James Cahill, University of Toronto

Research

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Latest funding

How Collective Knowledge Shapes Personal Understanding of Life Transitions
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
$63,934
On the Plurality of Worlds: Cinema and Literature of Exploration from the Little Prince to the Planet of the Apes
SSHRC · 2019 · Principal investigator
$10,458
On the Plurality of Worlds: Cinema and Literature of Exploration from the Little Prince to the Planet of the Apes
SSHRC · 2019 · Principal investigator
$65,521

All 4 grants and awards

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How Collective Knowledge Shapes Personal Understanding of Life Transitions

Co-investigatorSSHRC2025Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Addis, Donna Rose

Keywords: life transitions; collective knowledge; autobiographical memory; future thinking; narrative; natural language processing; psychosocial adjustment

$63,934

On the Plurality of Worlds: Cinema and Literature of Exploration from the Little Prince to the Planet of the Apes

Principal investigatorSSHRC2019Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Cahill, James L.

Keywords: French cinema history and theory; exploration and globalization; decolonization; animals and environment

$10,458

On the Plurality of Worlds: Cinema and Literature of Exploration from the Little Prince to the Planet of the Apes

Principal investigatorSSHRC2019Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Cahill, James L.

Keywords: French cinema history and theory; exploration and globalization; decolonization; animals and environment

$65,521

Documenting nature toward a Copernican cinema in postwar France, 1945-1960

Principal investigatorSSHRC2012

Principal investigators: Cahill, James L.

Keywords: French cinema; wildlife films; film history and theory; ecological thought

$34,014

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 Cahill, 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 "On the Plurality of Worlds: Cinema and Literature of Exploration from the Little Prince to the Planet of the Apes" (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]