Gerald McMaster, OCAD University

Research

indigeneity reverse gaze otherness Indigenous art museum alterity intercultural

Latest funding

Arctic / Amazon: Networks of Global Indigeneity
SSHRC · 2021 · Principal investigator
$24,485
Indigenous views of the other
SSHRC · 2018 · Principal investigator
$322,884
Arctic/Amazon
SSHRC · 2018 · Principal investigator
$25,000

Arctic / Amazon: Networks of Global Indigeneity

Principal investigatorSSHRC2021Connection Grants

Principal investigators: McMaster, Gerald R.

Keywords: Arctic and Amazonian Indigenous; Global Indigeneity; contemporary Indigenous art; Indigenous art activism; climate change; traditional Indigenous knowledge; collaboration; community-based outreach

$24,485

Indigenous views of the other

Principal investigatorSSHRC2018Insight Grants

Principal investigators: McMaster, Gerald R.

Keywords: art; Indigenous; indigeneity; reverse gaze; museum; otherness; alterity; intercultural; transcultural

$322,884

Arctic/Amazon

Principal investigatorSSHRC2018Connection Grants

Principal investigators: McMaster, Gerald R.

Keywords: Arctic and Amazonian Indigenous; global indigeneity; contemporary Indigenous art; Indigenous art activism; climate change; traditional Indigenous knowledge; Indigenous science; collaboration; community-based outreach

$25,000

The entangled gaze: a knowledge-exchange workshop

Principal investigatorSSHRC2018Indigenous Research Capacity and Reconciliation - Connection Grants

Principal investigators: McMaster, Gerald R.

Keywords: Indigenous; artists; museums; traditional knowledge; nation-based scholarship; patrimony; contact zone; community; culture; Elders; database; digital; voice; gaze; ethnology

$39,823

Indigenous Visual Culture and Curatorial Practice

Principal investigatorSSHRC2015Canada Research Chairs

Principal investigators: McMaster, Gerald

Keywords: contact zones; entanglement; indigeneity; indigenous aesthetics; curatorial practice; voice; reverse gaze; otherness; transculturalism; cross-cultural; museology

$1,400,000

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: indigeneity Dear Professor McMaster, 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 indigeneity 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 "Arctic / Amazon: Networks of Global Indigeneity" (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]