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Hilary Cunningham

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Associate Professor Emeritus/EmeritaDepartment of AnthropologyUniversity of Toronto

Hilary Cunningham

Associate Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Department of Anthropology

Faculty of Arts and Science

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Emeritus professors are retired and rarely take new students.
No publications on record.
Principal investigator on 4 research grants (4 SSHRC), most recently in 2019.

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Latest funding

Fur, Feathers and Phobias: The Role of Fear and Compassion in Animal Sanctuaries
SSHRC · 2019 · Principal investigator
$89,000
Nature and its edges: borders, boundaries and the politics of enclosures in wilderness areas
SSHRC · 2008 · Principal investigator
$100,170
Securing the homeland: local communities in the context of new security practices at the U.S.-Canada border
SSHRC · 2005 · Principal investigator
$47,834

All 6 grants and awards

Fur, Feathers and Phobias: The Role of Fear and Compassion in Animal Sanctuaries

Principal investigatorSSHRC2019Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Cunningham, Hilary

Keywords: sanctuaries; animal welfare; ecophobia; sustainable multi-species societies; multi species ethnography; ecology-social aspects; environment-animals; nature-philosophy

$89,000

Nature and its edges: borders, boundaries and the politics of enclosures in wilderness areas

Principal investigatorSSHRC2008Research Grants - Canadian Environmental Issues

Principal investigators: Cunningham, Hilary

Keywords: nature conservation-political and cultural aspects; landscape assessment and perception; Canada; borders and boundaries of natural areas; environmental conflict; political ecology

$100,170

Securing the homeland: local communities in the context of new security practices at the U.S.-Canada border

Principal investigatorSSHRC2005Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Cunningham, Hilary

Keywords: borders; states; sovereignty; national security; mobility rights; political economy; social history; social theory

$47,834

Activists beyond or across borders: transnational social movements and sovereignties in transition

Principal investigatorSSHRC2001Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Cunningham, Hilary

Keywords: globalization; transnational social movements; popular protest; sovereignty; international politics

$65,000

Genetic markets, indigenous knowledge and the globalization of intellectual property norms

Co-investigatorSSHRC2000Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Coombe, Rosemary

Keywords: Indigenous peoples; intellectual property; genetic resources; contract; property; indigenous knowledge; human rights; folklore; cultural property; cultural identity

$68,876

Genetic Markets: Indigenous peoples in transitional economic relationships

Co-investigatorSSHRC1999Relationships in Transition

Principal investigators: Coombe, Rosemary

$20,000

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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