Kirk Niergarth, Mount Royal University

Research

Read how they describe their research on their Mount Royal University profile.

Latest funding

Challenging Labour: Working-Class Experiences in Canada, Past, Present, and Future / Le défi du travail : L'expérience de la classe ouvrière au Canada, dans le passé, au présent, et à l'avenir
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$25,000
Unsettling the settler artist: reframing the Canadian visual arts, 1867 to the present
SSHRC · 2017 · Co-investigator
$94,618
Through the looking glass and back: Canadian tourists and the Soviet Union, 1921-1939
SSHRC · 2011 · Principal investigator
$37,590

All 3 grants and awards

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Challenging Labour: Working-Class Experiences in Canada, Past, Present, and Future / Le défi du travail : L'expérience de la classe ouvrière au Canada, dans le passé, au présent, et à l'avenir

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Niergarth, Kirk R.

Keywords: work; capitalism; colonialism; class; race; ethnicity; gender; social reproduction; social change; working-class culture

$25,000

Unsettling the settler artist: reframing the Canadian visual arts, 1867 to the present

Co-investigatorSSHRC2017Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Morton, Erin D.

Keywords: settler colonialism; Canadian cultural history; Canadian art; history of museum collecting; Indigenous studies; Canadian regionalism

$94,618

Through the looking glass and back: Canadian tourists and the Soviet Union, 1921-1939

Principal investigatorSSHRC2011Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Niergarth, Kirk

Keywords: intellectual history; cultural history; political history; tourism; online database; annotated bibliography

$37,590

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student Dear Professor Niergarth, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "Challenging Labour: Working-Class Experiences in Canada, Past, Present, and Future / Le défi du travail : L'expérience de la classe ouvrière au Canada, dans le passé, au présent, et à l'avenir" (2022), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]