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July 21, 2026

Federal funding for research in the Faculty of Arts

SSHRC Insights and Partnership Development grants awarded to faculty researchers
Faculty of Arts
Riley Brandt

Congratulations to our Faculty of Arts researchers who received federal funding in the on July 21, 2026. These grants will support these scholars in their pursuit of research excellence and innovation.

SSHRC Partnership Development Grant 

  • Dr. Lindsay Tedds, professor, Department of Economics: Fair and Accountable Canadian Taxation (FACT): The Fair Tax Initiative

SSHRC Insight Grants 

  • Dr. Alexander Whalley, professor, Department of Economics: Innovation Policy and Economic Growth 
  • Dr. Christopher Sullivan, associate professor, Department of Economics: Effect of institutional factors on voter representation in democratic political systems 

  • Dr. Dean Curran, associate professor, Department of Sociology: Representation as intervention; Economics as representational science and as social action 

  • Dr. James Ellis, professor, Department of English: Talking Trees and Vegetal Souls: Queer Ecology in the Faerie Queene 

  • Dr. Julio Mercader Florin, professor, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology: Shaping Evolution: The Geoenvironmental, Biological, and Technological Contexts of Homo habilis and Homo erectus at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania 

  • Dr. Leonard Goff, assistant professor, Department of Economics: When regression discontinuity fails: new methods for credible casual influence 

  • Dr. Lucija Muehlenbachs, professor, Department of Economics: Bundling Liabilities: Evidence from Oil and Gas Wells in Alberta 

  • Dr. Marica Cassis, associate professor, Department of History: Cadir Hoyuk: Rural Resilience in Anatolia 

  • Dr. Matt Patterson, associate professor, Department of Sociology: Community Power in Four Historic Chinatowns: A Comparative Study of Non-Market Housing 

  • Dr. Melanie Kloetzel, professor, School of Creative and Performing Arts: Decolonial Approaches to Place-Based Dance 

  • Dr. Penelope Farfan, professor, School of Creative and Performing Arts: Historical postcards: An archive of popular entertainments 

  • Dr. Stefan Staubli, professor, Department of Economics: The Social Determinants of Participation in Disability Programs 

  • Dr. Tamara Shepherd, associate professor, Department of Communication, Media and Film: Big tech, big clouds, big clients: State procurement of cloud computing