Insight, Connection and Partnership Grants
Recipients from the Department of History.
Funded Research
Nancy Janovicek
Year: 2025
SSHRC Partnership Development Grant (Principal Investigator), “Women’s Activism: Developing an Archival Partnership and Network for Oral History Collection,”
Petra Dolata
Year: 2024
Connection Grant, “The Energy Crises of the 1970s and the Transformation of the Postwar World”
Nancy Janovicek
Year: 2022
SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant (Collaborator) “Feminist Activism: Creating an Archival, Activist, and Historical Network for Oral History Collection,”
Petra Dolata
Year: 2022
Partnership Engage Grant, “Reinscribing Indigenous Lives and Homelands in a Canadian Energy Landscape: Writing New Histories of Petroleum Extraction at Tłegǫ́hłı̨ (Norman Wells)”
George Colpitts
Year: 2020
Insight Grant "Credit, Gift and Barter in the changing environments of Western Canada, 1821-1870"
Petra Dolata
Year: 2020
Partnership Grant, Co-Investigator "Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time"
Amelia Kiddle
Year: 2020
Connection Grant "Security and Insecurity in Latin America and the Caribbean"
Petra Dolata
Year: 2019
Connection Grant "Energy and Scale"
Paul Stortz
Year: 2018
Insight Grant "English-Canadian University Student Hazing, Initiations, and Bullying as Performative Ritual, 1880-1960”
G. Francine Michaud
Year: 2017
“Living a Good Death in Final Wishes: Lay Sanctification and Testamentary Practice at the turn of the Fourteenth Century”
Petra Dolata
Year: 2017
Insight Grant "The 1970s Energy Crises and Energy Security: A Cross-national and Transatlantic History"
Amelia Kiddle
Year: 2016
Insight Grant “The 1938 Mexican oil expropriation and the roots of resource nationalism"
Tim Stapleton
Year: 2016
Insight Grant “Military culture in British Colonial West Africa, c1860-1960.”
George Colpitts
Year: 2015
"Treaty Trade: Cash and the Monetization of Aboriginal-Newcomer Relations in Canada 1874-1925"
Hendrik Kraay
Year: 2015
Insight Grant "From Entrudo to Carnaval in Brazil"
Kenneth R. MacMillan
Year: 2013
“The Meaning of Conquest in England and the Atlantic, circa 1500-1700”
Paul J. Stortz (co-investigator with E. Lisa Panayotidis, Faculty of Education)
Year: 2013
“Life among the Academic Groves: Intersections of Space and Intellectual Cultures on English-Canadian University Campuses, 1850-1950”
Paul J. Stortz
Year: 2012
"The University Professoriate and Constructions of Western Canadian Communities, 1900-1950"
Heather Devine
Year: 2012
“The J. X. LaRocque Papers: Métis History and Politics in Southern Saskatchewan, 1886-1945”
Insight Development Grants
Recipients from the Department of History.
G. Francine Michaud
Years: 2021-2023
“The Book of Miracles of Bishop Saint Louis of Anjou: Women, Men, and Vernacular Saint-Making in Medieval Marseille.”
Frank W. Stahnisch
Year: 2013
“German-Speaking Émigré-Neuroscientists in Canada and the United States, 1930s to 1970s”
Annette F. Timm
Year: 2012
“Eros in the Archive”
Standard Research Grants
Recipients from the Department of History.
Marica Cassis
Year: 2025
“Teaching Medieval Histories: Connecting Communities.” Arts Inspire Grant in 2025
Frank Stahnisch
Year: 2025
“The Quest for Holism and Integration – Healing, Wellness, and the Resources of Complementary Medicine, 1870–2020;” Research Grant from the Alberta Medical Association, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
Frank Stahnisch
Year: 2023
Humboldt Research Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Bonn – held at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (~ “Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften) at Goethe University, Bad Homburg, Germany.
David J. Bercuson
Year: 2020
Royal Canadian Airforce Foundation. “Canada’s Air Force: The Royal Canadian Air Force at 100”
Frank Stahnisch
Year: 2020
Dr. Dimitrije Pivnicki Award in Neuro and Psychiatric History for the project “Great Minds in Despair – The Forced-Migration of German-Speaking Neuroscientists to North America, 1933-1989” at the Osler Library for the History of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, PQ.
David J. Bercuson
Year: 2011
“After Somalia: The Minister’s Monitoring Committee and the Reform Government in the Canadian Forces”
Hendrik Kraay
Year: 2011
“Popular Festival and Civic Ritual in a Brazilian City: The 2 July Celebration in Twentieth-Century Salvador, Bahia”
Warren M. Elofson
Year: 2010
“Comparing Cattle Ranching Frontiers: Australia and North America”
G. Francine Michaud
Year: 2010
“La condition des travailleurs urbains et ruraux en Provence mediévale”
Nancy E. Janovicek
Year: 2010
“Coalitions and Conflicts in the Back-to-the-Land Movement of the West Kootenays”
Jewel L. Spangler
Year: 2009
“American Mourning: Disaster in Early National Richmond as History and Memory”
John R. Ferris
Year: 2008
“British and American Intelligence and the Road to the Pacific War, 1936-1941”
Holger H. Herwig
Year: 2008
“The Great Lion: Admiral Karl Doenitz and the Corruption of Command”
Frank H. Towers
Year: 2008
“The Slave Power’s Grassroots: Federal Proslavery Politics and Local Electorates in the United States, 1840-1861”
Kenneth R. MacMillan
Year: 2007
“The Idea of Conquest in England, 1485-1650”
Annette F. Timm
Year: 2006
“Lebensborn and the Sexualization of the Nazi Past”
George W. Colpitts
Year: 2005
“First Nations Communities and the Management of Game on Reserved Hunting Spaces during the Inter-war Period in Canada”
Warren M. Elofson
Year: 2005
“Great Ranches on the Great Plains”
Holger H. Herwig
Year: 2005
“Slaughter in Paradise: Nazi U-boats and Allied Oil, the Caribbean, 1942-1943”