Scholarship @ UWindsor

Scholarship @ UWindsor is the institutional repository of the University of Windsor (UWindsor), showcasing and preserving the UWindsor community’s scholarly outputs, as well as items from the Leddy Library’s Archives & Special Collections. Its mission is to disseminate and preserve knowledge created or housed at the University of Windsor.

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Conferences and Conference Proceedings 3304
Papers, presentations and abstracts of conferences held at the University of Windsor, in person and virtually.
Digitized Local Collections 1552
Digitized local items from the collections of the Leddy Library, University of Windsor, and community partners.
Faculties, Departments and Research Units 5991
Open Access Faculty publications, reports and working papers from academic departments at the University of Windsor.
Theses, Dissertations, and Major Papers 12869
Formal graduate original research from the University of Windsor's Masters and Doctoral programs.

Recent Submissions

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Destination of Destruction: Examining Car Hegemony in Urban Areas Through Car Advertisements
(University of Windsor, 2026) Billing, Aidan; Asquith, Kyle
Since the twentieth century, debates in North American cities have centred on the tension between car culture and urban life. Cars have increasingly dominated urban environments, often taking precedence over other modes of transportation. But why did this shift occur? Car hegemony explains this: a cultural dominance that favours cars over alternative modes of transit, creating challenges for city dwellers who depend on diverse mobility options. Despite a global shift in attitudes, car hegemony remains strong in North America, with advertising playing a key role in reinforcing cars' dominance. This prompts the question: How does the depiction of cities in car ads support the values of car hegemony across North America? Through an analysis of car advertisements from 2025-26, which primarily feature urban scenes, I conducted a content analysis to identify recurring themes and visuals that emphasize, reinforce and celebrate car-centric urban life. Findings point to several indicators of car dominance, such as the frequent depiction of parking, minimal representation of other transit modes, promotion of highways, sparse traffic scenes, and positive portrayals of car ownership. These tactics show how car hegemony is continually reinforced.
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The Uncertain Futures of Teaching: Designing Speculative Futures of the Ontario Secondary Schooling System
Damon Guidolin; Finney Cherian
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Connections Between Attention and Memory: Touch and Go
Ayden Wilson; Dr. Lori Buchanan
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Presidential War Powers and Constitutional Ambiguity: The Historical Evolution of Presidential War Powers and the 2026 U.S.-Iran Conflict
(University of Windsor, 2026-10-05) Riggi, Gabriella; Brooks, Stephen
This paper examines the ongoing constitutional ambiguities surrounding the division of war-making power between the president and Congress of the United States. Through the evolution of executive authority and ongoing civil and foreign challenges, presidents have adapted to address such conflicts. Studying historical presidential practices of military power reveals precedents that have shaped the modern balance of war powers between the president and Congress. Using historical institutionalism—specifically the concept of path dependency, which states initial decisions set in place a specifical developmental trajectory—this study analyzes the current conflict between the United States, under the Trump administration, and Iran and how major prior presidential decisions influenced Trump’s military decisions. By looking from the founding period through to the modern era, focusing on Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Roosevelt, Truman, Nixon, and post 9/11 military actions, it provides sufficient evidence to establish the pattern brought about through path dependency. This analysis explores the gradual expansion of presidential military authority during periods of intensive civil and foreign conflict, leading presidents to act in unconstitutional manners as a means of protecting national interests. With a lack of disciplinary measures from Congress through the years, such practices became self-reinforced across each passing presidential term, in which subsequent presidents would increasingly rely upon prior practices to justify their military action. After the effects of the Vietnam War under President Nixon, Congress made its first major step to reinstate its power outlined within Article I of the Constitution. The 1973 War Powers Resolution was established with the intent to limit the president’s ability to start or escalate military conflict, allowing Congress to take part in the decision-making process. However, with such a strong historical pattern set, the Resolution did not employ the outcome it desired. This study compares Trump’s actions toward Iran as a continuation of the established path rather than an isolated incident, demonstrating that historical precedents have great hold, especially in light of the ongoing constitutional ambiguities between the powers of the president and Congress.
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Russian Imperial Governance in the Western Borderlands in the 19th Century: Discovering How Catholic Minorities Fit in the Multiconfessional State
(2026) Kulaga, Anastasia; Maltseva, Elena
The multiconfessional state is a concept that highlights the construction of religious toleration in the Russian Empire. Along the northwestern borderlands in the 19th century, the Lithuanian and Belarusian populations had the highest concentration of Catholics in the region and will be used as case studies in the comparative analysis. Amid a rapidly changing institutional framework for foreign confessions, Catholics were placed within a tolerated religious category in a hierarchy that privileged Eastern Orthodoxy, yet they still faced restrictions, among which were policies on the language of Church instruction stemming from the fears of Polish nationalism. A critical juncture in the heightened tensions between the Russian Empire and the Catholic community was the 1863 Polish Uprising. Russification, therefore, was largely an imperial concept that depended on administrative discretion in the local implementation of imperial laws. These laws were constantly changing with shifts in local leadership, which could promote agendas ranging from repression to accommodation, shaped by political tensions and Catholic community responses. This ultimately led to the 1905 Edict on Religious Toleration, another critical juncture. This research focuses on the concept of the multiconfessional state and its implications for Catholic communities in the western borderlands, and examines the extent of religious toleration granted to Catholics in the 19th-century Russian Empire.