Irina Mihalache, University of Toronto

Research

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Latest funding

Building Inclusive Cities: How Oral Histories Inform Equity-based Community Planning and Heritage Policies and Practices
SSHRC · 2021 · Co-investigator
$46,976
Cooking under a Picasso: Women's Committees and Culinary Infrastructures in Art Museums
SSHRC · 2019 · Principal investigator
$57,993
Interpretation as field: Museum professionals between ideology and practice
SSHRC · 2019 · Principal investigator
$65,678

All 3 grants and awards

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Building Inclusive Cities: How Oral Histories Inform Equity-based Community Planning and Heritage Policies and Practices

Co-investigatorSSHRC2021Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Zhuang, Zhixi

Keywords: inclusive city; oral history; equity; planning; heritage; museum study; arts; community-based; interdisciplinary; intersectoral

$46,976

Cooking under a Picasso: Women's Committees and Culinary Infrastructures in Art Museums

Principal investigatorSSHRC2019Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Mihalache, Irina

Keywords: women's committees; art museums; food; food programming; domesticity; archives

$57,993

Interpretation as field: Museum professionals between ideology and practice

Principal investigatorSSHRC2019Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Mihalache, Irina

Keywords: (1) Interpretation; (2) Museums; (3) Communities of practice; (4) Field; (5) History of professional field

$65,678

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 Mihalache, 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 "Cooking under a Picasso: Women's Committees and Culinary Infrastructures in Art Museums" (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]