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by Chris Hammond
Gerard Collins, PhD candidate in English, received a 2003
SSHRC award. |
Twenty Memorial University
graduate students will share in over $600,000 from the Social
Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) for
research projects under SSHRC’s first-ever Canada Graduate
Scholarships.
Allan Rock, minister of industry and minister responsible for
SSHRC, and Dr. Marc Renaud, president of SSHRC, announced the
recipients of 1,500 scholarships and fellowships for graduate
students in the social sciences and humanities from universities
across Canada on Sept. 25.
“In the innovation agenda, we committed the government
to doubling the number of students receiving direct federal
support for their studies, and now, with the first awards under
the Canada Graduate Scholarships (CGS) program, we’re
delivering on that promise,” said Mr. Rock. “These
students will be well-placed to seize the opportunities presented
by the new economy.”
“Graduate students are producing some of the most exciting
and innovative research at our institution, as well evidenced
by the recipients of the new CGS program,” said Dr. Christopher
Loomis, vice-president (research) at Memorial. “Memorial
University is delighted that SSHRC has developed these new scholarships
which will help make it possible for us to achieve our objective
of growing our research capacity and graduate student numbers.”
Gerard Collins, PhD candidate in English, received a 2003 SSHRC
award for his thesis titled, Ghost Writing: The Postmodernization
of the Ghost in American Literature and Film. His research entails
a study of how notions of genre are shifting as a result of
the times in which we live.
“Boundaries such as those between good and evil, self
and other, are becoming increasingly blurred, while demarcations
of time and space are constantly shifting,” said Mr. Collins
of his research. “In the middle of this chaos stands the
ghost figure. Traditionally, ghosts have been portrayed as symbols
of fear. However, many contemporary Gothic writers and filmmakers
portray them as merely extensions of human existence, figures
of curiosity and reflections of our own values.”
Mr. Collins, born in Placentia, completed a conjoint BA/BEd
at Memorial University and an MA degree in English at Acadia
University in Nova Scotia. He has won the 2001 Percy Janes first
novel award for his manuscript, Finton Moon, as well
as a Newfoundland and Labrador Arts and Letters award for short
fiction and a 2002 arts grant from the Newfoundland and Labrador
Arts Council.
“The SSHRC award means I can take some time off from teaching
and finish my degree quickly, which ought to be helpful in applying
for positions when I'm done.” His dissertation supervisor
is Dr. Noreen Golfman, English.
Jaime Griffis from Peterborough, Ontario, received a CSG for
her research project focussing on craft producers, specifically
quilters and fibre/textile artists and aims to study the various
ways that quilters and fabric artisans create and think of their
cultural identities.
“On receiving this award, I feel encouraged and excited
that research initiatives and projects in the arts are now being
generously supported at the master's level by SSHRC,”
said Ms. Griffis. “The purpose of my research is to explore
how craft producer's identities influence their craft produce
(or not), the reasons why craft producers may incorporate a
Newfoundland ‘style’ in their craft and how they
see the ‘craft’ market in St. John's, Newfoundland.”
Ms. Griffis received a BA (honours) in anthropology from Trent
University, Peterborough, Ontario, in May 2002 and is currently
at Memorial pursing an MA in anthropology at Memorial University.
Jill Allison is also among the 600 applicants who received doctoral
fellowships valued at $19,000 a year for up to four years. Ms.
Allison is bringing her experience as a nurse to her study of
the politics of infertility. Now a PhD candidate in anthropology
at Memorial University, she will examine the debate about “rights”
and “choice” and the implications for families and
governments around the world. Ms. Allison will receive a doctoral
fellowship of $57,000 for three years for her project titled,
Fertile Ground: Political, Moral and Medical Constructions of
Assisted Conception in Ireland.
Memorial recipients include:
Jill Allison, (doctoral fellowship) $57,000
for three years for Fertile ground: political, moral and medical
constructions of assisted conception in Ireland
Krista Baker, (CGS) $17,500 for one year for
The mobilization of a female interest groups in post-communist
Russia
Jennifer Bose, (CGS) $17,500 one year for Domestic
fuel harvesting and the wood stove in the traditional economy
of Newfoundland: a study in material culture and technology
Jennifer Campbell, (CGS) $17,500 one year for
The Huron confederacy of South Central Ontario: subsistence
strategies as indicators of change during the pre, proto, and
historic periods
Margaret Chan, (postdoctoral fellowship) $70,056 two
years for Between cracks: performing identity at traditional
Chinese festivals in Eastern Canada
Gerard Collins, (doctoral fellowship)$19,000
one year for Ghost writing: postmodernization of the ghost figure
in 20th-century American fiction and film
Amanda Crompton, (doctoral fellowship) $57,000
for three years for La colonie de plaisance: a foundation for
French colonial archaeology in Newfoundland
Mieke DeGelder, (CGS) $17,500 for one year
for After apartheid: a gendered approach to Afrikaner-Canadian
migration narratives
Jennifer Dyer, (postdoctoral fellowship) $70,056
for two years for In medias res: interpreting new media art
in the context of art history
Robin Fitzgerald, (CGS) $17,500 for one year for Optimal
depletion paths and the North Sea
Michael Fleming, (doctoral fellowship) $57,000
for three years for The political economy of natural resources
transportation in Atlantic Canada
Heather Gillett, (CGS) $17,500 for one year
for What is a brickmaker: an occupational folklife study of
the brick industry in Chipman, New Brunswick
Jillian Gould, (doctoral fellowship) $38,000
for two years for A Haym within a home: how the elderly Jewish
residents of the Baycrest Terrace make home
Jaime Griffis, (CGS) $17,500 for one year for
Sculpting selves: an exploration of craft producers and cultural
identities in St. John's, Newfoundland
Honna Hodder, (CGS) $17,500 for one year for
Fighting for the forest: the political ecology of wood harvesting
in the main river watershed
Matthew Janes, (CGS) $17,500 for one year for
Annie Ernaux: new questions for the new novel
Sherri Lynn Keating, (CGS) $17,500 for one
year for Grammatical rule acquisition in children with typical
and atypical language skills
Sara Jodi McDavid, (doctoral fellowship) $57,000
for three years for Anticlerical narratives: tradition through
change and crisis in Newfoundland
Dufferin Murray, (doctoral fellowship) $38,000
for two years for In moments of silence: oral narratives of
New Brunswick's second world war veterans
Tara Simmonds, (CGS) $17,500 for one year for
Living museums: the highest form of ethnographic authenticity
Amanda Squires, (CGS) $17,500 for one year for Non-orthographic
perception and manipulation of consonant clusters by dyslexics |
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