Cheryl Suzack, University of Toronto

Research

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Latest funding

Heiltsuk Women as Architects of Governance: Documenting Heiltsuk Women's Activism and Community Resurgence in the Aftermath of an Oil Spill
SSHRC · 2019 · Principal investigator
$74,298
Recovering a tribal voice in justice Thurgood Marshall's Indian law cases
SSHRC · 2018 · Principal investigator
$96,224
Gender counterfactuals in justice Thurgood Marshall's Indian law cases
SSHRC · 2012 · Principal investigator
$61,277

All 3 grants and awards

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Heiltsuk Women as Architects of Governance: Documenting Heiltsuk Women's Activism and Community Resurgence in the Aftermath of an Oil Spill

Principal investigatorSSHRC2019Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Suzack, Cheryl

Keywords: (1) Indigenous Women; (2) Indigenous Knowledge; (3) Indigenous Resurgence; (4) Heiltsuk First Nation; (5) Oral History; (6) Reconciliation; (7) Activism

$74,298

Recovering a tribal voice in justice Thurgood Marshall's Indian law cases

Principal investigatorSSHRC2018Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Suzack, Cheryl L.

Keywords: American Indian literature; law and humanities scholarship; settler-colonial studies; comparative racialization studies; narrative studies; law and justice; slavery; Indigenous dispossession

$96,224

Gender counterfactuals in justice Thurgood Marshall's Indian law cases

Principal investigatorSSHRC2012

Principal investigators: Suzack, Cheryl L.

Keywords: indigenous studies; indigenous storytelling and law; legal history; feminist legal studies; digital archiving

$61,277

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 Suzack, 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 "Heiltsuk Women as Architects of Governance: Documenting Heiltsuk Women's Activism and Community Resurgence in the Aftermath of an Oil Spill" (2019), 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]