Laurianne Sylvester, Cape Breton University

Research

Indigenous music dance language Etuaptmumk Two-Eyed Seeing knowledge exchange culture bearers

Latest funding

Our Research Futures: Indigenous Pathways for Research in Higher Education
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
$499,993
Impact Award: Connection
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
$50,000
Indigenous Connections: Sharing and Learning Mi'kmaw and Maori Music, Arts, and Language
SSHRC · 2024 · Principal investigator
$84,420

All 5 grants and awards

Our Research Futures: Indigenous Pathways for Research in Higher Education

Co-investigatorSSHRC2025Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Ostashewski, Marcia M.

$499,993

Impact Award: Connection

Co-investigatorSSHRC2024Connection Award

Principal investigators: Ostashewski, Marcia

Keywords: ethnomusicology; dance; ethnography; communities; performance; media; intercultural; intersectionality; gender; ethnicity; interactive multimedia; collaborative methods; Central/Eastern European; immigrant; diaspora; Indigenous

$50,000

Indigenous Connections: Sharing and Learning Mi'kmaw and Maori Music, Arts, and Language

Principal investigatorSSHRC2024Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Sylvester, Laurianne

Keywords: Indigenous; music; dance; language; Etuaptmumk; Two-Eyed Seeing; knowledge exchange; culture bearers; performance

$84,420

Islands of Belonging in a Transphobic Sea: The Intangible Sisterhood of 20th-Century North American Transfeminine Periodical Communities

Co-investigatorSSHRC2023Canada Graduate Scholarships - Doctoral

Principal investigators: Pihlak, Chris

Keywords: trans history; gender history; queer history; periodical history; social history; histories of gender construction; histories of subcultural networks

$181,763

Digital Analysis of Chant Transmission

Co-investigatorSSHRC2022Partnership Grants

Keywords: musicology; manuscripts; plainchant; manuscript fragments; data science; software development; database; colonialism; Indigenous chant; Canadian library collections; medieval studies; liturgy; notation; palaeography; book production

$355,284

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: Indigenous Dear Professor Sylvester, 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 indigenous 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 "Indigenous Connections: Sharing and Learning Mi'kmaw and Maori Music, Arts, and Language" (2024), 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]