Congratulations to the 14 CMS affiliates that were awarded funding through the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)’s 2024 Insight, and Insight Development Grants competitions.
Learn more about the recipients and their innovative research projects below.
Insights Grants
Insight Grants support research excellence in social sciences and humanities. Funding is available to both emerging scholars and established scholars for research initiatives of two to five years.
- Dr. Sophie Borwein, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
Project: The supply-side politics of workplace technological change - Dr. Katherine Bowers, Associate Professor, Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies
Project: Computational Dostoevsky - Dr. David Gramling, Professor, Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies
Project: Linguaphobia, linguistic indifference, and the monolingual university - Dr. Geraldine Pratt, Professor, Department of Geography
Project: The new labour of elder care: Past, present and future geographies of cobot care technologies - Dr. Helena Zeweri, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
Project: The colonial history and present of Australia’s transnational border regime - Dr. Gaoheng Zhang, Associate Professor, Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies
Project: Scrambles for East Africa: Media and cultural debates between China, Western Europe, and East Africa
Insight Development Grants
Insight Development Grants support research in its initial stages. The grants enable the development of new research questions, as well as experimentation with new methods, theoretical approaches and/or ideas.
- Dr. Afsoun Afsahi, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
Project: Unequal voices, unequal rules: Reimagining democracy’s boundaries - Dr. Marie-Eve Bouchard, Assistant Professor, Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies
Project: The use of English-origin verbs in Quebec French - Dr. Amanda Cheong, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
Project: Investigating barriers to birth registration among labour migrant families in the Malaysian palm oil sector - Dr. Anna Jurkevics, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
Project: A right to place? Mapping the divide between European and Indigenous approaches to land - Dr. Aryan Karimi, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
Project: Past losses and future lives: Afghan and Ukrainian women in Canada - Dr. Kathryn McConnell, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
Project: Investigating post-wildfire housing recovery and gentrification dynamics in Canada and the U.S. - Dr. Elizabeth Nijdam, Assistant Professor, Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies
Project: Games for decolonization - Dr. Rosanne Sia, Assistant Professor, Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice
Project: Performing the “Asian woman”: Traveling Asian performers on Canadian variety circuits
