Wednesday, November 15, 2017
Congratulations to researchers in the Faculty of Arts who received Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) grants this year. While this news is not actually new internally, the federal government just made the formal announcement of this latest round of grants. So now we have even more to shout out about SSHRC. Read on for the fascinating range of research projects and their principal investigators.
Partnership Development Grant
- Susan Roy (Department of History): Ayamoowin ijwa paapoowin - Songs in the Key of Cree - Laughter and Language Revitalization in Canada ($200,000)
Insight Grants
- Ramona Bobocel (Department of Psychology): Expanding the Scope of Organization Justice Research: The Role of Construal ($229,250)
- Altay Coskun (Department of Classical Studies): ETHNIC Identities and Diplomatic Affiliations of the Bosporan Kingdom ($166,708)
- Nicolas Gauthier (Department of French Studies): Le Rez-de-chaussée: répertoire en ligne du roman-feuilleton français au XIXe siècle ($122,775)
- Allison Kelly (Department of Psychology): From Competition to Caregiving: A Novel Strategy to Reduce Appearance Comparisons and Body Dissatisfaction ($133,302)
- Ann Marie Rasmussen (Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies): VISUAL Communication and Community Formation in the Middle Ages: Medieval Badges ($279,845)
- Uzma Rehman (Department of Psychology): Examining Sexual Communication Through the Process Model of Emotion Regulation ($134,500)
- Sharon Roberts (Social Development Studies, Renison University College): Fantasy, (Trans) Identity, and Stigma: A Cross-Cultural Examination of the Functionality of Fantasy ($259,685)
- John Sbardellati (Department of History): A Double-Edged Sword: Confronting the Colour Line in American Cold War Culture ($73,883)
- Abigail Scholer (Department of Psychology): Metamotivation: Antecedents and Consequences of Flexibly Regulating Motivation ($182,376)
- Winfried Siemerling (Department of English Language and Literature): Call and Responsibility: The Transformative Reception Aesthetics of Black Canadian Literature, Film, and Music ($107,876)
Insight Development Grants
- Jackie Feke (Department of Philosophy): Law and Nature in Ancient Greek Mathematics ($58,198)
- Alysia Kolentsis (St. Jerome’s University – Department of English): Shakespeare's Changing Language: Early Modern English and Linguistic Innovation ($20,940)
- Colin Macleod (Department of Psychology): Attention (and inattention) contagion in the classroom ($74,453)
- Susan Cadell (Renison – School of Social Work): Memorial Tattoos: Inking the Bond ($71,093)
- Arshi Shaikh (Renison – Social Development Studies): Animal hoarding: Perspectives of individuals who hoard animals and their family members ($46,178)
- Winfried Siemerling (Department of English Language and Literature): Nonsimultaneity and Incomplete Time: From Bloch, Benjamin, and the Frankfurt School to Contemporary Black Critique ($43,874)
- Jessica Thompson (Department of Fine Arts): Borderline ($30,765)
- Jennifer Whitson (Department of Sociology and Legal Studies): Technology, Surveillance and Selective Exposure: The Paradox of Social Media and Queer Activism ($54,199)