Bonnie McElhinny, University of Toronto

Research

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Latest funding

Thirteen moon journey and gathering
SSHRC · 2018 · Principal investigator
$48,775
Racial hierarchies, imperial circuits and health care in Canada: international and immigrant nurses working in indigenous communities 1945-1985
SSHRC · 2012 · Principal investigator
$22,542
Infants, imperialism and the international regulation of motherhood: North American interventions into Filipino child-rearing practices, 1908-2008
SSHRC · 2005 · Principal investigator
$97,807

All 5 grants and awards

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Thirteen moon journey and gathering

Principal investigatorSSHRC2018Indigenous Research Capacity and Reconciliation - Connection Grants

Principal investigators: McElhinny, Bonnie S.

Keywords: ceremony; health; women; thirteen moons; mino-bimaadiziwin; decolonizing time; place and personhood; resurgence

$48,775

Racial hierarchies, imperial circuits and health care in Canada: international and immigrant nurses working in indigenous communities 1945-1985

Principal investigatorSSHRC2012Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: McElhinny, Bonnie S.

Keywords: Aboriginal peoples; healthcare; immigration; nursing; Philippines; Caribbean; imperialism; settler colonialism; race; indigeneity; international students

$22,542

Infants, imperialism and the international regulation of motherhood: North American interventions into Filipino child-rearing practices, 1908-2008

Principal investigatorSSHRC2005Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: McElhinny, Bonnie S.

Keywords: child-rearing; colonialism; gender and imperialism; critical discourse analysis; politics of comparison; ethnohistory

$97,807

Language, Gender and Political Economy

Principal investigatorSSHRC2002Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences in Canada

Principal investigators: McElhinny, Bonnie S.

Keywords: language and gender; political economy; discourse; language and work; language and consumption; language and sexuality; language and nation-formation; language and ideology

$9,860

Cross-cultural caregiving: a language socialization perspective on Filipina domestic workers in Canadian households

Principal investigatorSSHRC2000Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: McElhinny, Bonnie

Keywords: Language socialization; language and gender; women's work; childcare; domestic work; Philippines; language and political economy; language and work

$60,000

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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