Eric Jennings, University of Toronto

Research

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Latest funding

The Long Occupation: France's Atlantic Pockets
SSHRC · 2025 · Principal investigator
$39,480
Vanilla, a global commodity: empire, transformation and tastes
SSHRC · 2018 · Principal investigator
$150,582
Exodus and encounter: Martinique, 1940-1945
SSHRC · 2012 · Principal investigator
$73,520

All 7 grants and awards

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The Long Occupation: France's Atlantic Pockets

Principal investigatorSSHRC2025Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Jennings, Eric T.

Keywords: World War II; France; Violence; Colonial troops; Civilians; Occupation

$39,480

Vanilla, a global commodity: empire, transformation and tastes

Principal investigatorSSHRC2018Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Jennings, Eric T.

Keywords: vanilla; consumption; colonial history

$150,582

Exodus and encounter: Martinique, 1940-1945

Principal investigatorSSHRC2012Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Jennings, Eric T.

Keywords: French Caribbean; French Colonial; migration; Vichy France; World War II

$73,520

The colonial city in a war of decolonization: a social and cultural history of Saigon during the Indochina War, 1945-1954

Co-investigatorSSHRC2010Standard Research Grants program

Principal investigators: Goscha, Christopher E.

Keywords: Indochina War; city; Indochina; Vietnam; Saigon; culture; society; migration; food; violence; economy; Vietnamese; French; Chinese; Indians

$62,000

Africa as Free France: French Equatorial Africa under and after de Gaulle's Free French

Principal investigatorSSHRC2009Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Jennings, Eric T.

Keywords: French Equatorial Africa; Afrique equatoriale française; French colonial history; World War II France

$59,000

Dalat, 1880-1954: cloning France in highland Vietnam

Principal investigatorSSHRC2004Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Jennings, Eric T.

Keywords: colonialism; leisure; power; urbanism; geography; climate and climatology; disease avoidance; colonial nostalgia

$56,000

Imperial waters: culture, medicine, race and French colonial balneology

Principal investigatorSSHRC1999Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Jennings, Eric

Keywords: Colonial medicine; colonial studies; sites of power; balneology; hill stations; racism

$35,544

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 Jennings, 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 "The Long Occupation: France's Atlantic Pockets" (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]