{"id":108337,"date":"2026-03-13T11:25:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T15:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=108337"},"modified":"2026-03-13T16:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T20:30:10","slug":"thesis-defences-march-16-to-march-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2026\/03\/thesis-defences-march-16-to-march-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Thesis defences \u2014 March 16 to March 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is a list of thesis defences taking place between Monday, March 16 and Friday, March 20.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Master of Arts in Social Justice and Equity Studies thesis\u00a0defence\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth Anim, a Master of Arts in Social Justice and Equity Studies candidate, will defend the thesis \u201cBeyond Care: Examining How PSW Training in Niagara Region Addresses Interpersonal Ableism and Disablism in Clients Support\u201d on Monday, March 16 from 2 to 4 pm in PLZ 600F.<\/p>\n<p>The examination committee includes Lisa Whittingham, Chair; Maureen Connolly, Supervisor; Erika Katzman, External Examiner (Western University\/King&#8217;s College); Trent Newmeyer, Graduate Program Director; and Chelsea Jones and Leanne Taylor, Committee Members.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PhD in Interdisciplinary Humanities thesis defence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alia Wazzan, a PhD candidate in the Interdisciplinary Humanities program, will defend the thesis \u201cNetflix Feminist Euphoria: Gendered Orientalism and the Age of Platform Imperialism in the Middle East\u201d on Tuesday, March 24 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in PLZ 600F.<\/p>\n<p>The examination committee includes Catherine Hands, Chair; Gale Coskan-Johnson, Supervisor; Neta Gordon, External Examiner (Brock University); Alessandra Renzi, External Examiner (Concordia University); and Christie Milliken and Tamara El-Hoss, Committee Members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is a list of thesis defences taking place between Monday, March 16 and Friday, March 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":101807,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[188,55,37,38],"tags":[384,522,30,4037,128,115],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108337"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108400,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108337\/revisions\/108400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}