Russell Smandych, University of Manitoba

Research

media conflict politics journalism security crime corruption insurgencies

Latest funding

Reframing Media Studies of Crime, Insurgencies, and Counterterrorism in Nigeria: Toward a New Multi-Disciplinary Criminology-Mass Communication Stakeholder Approach
SSHRC · 2020 · Principal investigator
$58,487
The discursive construction of legal subjects and sensibilities in four 19th-century British settler colonies: toward a comparative historical sociology of colonial law
SSHRC · 2006 · Principal investigator
$53,957
Children and colonialism in Canadian history: a study of the nature and effect of changing European and Euro-Canadian images of Aboriginal childhood to 1950
SSHRC · 1996 · Co-investigator
$4,761

Reframing Media Studies of Crime, Insurgencies, and Counterterrorism in Nigeria: Toward a New Multi-Disciplinary Criminology-Mass Communication Stakeholder Approach

Principal investigatorSSHRC2020Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Smandych, Russell

Keywords: media; conflict; politics; journalism; security; crime; corruption; insurgencies; counterterrorism; peacebuilding

$58,487

The discursive construction of legal subjects and sensibilities in four 19th-century British settler colonies: toward a comparative historical sociology of colonial law

Principal investigatorSSHRC2006Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Smandych, Russell C.

Keywords: comparative historical sociology; criminal justice history; Indigenous peoples and the law; comparative common law legal history; legal pluralism; colonial governmentality; colonialism and postcolonialism

$53,957

Children and colonialism in Canadian history: a study of the nature and effect of changing European and Euro-Canadian images of Aboriginal childhood to 1950

Co-investigatorSSHRC1996Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: McGillivray, Anne

Keywords: law; colonialism; children; Canadian First Nations; child welfare; social theory

$4,761

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: media Dear Professor Smandych, 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 on media 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 "Reframing Media Studies of Crime, Insurgencies, and Counterterrorism in Nigeria: Toward a New Multi-Disciplinary Criminology-Mass Communication Stakeholder Approach" (2020), 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]