Stephanie Rutherford, Trent University

Research

environmental justice environmental racism poverty pollution environmental harm community resilience

Latest funding

TRANSFORMING INSTITUTIONS: Participatory Municipal Politics in the Age of Insecurity
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
$65,507
Towards Decolonizing Ecotoxicology: Collaborative Contaminants Surveillance Programs with Indigenous Nations
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
$125,000
Mapping for Change: Environmental Inequality and Resilience in Nogojiwanong/Peterborough County
SSHRC · 2021 · Principal investigator
$52,749

TRANSFORMING INSTITUTIONS: Participatory Municipal Politics in the Age of Insecurity

Co-investigatorSSHRC2025Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Nichols, Naomi E.

Keywords: social inequality; insecurity; privilege; marginalization; small and mid-sized cities; governance; institutional ethnography; institutional transformation

$65,507

Towards Decolonizing Ecotoxicology: Collaborative Contaminants Surveillance Programs with Indigenous Nations

Co-investigatorSSHRC2024New Frontiers in Research Fund - Exploration

Principal investigators: Buell, Mary-Claire

$125,000

Mapping for Change: Environmental Inequality and Resilience in Nogojiwanong/Peterborough County

Principal investigatorSSHRC2021Partnership Development Grants

Principal investigators: Rutherford, Stephanie L.

Keywords: environmental justice; environmental racism; poverty; pollution; environmental harm; community resilience

$52,749

Mapping for Change: Environmental Inequality and Resilience in Nogojiwanong/Peterborough County

Principal investigatorSSHRC2021Partnership Development Grants

Principal investigators: Rutherford, Stephanie L.

Keywords: environmental justice; environmental racism; poverty; pollution; environmental harm; community resilience

$85,567

Marauders and martyrs: wolves and the making of Canada

Principal investigatorSSHRC2012

Principal investigators: Rutherford, Stephanie L.

Keywords: wolves; Canadian environmental policy; biopolitics; historical geography; environmental history; nationalism; Foucault; Canada

$64,933

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: environmental justice Dear Professor Rutherford, 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 environmental justice 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 "Mapping for Change: Environmental Inequality and Resilience in Nogojiwanong/Peterborough County" (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]