Black, Indigenous, and Racialized Scholar/Research Grant Program
Research Seed Funding
December 2023 Competition
| Name | Department | Project |
| Carolina Arteaga | Economics | The Economic Costs of Weight Discrimination |
| Ghazal Fazli | Geography, Geomatics and Environment | Adopting a Social Justice and Equity Lens to Co-design a Community-based Diabetes Screening Intervention in Peel Region |
| Jue Wang | Geography, Geomatics, and the Environment | Investigating the Spatial Disparities in Community Built Environment and Unjust Noise Exposures for Underprivileged and Racialized Populations in a Canadian Context |
| Sheliza Ibrahim | Institute for Studies in University Pedagogy | Pandemic Pedagogy: Teaching Experiences in Higher Education and Salient Social Justice Moments |
| Hema Ganapathy-Coleman | Psychology | Everyday Life and Meaning-Making Among Asian Indian Immigrants in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) |
| Luisa Farah Schwartzman | Sociology | Racisms, Multiculturalisms and Double-consciousness in the Twenty-first Century GTA |
April 2023 Competition
| Name | Department | Project |
|---|---|---|
| Praneeta Mudaliar | Geography, Geomatics and Environment | Commoning for Climate Justice: Experiences of Black, Indigenous, and Racialized Youth |
| Zeinab Farokhi | Historical Studies | Speaking with the Dead: Archival Mapping and Critical Analysis of Digital Memorialization in the Iranian Diaspora |
| Tong Lam | Historical Studies | Landscapes of Depletion: Uranium Extraction and Its Afterlives |
| Zhaozhe Wang | Institute for the Study of University Pedagogy | A Rhetoric of Disconnect: Survival of the Public in the Digital Age |
| Nadège Compaoré | Political Science | Rituals of Sovereignty: Paradoxes of Resource Nationalism and Extractive State-Making |
| Elizabeth Wijaya | Visual Studies | Haunted Legacies, Spirited Justice: A Research-Creation Short Film Collaboration on Racialized Plantation Lives in Late Colonial Malaya |
April 2022 Competition
| Name | Department | Project |
|---|---|---|
| Matthew Adams | Geography, Geomatics and Environment | Caring for the Thunderbird’s Nest: A Pilot Study Investigating Air Pollution with a Northern Ontario First Nation |
| Shafique Virani | Historical Studies | Racism in Colonial India: Recovering Khwajah Sindhi |
| Tara Vinodrai | Institute for Management and Innovation | Subsidized Housing as Climate and Affordablility Policy? |
| Arturo Chang | Political Science | Imagining America: Hemispheric Vernaculars and Post-Colonial Imaginaries in the New World |
| Hae Yeon Choo | Sociology | Intersectional Resistance in the Aftermath of the Atlanta Shootings |
| Yvonne P. Sherwood | Sociology | When the Land Heals, We Heal |
April 2021 Competition
See twelve inaugural recipients and projects from the first funding call in 2021.
| Name | Department | Project |
|---|---|---|
| Tracey Galloway and Kathi Wilson | Anthropology and GGE | Racialized, Immigrant and Indigenous Community Experiences of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Peel Region |
| Kristen Bos | Historical Studies | Visualizing Cumulative Pollution |
| Negin Dahya | ICCIT | The (Re)formation of Race in Refugee Resettlement: Understanding Race in Forced Migration, Media, and Technology |
| Sonia Kang | Management | Naming and Framing of Minority Group Labels |
| Lisa Kramer | Management | Racism, Economic Decisions, and Financial Outcomes |
| Randy Besco | Political Science | Racism in Canadian Politics and Public Opinion |
| Martha Balaguera Cuervo | Political Science | Transing Epistemologies: Trauma Informed Research with Gender-Variant Participants |
| Joanne Chung | Psychology | Investigating Personality Development During the College Years in a Sample of Racialized Young Adults at the University of Toronto, Mississauga |
| Jerry Flores | Sociology | Broadening Access to the Kaxúmbekua (Way of Life): Saving P’urhépecha Culture Across English Speaking Countries |
| Weiguo Zhang | Sociology | COVID-19 Racism against Chinese in Canada |
Workshop/Outreach Grants