Nuno Porto, University of British Columbia

Research

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Latest funding

Carceral Care: Prison Healthcare and Medical Power in Canada, 1940-1970
SSHRC · 2023 · Co-investigator
$253,586
The Transformative Memory International Network
SSHRC · 2022 · Co-investigator
$456,954

All 2 grants and awards

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Carceral Care: Prison Healthcare and Medical Power in Canada, 1940-1970

Co-investigatorSSHRC2023Canada Graduate Scholarships - Doctoral

Principal investigators: Fruchtman, Sara E.

Keywords: legal history; history of medicine; justice; prisons; institutional healthcare; doctors

$253,586

The Transformative Memory International Network

Co-investigatorSSHRC2022Partnership Grants

Keywords: transformative memory; political violence; war; genocide; slavery; settler colonialism; Indigenous methodologies

$456,954

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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