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