Peter Stephenson, University of Victoria

Research

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Latest funding

Franz Boas papers: documentary edition
SSHRC · 2012 · Co-investigator
$2,500,000
An anthropology of bereavement: a sociocultural analysis of parental grief and mourning
SSHRC · 2007 · Co-investigator
$75,000
New lands and contested identities: living in Flevoland, the Netherlands
SSHRC · 2003 · Principal investigator
$65,878

No publications available.

Franz Boas papers: documentary edition

Co-investigatorSSHRC2012Partnership Grants

Keywords: Franz Boas; history of anthropology; British Columbia ethnology and linguistics; public intellectual; public history; Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl); collaborative anthropology; digital repatriation

$2,500,000

An anthropology of bereavement: a sociocultural analysis of parental grief and mourning

Co-investigatorSSHRC2007Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Macdonald, Mary Ellen

Keywords: anthropology; bereavement; grief; parenthood; palliative care; sociocultural analysis

$75,000

New lands and contested identities: living in Flevoland, the Netherlands

Principal investigatorSSHRC2003Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Stephenson, Peter H.

Keywords: urban anthropology; anthropology of space and place; the Netherlands; life history; aging; adolescence; identity

$65,878

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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