Graduate Student Research Awards
2008
Congratulations to:
Leah Allen
Program in Literature
Vancouver, B.C.
Selected for paper presentation at the 77th annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences May 30 - June 4, 2008. The Congress is run by the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences and is the largest academic gathering in Canada. It brings together 67 scholarly associations and more than 50,000 attendees.
Fiona Barnett
Program in Literature
Vancouver, B.C.
Panel discussant at the 77th annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences May 30 - June 4, 2008.
Catherine (Kate) Bowler
Divinity School
Research project: "The Canadian Prosperity Movement: New Networks in our Home and Native Land."
Her study examines the theological and ministerial connections between Canadian Faith pastors and the wider associative structures of the Faith movement.
Michael Crotty
History
Research project: "Uranium Mining and Native Peoples during the Cold War" looks at ways in which the uranium industry affected the Navajo and the Dene, in the U.S. and Canada, respectively.
Tamara Extian-Babiuk
History
Research project: 'Threshing Machines' Don't Need the Vote: A Longitudianl Study of White Supremacy and Racial Exclusion in Canada"
A methological analysis that links the formation of white supremacist notions of Canadian national identity in both popular discourse and official government policy.
Reena Goldthree
History
Conference travel grant to Toronto, Ontario in June 2008 to attend the "Transnational labour, Transnational Methods" Global Labour History Summer Institute.
Paula Hastings
History
Research project: "Trade, Nation, and the Politics of Sub-Imperialism in the British Empire: The Movement for Canadian-West Indian Union, 1884-1934"
Examination of the movement for a political and commercial union of Canada and the British West Indies from the climax of British imperialism in the late 19th century to the demise of the Canada-West India League of 1934.
Samantha Noel
Art & Art History
Research project: "Carnival is Woman!: Gender, Performance and Power in Contemporary Trinidad Carnival"
Toronto, Ontario
July 29 - August 12, 2008
Will explore how women masqueraders in Caribana are able to manoeuvre in the transnational yet carnivalesque space that Toronto becomes during Caribana and challenges they face in regards to their creative engagements in such diasporic locations.
Robert Penner
History
Research project: The relation of British imperialism, Protestant missions and global commerce in the 19th century. Analysis of the activites of Methodist missionaries in the Hudson's Bay lowlands. Will examine papers held in the Provincial Archives of Manitoba in order to reconstruct the social and cultural milieu of fur trade posts where missionaries worked.
Jacob Remes
History
Research project: "When the State Blows Away: Survival and Organization after Two Progressive-Era Urban Disasters." His project examines the immediate aftermath of disasters in the Canada-US. borderlands: a conflagration in Salem, MA in 1914, which made thousands of French-Canadian workers homeless; and the Halifax Explosion of 1917, which flattened a quarter of the city.
Will access documents at the Library and Archives Canada in Ottawa.
Kristin Wintersteen
History
Research project: "Fishworkers in the global maritime sector: Exploring the contours of transnational labor." Will attend the University of Toronto Summer Institute in June. Her work examines trade and labor networks that criss-cross the global marketplace. Seeks to broaden discussions surrounding maritime labor, international trade flows, and the challenge of the transnational.
Summer French Language Immersion Awards
Cynthia Greenlee-Donnell
History
Deanna Rogers
History
Alfredo Riviera
Art & Art History
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