Our top-notch researchers excel in grant funding competitions. Grants help us continue creating value for students and communities, and improve the quality of teaching and learning at York. These funds are also a vote of confidence in our research from third-party experts in government, industry and academia. We look forward to passing on the benefits to our students and the communities. Here is a sample summary of some of our recent successful grants.
| Faculty Member | Project Title | Research Grant | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alicia Turner, consortium grant with PI Richard Fox | Henry Luce Foundation, Initiative on Southeast Asia | Grant for Canadian Southeast Asian Studies Initiative, $547,761 USD | 2023-2028 |
| Joan Steigerwald | SSHRC Insight Grant | A Romantic Natural History: Material Entities and Cultural Transformation, $92,768 | 2022-2027 |
| Abigail Shabtay | SSHRC Partnership Development Grant | Strengthening Participatory Drama-Based Research in Institutional, Community, and Educational Contexts, $199, 341 | 2023-2026 |
| Andreas Kitzmann, co-applicant with Kurt Thumlert | Catalyzing Interdisciplinary Research Clusters Grant | Designing Sound Futures, $525,000 | 2022-2025 |
| Andrea Emberly | SSHRC RGDI (Race, Gender and Diversity Initiative) | Singing Our Stories: Networking Community Musical Practices with Refugee and Newcomer Children and Young People, $447,117 | 2022-2025 |
| Carolyn Steele, co-chair with Lynda van Dreumel | Academic Innovation Fund, Category I: Pan-University AIF Projects | Envision YU: Tools for Student Success, $275,826 | 2022-2024 |
| Abigail Shabtay | SSHRC Insight Development Grant | Adapting Drama-Based Methods for Research with Children and You, $73,991 | 2021-2024 |
| Alicia Turner | SSHRC Insight Grant | Resisting the Birth of Buddhist Identity: Gender, Colonial Secularism and Practices of Connection in Burma, $72,429 | 2020-2024 |
| Julie Vig | Spalding Trust Fellowship | The Play of the Poetry in Early Modern Punjab, $4300 | 2023 |
| Julie Vig | Internal Funding | Totalling: $11,683 | 2023 |
| Alison Halsall | Internal Funding | Totalling: $14,050 | 2022-2023 |
| Andrea Emberly, PI, with Kael Reid, co-investigator | Helen Carswell Chair in Community Engaged Research in the Arts | Singing Our Stories Together: Supporting Community-Based Music Programs for Equity-Seeking Young People through Creative Arts-Based Pedagogies, $20,000 | 2022-2023 |
| Alicia Turner, co-applicant with Hitomi Fujimura | SSHRC Connections Grant | Plural Pasts for Collective Futures in Burma/Myanmar: Histories of Belonging and Identities (Re)Imagined, $20,137 | 2023 |
| Ann Marie MacDonald | SSHRC Explore Grant | Old Poles and New Stories: Archival knowledges and oral histories of Gitanskanees and Kurt Seligmann, $6,354 | 2022 |
| Ann Marie MacDonald | Internal Funding | Totalling: $10,000 | 2022 |
| Christina Sharpe, PI, and Andrea Davis, co-applicant | SSHRC Connection Grant | The Alchemy Lecture, $24,970 | 2022 |
| Andrea Davis | Internal Funding | Totalling: $16,000 | 2021-2022 |
| Andrea Emberly, with Dr. Kael Reid, Nadeen Abu Shaban, and COSTI refugee services | The Child and Youth Refugee Research Coalition, SSHRC PG Research Subgrant | Singing My Story: Building Capacity with Newcomer Youth Through Song Writing, Recording, and Creative Arts-Based Pedagogies, $19,975 | 2021-2022 |
| Christina Sharpe, PI, and Andrea Davis, co-applicant | SSHRC Connection Grant | Dionne Brand’s A Map to the Door of No Return at 20: A Gathering, $24,988 | 2021 |
| Andreas Kitzmann | SSHRC Connections Grant | Patch Up!: A Workshop on Synthetic Sound and Modular Thought, $18,195 | 2021 |
| Bernard Lightman (co-applicant) | The Collected Letters of John Tyndall (1820-1893), to edit and publish volumes 15 to 21. | Collaborative SSHRC Insight Grant, $362,161 | 2020-2025 |
| Amila Buturovic | Herbs, Stars, and Amulets: Health and Cross-Confessional Healing in Ottoman Bosnia | SSHRC Insight Grants competition, $87,480 | 2019 |
| Amila Buturovic | Medicine without borders: theories and practices of health in Ottoman Bosnia and beyond | SSHRC Connection Grant, $16,758 | 2019 |
| Abigail Shabtay | Children, Youth and Performance Conference III: Performative Praxis | SSHRC Connection Grant, $24,680 | 2019 |
| Joan Steigerwald | Schelling and Philosophies of Life | SSHRC Connection Grant, $13,922 | 2019 |
| David Ceccheto | Listening to Digital Culture | SSHRC Insight Grant, $89,241 | 2018-2022 |
| Kabita Chakraborty | Extreme love: Young people’s experiences at the intersection of intimacy and violence in urban India | SSHRC Insight Grant, $90,659 | 2018 |
| David Ceccheto | SLSA: Out of Mind | SSHRC Connection Grant, $24,900 | |
| Jody Berland | Digital Animalities | SSHRC Insight Grant $300,250 | 2015-2019 |
| David Ceccheto | Tuning Speculation III | SSHRC Connection Grant, $22,500 | 2015 |
| Elicia Clements | Modernist Literary Musics | SSHRC Insight Grant, $76,147 | 2012-2018 |
| David Ceccheto | Sound, Affect, and Digital Communities | SSHRC Insight Development Grant $60,000 | |
| Theresa Hyun, research team member | $1.1m, Academy of Korea Studies | ||
| Cheryl Cowdy-Crawford | Multimedia and Transmedia Texts, Cultural Change and Youth Readers | SSHRC Insight Development Grant | |
| Alicia Turner | Buddhism Across Boundaries: Subaltern, Plebeian, and Peripheral Networks in Colonial Southeast Asia | SSHRC Insight Development Grant |