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65 UBC Arts researchers secure SSHRC funding in 2024 competition
July 9, 2025
A total of 65 projects led by UBC Faculty of Arts researchers were awarded funding through the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)’s 2024 Partnership, Partnership Development, Insight, and Insight Development Grants competitions.
Learn more about the Arts recipients and their innovative research projects below.
Partnership Grants
Partnership Grants support large teams working in a formal collaboration between postsecondary institutions and public, private or not-for-profit organizations.
Dr. J. Kiley Hamlin, Professor, Department of Psychology
Project: Building a network of networks in the big team social sciences
Partnership Development Grants provide short-term and timely support for partnered research activities that inform decision-making at a single partner organization from the public, private or not-for-profit sector.
Dr. Camilla Speller, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology Project: Xaʔaʔgaɬ: Documenting the long-term history and Indigenous management of Pacific salmon populations in K’ómoks traditional territory
Insight Grants support research excellence in social sciences and humanities. Funding is available to both emerging scholars and established scholars for research initiatives of two to five years.
Dr. Siwan Anderson, Professor, Vancouver School of Economics Project: Gender norms
Dr. Susan Birch, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology Project: Changing lives by changing minds: Enhancing social emotional competence by combining multiple evidence-based approaches
Dr. Sophie Borwein, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science Project: The supply-side politics of workplace technological change
Dr. Katherine Bowers, Associate Professor, Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies Project: Computational Dostoevsky
Dr. Lisa Coulthard, Professor, Department of Theatre & Film Project: Historicizing stunt performance, workflows, and labour in American cinema
Dr. Giovanni Gallipoli, Professor, Vancouver School of Economics Project: Heterogeneity and the mechanics of inequality: Consumption expenditures in the cross-section and across generations
Dr. David Gramling, Professor, Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies Project: Linguaphobia, linguistic indifference, and the monolingual university
Dr. Michael Griffin, Professor, Department of Philosophy Project: Transforming logic, rhetoric, and the sciences in late antiquity: Seven new volumes in the Ancient Commentators Series
Dr. Carrie Jenkins, Professor, Department of Philosophy Project: The undisciplined project
Dr. Vinay Kamat, Professor, Department of Anthropology Project: Climate change, ecological risk, and adaptive capacity among artisanal fishing communities in coastal Tanzania
Dr. Hiroyuki Kasahara, Professor, Vancouver School of Economics Project: Identification and estimation of markup, factor-neutral and factor-augmenting productivities, and production function using revenue data and their empirical applications
Naomi Klein, Associate Professor, Department of Geography Project: Mapping far-right climate discourse and policy in Canada, the United States, Argentina, and Aotearoa/New Zealand
Dr. Dominic McIver Lopes, Professor, Department of Philosophy Project: Pluralism and its discontents: Episodes in the history of aesthetics
Dr. Vadim Marmer, Professor, Vancouver School of Economics Project: Unknown group structures in econometric models
Dr. Sara Milstein, Professor, Department of Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies Project: Translating sex in the Hebrew Bible
Dr. Marcin Morzycki, Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics Project: Numerals and measurement across constructions and languages
Dr. Sam Norris, Assistant Professor, Vancouver School of Economics Project: The effects of alternative criminal justice institutions
Dr. Geraldine Pratt, Professor, Department of Geography Project: The new labour of elder care: Past, present and future geographies of cobot care technologies
Dr. W. Craig Riddell, Professor Emeritus, Vancouver School of Economics Project: Improving the lives of welfare recipients: What pays off in the long run?
Dr. Hotze Rullmann, Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics Project: The language(s) of stories: What narrative discourse can tell us about the core properties of language
Dr. Elizabeth Shaffer, Assistant Professor, School of Information Project: Exploring Black Caribbean and diasporic communities’ anti-colonial archival practices: Toward a theory of archival wake work
Dr. Henry Siu, Professor, Vancouver School of Economics Project: Occupations and life-cycle wage growth: Implications for cross-cohort and racial and ethnic inequality
Dr. Kyungchul (Kevin) Song, Professor, Vancouver School of Economics Project: A systematic study on causal inference designs and statistical inference
Dr. Munir Squires, Assistant Professor, Vancouver School of Economics Project: Intermarriage and social integration in the United States, 1790-1950
Dr. Veena Sriram, Assistant Professor, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs Project: One country, one exam: Exploring the promise and pitfalls of India’s transition to single medical college entrance and exit examinations
Dr. Michael Tenzer, Professor, School of Music Project: Irregular meters of the world: Theory, analysis, performance and composition
Dr. Coll Thrush, Professor, Department of History Project: The train to Weeping Water: Colonialism, migration, and critical family history
Dr. Jessica Wang, Professor, Department of Geography & History Project: Biogeography, state power, and colonial rule: Tropical agriculture and the U.S. insular empire, 1898-1940
Dr. Helena Zeweri, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology Project: The colonial history and present of Australia’s transnational border regime
Dr. Gaoheng Zhang, Associate Professor, Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies Project: Scrambles for East Africa: Media and cultural debates between China, Western Europe, and East Africa
Dr. Mila Zuo, Associate Professor, Department of Theatre & Film Project: Mongoloids – An experimental documentary
Insight Development Grants support research in its initial stages. The grants enable the development of new research questions, as well as experimentation with new methods, theoretical approaches and/or ideas.
Dr. Afsoun Afsahi, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science Project: Unequal voices, unequal rules: Reimagining democracy’s boundaries
Dr. Marie-Eve Bouchard, Assistant Professor, Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies Project: The use of English-origin verbs in Quebec French
Dr. Amanda Cheong, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology Project: Investigating barriers to birth registration among labour migrant families in the Malaysian palm oil sector
Dr. Bonnie Effros, Professor, Department of History Project: Salomon Reinach and the politics of assimilation in early twentieth-century France
Dr. Avery Everhart, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography Project: Beyond binary data: The role of data, statistics, and information in shaping transgender life
Dr. Giovanni Gallipoli, Professor, Vancouver School of Economics Project: The mechanics of consumption networks: Theory and measurement
Dr. Ying Gao, Assistant Professor, Vancouver School of Economics Project: Incentives and learning in platforms with recommendation
Dr. Zahra Hayat, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology Project: ‘Pharmaceutical intellectual property’: Patents, trade secrets and access to medicines
Dr. Isabella Huberman, Assistant Professor, Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies Project: Powerlines: Re-storying hydro power in Quebec through Indigenous narrative arts
Dr. Katharine Huemoeller, Assistant Professor, Department of Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies Project: Domina: Gendering slaveholding in the Roman world
Dr. Torsten Jaccard, Assistant Professor, Vancouver School of Economics Project: Multinationals, export quality, and the gains from trade
Dr. Andrew Jorgenson, Professor, Department of Sociology Project: Income inequality, economic growth, and the climate crisis: Longitudinal analyses of province-level carbon emissions in Canada
Dr. Anna Jurkevics, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science Project: A right to place? Mapping the divide between European and Indigenous approaches to land
Dr. Aryan Karimi, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology Project: Past losses and future lives: Afghan and Ukrainian women in Canada
Dr. Hiroyuki Kasahara, Professor, Vancouver School of Economics Project: The impact of artificial intelligence adoption on skill demands and productivity: Evidence from newly linked administrative firm-level data in Canada
Dr. Kristin Laurin, Professor, Department of Psychology Project: Actual and perceived political residue after religious switching: Implications for secularization
Dr. Katherine Lyon, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology Project: Does STEM identity matter?: Longitudinally tracing the relationship between STEM identity and STEM trajectory persistence for girls and gender-expansive youth across the socioeconomic spectrum
Dr. Gregory Mackie, Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literatures Project: Looking for Mabel: A bibliocritical study of Mrs. Chan-Toon
Dr. Anabel Maler, Assistant Professor, School of Music Project: The signing musician: Composer, performer, analyst
Dr. Kathryn McConnell, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology Project: Investigating post-wildfire housing recovery and gentrification dynamics in Canada and the U.S.
Dr. Diana Moreiras Reynaga, Honorary Research Associate, Department of Anthropology Project: New insights on Mesoamerican human sacrifice from two postclassic Mesoamerican civilizations through decolonial, proteomic, and isotopic approaches
Dr. Vin Nardizzi, Professor, Department of English Language and Literatures Project: Thomasin Tunstall: A botanical biography
Dr. Elizabeth Nijdam, Assistant Professor, Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies Project: Games for decolonization
Dr. Joan Danielle Ongchoco, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology Project: The missing self in time: Studies in perception, action, and decision-making
Dr. Ethan Raker, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology Project: The fertility and natality consequences of the 2021 heat dome in British Columbia
Dr. Raffaele Saggio, Associate Professor, Vancouver School of Economics Project: The impact of reducing access to temporary foreign work visas in Canada
Dr. Elif Sari Ozcelik, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology Project: Privatizing LGBTQ+ asylum: An ethnographic exploration of Canada’s private refugee sponsorship
Dr. Paul Schrimpf, Associate Professor, Vancouver School of Economics Project: Unintended consequences of cash transfers on opioid overdoses and effects of expanding contraceptive access: Evidence from BC’s free contraceptives program
Dr. Rosanne Sia, Assistant Professor, Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice Project: Performing the “Asian woman”: Traveling Asian performers on Canadian variety circuits
Dr. Daniel Starling, Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory Project: The pencil of nature: Redux
Dr. Philip Yoo, Assistant Professor, Department of Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies Project: “And they could not speak…”: The Bible and language endangerment
Dr. Keren Zaiontz, Assistant Professor, Department of Theatre & Film Project: Performing the press against autocracy