MIGS GRADUATE FELLOWS
CURRENT GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWS
Aram Adjemian (M.A., History) is writing his master's thesis on the little known discussion of a Canadian mandate over Armenia after World War I. During the summer of 2005, he is completing his archival research in Ottawa.
Lauren Burger (M.A., History) is writing her master's thesis on the meaning of the Berlin memorial to the murdered Jews of Europe (Mahnmal) for the memory of the Holocaust and Nazism in Germany. She will be spending part of the summer of 2005 in Berlin researching her topic. Lauren came to Concordia on a Gold Entrance Fellowship and is the 2005-2006 winner of the Naim Mahlab Fellowship.
Christian DesRoches (Ph.D., History) is writing his doctoral dissertation on the Nixon Administration’s response to the 1972 genocide in Burundi. This project has benefited from his archival research and interviews in the United States, France and Belgium and Canada. Christian holds SSHRC and FQRSC scholarships and teaches the history of U.S. foreign relations.
Marc Drouin (M.A., History) is writing his M.A. thesis on the application of the legal and other definitions of genocide and crimes against humanity to Guatemala in the crucial years, 1981-1983. He completed his third research trip to Guatemala in the summer of 2004. Marc holds a FQRSC fellowship from the Government of Quebec.
Nicolas Gauvin (Ph.D, History) is writing his doctoral dissertation on three major national Holocaust museums--the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, Yad Vashem in Israel, and the Auschwitz Museum in Poland--and issues of national identity in their interpretation of the Holocaust. Nicolas, who has conducted research at all three museums, has just been granted a one-year leave from his job as an exhibitions officer at the Museum of Civilization in Hull, Quebec to complete his doctoral program.
Erin Jessee (Ph.D, Humanities) is a forensic archeologist just beginning her inter-disciplinary doctoral work at Concordia on the convergence of archeology and history in the study of the history of genocide. She is the Fall 2005 winner of two Concordia fellowships, a J.W. McConnell Memorial Graduate Fellowship and the Miriam Roland Entrance Fellowship.
David King (Ph.D., History) is just completing the writing of his doctoral dissertation on the Inuit experience of residential schools in Canada. Major support from the Aboriginal Healing Foundation in Ottawa has funded David's important research.
Samantha Kravitz (M.A., History) is researching the propaganda techniques pioneered by Dr. Josef Goebbels and their relevance to the contrasting and parallel messages embedded in domestic and diasporic Croatian publications during the Yugoslav civil wars. She was the Fall 2004 winner of the David Azrieli Foundation Graduate Fellowship in Holocaust Studies and a History Department Teaching Assistantship.
Richard Pilkington (M.A., History) is writing his master's thesis on the British and American government reactions to the 1971 genocide in East Pakistan/Bangladesh. In the summer of 2005, Richard researched his topic at the British Public Record Office (Kew). Richard is the fall 2005 winner of three fellowships: a J.W. McConnell Memorial Graduate Fellowship, an FQRSC Graduate Fellowship (deferred), and an SSHRC Master's Fellowship. Richard is also the author of the article on the little known genocide suffered by the Zunghar people published in the Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity (Macmillan USA, 2004).
M. Scott Selders (M.A., History) is just beginning his graduate work at Concordia. He will be writing his master's thesis on the 1965 killing in Indonesia of some 500,000 alleged Communists. Scott spent several years in Indonesia with his family. He is the Fall 2005 winner of a Concordia Fellowship and International Student Fee Remission.
FORMER GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWS
(bios will follow)
Brenda Fewster (M.A.)
Michael Innes (M.A.)
Zal Karkaria (M.A.)
Edward Kissi (Ph.D.)
Patrick Reed (M.A.)
Jocelyne A. L. Serveau (M.A.)
James Vandenberg (M.A.)
