July 21, 2026
Federal funding for research in the Faculty of Arts
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