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Since 2008, the Canada Program has granted more than $1,800,000 in thesis and dissertation research funding to Harvard students—both graduate and undergraduate—representing the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the College, and other schools across the University. Students receiving support, known as Canada Research Fellows, are engaged in research concerning government, law, sociology, history, music, education, public health, and urban design.

**2023-2024**

**Hanna Alshaikh, PhD Candidate in History and Middle East Studies**  
*The Role of Palestinian Canadians in Transnational Palestinian Politics*

**Alysha Banerjee, PhD Candidate, Graduate School of Education**  
*Refugees in Higher Education: Institutional Purpose and Cosmopolitan Civic Responsibility*

**Ione Barrows, PhD Candidate, Department of History**  
*Forging the Commonweal: Critiques of Exploitation in Gilded Age North American Populism, 1877-1911*

**Chanda Sudarshana, PhD Candidate, Department of History**  
*From Calcutta to Canada: The Indian-Chinese Diaspora, 1965-1985*

**Anna Christensen, PhD Candidate, Department of the History of Science**  
*Inter-species Extinction Narratives of the Great Auk and Beothuk Peoples*

**Daniel Frim, PhD Candidate, Committee on the Study of Religion**  
*Indigenous Languages and Oral Literatures of North America's Northwest Coast*

**Nayanika Ghosh, PhD Candidate, Department of the History of Science**  
*Re-Historicizing the Sociobiology Debates*

**Aaron Gluck-Thaler, PhD Candidate, Department of the History of Science**  
*The Pattern Recognizers: Surveillance, Security, and the Making of Identity (Chapter 1)*

**Kevin Linn, DPH Candidate, T. H. Chan School of Public Health**  
*Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccination Coverage Amongst First Nations Youth in British Columbia*

**Derek Robey, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology**  
*What's in a Name? The Construction of the Collective Memory of Race in Canada and the United States*

**Davindar Singh, PhD Candidate, Department of Music**  
*Cultures of Cargo: Trucking, Music, and the Illicit Logistics of Indo-Canadian Mobility*

**Aden Solway, PhD Candidate, Art, Film, and Visual Studies**  
*Towards a Decolonial Museology: Indigenous Perspectives and Engagements with Canadian Museums*

**Ann-Catherine Wilkening, PhD Candidate, The Study of Religion**  
*Radical Pietism, Kinship, and Intimacy in Lenape and Mohican Homelands*

**2022-2023**

**Emma Broder, PhD Candidate, Department of the History of Science**  
*Mind, Stress, and Chronic Disease: Psychosomatic Research in Montreal, 1932-1970*

**Elliott Chemberlin, The College**  
*North American Settler Colonialism and Indigenous-Settler Treaty Relationships*

**Anna Christensen, PhD Candidate, Department of the History of Science**  
*Inter-species Extinction Narratives of the Great Auk and Beothuk Peoples*

**Taylor Davey, PhD Candidate, Graduate School of Design**  
*Reshaping Climate Governance: Urbanizing Carbon Policy in the Canadian Context*

**Aysha Emerson, The College**  
*White-settler Protesters’ Motivations for Involvement in the Ongoing Fairy Creek Blockade on Vancouver Island*

**Daniel Frim, PhD Candidate, Committee on the Study of Religion**  
*Indigenous languages and oral literatures of North America's northwest coast; comparative religion; and comparative study of oral and oral-derived literatures*

**Jonathan Galka, PhD Candidate, Department of the History of Science**  
*Making the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone: Science, Governance, and the High Seas Seabed*

**Hanan Kataw, PhD Candidate, Graduate School of Design**  
*The Digital Avant-garde Discourse: 1993-2013*

**Kevin Linn, DPH Candidate, T. H. Chan School of Public Health**  
*Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccination Coverage Amongst First Nations Youth in British Columbia*

**Karintha Lowe, PhD Candidate, American Studies**  
*Cinematic Frontiers: Winnifred Eatons Cattle and the development of the Motion Pictures Industry*

**Derek Robey, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology**  
*What's in a Name? The Construction of the Collective Memory of Race in Canada and the United States*

**Salina Suri, Department of the History of Science**  
*Stranger Tides: Investigating the Restoration of Good Relations with Ballast-Disrupted Ecologies*  
  
**2021-2022**

**Taylor Davey, PhD Candidate, Graduate School of Design**  
*Reshaping Climate Governance: Urbanizing Carbon Policy in the Canadian Context*

**Aniket De, PhD Candidate, Department of History**  
*Federalism in Empire: India and Canada*

**Camden Elliott, PhD Candidate, Department of History**  
*Environmental Histories of the French and Indian Wars, 1688-1764*

**Chelsea Green, PhD Candidate, Department of Government**  
*Responding to a Melting Northwest Passage: An Investigation of Inuit and Canadian Approaches*

**Franco Paz, PhD Candidate, Department of History**  
*The Ends of the Earth: Capitalism, Slavery, and the Environment in the Atlantic World*

**Daniel Rohde, SJD Candidate, Harvard Law School**  
*The Bank of the People: Money and Politics at Canadas Unification*

**Wyatt Sarafin, PhD Candidate, Department of English**  
*Graphic Americas: Toward a Poetics of Art and Archive*

**Christina Shivers, PhD Candidate, Graduate School of Design**  
*Inventorying Nature: Environmental Planning and the Rise of Market-Based Environmentalism*

**2020-2021**

**Aniket De, PhD Candidate, Department of History**  
*Federalism in Empire: India and Canada*

**Camden Elliott, PhD Candidate, Department of History**  
*Environmental Histories of the French and Indian Wars, 1688-1764*

**Daniel Frim, PhD Candidate, Committee on the Study of Religion**  
*Indigenous languages and oral literatures of North America's northwest coast; comparative religion; and comparative study of oral and oral-derived literatures*

**Lester Gustave, PhD Candidate, Department of the History of Science**  
*Mineral Lands, Mineral Empire: Mapping the Raw Materials of U.S. Industrial Capitalism, 1780-1880*

**Nina Halty, PhD Candidate, Department of History**  
*US history; diplomatic history; race and ethnicity; American slavery; international law; and Antebellum South*

**Derek Robey, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology**  
*What's in a Name? The Construction of the Collective Memory of Race in Canada and the United States*

**Daniel Rohde, SJD Candidate, Harvard Law School**  
*The Bank of the People: Money and Politics at Canadas Unification*

**Jocelyn Sears, PhD Candidate, Department of English**  
*Narrative Form and Historical Time in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments*

**Christina Shivers, PhD Candidate, Graduate School of Design**  
*Inventorying Nature: Environmental Planning and the Rise of Market-Based Environmentalism*

**Julia Smachylo, DDes Candidate, Graduate School of Design**  
*Operationalization of city-hinterland landscapes; and urban development*

**Matthew Sohm, PhD Candidate, Department of History**  
*Mineral Lands, Mineral Empire: Mapping the Raw Materials of U.S. Industrial Capitalism, 1780-1880*

**Aaron Van Neste, Phd Candidate, History of Science**  
*Oceans of Ignorance: The Narrative of Inexhaustibility in Fisheries Science*

**2019-2020**

**Marino Auffant, PhD Candidate, Department of History**  
*International history; 1970s energy crisis; oil and commodities; Middle East; Latin America; history of capitalism; and Global Cold War*

**Aaron Bekemeyer, PhD Candidate, Department of History**  
*Twentieth-century US history; politics; policing and prisons; the state and state building; labor; and urban history*

**Sam Beswick, SJD Candidate, Harvard Law School**  
*Law of obligations; private law defenses and remedies; temporal dimensions of adjudication; and privacy rights*

**Constance Bourguignon, The College**  
*Joint concentrating, integrating WGS into an existing course of study, double-counting and cross-listed courses, interdisciplinarity, gender and language, WGS and education*

**Georgina Evans, PhD Candidate, Department of Government**  
*Public opinion; political campaigns and electoral politics; American politics; and political methodology*

**Daniel Frim, PhD Candidate, Committee on the Study of Religion**  
*Indigenous languages and oral literatures of North America's northwest coast; comparative religion; and comparative study of oral and oral-derived literatures*

**Balraj Gill, PhD Candidate, Program in American Studies**  
*Indigenous history; colonial and imperial history; carceral studies; and nineteenth- and twentieth-century North America*

**Ethan Goodnight, PhD Candidate, Program in American Studies**  
*US religious history; critical race theory; Antebellum United States; intellectual history; and the Atlantic world*

**Ben Goossen, PhD Candidate, Department of History**  
*Global and international history; modern Europe; environmental history; religious history; and the history of science*

**Nina Halty, PhD Candidate, Department of History**  
*US history; diplomatic history; race and ethnicity; American slavery; international law; and Antebellum South*

**Jordan Howell, PhD Candidate, Department of the History of Science**  
*History of capitalism; history of technology; race and imperialism; US empire; labor history; African diaspora and Caribbean history; and Caribbean political economy*

**Ashley Lee, Doctoral Candidate, Graduate School of Education**  
*Issues at the intersection of digital media and youth’s civic and political expression; the design and study of digitally networked, participatory spaces for young people*

**Alex Mierke-Zatwarnicki, PhD Candidate, Department of Government**  
*The role of information in political preference formation and change, both at the individual level (through the lens of political psychology) and at the aggregate level (as it manifests in public opinion trends)*

**Sarah Sadlier, PhD Candidate, Department of History**  
*Native American history; legal history; gender and sexuality studies; environmental history; American studies; and military history*

**Margaret Schwenzfeier, PhD Candidate, Department of Government**  
*Public opinion; political campaigns and electoral politics; American politics; and political methodology*

**Julia Smachylo, DDes Candidate, Doctor of Design, Graduate School of Design**  
*Operationalization of city-hinterland landscapes; and urban development*

**Maddie Williams, PhD Candidate, Department of History**  
*History and politics of disability, medicine, race, and gender*

**Andi Zhou, PhD Candidate, Department of Government**  
*Territorial conflict; national, territorial, and political identity; nationalism; political psychology; and origins of political preferences*

**2018-2019**

**Bradley Craig**

**Hardeep Dillon**

**Daniel Frim, PhD Candidate, Committee on the Study of Religion**  
*Indigenous languages and oral literatures of North America's northwest coast; comparative religion; and comparative study of oral and oral-derived literatures*

**Balraj Gill, PhD Candidate, Program in American Studies**  
*Indigenous history; colonial and imperial history; carceral studies; and nineteenth- and twentieth-century North America*

**Yulin Hswen, Dsc Candidate, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health**  
*Early Detection of Environmental Hazards in Canada-Harnessing Online Networks for the Protection of Canadian Health*

**Ashley Lee, Doctoral Candidate, Graduate School of Education**  
*Issues at the intersection of digital media and youth’s civic and political expression; the design and study of digitally networked, participatory spaces for young people*

**Alex Mierke-Zatwarnicki, PhD Candidate, Department of Government**  
*The role of information in political preference formation and change, both at the individual level (through the lens of political psychology) and at the aggregate level (as it manifests in public opinion trends)*

**Bo Yun Park, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology**  
*The evolving scripts of political leadership found in Canada, France, and the United States*

**Rachel Silverman**

**Rachel Steely**

**Ye Zhang**  
*The interactive effects of party politics and the resource economy in Canada*

**2017-2018**

**Hardeep Dillon**

**Yulin Hswen, Dsc Candidate, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health**  
*Early Detection of Environmental Hazards in Canada-Harnessing Online Networks for the Protection of Canadian Health*

**Julia Smachylo, Dds Candidate, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University**  
*Incentive-Based Forest Management in Southern Ontario*

**2016-2017**

**Max Gopelrud, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University**  
*The Legislative Implications of Party Development in Canada*

**Yulin Hswen, Dsc Candidate, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health**  
*Early Detection of Environmental Hazards in Canada-Harnessing Online Networks for the Protection of Canadian Health*

**Laura Kremen Adler, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology**  
*Becoming an Artist: Day Jobs and Identity in the Creative Fields*

**Malcolm Lavoie, SJD Candidate, Harvard Law School**  
*Property and Self-Government: The Uses and Limits of Collective Property Rights in Minority Cultural Groups*

**Julia Smachylo, Dds Candidate, Graduate School of Design**  
*Incentive-Based Forest Management in Southern Ontario*

**Hernan Bianchi-Benguria, Mdes, Graduate School of Design**  
*Borders of Extraction: Pascua-Lama Crossborder Mining Mega-Complex*

**Nikhita Obeegadoo, PhD Candidate, Romance Languages and Literature**  
*A Comparative Literary study of Haitian and Mauritian diaspora in Quebec*

**Kate Yoon, Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, the College**  
*Our Home and Native Land? Multiculturalism and National Identity in Canada*

**2015-2016**

**Dani Hallet, PhD Candidate, Department of the History of Science**  
*The history of glacier research in the Canadian Rockies from the 1880s until the present*

**John Hulsey, PhD Candidate, Department of Visual and Environmental Studies**  
*Contemporary art and tactical reclamations of space*

**Ghazal Jafari, Mdes Candidate, Graduate School of Design**  
*Organizational agency of information; and speed and time management in the urban, ecologic, economic, and geographic spaces*

**Eva Payne, PhD Candidate, Program in American Studies**  
*United States involvement in international reform and humanitarian projects with a focus on sexual issues; and religious history of the United States*

**Yvan Prkachin, PhD Candidate, Department of the History of Science**  
*The history of brain research in mid-twentieth-century Montréal*

**2014-2015**

**Matthew A. J. Brown, Mdes, Graduate School of Design**

**Dani Hallet, PhD Candidate, Department of the History of Science**  
*The history of glacier research in the Canadian Rockies from the 1880s until the present*

**John Hulsey, PhD Candidate, Department of Visual and Environmental Studies**  
*Contemporary art and tactical reclamations of space*

**Ghazal Jafari, Mdes Candidate, Graduate School of Design**  
*Organizational agency of information; and speed and time management in the urban, ecologic, economic, and geographic spaces*

**Eva Payne, PhD Candidate, Program in American Studies**  
*United States involvement in international reform and humanitarian projects with a focus on sexual issues; and religious history of the United States*

**Yvan Prkachin, PhD Candidate, Department of the History of Science**  
*The history of brain research in mid-twentieth-century Montréal*

**Luke Willert, PhD Candidate, Department of History**  
*Environmental history and the American West*  
  
**2013-2014**

**Shehnaz Alidina, ScD Candidate in Health Policy Management, School of Public Health**   
*Comparative Study of Patient-Centered Medical Homes in Canada and the United States*

**Aliki Economides, PhD Candidate in the History of Art and Architecture, Graduate School of Design**  
*Twentieth Century Architectural Practice and Pedagogy; Ornament; and Representation*

**Stefan Beljean, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology**  
*Evaluation and Performance Measures and the Sociology of Culture and Organizations*

**Chase Foster, PhD Candidate, Department of Government**  
*Comparative Bureaucratic and Regulatory Practices*

**Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, PhD Candidate in Government and Social Policy, Department of Government**  
*The Political Economy of Social and Economic Policies in the United States and Other Advanced Economies*

**Jennifer Howk, PhD Candidate, Department of Government**  
*The Effects of Political Incorporation on Community Well-Being and Democratic Participation in the Arctic*

**John Hulsey, PhD Candidate, Film and Visual Studies, Department of Visual and Environmental Studies**  
*Contemporary Art and Tactical Reclamations of Space*

**Mark Krass, Undergraduate Research Fellow, Concentration in Social Studies, Harvard College**  
*The Impact of Social Network Characteristics on Creating Generalized and Institutional Trust in Diverse Communities*

**Lucille Mok, PhD Candidate, Department of Music**  
*The Arts and National Identity; Recording Technology; and Musical Portrayals of Landscape and the North*

**Faaiza Rashid, PhD Candidate in Organizational Behavior, Department of Sociology**  
*Interpersonal Dynamics of Multi-Disciplinary, Cross-Cultural Groups and Their Consequences for Individuals and Collective Outcomes*

**2012–2013**

**Aliki Economides, Graduate School of Design**  
*Twentieth-century Architectural Practice and Pedagogy; Ornament; Representation; French-Canadian National Identity*

**Martha Ferede, Graduate School of Education**  
*It Takes a University: The Social and Academic Integration and Experiences of Refugee Youth in Canada*

**Steven J. Hoffman, Harvard Kennedy School**  
*Global Health Decision Making and International Strategies for Addressing Global Health Threats; and Inequalities and Human Rights*

**John Hulsey, Department of Visual and Environmental Studies**  
*Contemporary Art and Tactical Reclamations of Space*

**Lucille Mok, Department of Music**  
*The Arts and National Identity; Recording Technology; and Musical Portrayals of Landscape and the North*

**Kimberly Pernell, Department of Sociology**  
*The Development of Banking Regulation in the United States, Canada, and Spain*

**Faaiza Rashid, Department of Sociology**  
*Interpersonal Dynamics of Multi-Disciplinary, Cross-Cultural Groups and Their Consequences for Individual and Collective Outcomes*

**Noah Guiney, The College**  
*The Relationship Between Popular Music and Cultural Identity Formation in the Iranian Diaspora*

**Joanne Wong, The College**  
*The Effect of Gentrification on Immigrant Settlement Patterns in the Greater Toronto Area*

 **2011–2012**

**Shehnaz Alidina, Harvard School of Public Health**  
*Health Care Delivery Organizations: Canada and the United States*

**Efrat Arbel, Harvard Law School**  
*Contested Belonging: Sovereignty, Identity, and National Membership in Aboriginal, Prisoner, and Refugee Law*

**Martha Ferede, Graduate School of Education**

**Jennifer Langlais, Harvard Law School**  
*Managing Diversity in Wartime Canada and the United States*

**Daniel Nadler, Department of Government**  
*Canadian and United States Models of Federalism*

**Asher Orkaby, Department of Government**

**Steffen Rimner, Department of History**  
*International Organizations, International Protest; European-East Asian and Canadian-American-East Asian Relations and Their History*

**Joshua Specht, Department of History**  
*Transnational Trade: The United States and Canada*

**Tiffanie Ting, Graduate School of Education**

**Christine Hu, The College**  
*Quebecois Sports Culture*

**Casra LaBelle, The College**  
*The Role of Markets and Institutions in Canada's Relative Stability During and After Global Monetary Crises*

**Clare Miller, The College**  
*Influence/Interplay Between National Parks in the United States and Canada, and Gateway Communities*  
  
**2010–2011**

**Efrat Arbel,** **Harvard Law School**  
*Contested Belonging: Sovereignty, Identity, and National Membership in Aboriginal, Prisoner, and Refugee Law*

**Paul Cruickshank,** **Department of the History of Science**

**Martha Ferede,** **Graduate School of Education**

**Daniel Nadler, Department of Government**  
*Education Public Policy: Canada and the United States in Comparative Perspective*

**Vanessa Ogle, Department of History**  
*Transformation of Time During Early Globalization and Canada's Adoption of Standard Time*

**Tiffanie Ting, Graduate School of Education**  
*Art Museums in Canada: Constructing Culture and Identity with Community*

**2009–2010**

**Efrat Arbel, Harvard Law School**  
*Contested Belonging: Sovereignty, Identity, and National Membership in Aboriginal, Prisoner, and Refugee Law*

**Suzanna Challen, Department of Government**  
***I**mmigration Policy: the United States, Canada, and Australia*

**Victor Tan Chen, Harvard Kennedy School**  
*United States and Canada Social Policy*

**Jeffrey Denis, Department of Sociology**  
*Canadian Apartheid: The Making and Unmaking of Aboriginal-Non-Aboriginal Boundaries and Bridges*

**Shelagh McCartney, Graduate School of Design**  
*Transnational and National Migration, Remittances and Urbanization in Canada and Urbanisms of the Informal in Mumbai, Lagos, and Manila*

**Tiffanie Ting, Graduate School of Education**  
*Art Museums in Canada: Constructing Culture and Identity with Community*  
  
**2008–2009**

**Maria Banda, Harvard Law School**  
*Understanding the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) and the Evolution, Interpretation, and Implementation of R2P*

**Efrat Arbel, Harvard Law School**  
*Contested Belonging: Sovereignty, Identity, and National Membership in Aboriginal, Prisoner, and Refugee Law*

**Lydia Nan Bean, Department of Sociology**  
*Evangelical Churches as Sites of Political Socialization in Canada and the United States*

**Jeffrey Denis, Department of Sociology**  
*Canadian Apartheid: The Making and Unmaking of Aboriginal-Non-Aboriginal Boundaries and Bridges*

[**Sarah Dryden-Peterson**](http://www.gse.harvard.edu/directory/faculty/faculty-detail/?fc=80119&flt=d&sub=all)**, Graduate School of Education**  
*Bridging Social Capital Between Immigrants and Long-time Residents in Canada*

**Hillary Kaell, Department of History**  
*Universal Christian and Localized Identity: How Pilgrimage to the Holy Land Acts as Transformative Experience*

**David Lynch, Harvard Kennedy School**  
*Analogies and Attitudes Toward Sovereignty in Quebec*

**Shelagh McCartney, Graduate School of Design**  
*Transnational and National Migration, Remittances and Urbanization in Canada and Urbanisms of the Informal in Mumbai, Lagos, and Manila*

**Daniel Nadler, Department of Government**  
*Education Public Policy: Canada and the United States in Comparative Perspective*

**Tiffanie Ting, Graduate School of Education**  
*Art Museums in Canada: Constructing Culture and Identity with Community*

**Matthieu Bouchard, The College**

**Elizabeth Powers, The College**  
*Immigrant Communities in Toronto*