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Handel Wright
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Latest funding
- $500,000
Transforming the Lives of Black Children and Youths in Canada
SSHRC · 2023 · Co-investigator
- $85,980
Multiculturalism without guarantees: global models for addressing sociocultural difference in liquid communities
SSHRC · 2009 · Principal investigator
- $999,784
Promised land: the freedom experience of Blacks in Chatham and Dawn settlements
SSHRC · 2007 · Co-investigator
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Transforming the Lives of Black Children and Youths in Canada
Keywords: Adolescent; African; Black; Caribbean; Child; Children; Youth
Multiculturalism without guarantees: global models for addressing sociocultural difference in liquid communities
Principal investigators: Wright, Handel K.
Keywords: multiculturalism; globalization; youth studies; cultural studies; sociocultural difference
Promised land: the freedom experience of Blacks in Chatham and Dawn settlements
Keywords: Canadian history; socio-history; Afro-Canadian; slave-narratives; Black experiences; cultural migration; community buildings; multiculturalism
Canada Research Chair in Comparative Cultural Studies
Principal investigators: Wright, Handel K
Keywords: cultural studies; multiculturalism; youth identities; institutional ethnography; comparative
The Centre for Culture, Identity and Education (CCIE)
Principal investigators: Wright, Handel
Keywords: cultural studies, multiculturalism, youth identities, institutional ethnography, comparative
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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Profile data last refreshed on September 29, 2026 from the university directory, publication records and public research funding records.