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SSHRC awards Mac Social Sciences researchers over $900,000 in Insight Grants
Eight research projects from McMaster’s Faculty of Social Sciences have been awarded a total of $903,168 in funding through the federal government’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council’s Development Grants.
Jul 17, 2019
SSHRC awarded 8 McMaster Social Sciences researchers a total of $903,168 in Insight Grants, which support excellence in research that addresses complex issues pertaining to individuals and societies.
The award recipients and their research projects are:
- Shanti Morell-Hart, Anthropology
Ancient Maya agricultural practices: landscape management, ecological sustainability, and food resilience in the kingdom of Sak Tz'i', Chiapas, Mexico - James Dunn, Health, Aging & Society, Director of McMaster Institute for Healthier Environments
Visual Attributes of Neighbourhoods and Early Child Development - Saara Greene, Social Work
Women, Art and Cannabis - Neil McLaughlin, Sociology
Scapegoating George Soros and the contradictions of activist philanthropy: conspiracy theories in the United States, Hungary, Poland and Canada - Svetlana Demidova, Economics
The impact of the third-country effect on tariffs and gains from trade - Chelsea Gabel, Health, Aging & Society, Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Well-Being, Community Engagement, and Innovation
We Know Who We Are: Intergenerational Understandings of Métis Identity and Well-Being Using Digital Storytelling
- Marshall J. Beier, Political Science
Children, rights, and security: global performatives, local practices
- Catherine Frost, Political Science
Speech, Declarations of Independence, and the Paradox of Constituent Power