy to Cuba, 1959-1979" | Jean-Yves Bernard |
| 2008 | Laura Nicole Nigro | "Female Discrimination or Cultural Maintenance?: The Hearing of Giovannina Ruberto-Martinie vs. the Italian Society of Port Arthur" | Michel S. Beaulieu & Lori Chambers |
2008 | Gabrielle Parent | "Second Language Acquisition at the New Jesuit Missions" | Kristin Burnett |
| 2008 | Connie Pucci | "Vilma Espin and the Federacion de Mujeres Cubanas: Enhancing the Status of Women in Cuba" | |
| 2008 | Amy Samson | "The history and long term impact of Alberta's Sterilization Legislation" | |
| 2008 | Devon Elise Stillwell | " 'The Call for a New Social Order': American Eugenics, Policies of Sterilization, and Charles Fremont Dight's Eugenics Crusade in Minnesota, 1910-1935" | Patricia Jasen |
| 2008 | Ashley Walker | "Mao's China: The Utility of Sport as Tool in International Relations, 1949-1971" | Jean-Yves Bernard |
| 2007 | Thomas Peotto | "Foreign Intervention and International Response in the Ottoman Empire, 1894-1924" | Jean-Yves Bernard |
| 2007 | Samira Saramo | "Women Made of Iron: Sanna Kannasto and Finnish Socialist Women in Early-Twentieth Century Lakehead" | |
| 2007 | Beverly Soloway | "Unattached, Adrift, and Not a Priority: Single Women in the Lakehead and Duluth during the Great Depression" | Patricia Jasen |