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The College of Social Sciences and Humanities (CSSH) is excited to publicly share that in 2025, an impressive 24 Insight Grants and 24 Insight Development Grants have been awarded to faculty members across our college from Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities 91ÒùĸÊÓƵ Council (SSHRC).

 The college congratulates all our faculty members on their success:

Insight Grants

• Yasmeen Abu-Laban, Faculty of Arts
  • Project: Canada's Federal Anti-Racism Strategy (2019-2028): Debates among civil society and state stakeholders

• Catherine Adams, Faculty of Education (Co-Applicant: Patti Pente, Faculty of Education)
  • Project: The teacher-AI value alignment problem: a postphenomenological investigation and critical AI literacy response

• Sandrine Ampleman-Tremblay, Faculty of Law,
  • Project: Rethinking criminal responsibility: a case study of extreme intoxication

• Sandra Bucerius, Faculty of Arts (Co-Applicant: Philip Badawy, Faculty of Arts)
  
  • Project: Barriers and challenges to re-entry in Western Canada

• Boyoung Chang, Faculty of Arts
  • Project: Re/Constructing the Nation: Photography and Korea since the 1990s

• Aya Fujiwara, Faculty of Arts
  • Project: Resettlement: Japanese Canadians in the post-World War II era

• Kevin Haggerty, Faculty of Arts
  • Project: New developments in police surveillance: care vs control?

• Wendy Hoglund, Faculty of Arts (Co-Applicant: Sandra Wiebe, Faculty of Arts)
  • Project: How do classroom interactions matter for children's emerging self-regulation and academic skills?

• Daniel Laforest, Faculty of Arts,
  • Project: Fictions of stability: psychedelic therapies, literature, and the challenges of neurodiversity

• Katherine Lafreniere, 91ÒùĸÊÓƵ School of Business (Co-Applicant: Jennifer Argo, 91ÒùĸÊÓƵ School of Business)
  • Project: Marketing for businesses from marginalized groups: Breaking barriers for Indigenous-owned businesses 

• Minjia Li, 91ÒùĸÊÓƵ School of Business
  • Project: AI walker or AI washer? Unmasking the truth in financial disclosures

• Ann E. McDougall, Faculty of Arts
  • Project: Iron ore workers of Mauritania

• Paul Messinger, 91ÒùĸÊÓƵ School of Business
  • Project: The extended self in the metaverse

• Sarah Moore, 91ÒùĸÊÓƵ School of Business (Co-Applicant: Katie Mehr, 91ÒùĸÊÓƵ School of Business)
  • Project: When and why do consumers post online reviews?

• Patrick Nickleson, Faculty of Arts (Co-Applicant: Faith Majekolagbe, Faculty of Law)
  • Project: How music renders property under colonial copyright

• Chris Reyns, Faculty of Arts
  • Project: Au-delà des deux solitudes dans le monde canadien des bandes dessinées : vers des mondes transmédiatiques (avec le numérique, l'animation, et le jeu vidéo)/Beyond the two solitudes in the Canadian world of comics

• Borzou Rostami, 91ÒùĸÊÓƵ School of Business
  • Project: A sustainable last-mile delivery through data-driven local crowdshippers

• Lukas Roth, 91ÒùĸÊÓƵ School of Business (Co-Applicant: Adelina Barbalau, 91ÒùĸÊÓƵ School of Business)
  • Project: Corporate control and debt security design as drivers of corporate sustainability: A global perspective on carbon emissions

• Lin Snelling, Faculty of Arts,
  • Project: The amazing natural; rehearsing with the world, the body and knowledge making in improvisational dance

• Chloe Taylor, Faculty of Arts 
  • Project: Anthropocene ABCs: An Epochalyptic Primer

• Marta-Marika Urbanik, Faculty of Arts (Co-Applicant: Justin Tetrault, Faculty of Arts)
  • Project: Going up north: the expansion and movement of urban-based drug trafficking groups into smaller Canadian communities

• Natalie Van Deusen, Faculty of Arts
  • Project: Finding Saint Helena Augusta in Old Norse and early modern Icelandic literature

• Colin Ward, 91ÒùĸÊÓƵ School of Business
  • Project: Financial gravity in foreign exchange

• Dominik Wujastyk, Faculty of Arts
  • Project: Mapping a Medical Tradition: The Compendium of Susruta in Time and Space

Insight Development Grants

• Brendon Andrews, Faculty of Arts
  • Project: Disease incidence and the economic origins of homeopathy in the United States

• Beth Capper, Faculty of Arts
  • Project: Screening abolition: a critical genealogy of the feminist prison documentary in the U.S. and the U.K.

• Noah Castelo, 91ÒùĸÊÓƵ School of Business
  • Project: Consumer preference for algorithmic vs. human evaluation

• Darcie Deangelo, Faculty of Arts 
  • Project: An Anthropology of Rats and Rodent Science Communication: A comparative study of pest knowledge producers in British Columbia and in 91ÒùĸÊÓƵ

• Tito Grillo, 91ÒùĸÊÓƵ School of Business (Co-Applicant: Jennifer Argo, 91ÒùĸÊÓƵ School of Business)
  • Project: Consumers' competence perceptions in service encounters with Black and Indigenous frontline workers

• Craig Harvey, Faculty of Arts
  • Project: Mapping resources onto a dynamic landscape: The renewal of archaeological survey at Humayma, southern Jordan

• Reza Hasmath, Faculty of Arts
  • Project: Philanthropic giving in an authoritarian context: Insights from mainland China

• Jocelyn Hendrickson, Faculty of Arts
  • Project: Prohibition of plundering: A Saharan jurist's counsel to the Muslim resistance in colonial Mauritania

• Mingxuan Li, 91ÒùĸÊÓƵ School of Business (Co-Applicant: Yanhao Wang, 91ÒùĸÊÓƵ School of Business)
  • Project: Unintended consequences of platform design: Competition and equitable outcomes on Airbnb

• Minjia Li, 91ÒùĸÊÓƵ School of Business
  • Project: Mandatory disclosure of supply chain finance: evidence from the credit markets

• Nicolette Litte, Faculty of Arts
  • Project: Are we dating the same guy?: Women's informal gender-based violence prevention activities in Canada

• Katie Mehr, 91ÒùĸÊÓƵ School of Business
  • Project: Testing motivations to write reviews in the field and lab

• Evan Nicoll-Johnson, Faculty of Arts
  • Project: `Anomaly accounts' and landscape representation in early medieval Chinese literature

• Ikechukwu Nwaka, 91ÒùĸÊÓƵ School of Business (Co-Applicant: Borzou Rostami, 91ÒùĸÊÓƵ School of Business)
  • Project: High-Speed Internet and Energy for All: Who Are the 'All,' and How Do We Reach Them?

• Michael O’Driscoll, Faculty of Arts
  • Project: Radio/Archive: Broadcasting Literature and Cultures of Literary Sound

• Persephone Blue Rivas-Berge, Faculty of Arts
  • Project: Playing against the unlivable: an exploration of trans game art

• Jorge Sanchez Perez, Faculty of Arts (Collaborator: Isabel Altamirano-Jimenez, Faculty of Arts)
  • Project: The indigenous stories of philosophy

• Giselle Thompson, Faculty of Education
  • Project: (Re)Membering Black Mothers: Othermothering As A Critical Teaching Praxis in Jamaican Schools

• Lu Wang, 91ÒùĸÊÓƵ School of Business (Co-Applicant: Michael Lounsbury, 91ÒùĸÊÓƵ School of Business)
  • Project: Mental health and wellbeing in the workplace: The rise of Chief Wellbeing Officer in organizations

• Colin Ward, 91ÒùĸÊÓƵ School of Business
  • Project: The Visible Hand: The Allocation of Managers and Productivity

• Lana Whiskeyjack, Faculty of Arts
  • Project: Reclaiming the spirit of our womb: developing a spirit-centred lens

• Sheng-Jun Xu, 91ÒùĸÊÓƵ School of Business (Co-Applicant: Mark Huson, 91ÒùĸÊÓƵ School of Business)
  • Project: Shifting Carbon: The Role of M&A in Oil and Gas Emissions

• Jingxuan Zhang, 91ÒùĸÊÓƵ School of Business
  • Project: The effect of innovation strategy on private firms' future success: Evidence from patent licensing versus internal innovation development

• Yaping Zheng, 91ÒùĸÊÓƵ School of Business
  • Project: Agglomeration Spillovers on Firms' Capital Market Outreach: Evidence from Giant Plant Expansions