Social Sciences awarded close to half a million dollars in SSHRC funding

This morning in Kingston, Ontario, the Honourable Kirsty Duncan, Minister of Science and Sport, announced the Government of Canada is investing $141 million to support nearly 3,000 of Canada's most talented scholars, including early-career researchers, across the country.

"Social sciences and humanities research are at the heart of understanding the challenges and opportunities facing our communities and our people.” said Duncan. “Nurturing young talent in these disciplines is one of the best ways to build a healthier, stronger and more prosperous Canada." 

Social Sciences researchers are involved in a variety of projects. Some of which include, studying the effects of taxation on trade, gathering insight on how social beings are understood within the field of Indigenous Studies, and examining precarious labour. 

The award recipients and their research projects are:

• Bettina Brueggemann, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics
  Entrepreneurial Portfolio Choices with Aggregate Risk: Theory, Empirics and Implications for Policy

• Jeffery Denis, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology
  Azhe-mino-gahbewewin: Identifying Indigenous Priorities for Reconciliation in Kenora, Ontario

• Ana Duggan, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Anthropology
  Jenner's Legacy: uncovering the origins and dissemination of smallpox vaccines in the 19th-20th centuries

• Paul Glavin, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology
  Regional Economic Determinants of Canadians' Transitions into Precarious and Entrepreneurial Self-Employment

• Dana Hollander, Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies
  Talmud and Philosophy: Toward a Redefinition of the Role of Rabbinics in Jewish Studies 

• Inder Marwah, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
  Evolution Against Empire

• Mark Norman, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Health, Aging and Society
  Sport & Physical Recreation in Ontario Youth Detention Centres: A Comprehensive Investigation

• Alina Sajed, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
  Third Worldism revisited: anti-colonial connectivity and the politics of national liberation

• Alisa Tazhitdinova, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics
  Assistant Professor, Department of Economics
  The Effect of Various Forms of Taxation on Trade

• Vanessa Watts, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Academic Director of the Indigenous Studies Program
  An Indigensist Sociology of Knowledge: Indigenous social lives in the fields of Indigenous studies, sociology and political science and beyond