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Lauren Beck

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Professor, Visual & Material Culture StudiesMount Allison University

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Research

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identity gender race indigeneity Americas place nomenclature text and image languages settler-colonial studies

Latest funding

Place Name Policy and Identity in the 21st Century: North America
SSHRC · 2025 · Principal investigator
$65,701
Atlantic Approaches to Material Culture
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
$34,537
Visualizing Far-Right Groups through Medievalism and Early Modernism
SSHRC · 2023 · Principal investigator
$73,509

All 16 grants and awards

Place Name Policy and Identity in the 21st Century: North America

Principal investigatorSSHRC2025Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Beck, Lauren

Keywords: Place Names and Assets; Policy; Identity

$65,701

Atlantic Approaches to Material Culture

Co-investigatorSSHRC2024Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Binkley, Lisa L.

Keywords: conference; meeting; material culture; folklore; archaeology; objects; museum; collaboration

$34,537

Visualizing Far-Right Groups through Medievalism and Early Modernism

Principal investigatorSSHRC2023Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Beck, Lauren

Keywords: Identity; Medievalism; Early Modernism; Coats of Arms; Logos; Ideology; Visual Culture; Far-Right Groups

$73,509

Market Evaluation for Web Metadata Auditing Suite based on Digital Humanities Research

Co-investigatorNSERC2023Idea to Innovation

Principal investigators: Cormier, Michael MJ

Keywords: Metadata; Search engine optimization; Web accessibility; Web page; Web site

$15,000

Identity in Canadian Place Name Policy: A Knowledge Synthesis

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Knowledge Synthesis Grants - Shifting Dynamics of Privilege and Marginalization

Principal investigators: Beck, Lauren

Keywords: identity; place names; policy; incorporated settlements; provinces; territories

$30,000

Intercultural Encounter

Principal investigatorSSHRC2021Canada Research Chairs

Principal investigators: Beck, Lauren

Keywords: visual culture 1400-1900 early-modern world digital humanities marginalized groups identity gender race colonization transatlantic studies

$100,000

Intercultural Encounter

Principal investigatorSSHRC2021Canada Research Chairs

Principal investigators: Beck, Lauren

$200,000

Honouring Our Place: Women, Indigenous People, and People of Colour in the Place Names and Place Emblems of the Americas

Principal investigatorSSHRC2020Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Beck, Lauren

Keywords: Americas; place nomenclature text and image; languages; gender; race; indigeneity; settler-colonial studies; identity

$65,913

Honouring Our Place: Women, Indigenous People, and People of Colour in the Place Names and Place Emblems of the Americas

Principal investigatorSSHRC2020Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Beck, Lauren

Keywords: Americas; place nomenclature text and image; languages; gender; race; indigeneity; settler-colonial studies; identity

$27,706

Mitji--Let's Eat! Mi'kmaq Recipes from Sikniktuk

Principal investigatorSSHRC2020Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Beck, Lauren

Keywords: Mi'kmaw; Mi'kmagi; Mi'kmaq cuisine; New Brunswick; Atlantic Canada; culinary history; Indigenous knowledge; recipes; food history

$21,300

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

Profile data last refreshed on September 27, 2026 from the university directory, publication records and CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding.

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