The Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) recently announced the recipients of its 2024 SSHRC Insight Grants awarding $127.6 million in funding to 693 research projects from institutions across Canada.
27 McGill Arts professors are among the recipients, having received over $2 million in funding.
The recipients of the 2024 SSHRC Insight grants are:
- Yuriko Furuhata, Department of East Asian Studies: “Visual Archives of the Anthropocene and Colonialism”
- T.V. Paul, Department of Political Science, “Status Warriors: Explaining Great Power Violence in the World’s Regions”
- Stephanie Leary, Department of Philosophy, “A Metaphysics-First Approach to Metaethics”
- Robert Wisnovsky, Institute of Islamic Studies, “The modern rebirth of a medieval Arabic logic text: Muhammad ‘Abduh’s *Glosses* on Sâwî’s Logical Insights”
- Kristin Voigt, Department of Philosophy, “Justice, the state, and the personal sphere”
- Guojun Wang, Department of East Asian Studies, “Body, Knowledge and Justice in the Forensic Drama of Early Modern China”
- Megan Bradley, Department of Political Science and Institute for the Study of International Development, “Mobilizing in displacement: Internally displaced persons (IDPs) as governance actors”
- Martina Martinović, Department of Linguistics, “The canonical and non-canonical properties of the left periphery in three West African languages”
- Arash Abizadeh, Department of Political Science, “Power, Subjection, and Democracy”
- Catherine Lu, Department of Political Science, “Tragic Progress”
- Chris Howard and Ian Gold, Department of Philosophy, “Unravelling the Puzzle of Addiction”
- Rohan Dutta, Department of Economics, “Strategic commitment bargaining: commitment length, uncertainty and coalitions”
- Alicia Boatswain-Kyte, School of Social Work, “Visualizing Our Individual and Collective Experiences (VOICE): Black Youth Perspectives in Child Welfare”
The recipients of the 2024 SSHRC Insight Development grants are:
- Francesco Amodio, Department of Economics, “The Other China Shock: Canada’s Fish Exports and Production Network Spillovers”
- Eran Shor, Department of Sociology, “Pornography as Sex Education: What do Viewers Say?”
- Pedro Monaville, Department of History and Classical Studies, “Postcolonial Abstractions: Art, Science, and Extraction in Modern Congo”
- Elaine Weiner, Department of Sociology, “Sharing the Caring: Post-Separation Parenting and Gender Equality”
- Ian Gold and Jai Shah, Department of Philosophy, “A Pilot Study of the Anomalous Experience Hypothesis of Delusion Formation” 2 years, $39,697
- Aalekhya Malladi, School of Religious Studies, “Devotion and Asceticism in 18th c. South India”
- Rebekah Willson, School of Information Studies, “Transitioning into academic libraries: The information behaviour of library students and early career librarians”
- David Porter, Department of History and Classical Studies, “Empire of Translation: Multilingualism and Linguistic Experts in the Administration of the Qing Dynasty”
- Ara Osterweil, Department of English, “Queer Home Movies: Experimental Filmmakers and their Mothers”
- Régine Debrosse, School of Social Work, “Roots & Dreams: Connecting ethnic identities and future ambitions of BIPOC/immigrant youths”
- Miranda Hickman and Jelena Ristic, Department of English, “Forms of Deep Attention: Bridging Between Neuroscientific and Literary Perspectives”
- Tania Islas Weinstein, Department of Political Science, “Building Militarization: Infrastructure and Communication Strategies in Mexico”
- Alyssa Bader, Department of Anthropology, “A community collaborative approach to paleodietary modeling in the Pacific Northwest Coast”
- Sarah Tarshis, School of Social Work, “Building a simulation-based model of trauma-informed practice with survivors of intimate partner violence who are immigrants”