Twenty-Six McGill Arts Professors Recipients of SSHRC Insight Grants

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. 

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. 

Recipients of Insight Grants: 

Alex Ketchum (Institute of Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies):  Digital Queers, TechnoDykes, Hi-Tech Gays, and Lavender Bytes: A History of Canadian, American, and British LGBTQ+ Cyber Activism 1992-Present 

Shelley Clark (Department of Sociology): Rural Lives in Canada: A Focus on Children, Youth, and Families.  

Allan Hepburn (Department of English): Mid-Century Melodrama: Identity, Excess, and Political Change in British Fiction. 

Jonathan Sterne (Department of Art History & Communication): Disabling Sonic Technologies  

David Davies (Department of Philosophy): Fiction, Imagining, and Reality: A Defense of a Fictive Utterance Account of Fictionality  

Travis Bruce (Department of History and Classical Studies): Medieval Maritime Violence and the Mediterranean Spiritual Economy, 750-1300 

William Roberts (Department of Political Science): The Radical Politics of Freedom  

Éric Bélanger (Department of Political Science): Electing to Identify: Independence Referendums and Territorial Identity in Quebec and Scotland  

Meghan Clayards and Morgan Sonderegger (Department of Linguistics): Towards a robust model of individual differences in context effects in speech perception  

Markus Poschke and Fabian Lange (Department of Economics): Labor market types, skills, and macroeconomic outcomes 

Lyudmilla Parts ( Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures): "How to write after Bucha?" Anti-War Literature of Witnessing  

Ian Gold (Department of Philosophy): Seeing Difference: "Reading the Minds" of Racialized Faces  

Gloria Bell (Department of Art History and Communication Studies): Global Indigenous Arts in Unexpected Places  

Mathieu Chemin (Department of Economics): Rule of Law Reforms and Economic Development: Evidence from Randomized and Natural Experiments in Kenya 

Alanna Thain (Department of English): Senses of Sleep: Contemporary Practices, Technologies and Ecologies of Sleep Media  

 

Recipients of Insight Development Grants: 

Mathieu Chemin (Departent of Economics): Can Artificial Intelligence Increase Access to Justice? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Kenya  

Jacob Blanc (Department of History and Classical Studies): A Global History of Never Again  

Richard So (Department of English): Literature in the Age of Artificial Intelligence  

Maria Popova (Department of Political Science): "We’ll fix the country!": Foreign-educated reformers in Eastern European democracies 

Amy Janzwood (Department of Political Science): “The Contentious Politics of Decarbonization in Canada” 

Narendra Subramanian (Department of Political Science): Populism and Deeply Disadvantaged Ethno-Racial Groups: U.S. and Indian Experiences  

Michael Blome-Tillmann (Department of Philosophy): “Unraveling the Paradox: The Gatecrasher Phenomenon and Standards of Proof in Legal Epistemology”  

Daniel Schwartz (Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures): Out of Synch: Memory and the Archive Film  

James Crippen (Department of Linguistics): Haa yoo xh’atángi kei ghatulayeixhít: In order to build up our language  

Lynn Kozak (Department of History and Classical Studies): Horrible Tragedies 

 

 

 

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