The following is a list of thesis defences taking place virtually from Monday, Aug. 9 to Friday, Aug. 13.

Master of Arts in Geography thesis defence

Julia Hamill, a Master of Arts in Geography candidate, will defend her thesis “‘Molida’, That’s Shimshali Food: Modernization, Mobility, Food Talk, and the Constitution of Identity in Shimshal, Pakistan” on Wednesday, August 11 at 9:30 a.m. via video conference.

The examination committee includes Dawn Zinga, Chair; David Butz, Supervisor; Hasan Karrar, External Examiner (Associate Professor, Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences, LUMS, Lahore, Pakistan); Jeff Boggs, Graduate Program Director; and Mike Ripmeester and Nancy Cook, Committee Members.