Phillip Mackintosh, Brock University

Research

modern city historical Toronto mental health and suicide laissez-faire capitalism poverty employment

Latest funding

Neurasthenia and the Modern City: Mental Health and Laissez-Faire Capitalism in Toronto, 1879-1920
SSHRC · 2020 · Principal investigator
$58,665
Toronto the good: Bourgeois geographies in an English Canadian city before 1920
SSHRC · 2007 · Principal investigator
$52,344

All 2 grants and awards

Neurasthenia and the Modern City: Mental Health and Laissez-Faire Capitalism in Toronto, 1879-1920

Principal investigatorSSHRC2020Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Mackintosh, Phillip

Keywords: modern city; historical Toronto; mental health and suicide; laissez-faire capitalism; poverty; employment

$58,665

Toronto the good: Bourgeois geographies in an English Canadian city before 1920

Principal investigatorSSHRC2007Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Mackintosh, Phillip G.

Keywords: gender; race; class; environmental determinism; science and technology; beauty; morality; public space; planning history; Victorian and Edwardian Toronto

$52,344

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: modern city Dear Professor Mackintosh, 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 modern city 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 "Neurasthenia and the Modern City: Mental Health and Laissez-Faire Capitalism in Toronto, 1879-1920" (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]