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91șÚÁÏÍű Arts Researchers Receive Over $2M in Funding from SSHRC

27 91șÚÁÏÍű Arts researchers received funding from the 2024 SSHRC Insight Grants competition to support studies related to social sciences and humanities.
Andria Caputo | 22 Sep 2025

The Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) recently announced the recipients of its 2024 SSHRC Insight Grants awarding $127.6 million in funding to 693 research projects from institutions across Canada.

27 91șÚÁÏÍű Arts professors are among the recipients, having received over $2 million in funding.

The recipients of the 2024 SSHRC Insight grants are:

  • Yuriko Furuhata, Department of East Asian Studies: “Visual Archives of the Anthropocene and Colonialism”
  • T.V. Paul, Department of Political Science, “Status Warriors: Explaining Great Power Violence in the World’s Regions”
  • Stephanie Leary, Department of Philosophy, “A Metaphysics-First Approach to Metaethics”
  • Robert Wisnovsky, Institute of Islamic Studies, “The modern rebirth of a medieval Arabic logic text: Muhammad ‘Abduh’s *Glosses* on SĂąwü’s Logical Insights”
  • Kristin Voigt, Department of Philosophy, “Justice, the state, and the personal sphere”
  • Guojun Wang, Department of East Asian Studies, “Body, Knowledge and Justice in the Forensic Drama of Early Modern China”
  • Megan Bradley, Department of Political Science and Institute for the Study of International Development, “Mobilizing in displacement: Internally displaced persons (IDPs) as governance actors”
  • Martina Martinović, Department of Linguistics, “The canonical and non-canonical properties of the left periphery in three West African languages”
  • Arash Abizadeh, Department of Political Science, “Power, Subjection, and Democracy”
  • Catherine Lu, Department of Political Science, “Tragic Progress”
  • Chris Howard and Ian Gold, Department of Philosophy, “Unravelling the Puzzle of Addiction”
  • Rohan Dutta, Department of Economics, “Strategic commitment bargaining: commitment length, uncertainty and coalitions”
  • Alicia Boatswain-Kyte, School of Social Work, “Visualizing Our Individual and Collective Experiences (VOICE): Black Youth Perspectives in Child Welfare”

The recipients of the 2024 SSHRC Insight Development grants are:

  • Francesco Amodio, Department of Economics, “The Other China Shock: Canada’s Fish Exports and Production Network Spillovers”
  • Eran Shor, Department of Sociology, “Pornography as Sex Education: What do Viewers Say?”
  • Pedro Monaville, Department of History and Classical Studies, “Postcolonial Abstractions: Art, Science, and Extraction in Modern Congo”
  • Elaine Weiner, Department of Sociology, “Sharing the Caring: Post-Separation Parenting and Gender Equality”
  • Ian Gold and Jai Shah, Department of Philosophy, “A Pilot Study of the Anomalous Experience Hypothesis of Delusion Formation” 2 years, $39,697
  • Aalekhya Malladi, School of Religious Studies, “Devotion and Asceticism in 18th c. South India”
  • Rebekah Willson, School of Information Studies, “Transitioning into academic libraries: The information behaviour of library students and early career librarians”
  • David Porter, Department of History and Classical Studies, “Empire of Translation: Multilingualism and Linguistic Experts in the Administration of the Qing Dynasty”
  • Ara Osterweil, Department of English, “Queer Home Movies: Experimental Filmmakers and their Mothers”
  • RĂ©gine Debrosse, School of Social Work, “Roots & Dreams: Connecting ethnic identities and future ambitions of BIPOC/immigrant youths”
  • Miranda Hickman and Jelena Ristic, Department of English, “Forms of Deep Attention: Bridging Between Neuroscientific and Literary Perspectives”
  • Tania Islas Weinstein, Department of Political Science, “Building Militarization: Infrastructure and Communication Strategies in Mexico”
  • Alyssa Bader, Department of Anthropology, “A community collaborative approach to paleodietary modeling in the Pacific Northwest Coast”
  • Sarah Tarshis, School of Social Work, “Building a simulation-based model of trauma-informed practice with survivors of intimate partner violence who are immigrants”
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