On September 13, 2024, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) announced the recipients of the 2024 Insight Grants and Insight Development Grants. Twenty-six faculty members and researchers from the Faculty of Arts are among the recipients.听
The Insight Grants support research proposed by emerging and established scholars for research initiatives of two to five years, and the Insight Development Grants support research in its initial stages, mainly short-term research projects.听
Recipients of Insight Grants:听
Alex Ketchum (Institute of Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies): 听Digital Queers, TechnoDykes, Hi-Tech Gays, and Lavender Bytes: A History of Canadian, American, and British LGBTQ+ Cyber Activism 1992-Present听
Shelley Clark (Department of Sociology): Rural Lives in Canada: A Focus on Children, Youth, and Families. 听
Allan Hepburn (Department of English): Mid-Century Melodrama: Identity, Excess, and Political Change in British Fiction.听
Jonathan Sterne (Department of Art History & Communication): Disabling Sonic Technologies听听
David Davies (Department of Philosophy): Fiction, Imagining, and Reality: A Defense of a Fictive Utterance Account of Fictionality听听
Travis Bruce (Department of History and Classical Studies): Medieval Maritime Violence and the Mediterranean Spiritual Economy, 750-1300听
William Roberts (Department of Political Science): The Radical Politics of Freedom听听
脡ric B茅langer (Department of Political Science): Electing to Identify: Independence Referendums and Territorial Identity in Quebec and Scotland听听
Meghan Clayards and Morgan Sonderegger (Department of Linguistics): Towards a robust model of individual differences in context effects in speech perception听听
Markus Poschke and Fabian Lange (Department of Economics): Labor market types, skills, and macroeconomic outcomes听
Lyudmilla Parts ( Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures): "How to write after Bucha?" Anti-War Literature of Witnessing听听
Ian Gold (Department of Philosophy): Seeing Difference: "Reading the Minds" of Racialized Faces听听
Gloria Bell (Department of Art History and Communication Studies): Global Indigenous Arts in Unexpected Places听听
Mathieu Chemin (Department of Economics): Rule of Law Reforms and Economic Development: Evidence from Randomized and Natural Experiments in Kenya听
Alanna Thain (Department of English): Senses of Sleep: Contemporary Practices, Technologies and Ecologies of Sleep Media听听
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Recipients of Insight Development Grants:听
Mathieu Chemin (Departent of Economics): Can Artificial Intelligence Increase Access to Justice? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Kenya听听
Jacob Blanc (Department of History and Classical Studies): A Global History of Never Again听听
Richard So (Department of English): Literature in the Age of Artificial Intelligence听听
Maria Popova (Department of Political Science): "We鈥檒l fix the country!": Foreign-educated reformers in Eastern European democracies听
Amy Janzwood (Department of Political Science):听鈥淭he Contentious Politics of Decarbonization in Canada鈥澨�
Narendra Subramanian (Department of Political Science): Populism and Deeply Disadvantaged Ethno-Racial Groups: U.S. and Indian Experiences听听
Michael Blome-Tillmann (Department of Philosophy): 鈥淯nraveling the Paradox: The Gatecrasher Phenomenon and Standards of Proof in Legal Epistemology鈥澨�
Daniel Schwartz (Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures): Out of Synch: Memory and the Archive Film听听
James Crippen (Department of Linguistics): Haa yoo xh鈥檃t谩ngi kei ghatulayeixh铆t: In order to build up our language听听
Lynn Kozak (Department of History and Classical Studies): Horrible Tragedies听
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