Working Papers Series
In this series we showcase some of the current research of our very talented doctoral candidates. The Department has over 120 PhD students whose work spans the globe. Here is a sample.
“Gargano Comes to Rome: A Revision of Castel Sant’Angelo’s Historical Origins”
© Louis Shwartz 2011
Email: louis.shwartz@utoronto.ca
Louis Shwartz is a PhD candidate, working under the direction of Professor Joe Goering, in medieval history. He holds a BA from Vanderbilt University and an MA from Western Michigan University (Medieval Institute). His primary interests include thirteenth-century universities (especially Paris), mendicant orders, scholasticism, and the history of angels/angelology. His dissertation is entitled “The Age of Angels: c. 1150-1300 The Spirits’ Dominance of Medieval Intellectual Culture.” He is currently also preparing an edition of Ferrarius Catalanus’s unedited second Quodlibetum and a study of this text. Ferrarius was a star student of Thomas Aquinas and succeeded him as one of the Dominican masters at Paris.
“Becoming American and Canadian: Iraqi Community Activism and Claims to Citizenship in Toronto and Detroit, 1970-2000”
© Nadia Lewis 2011
Email:nadia.lewis@utoronto.ca
Nadia Lewis holds a BA from the University of Calgary and an MA from Queen’s University. She is currently a senior PhD candidate under the supervision of Professor Mark McGowan. Nadia’s research examines transnational networks of displaced Iraqi women in Canada and the U.S. Her work focuses on the role of Iraqi women in resettlement, and the ways in which ethno-religious distinctions inform the construction of Iraqi communities and identities in North America. She is the winner of the University of Toronto’s prestigious Vivienne Poy Chancellor’s Fellowship.