Liam Young, Carleton University

Research

media theory salt media history archiving commodity history history of science art food cultures

Latest funding

Salt: Thresholds of Taste and Time
SSHRC · 2021 · Principal investigator
$58,819
Into the Air: An International Symposium on Communication and Media Theory
SSHRC · 2019 · Principal investigator
$25,000

Salt: Thresholds of Taste and Time

Principal investigatorSSHRC2021Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Young, Liam

Keywords: salt; media history; media theory; archiving; commodity history; history of science; art; food cultures; mining; infrastructure

$58,819

Into the Air: An International Symposium on Communication and Media Theory

Principal investigatorSSHRC2019Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Young, Liam C.

Keywords: communication; media theory; intellectual history; knowledge mobilization; scholarly communication

$25,000

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: media theory Dear Professor Young, 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 media theory 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 "Salt: Thresholds of Taste and Time" (2021), 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]