The following successful applicants were awarded grants totaling $49,450

from the Symons Trust Fund for Canadian Studies, January 2016:

Proposal / Submitted By
Support for the creation of a series of digital stories that will be featured on the Yale Indian Papers Project Website. / Professor Paula A. Sherman
Associate Professor
Department of Indigenous Studies
Trent University
Support for the preparation of an index to the forthcoming book, Feasts, Spectacles, Borders: Multicultural Nationalism and Museums in Canada, to be published by UBC Press / Caitlin Gordon-Walker, Ph.D.
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Support forassistance with the publication of a biography on Philip Turnor (1752-1800), tentatively titled, Philip Turnor, Mapmaker and Surveyor for the Hudson’s Bay Company. / Barbara Mitchell,
Writer and editor
Support for the publication of a textbook by Oxford University Press entitled Re-Creation, Fragmentation and Resilience: Canada Since 1945. / Professor Dimitry Anastakis,
Department of History,
Trent University
Support for an interdisciplinary workshop to take place 29- 30 April 2016, entitled Cold Science: Arctic Science in North America During the Cold War, 1945-1991. / Professor Stephen Bocking,
Chair,
Environmental and Resource Studies Program,
Trent University
Support for the coordination of a National Roundtable entitled, Enhancing Education for Sustainability in Canada’s Faculties of Education, June 14-16, 2016. / Dr. Paul Elliott,
School of Education and Professional Learning,
Trent University
Support for research project entitled, From Scene to Seen: Cinematic Cities in Canada, (working title). / Ger Zielinski, Ph.D.,
Research Associate,
Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies,
Trent University,
Support for indexing costs related to the publication of the book, Shelter in a Storm: Revitalizing Feminism in Neoliberal Ontario, based on research undertaken during doctoral studies at the Frost Centre. / Casey Ready, Ph.D.
Support for the project, Dating a First Nations Ceramic Tradition, through the funding of AMS dates utilizing carbon residue for 5 Transitional period ceramic vessels. / Professor William A. Fox,
Department of Anthropology,
Trent University
Support for an upcoming academic workshop and book project entitled, Omnibus 1969: Revamping Canadian Morality. / Professor Christabelle Sethna, University of Ottawa, and
Professor Christopher Dummitt,
Department of Canadian Studies,
Trent University
Support for ongoing research project entitled, Arctic Infrastructures, examining the current development of telecommunications infrastructures in the Canadian Arctic. / Dr. Rafico Ruiz,
Roberta Bondar Postdoctoral Fellow in Northern and Polar Studies,
FQRSC Postdoctoral Fellow,
Environmental and Resource Studies Program,
Trent University
Support for the annual one day Northern Studies Student Colloquium event. / Coral Voss and Vaughn Mangal,
Co-Chairs,
Trent Northern Studies Student Colloquium,
Trent University
Support for travel to complete in-person interviews for thesis research related to the state of alliance building between primarily non-Indigenous Canadian environmental justice organizations and Indigenous justice organizations. / Emma Langley,
Masters Student,
Sustainability Studies Program
Trent University
Support for costs related to northern fieldwork and laboratory analyses for the project entitled, Ungulates, Islands and Ice in the Arctic Archipelago – The Relationship of Caribou and Muskoxen to a Changing Environment. / Professor James Schaefer,
Director,
Environmental and Life Sciences Graduate Program,
Trent University
Support for operating costs related to the Thomas H.B. Symons Seminar Series on Graduate Student Research. / Jessica Lee and Charise Currier,
Coordinators for the Thomas H.B. Symons Seminar Series on Graduate Student Research,
Trent University
Support for mitochondrial DNA analysis of bobcats and lynx tissues. / Robby R. Marrotte,
Ph.D. Student,
Environmental and Life Sciences Graduate Program,
Trent University
Support to help offset the cost of travelling to Canberra, Australia to make a joint presentation entitled, Collegiality and Compromise: A Canadian Perspective on How to Strike a Balance Between Centralized Student Services and College Autonomy, at the Collegiate Way Conference in November, 2016. / Dr. Michael Eamon, Principal,
Catharine Parr Traill College and Ms. Melanie Sedge, Head, Champlain College,
Trent University
Support for the MASS Colloquium for Sustainability Education under the theme of ‘Sustainability: Conversations about Wicked Problems’. / M.A. in Sustainability Studies (MASS),
Trust Fund Student Committee,
Trent University
Support for travel costs related to field research on the restoration of Northern Wild Rice in Kawartha Lakes.
/ Nicholas Weissflog,
Masters student in Environmental and Life Sciences Program,
Trent University
Support for research project entitled, “Poverty Capitals” and the Politics of the Welfare State in the 1960s. / Dr. David Tough,
Research Fellow,
Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies,
Trent University
Support for the cost of 6 video interviews related to a documentary film on the Kawartha Lakes Water Walks. / Professor Emeritus Shirley Williams,
Department of Indigenous Studies,
Trent University

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