Jan Grabowski, University of Ottawa

Research

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Latest funding

Liquidations of Ghettos in Eastern Poland
SSHRC · 2025 · Principal investigator
$241,575
Impact Award: Insight
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$50,000
Open Ghettos in Occupied Poland: A Study of Institutional and Social Control
SSHRC · 2020 · Principal investigator
$66,250

All 10 grants and awards

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Liquidations of Ghettos in Eastern Poland

Principal investigatorSSHRC2025Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Grabowski, Jan

$241,575

Impact Award: Insight

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Award

Principal investigators: Grabowski, Jan

Keywords: history; legal history; history of the Holocaust; history of New France; ethnic history

$50,000

Open Ghettos in Occupied Poland: A Study of Institutional and Social Control

Principal investigatorSSHRC2020Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Grabowski, Jan

Keywords: Holocaust; Jews; Poland; ghetto; World War II

$66,250

Open Ghettos in Occupied Poland: A Study of Institutional and Social Control

Principal investigatorSSHRC2020Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Grabowski, Jan

Keywords: Holocaust; Jews; Poland; ghetto; World War II

$197,700

Polish Blue Police, bystanders and the Holocaust in occupied Poland, 1939-1945

Principal investigatorSSHRC2016Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Grabowski, Jan

Keywords: Holocaust; Jews; Poland; Police

$191,950

Jewish survival strategies: Poland 1942-1945

Principal investigatorSSHRC2012

Principal investigators: Grabowski, Jan

Keywords: holocaust; history; World War II; Jews; microhistory

$199,080

Aryanisation the theft of Jewish property in occupied Poland Generalgouvernement, 1939-1945

Principal investigatorSSHRC2011

Principal investigators: Grabowski, Jan

Keywords: holocaust; Jews; arianisation; theft; property; 2 World War; Poland

$45,000

Jewish survival strategies in the Warsaw District of the Generalgouvernement, 1942-1945

Principal investigatorSSHRC2008Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Grabowski, Jan

Keywords: holocaust; Jews; Poland

$49,000

A society under siege: Warsaw, 1939-1945

Principal investigatorSSHRC2005Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Grabowski, Jan

Keywords: World War II; German occupation; Polish-Jewish-German relations

$65,201

A breed apart: Montréal Iroquois voyageurs in the west, 1792-1830

Principal investigatorSSHRC1997Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Grabowski, Jan

Keywords: Fur trade; Iroquois; native peoples; voyageurs; migration and ethnicity

$22,480

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 Dear Professor Grabowski, 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 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 "Liquidations of Ghettos in Eastern Poland" (2025), 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]