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Laura Salisbury
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Latest papers
Waiting objects: letters as containers of time and care
Medical Humanities · 2026 · senior author
Data and Code for: The Changing Identities of American Wives and Mothers
ICPSR Data Holdings · 2026
Data and Code for: The Changing Identities of American Wives and Mothers
ICPSR Data Holdings · 2026
Latest funding
- $16,231
An Investigation into the Growth of Nonmarital Fertility in North America
SSHRC · 2024 · Principal investigator
- $284,109
The Intergenerational Persistence of Welfare Receipt
SSHRC · 2019 · Co-investigator
- $10,260
The Intergenerational Persistence of Welfare Receipt
SSHRC · 2019 · Co-investigator
112 publications.
Waiting objects: letters as containers of time and care
Jocelyn Catty, Laura Salisbury
Data and Code for: The Changing Identities of American Wives and Mothers
Jeanne Lafortune, Laura Salisbury, Aloysius Siow
Data and Code for: The Changing Identities of American Wives and Mothers
Jeanne Lafortune, Laura Salisbury, Aloysius Siow
Recent enough to matter: Perceived temporal proximity, anxiety, and COVID-19 vaccine intent
Anna Powell, Halina Suwalowska, Osman Sankoh, Chunlan Guo, Emily Ying Yang Chan, Sharifah Sekalala, Laura Salisbury, Patricia Kingori, Cara Wilkins, Ruth Ogden
Longitudinal Database of Civil War Recruits from Kentucky, 1860-1880
Shari J. Eli, Laura Salisbury, Allison Shertzer
The politics and philosophy of waiting: a conversation with Laura Salisbury
Laura Salisbury, Asijit Datta
Beckett’s Environments
Nadia Louar, Laura Salisbury
The end, and what comes after
Laura Salisbury, Dóra Vargha, Débora Faria Diniz, Luciana Brito, Osman Sankoh, Haja Ramatulai Wurie, Regina Mamidy Yillah, Sharifah Rahma Sekalala, Caroline Dubois, Emily Ying Yang Chan, Yureshya Perera, Ruth Ogden, Patricia Kingori
(Un)timely care: findings from the Waiting Times project
Lisa Baraitser, Kelechi Anucha, Jocelyn Catty, Stephanie Davies, Jordan Osserman, Laura Salisbury, Michael J. Flexer, Martin D. Moore
Bedrock: Reading the Death Drive in the Time of the Anthropocene
Laura Salisbury
An Investigation into the Growth of Nonmarital Fertility in North America
Principal investigators: Salisbury, Laura
Keywords: Economics of the family; economic demography; marriage; fertility
The Intergenerational Persistence of Welfare Receipt
Principal investigators: Eli, Shari J.
Keywords: welfare; intergenerational persistence; poverty; Indigenous; Ontario; children; public policy
The Intergenerational Persistence of Welfare Receipt
Principal investigators: Eli, Shari J.
Keywords: welfare; intergenerational persistence; poverty; Indigenous; Ontario; children; public policy
Long Run Trends in Assortative Mating and Socioeconomic Mobility in the United States and Canada
Principal investigators: Salisbury, Laura
Keywords: (1) Intergenerational Mobility; (2) Assortative Mating; (3) Marriage; (4) Geography of mobility; (5) Inequality; (6) Institutions
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
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