Research and scholarship

Canada Research Chairs

Dr. Kim Anderson

Kim Anderson

Dr. Kim Anderson, CRC in Storying Indigenous Relational Futures, University of Guelph.

Dr. Talena Atfield

Talena Atfield

Dr. Talena Atfield, CRC in Tentewatenikonhra'khánion (We Will Put Our Minds Together), University of Waterloo.

Dr. Lianne Leddy

Lianne Leddy

Dr. Lianne Leddy, CRC in Indigenous Histories and Historical Practice in Canada, Wilfrid Laurier University.

Scotland-Canada Academic Partnership

Four people in front of Canadian and Scottish flags

Group photo (from left to right), John Devine, LVO, OBE, Head of the Scottish Government Office in Canada, Roslyn Potter, PhD Candidate, Scottish Literature, University of Glasgow (Visiting Doctoral Researcher, University of Guelph), Persephone Seale, PhD candidate, History, University of Guelph, Prof. Kevin James, Scottish Studies Foundation Chair, University of Guelph.

The Scotland-Canada Academic Partnership (S-CAP) is a partnership between the Centre for Scottish Studies (CSS) based in the History Department at the University of Guelph, and the Scottish Government Office in Canada (SG Canada).

Officially launched on 12 September 2024 at the University of Guelph, S-CAP aims to:

  1. Promote communication between scholars in Canada and Scotland with mutual research interests
  2. Highlight their research to the wider community
  3. Bring them into closer contact to nurture new research agendas, across a broad range of disciplines and domains.

For more information, see the S-CAP website or contact scottish@uoguelph.ca.

The inaugural lecture was given on 10 September 2025 by Professor Robert Dunbar of Edinburgh University entitled, "Gaelic in Scotland, Gaelic in Canada: Challenges, Prospects, Connections." The lecture was generously supported by the Scottish Government in Canada.

S-Cap: Scotland-Canada Academic Partnership logo

Research stories

Catherine Ramey's Research Story from Angola

Catherine Ramey, PhD History candidate at Waterloo tells her story of her PhD research and teaching work in Angola in this YouTube video.


Dr. Susan Roy's research into Indigenous/Non-Indigenous Relationships

Jessica Silvey and Dr. Susan Roy stand in front of Transformer Stone, shíshálh territory.

Jessica Silvey and Dr. Susan Roy by Transformer Stone, shíshálh territory.

Research funding

Social Science and Humanities Research Council

Below are listed some of the most recent research funding faculty and students received, that is available from the SSHRC website. It only includes Tri-U members who are principal investigators. Projects may be multi-year.

Student Projects

Name University Project Title Type of Grant Fiscal Year
Lee Barich University of Waterloo Modernity, Decay, and Dysfunction: A Comparative History of East and West Berlin Canada Graduate Scholarship - Doctoral 2024-25
Kess Carpenter Wilfrid Laurier University Politics & Pleasure: Battles Over Pornography in 1980s America Doctoral Fellowship 2024
Brenna L. Clark University of Guelph Reconstructing the Late Medieval Parchment Industry and Trade Networks in the Orkney and Shetland Islands, 1300-1600 Canada Graduate Scholarship - Doctoral 2024-25
Mallory Davies University of Waterloo 'Schools In': Teen Motherhood in Canadian Education, 1970-Present Doctoral Fellowship 2024
Matthew Edwards University of Guelph Sexuality, gender and pedagogical discourse in Canadian psychology classrooms, 1918-1979 Doctoral Fellowship 2024
Aly Firth Wilfrid Laurier University Patriotic Drag: Breaking Away from Gender Norms in First World War Canadian Society Canada Graduate Scholarships Program - Masters 2024
Megan Gamble University of Guelph Authority and Agency: Covenanting Women and Religious & National Identity Canada Graduate Scholarships Program - Masters

2024

Christian Haworth Wilfrid Laurier University Grief, Competition, and Exchange in Canadian Protestantism and Spiritualism during the First World War Canada Graduate Scholarships Program - Masters 2024
Kelly Hughes University of Guelph

Where Stories Come To Dwell: A Study and Gathering of Vernacular Artefacts from 1870 to the Present

Canada Graduate Scholarships Program - Masters 2024
Lydia Kinasewich University of Guelph Promoting and Regulating Milk as a 'Perfect' Health Food in Canada; 1920-1960 Canada Graduate Scholarships Program - Masters 2024
Alicia Koepke University of Waterloo Memory and Remembrance of the Holocaust in Germany Canada Graduate Scholarships Program - Masters 2024
Catherine E. Ramey University of Waterloo A New Womanhood: The Gendering of Canadian Missionary Education in Central Angola, 1879-1925 Canada Graduate Scholarship - Doctoral 2024-25
Persephone E. Seale University of Guelph Liminal Bodies: Exploring Infanticide in Seventeenth-Century Scotland Doctoral Fellowship 2024-25
Elizabeth Spence Wilfrid Laurier University The "Great White North": Northern Frontier Mythology and Cold War Canadian Identity Creation Canada Graduate Scholarships Program - Masters 2024-25
Sara Wilmshurst University of Guelph Medical experimentation, health, and colonialism at a Saskatchewan residential school Canada Graduate Scholarship - Doctoral 2024-25
Vera Zoricic University of Waterloo Divergent Memories: Digital History and the Black Freedom Struggles in Canada and the United States, 1960-2020 Canada Graduate Scholarship - Doctoral 2024-25

Faculty Projects

Name University Project Title Type of Grant Fiscal Year
Kim Anderson University of Guelph Indigenous Relationality and Storied Practice Canada Research Chairs 2024-25
Kim Anderson University of Guelph Storying Indigenous Relational Futures Canada Research Chairs 2024-25
Talena Atfield University of Waterloo Tentewatenikonhra'khánion (We Will Put Our Minds Together) Canada Research Chairs 2024-25
Katherine Bruce-Lockhart University of Waterloo Beyond the Mandela Rules: Global Governance, Prisoners' Rights, and "Universal" Prison Rules from the 19th-21st Centuries Insight Development Grant 2024-25
Catherine L. Carstairs University of Guelph To your health!: Drinking in Canada, 1970-Present Insight Grant 2024-25
Daniel P. Gorman University of Waterloo Freedom of Expression and PEN International, 1921-1970 Insight Grant 2024-25
Daniel P. Gorman University of Waterloo Global Governance, Trust and Democratic Engagement in Past and Present

Trans-Atlantic Platform Democracy, Governance and Trust

2024-25
Jeff Grischow Wilfrid Laurier University An Oral History of Deafness in Ghana: Stigma, Resilience and Development Insight Grant 2024-25
Jeff Grischow Wilfrid Laurier University

Climate Change, Agriculture and Disability in Ghana: A Documentary Film Premiere and Workshop

Connection Grant 2024-25
Jeff Grischow Wilfrid Laurier University Climate change, agriculture and disability in Ghana: capturing lived experiences of Ghanaian elders through community videography Partnership Engage Grant 2024-25
Han, Christina Wilfrid Laurier University Discovering a World of Everyday Poetic Networks: A Multilingual Linked Open Data Archive of Classical Korean Poetry Talks Insight Development Grant 2024-25
James, Kevin University of Guelph Co-constructing the Many Lives of a Country House: Duff House, Scotland Partnership Engage Grant 2024-25
Lianne C. Leddy Wilfrid Laurier University Indigenous Histories and Historical Practice in Canada Canada Research Chairs 2024-25
Greta Kroeker University of Waterloo The Artemisia Project: Rape in Early Modern Europe Insight Grant 2024-25
Ian Milligan University of Waterloo Digital Terror: The September 11th, 2001 Attacks Online Insight Grant 2024-25
Susan Nance University of Guelph Greyhound Adoption and the Birth of the Multispecies Family: Finding an Oral History Methodology Insight Development Grant 2024-25
Chris L. Nighman Wilfrid Laurier University The Digital Auctores Project Insight Grant 2024-25
Susan Roy University of Waterloo Dancers for life: HIV/AIDS and dance in Canada Partnership Development Grants (Insight) 2024-25
Cathryn Spence University of Guelph Neighbours and Neighbourliness in Early Modern Edinburgh Insight Grant 2024-25