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2012-10-15

DeBernardi, Jean

SSHRC Awarded IG 2013: This program of research explores the revival of tea culture and tea arts in contemporary China and promotion of that culture through commerce, education, museum exhibits, invented rituals, and the global network of Confucius Institutes. The study of tea culture as a form...

2012-01-30

Supernant, Kisha

SSHRC Awarded IDG 2012: Our pilot project will address the question of Métis territory and identity via the remains of Métis landscapes in the archaeological record, particularly the material culture and spatial arrangements of known over-wintering sites in the Canadian Parklands, and...

2016-02-01

Moore, Sarah

SSHRC Awarded IDG 2016: Spending on experiential purchases, such as concerts or travel, has been shown to increase consumers' happiness and well-being, while spending on material items, such as shoes or jewellery, can subject consumers to stigma and loneliness. Overall, existing research suggests...

2014-11-01

Tomski, Terry

SSHRC Awarded CG 2015: "Memory Economies" will be a two-day symposium, hosted by the University of Alberta's Departments of English & Film Studies and Women's & Gender Studies on September 4-5, 2015. It is designed to contribute new concepts and theorizations to the multidisciplinary field of...

2018-02-01

Gareau, Paul

SSHRC IDG Awarded 2018: The research seeks to disrupt settler, colonial, race-based understandings of the Métis-as-mixed and as victims of fragmented social geographies, by applying a place-based analysis of Métis peoplehood. Drawing on methods from Archaeology, History, Women's Studies, and...

2016-10-14

Salami, Bukola

SSHRC Awarded IG 2017: There is a paucity of research on the factors that shape the pathways from being a Temporary Foreign Worker [TFW] to other status in Canada and how TFWs' agency can be further leveraged to address their precarious migration status in Canada. Drawing on data from Alberta,...

2015-10-14

van Deusen, Natalie

SSHRC Awarded IG 2016: Project aims to catalogue, edit and analyze Early Modern Icelandic religious poetry whose subjects are virgin martyr saints. The project seeks to demonstrate the critical role of the poems within Early Modern Icelandic religious and social thought as prescriptive models for...

2016-02-01

Peers, Danielle

SSHRC Awarded IDG 2016: The project will conduct a critical disability analysis of the discourses and practices of disability inclusion within a wide range of sport and recreation programs in Canada. 'Inclusive movement programs' have been internationally championed as a basic right of people...

2016-02-01

Byl, Julia

SSHRC Awarded IDG 2016: Music's place in the Catholic Church’s movement from an agent of Portuguese colonization to a site of indigenous resistance in now-independent East Timor is the focus of this project. I will seek out traces of musical sound and embodied performance in archives and...

2011-11-29

Shields, Rob

SSHRC Awarded PDG 2012: What can cities and communities do to support and benefit from new technologies? How can knowledge-intensive sectors develop in ways which account for local contexts and local needs? How can benefits and prosperity be made to 'stick' to the communities in which new...