Karen Ferguson, Simon Fraser University

Research

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Latest funding

Thinking Through Action: Twentieth-Century Social Movements and Their Legacy
SSHRC · 2004 · Principal investigator
$20,000
The Ford Foundation and the transformation of racial liberalism, 1966-1975
SSHRC · 2002 · Principal investigator
$52,150

All 2 grants and awards

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Thinking Through Action: Twentieth-Century Social Movements and Their Legacy

Principal investigatorSSHRC2004Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences in Canada

Principal investigators: Ferguson, Karen J.

Keywords: social movements; history; activism; organizing; internationalism; peace; civil rights; labour

$20,000

The Ford Foundation and the transformation of racial liberalism, 1966-1975

Principal investigatorSSHRC2002Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Ferguson, Karen J.

Keywords: black power; philanthropy; american liberalism; cultural pluralism; economic development; American politics

$52,150

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.

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