Philip Zachernuk, Dalhousie University

Research

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Latest funding

Oceans Apart, Worlds Together: African and Asian Comparisons and Linkages
SSHRC · 2002 · Principal investigator
$10,000
Other inventions of Africa: the writing of history in colonial Southern Nigeria
SSHRC · 1998 · Principal investigator
$47,500

All 2 grants and awards

No publications available.

Oceans Apart, Worlds Together: African and Asian Comparisons and Linkages

Principal investigatorSSHRC2002Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences in Canada

Principal investigators: Zachernuk, Philip S.

Keywords: African and Asian studies; development; gender; conflict; rural livelihoods; colonial history

$10,000

Other inventions of Africa: the writing of history in colonial Southern Nigeria

Principal investigatorSSHRC1998Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Zachernuk, Philip

Keywords: Nigerian history; African historiography; colonial studies; intellectual history

$47,500

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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