DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
HONOURS PROGRAMME
COMPLETED HONOURS ESSAYS
2015
Title of Honours Essay
Supervisor
Keaton Ryerson
Roman Imperialism and the Second Macedonian War
K. Leyton-Brown
Sarah Wood
Small Democracies in Medieval England: The Importance of
Juries in the Creation of English Democracy
K. Leyton-Brown
Steven Elich
Shaping A Partnership: John F. Kennedy and the Task Force on
Vietnam, 1961
D. Flood
Katelyn Major
To Be a Man: Folktales and the Post-Civil War Crisis of
American Masculinity
D. Flood
Kayla Schmaus
Scandal and Intrigue: A Historical Analysis of the Eighteenth
Century French Libellistes
I. Germani
Shea Poncsak
The Adverse Effects of the 1885 Rebellion on the Métis Nation
R. Blake
Tom Stark
Pragmatic Altruism: An Analysis of American Military
Intervention during the 1990s
M. Anderson
Edward Dodd
Laughing at the Enemy: Victory Loan Strategies, Anti-Semitism,
and “If Day” in World War II Winnipeg
J. Pitsula
Laura Hochban
“A Natural and Necessary Thing”: The Consequences of Martin
Luther’s Marriage Reforms on Women in Sixteenth-Century
Germany
Y. Petry
Brittany Gogel
Finding Middle Ground: The Leader-Post’s coverage in the 1986
Election in Saskatchewan
J. Pitsula
Candice Froess
The Transmission of the Alphabet from the Phoenicians to the
Greeks
K. Leyton-Brown
Liam Fitz-Gerald
“On the Scroll of Fame”: The English Canadian Media’s
Perception of the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905
P. Charrier
Paul Gebhardt
The Origins of the Templars
A. Fizzard
Chelsea Jacobs
Black in the Neon Oasis: A History of the Black Community in
Los Vegas and their Ongoing Struggle for Civil Rights
D. Flood
Jennifer Redler
Integrating East and West Germany: Towards the Emergence of
a Unified Political and Economic System Since 1990
T. Bredohl
Sébastien Potvin
Evolution of an Alliance: The Vindication of NATO in the
Kosovo War
I. Germani
2014
2013
2012
Rob Phillipson
The Creation of the Carolingians: How The Dynasty Rose To
Power and How They Sustained It
A. Fizzard
Jean-Michel Lenihan
Dominion Day from 1879-1927: A Composite of Vernacular
Events and a Foundational National Experience
R. Blake/
J. M. Pitsula
Aaron Richter
The Creation of Prestige in Prussia: As it was Manifest in the
Cityscape of Berlin
I. Germani
Benjamin Stueck
Romano-Parthian Retaliations Between 95 BCE and 68 CE
K. Leyton-Brown
Matt Sametz
Decisive Battle in the Second Punic War
K. Leyton-Brown
Michelle Wagner
De Quoi s’agit-il?”: How Leadership and Command Led the
French Army to Victory on the Marne Salient: 1914-1918
I. Germani
Derek Bradshaw
Militarism in The Third Reich and Its Effects on the Battle of
Stalingrad
I. Germani
Karley Parovsky
Diefenbaker’s Bill of Rights: A Testament to His Belief in
Fundamental Rights and Freedoms in Canada
R. Blake
2011
Ian (Sacha) Robertson “The Sublime and True Friend of Humanity:” A Historiographic
Analysis of Rousseau’s Impact on the Terror in the French
Revolution
I. Germani
2010
Jill Kergan
Portentous Propaganda: Interpretations of Monstrous Births in
the Early Modern Era
Rachelle Lamontagne The Transition from the Pyramid Texts of the Old Kingdom to
the Coffin Texts of the Middle Kingdom
Y. Petry
K. Leyton-Brown
2009
Brian Warren
Deference Versus Defiance: Canada and Egypt in the Prelude to
Suez
P. Charrier
Stephanie Ellis
Diefenbaker and the Canadian Flag: An Examination of
Diefenbaker’s Opposition During the 1964 Flag Debate
R. Blake
Robert Porter
The Rhetoric and Reality of Spending: an Analysis of Canadian
Federal Deficit and Debt, 1975-1995
R. Blake
Dwayne Meisner
Livy and the Bacchanalia
K. Leyton-Brown
Veda Jardine
“The Medieval Bestiaries: Showcasing the Evolution of Animal
Lore”
A. Fizzard
2008
2007
Christine Magnusson
Community and War: WWI Military Recruitment in Yorkton
SK.
J. M. Pitsula
Aaron Molnar
China’s Northern Borderlands in Sino-Mongol Relations during
the Ming (1368-1644)
P. Charrier
Julia Mitchell
Microcosmic Modernity:
Parisian Arcades
I. Germani
Amy Quickfall
Roman Baths
K. Leyton-Brown
Greg Koabel
“Cloud Him in Ambiguity:” The Attempted Impeachment of the
Duke of Buckingham in 1626
R. J. W. Swales
Lindsey Konrad
“A Plague on both your Houses!” The Place of Lutheranism in
the early English Reformation
R. J. W. Swales
Jaclyn McLean
“Les Résistantes: the women’s resistance movement and the
press in France, 1940-1945
I. Germani
Kristie Dubé
The Gothic Revival Style in Saskatchewan Ecclesiastical
Architecture
A. Fizzard
Carl Anderson
“A Prairie Success Story:” The Founding and Early Activities of
the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration, 1935-1945
J. W. Brennan
Loriel Anderson
“Clovis – First”: An Examination of the Origins of the First
Americans
K. Leyton-Brown
Maryanne Cotcher
Radical or Respectable? The Regina Voice of Women, 19611971
J. W. Brennan
Gillian Ramsey
The Origins of Rome
K. Leyton-Brown
Tana Findlay
Louis-Sebastian Mercier: On Eighteenth-Century Crime and the
Parisian Justice System
I. Germani
Jeremy Mohr
Subordination to Conciliation?: A Reassessment and
Comparison of the Governorships of Sir James Craig and Sir
George Provost, 1807-1915
S. D. Kenny
Mark McCulloch
An Examination of East and West German National Identity
after World War II.
T. Bredohl
The Cultural Significance of the
2006
2004
2003
2002
Nicole O’Bryne
‘The real nails in Hitler’s coffin’: Yorkton and the British
Commonwealth Air Training Plan
J. W. Brennan
Heather Hicks
Searching for Arthur: A Survey of Twentieth Century Arthurian
Historiography
A. Fizzard
Lee Revet
The Campaign for the Crown of England, 1066
A. Fizzard
Crista Bradley
“’Let Us Take Time For All Things’: Saskatchewan
Homemakers’ Clubs During The Great Depression”
J. W. Brennan
Hannah Scissons
“Not Quite the Separatist: The Nationalism of René Lévesque”
A. N. Lalonde
Jessica Conly
“Uranium City 1952-1982: Forging a Community in Northern
Saskatchewan”
J. W. Brennan
Jennifer Senkow
“The Church and Sacheverell?! The Political Influence of Dr.
Henry Sacheverell in Eighteenth Century England”
R. J. W. Swales
Kimberley Greenman
“Population Studies on the Qing Period in Chinese History: A
Historiographical Analysis”
J. Matsumura
Peter Borch
“The Beginning of Saskatchewan’s Waffle 1969-70”
J. M. Pitsula
Angela Martin
“The Other Nurse: Seeking Validation Psychiatric Nursing and
the Saskatchewan Psychiatric Nurses’ Association, 1930-1972”
J. W. Brennan
Mike Fedyk
“Phony Victory: The 1962 Federal Election in the Regina City
Constituency”
J. M. Pitsula
Lynn Hintz
“Emäntä (Mistress of the House), Pikka (Maid), Apulainen
(Helpmate) and Suomalainen (Finn): The Women of New
Finland, Saskatchewan, 1890-1930”
A. Leger-Anderson
Derek Tucker
“Looking for the Irish in Canada: Ethnicity, Myth and Reality”
S. D. Kenny
Allan Briens
“Mapping the Road to Auschwitz: A Study of the Genesis of the
Holocaust”
A. A. Chanady
Matthew Robinson
"The Beveridge Report: Wartime Politics and Propaganda"
N. Terpstra
Cameron Smith
"The Origins and Development of the SS Until the Röhm Putsch,
1925-1934"
R. J. W. Swales
Zara Hande
“Female Immigrant Domestic Servants on the Canadian Prairies,
1890-1930”
J. W. Brennan
2001
2000
1999
1998
1997
1996
Andrea Rounce
"A Discussion of the Debate Surrounding the British Problem in
Response To and Based on Derek Hirst's Commentary"
R. J. W. Swales
Jenéa Tallentire
"The Effect of Charles I's Ideology in Caroline England"
R. J. W. Swales
1995
Peter Bruce
"'EINHEIT': The Reunification of Germany in 1990"
A. A. Chanady
Damian Shepherd
"The Administration of Penance from the Post-Apostolic Age to
the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215"
B. R. Dalsin
Mark Lloyd
"Diefenbaker's Foreign Policy Toward Apartheid in South Africa"
J. M. Pitsula
Brett Gore
"German Rearmament and the Third Reich: An Analysis of the
Military and Economic Mobilization of National Socialist
Germany, 1933-39"
A. A. Chanady
Tammy Nemeth
"Degrees of Inspiration: Scholastic and Humanist Influences on
Luther's and Calvin's Early Approaches to Scripture and
Justification"
N. Terpstra
Carole Forster
"Electoral Reform, the Press, and the Rise of Parties"
N. Tersptra
Lesley Erickson
"The First-Generation German Catholic Women of St. Peter's
Colony, Saskatchewan: German Catholic Women and the Public
Sphere, 1903 to 1930"
C. O. White
Erik Anderson
"Unfilled Expectations: The Impact of First World War on
Saskatchewan and the Farmer"
J. W. Brennan
Ken Taylor
"The Cooperative Commonwealth Federation Government and
Industrial Development 1950-1962: A Case Study of Three
Projects - Saskatchewan Cement Corporation, Prairie Pipe and
Interprovincial Pipe and Steel Corp. Ltd."
J. W. Brennan
C. Marie Fenwick
"A Social History of Moose Jaw, 1914-1918"
J. W. Brennan
Cinnamon Smith
"The Effect of the Protestant Reformation on Women's Religious
Experience"
N. Terpstra
Constance Maguire
"Kate Simpson Hayes and the 'Woman's World' of Mary
Markwell"
J. M. Pitsula
Jeff O'Brien
"The Non-Partisan League in Saskatchewan Politics: 1916-1921"
J. W. Brennan
Elaine Groenendyk
"From Absolutism to Regicide: Changing Images of the
Monarchy in Eighteenth Century France"
I. Germani
1994
1993
1992
1991
Michael Boda
"A Study of Lutheran Reformation Pedagogy and Controversy
Surrounding Gerald Strauss' Luther's House of Learning"
N. Terpstra
Lisa A. Duncan
"Popular Culture and Popular Religion in Catholic Europe, 14501650: An Historiographical Survey"
N. Terpstra
Scott Quendack
"Assimilation and the Franchise: The C.C.F. and the Political
Development of Saskatchewan Indians 1944-1960"
J. M. Pitsula
Jill McKeen
"Catholic Action in Regina, 1936-1939"
J. M. Pitsula
Cheryle Jahn
"The United Farm Women of Saskatchewan 1926-1931: Prairie
Feminism in the Post-Suffrage Period"
J. M. Pitsula
Lenora Toth
"The Patterson Government and the Voluntary Debt Adjustment
Programme of 1936"
C. O. White
Pamela MacIsaac
"Lilies in Frost: Women and Humanism in Early Modern Italy"
N. Terpstra
Lynn Gidluck
"Conflict and Compromise: The Establishment of the
Saskatchewan Land Bank, 1969-1972"
J. M. Pitsula
Nadine Roth
"The Mood of 1914 and the 'Unspoken Assumptions' of Grey and
Bethmann Hollweg"
A. A. Chanady
Paula Rein
"Tucker or Tyranny: The 1948 Saskatchewan Election"
J. W. Brennan
Gary Decorby
"CCF Government Initiatives in the Provision of Subsidized
Housing in Saskatchewan, 1944-1959"
J. W. Brennan
Brian Miller
"The Political History of the South Saskatchewan River Dam,
1951-1958"
J. W. Brennan
Katherine Luttmer
"The German Experience in Regina to the End of World War I"
J. W. Brennan
Dave Gray
"Imperialist Rivalry in China 1894-1899"
A. A. Chanady
1990
1989
1987
1986
Duane Mombourquette "The Saskatchewan Public Education League and Its Activities"
J. M. Pitsula
1985
Arthur Birch
"Syrian Foreign Policy Towards Israel 1946-1958"
R. L. Cleveland
1984
Girard Hengen
"The Wartime Prices and Trade Board and Canadian Prairie
Agriculture in the Second World War"
J. M. Pitsula
Doug Hendrickson
"The Failure of the Grand Alliance to Create a Common Policy
for Post-War Germany and the Rise of the Cold War"
A. A. Chanady
Galen Perras
"The Secret and Illegal Rearmament of the German Army 19191933"
A. A. Chanady
"Negotiations Between Government of Saskatchewan and the
College of Physicians and Surgeons During the Medicare Dispute
of 1962"
J. M. Pitsula
Stephen Bennett
"Diplomacy in Crisis: Anglo-German Relations 1933-1936"
A. A. Chanady
John Ayles
"The Basis for the Treaty of Rapallo in German-Soviet Relations,
1918-1922"
A. A. Chanady
Rod Laporte
"The Legacy of Boosterism: Swift Current and the First World
War"
J. W. Brennan
John Cooper
"Saskatchewan's Land Settlement Policy 1930-1940"
C. O. White
David Brundige
"Confederation: Was it an attempt to Annihilate the FrenchCanadian Nation?"
A. N. Lalonde
Evelyn Legare
"The Red River Rebellion: The Culmination of Over One
Hundred years of Violence in the West?"
A. N. Lalonde
Pat Brennan
"Unemployment and Public Works Relief: The Regina
Experience 1929-32"
C. O. White
Brian Banks
"The Cooperative Commonwealth Federation Government,
Economic Planning in Natural Resources and Industrial
Development 1944-1946"
J. W. Brennan
Rudolf Singer
"The Saskatchewan Royal Commission on Immigration and
Settlement 1930"
C. O. White
M. Leyton-Brown
"Henri Bourassa, Canadian Nationalist or French-Canadian
Nationalist?"
A. N. Lalonde
Kim Jones
"Confederation: An English Canadian Solution to English
Canadian Problems"
A. N. Lalonde
1983
1982
Joyce Way
1979
1978
1977
Don Richan
"Social Structure and Social Change in Regina during the First
World War"
J. W. Brennan
"Louis Riel and the English Canadian Historians: From Rebel to
Hero"
A. N. Lalonde
"Saskatchewan, 1930 to 1939: Preparation for State Medicine"
C. O. White
"Egyptian Religion from Pharaonic Times till Roman"
R. L. Cleveland
Kurt Kinley
"Canadian Aid to India: Planning for the Future"
D. M. Page
Bruce Shepard
"A Meditation on History" OR White Racist Propaganda? The
Controversy Surrounding William Styron's The Confessions of
Nat Turner"
A. L. Anderson
Nadia Kazymyra
"The Socialist Revolutionary Party in Russia (1890-1906)"
A. A. Chanady
William Jackson
"Seventeenth Century Puritan Radicalism: Its Origins and Aims
as exemplified by Three Sects: The Levellers, The Diggers and
The Fifth Monarchy Men"
R. J. W. Swales
Tom Ledebur
"The Break-Up of the Müller Cabinet and the Crisis of German
Parliamentary Democracy in 1929-30"
A. A. Chanady
Keith Foster
"United States Designs on Canada: The War of 1812"
A. L. Anderson
Garth Pugh
"Wilhelmine Imperialism and the Role of Germany in the July
Crisis of 1914: An Examination of the Fischer Thesis"
M. L. Kovacs
Don Herperger
"The Establishment of Canadian Diplomatic Relations with the
United States"
D. M. Page
Gwenn Harris
"Two Views of Canadian History: Donald Creighton and Frank
Underhill"
D. M. Page
1976
Joe Goski
1975
Judy Totten
1974
K. Leyton-Brown
1973
1972