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Research
Latest funding
- $499,993
Our Research Futures: Indigenous Pathways for Research in Higher Education
SSHRC · 2025 · Principal investigator
- $29,178
Mapping Chant Transmission across Indigenous and Immigrant Cultural Contexts
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
- $24,975
Informing the Sound Communities Inc. Sustainable Growth Plan
SSHRC · 2024 · Principal investigator
Our Research Futures: Indigenous Pathways for Research in Higher Education
Principal investigators: Ostashewski, Marcia M.
Mapping Chant Transmission across Indigenous and Immigrant Cultural Contexts
Principal investigators: Pearse, Doreen E. Linda
Informing the Sound Communities Inc. Sustainable Growth Plan
Principal investigators: Ostashewski, Marcia
Keywords: music industry; EDI; reconciliation; decolonization; community economic development; Indigenous research; Mi'kmaw; First Nations; non profit
Impact Award: Connection
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
Connecting and Learning with Culture Bearers and Communities: Working Toward EDIA, Indigenization, Reconciliation and Decolonization through Music and Arts
Principal investigators: Howard, Patrick
Keywords: education; music; arts education; music education; ethnomusicology; EDIA; reconciliation; decolonization; Indigenous; Black; African; Acadian; Francophone; Muslim; Ukrainian; bilingual; multilingual; community-engaged; learning; culture bearers
Indigenous Connections: Sharing and Learning Mi'kmaw and Maori Music, Arts, and Language
Principal investigators: Sylvester, Laurianne
Keywords: Indigenous; music; dance; language; Etuaptmumk; Two-Eyed Seeing; knowledge exchange; culture bearers; performance
Islands of Belonging in a Transphobic Sea: The Intangible Sisterhood of 20th-Century North American Transfeminine Periodical Communities
Principal investigators: Pihlak, Chris
Keywords: trans history; gender history; queer history; periodical history; social history; histories of gender construction; histories of subcultural networks
Digital Analysis of Chant Transmission
Keywords: musicology; manuscripts; plainchant; manuscript fragments; data science; software development; database; colonialism; Indigenous chant; Canadian library collections; medieval studies; liturgy; notation; palaeography; book production
'Toujours chantante': Acadian Songs and Acadian French Vernaculars on Cape Breton Island
Principal investigators: Forsyth, Meghan
Keywords: Acadian; Language varieties; Song traditions; Sociolinguistics; Ethnomusicology; Minorities; French; Cape Breton Island; Community and language sustainability; Collaborative research
Launching the Smithsonian Folkways Recordings Canada Series
Principal investigators: Ostashewski, Marcia M.
Keywords: ethnomusicology; Indigenous; African; Canada; audio-video production; digital humanities; public engagement; music education; reconciliation; decolonization; heritage; public memory; culture; ethnicity; research-creation; collaborative research
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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