Funke Aladejebi, University of Toronto

Research

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Latest funding

Building Black Futurity in Canadian Early Childhood Education
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
$354,089
Women's Activism: Developing an Archival Partnership and Network for Oral History Collection
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
$60,248
Transforming the Lives of Black Children and Youths in Canada
SSHRC · 2023 · Co-investigator
$500,000

All 7 grants and awards

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Building Black Futurity in Canadian Early Childhood Education

Co-investigatorSSHRC2025Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Nxumalo, Fikile

$354,089

Women's Activism: Developing an Archival Partnership and Network for Oral History Collection

Co-investigatorSSHRC2024Partnership Development Grants

Principal investigators: Janovicek, Nancy

Keywords: oral histories; archival practices and preservation; ethics; social justice movements; feminisms; women's activism

$60,248

Transforming the Lives of Black Children and Youths in Canada

Co-investigatorSSHRC2023Partnership Grants

Keywords: Adolescent; African; Black; Caribbean; Child; Children; Youth

$500,000

To Protect and Serve Whom? The Whiteness of Canadian Policing

Co-investigatorSSHRC2023Black Scholars - CGS

Principal investigators: Yankey, Manzah-Kyentoh

Keywords: policing; race; racism; whiteness; critical race theory; Canada

$58,333

Teaching and Transforming Canada: Black International Students and the Push for Racial Justice, 1950s to 1980s

Principal investigatorSSHRC2021Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Aladejebi, Funke

Keywords: Black Canada; Internationalism; International Students; Cold War; Black Studies; Immigration; Student Activism; Foreign Policy; International aid; Black Diaspora

$48,121

Black Lives Matter in New Brunswick Education

Co-investigatorSSHRC2021Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Burkholder, Casey M.

Keywords: Black Lives Matter; cellphilm; community; education; equity; history; oral history; New Brunswick

$26,377

Unsettling the Great White North: Re/Viewing, Re/Visioning, and Re/Imagining Black Canada

Principal investigatorSSHRC2021Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Aladejebi, Funke

Keywords: Black Canadian history; Black studies in Canada; critical race theory; Blackness in Canada; anti-Black racism; inclusion

$24,508

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 Aladejebi, 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 "Teaching and Transforming Canada: Black International Students and the Push for Racial Justice, 1950s to 1980s" (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]