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Joshua Barker

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ProfessorDepartment of AnthropologyUniversity of Toronto

Joshua Barker

Professor

Department of Anthropology

Faculty of Arts and Science

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Principal investigator on 3 research grants (3 SSHRC), most recently in 2025.

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Latest funding

Imagining Ethical Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Futures
SSHRC · 2025 · Principal investigator
$459,160
Infrastructures of Ethnography
SSHRC · 2021 · Co-investigator
$112,158
Infrastructures of Ethnography
SSHRC · 2021 · Co-investigator
$54,204

All 7 grants and awards

Imagining Ethical Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Futures

Principal investigatorSSHRC2025Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Barker, Joshua D.

$459,160

Infrastructures of Ethnography

Co-investigatorSSHRC2021Partnership Development Grants

Principal investigators: Hetherington, Kregg

Keywords: ethnography; infrastructure; multimodal methods

$112,158

Infrastructures of Ethnography

Co-investigatorSSHRC2021Partnership Development Grants

Principal investigators: Hetherington, Kregg

Keywords: ethnography; infrastructure; multimodal methods

$54,204

'Ubering' the city: understanding transportation and ride-hailing applications

Co-investigatorSSHRC2017Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Gibbings, Sheri Lynn

Keywords: transportation; infrastructure; ride-hailing applications; cars; motorbikes; employment; taxis; passengers; public sphere; technology; informality; urban studies; ethnography; Canada; Indonesia

$205,065

Urban Infrastructures and Informal Sovereignties: Understanding Twenty-First Century Urban Politics

Co-investigatorSSHRC2014Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Gibbings, Sheri Lynn

Keywords: Urban Infrastructures; Informal Sovereignties; Citizenship; Indonesia; Urban Politics; Transportation; Qualitative methods; Informal and Formal authority; Urban poor; Right to the city

$72,765

The synoptic city: local journalists and the making of urban social imaginaries in Indonesia

Principal investigatorSSHRC2010

Principal investigators: Barker, Joshua D.

Keywords: ethnography; media; Indonesia; cities; journalists; globalization; local politics

$125,957

Engineers and political dreams: Indonesia's internet in cultural perspective

Principal investigatorSSHRC2004Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Barker, Joshua D.

Keywords: technology; communications; society; identity; culture; Indonesia; Southeast Asia; anthropology; ethnography; ethnology

$54,000

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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