John Doyle-Raso

John Doyle-Raso

Dissertation

John graduated from McMaster University in 2012 majoring in peace studies and sociology, and a minor in biology. He wrote his senior thesis on the effects of government, civil society, and market institutions in shaping individual conservation behaviours in Canada. He also designed and conducted research in rural Tanzania, gathering and analyzing oral histories regarding the village-level government of water delivery services, and he has worked at the Toronto office of Greenpeace Canada as a door-to-door fundraiser, and as the head trainer thereof. His master’s thesis addressed the role of development experts within the British imperial administration in managing the use of Lake Victoria in the 1950s.