Alyssa Woods, University of Guelph

Research

Latest funding

Sharing Sonic Spaces: Intersecting Cosubjectivities in Popular Music Song Collaborations
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
$45,565
Improvising Futures
SSHRC · 2022 · Co-investigator
$500,000
Temptation and the God Flow: Sound and Signification in Post-Conversion Hip-Hop
SSHRC · 2021 · Principal investigator
$46,096

Sharing Sonic Spaces: Intersecting Cosubjectivities in Popular Music Song Collaborations

Co-investigatorSSHRC2025Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Burns, Lori A.

Keywords: popular music; collaboration; cultural expression; music industry; style and genre; intersectionality; relationality; multimodality

$45,565

Improvising Futures

Co-investigatorSSHRC2022Partnership Grants

Keywords: improvisation; collaboration; social justice; arts-based community making; community engagement

$500,000

Temptation and the God Flow: Sound and Signification in Post-Conversion Hip-Hop

Principal investigatorSSHRC2021Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Woods, Alyssa

Keywords: Hip hop; Popular music analysis; Religious Expression; Religious Conversion; Critical Race Studies; Music production; Flow; Music video analysis; Sound Studies

$46,096

Improvising Futures

Co-investigatorSSHRC2021Partnership Grants

Keywords: improvisation; collaboration; social justice; arts-based community making; community engagement

$1,000,000

Improvising Futures

Co-investigatorSSHRC2021Partnership Grants

Keywords: improvisation; collaboration; social justice; arts-based community making; community engagement

$20,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

Write to this professor

A short, specific email works best. This draft uses one of their recent papers; replace the parts in brackets with your own details before sending.

Applying for

Mention their SSHRC grant from 2021

Subject: Prospective PhD student: Hip hop Dear Professor Woods, 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 hip hop 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 "Temptation and the God Flow: Sound and Signification in Post-Conversion Hip-Hop" (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]