Bruce Curtis, Carleton University

Research

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Latest funding

Studies in the cultural history of taxation in Canada
SSHRC · 2007 · Co-investigator
$88,000
Governing Lower Canada through education
SSHRC · 2005 · Principal investigator
$109,916
Educational enquiry and the social science in insurrectionary lower Canada
SSHRC · 2002 · Principal investigator
$60,579

All 4 grants and awards

No publications available.

Studies in the cultural history of taxation in Canada

Co-investigatorSSHRC2007Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Tillotson, Shirley M.

Keywords: taxation; history; Canada; political culture

$88,000

Governing Lower Canada through education

Principal investigatorSSHRC2005Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Curtis, Bruce M.

Keywords: education; schooling; literacy; political sociology; state formation; Lower Canada; liberalism; governmentality; colonialism

$109,916

Educational enquiry and the social science in insurrectionary lower Canada

Principal investigatorSSHRC2002Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Curtis, Bruce M.

Keywords: education policy; state formation; development of the social sciences; history of statistics; sociology of knowledge; Quebec history and politics

$60,579

Cholera, sanitation and public health in central Canada, 1861-1891

Principal investigatorSSHRC1997Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Curtis, Bruce

Keywords: State and government; public health; education; social investigation

$39,100

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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