{"id":1960,"date":"2025-10-13T18:52:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T22:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychlabs.torontomu.ca\/arcai\/?p=1960"},"modified":"2025-10-13T18:54:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T22:54:57","slug":"katherine-mcguire-successfully-defends-ma-thesis-with-distinction-now-pursuing-phd-studies-%f0%9f%8e%89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychlabs.torontomu.ca\/arcai\/katherine-mcguire-successfully-defends-ma-thesis-with-distinction-now-pursuing-phd-studies-%f0%9f%8e%89\/","title":{"rendered":"Katherine McGuire Successfully Defends MA Thesis with Distinction: Now Pursuing PhD Studies \ud83c\udf89"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1960\" class=\"elementor elementor-1960\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-eeb6336 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"eeb6336\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-c5d4de5\" data-id=\"c5d4de5\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ad191a6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ad191a6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div style=\"color: #222222;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif\">Katherine McGuire (now PhD student), successfully\u00a0defended her MA thesis on August 12th, 2025\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"an1\" style=\"height: 1.2em;width: 1.2em;vertical-align: middle\" src=\"https:\/\/fonts.gstatic.com\/s\/e\/notoemoji\/16.0\/1f389\/32.png\" alt=\"\ud83c\udf89\" data-emoji=\"\ud83c\udf89\" aria-label=\"\ud83c\udf89\" \/>\u00a0She blew the committee away with her written work and the oral defense.\u00a0<\/span><\/div><div style=\"color: #222222;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif\">Thesis title: Negotiating shifting expectations: A qualitative feminist analysis of gender, conflict, and the making of motherhood in Northern Sri Lanka\u00a0<\/span><\/div><div style=\"color: #222222;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div><div style=\"color: #222222;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: small\">See pictures below of Katherine McGuire with her defense committee: Dr. Fiona Thomas (primary supervisor, left) and Dr. Maria Gurevich (external examiner, right). 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