{"id":91,"date":"2025-10-15T13:40:37","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T17:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.nipissingu.ca\/michelap\/?page_id=91"},"modified":"2025-10-15T13:44:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T17:44:56","slug":"graduate-student-supervision","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.nipissingu.ca\/michelap\/graduate-student-supervision\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduate Student Supervision"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><em>Masters <\/em><\/strong><em>(Completed)<\/em><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Shannan Mackenzie, Major Research Paper,<em> Our true stories come alive when we share stories: The value of autobiographical literacy journeys<\/em> (Second Reader: Dr. John Allison), April 2013<\/li>\n<li>Janis Rock, Major Research Paper, <em>Bridging the gap: Socio-contextualizing language in the school curriculum <\/em>\u00a0(Second Reader: Dr. Callie Mady), April 2014<\/li>\n<li>Rena Henrickson, Major Research Paper, <em>Partner reading responses: A transactional skills approach to improve question answering <\/em>(Examination Committee: Second Reader), Fall 2014<\/li>\n<li>Marianne Vander Dussen, Thesis, <em>Telling stories: Narrative pathways to character, empathy and belonging<\/em> (Second Reader: Dr. Terry Campbell), July 2016 (OGS funded student). <em>President\u2019s Gold Medal.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Sheri Leeder, Major Research Paper, <em>Building relationships with parents of children with special needs<\/em> (Second Reader: Dr. Glynn Sharpe), September 2016<\/li>\n<li>Amanda Coombs, Major Research Paper, <em>Exploration of literacy, imagination, and creativity <\/em>(Second Reader: Dr. Kathy Mantas), May 2017<\/li>\n<li>Kevin Wilcox, Thesis, <em>Speech-to-text technology and education: Pre-service teachers\u2019 collaborative professional development as case study <\/em>(Second Reader: Dr. Timothy Sibbald), August 2017 (OGS funded student)<\/li>\n<li>Sarah Donaldson, Thesis<em>, Reading wor(l)ds: Exploring social justice in an elementary classroom,<\/em> (Second Reader: Dr. Terry Campbell), April 2020. <em>President\u2019s Gold Medal.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Marrett Scott, Major Research Paper, <em>Beyond turning the pages: A journey in literacy<\/em> (Second Reader: Dr. Terry Campbell), August 2020.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong><em>PhD <\/em><\/strong><em>(Completed)<\/em><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>BettyAnn Martin, <em>Narratives of becoming:<\/em> <em>Maternal identity as an evolving intertextual mosaic <\/em>(Supervisor; Committee Members: Dr. Carole Richardson, Dr. Andrea Reilly (York)); February 2017<\/li>\n<li>Sunaina Sharma, <em>The potential for technology to engage: An examination of how digital technology can engage students in the secondary classroom<\/em> (Supervisor; Committee Members: Dr. Terry Campbell, Dr. David Hutchison (Brock)); June 2018<\/li>\n<li>Sarah Driessens, <em>Storytelling and ethnography: Critical literacy in the classroom. <\/em>(Supervisor; Committee Members: Dr. Terry Campbell, Dr. Tara-Lynn Scheffel, Dr. Janette Hughes (UOIT)); July 2018 (OGS funded student)<\/li>\n<li>Melissa Corrente, <em>Exploring the personal and professional realities of parenthood and doctoral studies <\/em>(Supervisor; Committee Members: Dr. Maria Cantalini-Williams, Dr. Darlene Ciuffetelli-Parker (Brock)); April 2020<\/li>\n<li>Susan Picard, <em>An exploration of how Dabrowski\u2019s theory of emotional development informs how we see our selves and our inclusive learning spaces. <\/em>(Supervisor; Committee Members: Dr. Warnie Richardson, Dr. Susan Elliott-Johns, Dr. Janneke Frank); June 2020, <em>President\u2019s Gold Medal.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Sarah Hunter, <em>Post-secondary student success.<\/em> (Supervisor; Committee Members: Dr. Warnie Richardson, Dr. Hilary Brown (Brock)); September 2020.<\/li>\n<li>Dany Dias, \u201c<em>Les vraies couleurs du monde\u201d: Adolescent Learners\u2019 Worldviews Explored Through Multicultural Literature <\/em>(Examination Committee: Internal Examiner); May 2021<\/li>\n<li>Allison Tucker, <em>Identity as pedagogy: Locating the shadows in the sacred space between<\/em> (Supervisory Committee Member); November 2021<\/li>\n<li>Randi Ray, <em>Leadership in First Nations Communities<\/em> (Co-Supervisor with Dr. Cindy Peltier; Committee Members: Dr. Tara-Lynn Scheffel; Dr. Kathy Absolon, Wilfrid Laurier; Dr. Brock Pitawanakwat, University of Sudbury) (OGS and Indigenous Mentorship Funded Student); January 2023.<\/li>\n<li>Erin Horvath, Social entrepreneurship education. (Supervisor; Committee Members: Dr. Cindy Peltier, Dr. Carole Richardson, Dr. Nada Basir (University of Waterloo)); (SSHRC funded student); July 2023<\/li>\n<li>Balan Moorthy, <em>Living and writing into being- truth and reconciliation. The experiences of four Indigenous women and two allies.<\/em> (Supervisor; Committee Members: Dr. Mike Degagne; Dr. Susan Elliott-Johns; Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook, University of Ottawa); January 2024.<\/li>\n<li>Nicole Gardner<strong>, <\/strong><em>Exploring the development of identity as a lifelong and lifewide learner in the pursuit of an interest in permaculture. <\/em>(Supervisor; Committee Members: Dr. Susan Elliott-Johns, Dr. Astrid Steele); March 2025.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong><em>PhD <\/em><\/strong><em>(In Progress)<\/em><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Dina Moati, <em>Betwixt and between the expert and the beginner: How part-time professors at Ontario colleges experience transitioning from being an experienced practitioner in their discipline to becoming a beginning professor. <\/em>(Supervisor; Committee Members: Dr. Callie Mady; Dr. Hilary Brown, Brock); anticipated defence prior to August 2025.<\/li>\n<li>Michelle McMartin, <em>From the gaze of compliance to the radical space of possibility. <\/em>(Co-Supervisor with Dr. Terry Campbell; Committee Members: Dr. Tara-Lynn Scheffel,. Laurie); anticipated defence prior to August 2025.<\/li>\n<li>Lynn Cummings, <em>Performance-based funding in Ontario colleges.<\/em> (Supervisor; Committee Members: Dr. Terry Campbell; Dr. David Zarifa); data collection complete; first draft in preparation \u2013 anticipated defence prior to August 2025<\/li>\n<li>Sarah Boddy, <em>Art club: An arts-based exploration of visual art, ecology, and community in an Ontario public school. <\/em>(Supervisor; Committee Members: Dr. Kathy Mantas, Dr. Blaine Hatt); data gathering in process<\/li>\n<li>Robyn Drodge, <em>Reading and writing as resilience<\/em> (Supervisor; Committee Members: Dr. Terry Campbell; Dr. Carlo Ricci; Dr. Michael Doxtater, TMU); proposal and ethics in process<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Graduate Student Research Assistants<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Erin Rowe<\/li>\n<li>Kathryn Aspin<\/li>\n<li>Andrea Kozuskanich<\/li>\n<li>Marianne Vander Dussen<\/li>\n<li>Joanne Kmiec (PhD)<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Undergraduate Student Research Assistant<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Kristopher Brown<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Masters (Completed) Shannan Mackenzie, Major Research Paper, Our true stories come alive when we share stories: The value of autobiographical literacy journeys (Second Reader: Dr. John Allison), April 2013 Janis Rock, Major Research Paper, Bridging the gap: Socio-contextualizing language in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.nipissingu.ca\/michelap\/graduate-student-supervision\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":540,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-91","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.nipissingu.ca\/michelap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.nipissingu.ca\/michelap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.nipissingu.ca\/michelap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.nipissingu.ca\/michelap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/540"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.nipissingu.ca\/michelap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.nipissingu.ca\/michelap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/91\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.nipissingu.ca\/michelap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/91\/revisions\/97"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.nipissingu.ca\/michelap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}