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Joan Schwartz
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Latest funding
- $186,845
Picturing Canada: photographic images and geographical imaginings in British North America, 1839-1889
SSHRC · 2014 · Principal investigator
- $44,393
Envisioning Canada: the contribution of photographic publications to the creation of a national imaginary in mid-nineteenth-century Canada
SSHRC · 2006 · Principal investigator
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Picturing Canada: photographic images and geographical imaginings in British North America, 1839-1889
Principal investigators: Schwartz, Joan M.
Keywords: history of photography in Canada; nineteenth-century visual culture; geographical imagination; social history of photographic practice; photographic archives
Envisioning Canada: the contribution of photographic publications to the creation of a national imaginary in mid-nineteenth-century Canada
Principal investigators: Schwartz, Joan M.
Keywords: sense of place; landscape and identity; photography; print culture; visual representation; nineteenth-century Canada; nation-building
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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