Faculty of Arts Research Funding Success

Congratulation to our Faculty of Arts researchers who received federal funding in the major Government of Canada investment announcement on July 9, 2025. This federal funding will support these scholars in their pursuit of research excellence and innovation.

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SSHRC Partnership Development Grant

• Dr Nancy Janovicek, professor, Department of History
• Dr. Brae Anne McArthur, assistant professor (teaching), Department of Psychology

Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship

• Dr. Marissa Nivison, postdoctoral associate, Department of Psychology

Vanier Canada Graduate Scholar

• Sammy Sánchez, PhD student, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology

SSHRC Insight Grants

• Dr. Lindsay Amundsen-Meyer, assistant professor, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology: Recontextualizing Settlement of the Canadian West: Examining Identity Construction and Negotiation as Reflected Through Black Heritage Sites
• Dr. Barry Cooper, professor, Department of Political Science: Neolithic Politics: Cosmological Architecture of Atlantic Neolithic
• Dr. Susan Franceschet, professor, Political Science: Is there a Motherhood Penalty in Politics? Gender, Parenthood, and Parliamentary Careers
• Dr. Michael Ullyot, associate professor, Department of English: Extended Shakespeare
• Dr. Matthew Walls, associate professor, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology: Fire and Ancient Forest Stewardship: Assessing Human Agency in the Post-Glacial Biodiversity of Central Europe

SSHRC Insight Development Grants

• Dr. Anna Bettini, postdoctoral associate, Department of History: Farming the Sun: A Comparative Study of Agrivoltaics in Tuscany and Alberta's Rural Landscapes
• Dr. Julia Chan, assistant professor, Department of Communication, Film and Media: Surveillance, Il/legibility, and Mixed-Race Subjectivity
• Dr. Julia Kam, associate professor, Department of Psychology: The Influence of Cultural Values on Thought Patterns and Affective Well-being in Daily Life
• Dr. Abdie Kazemipur, professor, Department of Sociology: Life in ‘permanent temporality’: The study of a newly emerging phenomenon in the field of international migration
• Dr. Arvind Magesan, professor, Department of Economics: State Sponsored Education and Assimilation of Indigenous Peoples
• Dr. Ayesha Mian Akram, assistant professor (Teaching), Department of Sociology: Politics in Fashion: On Self-Reclamation and Futurity amongst young Muslim Women in Canada
• Dr. Safaneh Mohaghegh Neyshabouri, associate professor (teaching), Department of Philosophy: Towards a Theory of Resistance Calibration: Iranian Women’s Resistance Since 1979 Revolution
• Dr. Alex Sam, assistant professor, Department of Economics: Consumer-Optimal Algorithms in Competitive Markets
• Dr. Uchechukwu Umerzurike, assistant professor, Department of English: Desiring Home: Migration, Diaspora and Belonging in African Literature in Canada
• Dr. Morgan Vanek, associate professor, Department of English: “What Became of the Father?”: Defining Paternal Responsibility in Eighteenth-Century Satire on the Foundling Hospital
• Dr. Anna Veprinska, assistant professor, Department of English: Listening as pain and necessity: sound sensitivity, noise pollution, and auditory accessibility

NSERC Discovery Grants

• Dr. Chris Hugenholtz, professor, Department of Geography: Vehicle-based measurement and monitoring of anthropogenic methane emissions
• Dr. Amanda Melin, professor, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology: Primate dietary ecology and sensory evolution
• Dr. Vivek Venkataraman, assistant professor, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology: The evolutionary ecology of grass-eating primates

New Frontiers in Research Fund Exploration

• Dr. Julia Kam, associate professor, Department of Psychology: Regulation of Thought Content as Transdiagnostic Process Underlying Internalizing and Externalizing Disorders