Six researchers in the Faculty of Humanities have been awarded 2021 Insight Grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).
Insight Grants, which range from $7,000 to $400,000, are available to emerging and established scholars for research projects of two to five years, providing stable support for long-term initiatives.
This year, researchers across McMaster received more than $4 million in Insight Grant funding.
Humanities researchers received grants for the following projects:
- Megan Armstrong, History
- Collecting for the Holy Land: The commissioners of the Holy Land in the global expansion of the modern Catholic Church
- Martin Beckmann, Classics
- The coinage of Commodus: chronology, iconography, and meaning
- Michael Egan, History
- Covenant with the future: modern arks in catastrophic history
- Victor Kuperman, Linguistics and Languages
- Understanding the impact of COVID-19 on reading comprehension in Canadian and US university students: a multi-componential approach
- Elisabet Service, Linguistics and Languages
- The effects of working in a second language on strategic thinking
- Eugenia Zuroski, English and Cultural Studies
- Diasporic placements: temporality, Taiwan, and ways of locating anticolonial knowledge
On June 15, the Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, announced that approximately $200 million in funding had been awarded to 1,315 researchers working in social sciences and humanities disciplines at institutions across Canada.
That funding announced also included a $2.5 million Partnership Grant awarded to History professor Bonny Ibhawoh and five co-investigators in the Faculties of Humanities and Social Sciences. Ibhawoh leads Participedia, a global platform that shares information and resources about participatory democracy initiatives around the world.