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Michaela Sapielak is a second-year PhD student working under the supervision of Dr. Jeffrey McNairn. Her research interests include nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Canadian political history and biography, as well as women 91ÖÆƬ³§ ’s roles in elite political culture. Her doctoral research examines the spouses of Canadian federal politicians from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries and will consider these women 91ÖÆƬ³§ ’s contributions to their husbands’ political careers, as well as how these women embodied or challenged gender roles in their navigation of political spaces.