Kenneth Yu, University of Toronto

Research

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Latest funding

What's in a Name? The Aesthetics, Logic, and Sociology of Ancient Greek Booktitles
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$37,541
What's in a Name? The Aesthetics, Logic, and Sociology of Ancient Greek Booktitles
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$26,346
Practices of Commentary
SSHRC · 2020 · Co-investigator
$63,738

All 4 grants and awards

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What's in a Name? The Aesthetics, Logic, and Sociology of Ancient Greek Booktitles

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Yu, Kenneth

Keywords: Book History; Literary History; Greek Literature; Greek Philosophy; Greek Science; History of Knowledge; Paratexts; Classics; Papyrology; Digital Humanities

$37,541

What's in a Name? The Aesthetics, Logic, and Sociology of Ancient Greek Booktitles

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Yu, Kenneth

Keywords: Book History; Literary History; Greek Literature; Greek Philosophy; Greek Science; History of Knowledge; Paratexts; Classics; Papyrology; Digital Humanities

$26,346

Practices of Commentary

Co-investigatorSSHRC2020Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Saleh, Walid

Keywords: commentary; global premodern; comparative intellectual history

$63,738

Practices of Commentary

Co-investigatorSSHRC2020Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Saleh, Walid

Keywords: commentary; global premodern; comparative intellectual history

$110,108

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 Yu, 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 "What's in a Name? The Aesthetics, Logic, and Sociology of Ancient Greek Booktitles" (2022), 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]