Louis Kaplan, University of Toronto

Research

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Latest funding

The imaginary Jewish homelands of I.N. Steinberg: an augmented reality project
SSHRC · 2015 · Co-investigator
$308,499
Mapping Ararat: an imaginary Jewish homelands project
SSHRC · 2011 · Co-investigator
$61,043
Photography and community: American exposures, 1914-present
SSHRC · 2004 · Principal investigator
$65,062

All 4 grants and awards

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The imaginary Jewish homelands of I.N. Steinberg: an augmented reality project

Co-investigatorSSHRC2015Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Shiff, Melissa E.

Keywords: Jewish studies; art; augmented reality art; digital humanities; site-specific installation; homeland; I.N. Steinberg; holocaust; alternative history; nation state; tourism; cultural heritage; geospatial studies; mobile communications; memory

$308,499

Mapping Ararat: an imaginary Jewish homelands project

Co-investigatorSSHRC2011Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Shiff, Melissa E.

Keywords: modern Jewish history; American history; nation state; digital humanities; Diaspora; alternative history; homeland; Holocaust

$61,043

Photography and community: American exposures, 1914-present

Principal investigatorSSHRC2004Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Kaplan, Louis P.

Keywords: photography; community; race; nation; visuality; Jews; Chicanos; African-American; diaspora; representation; U.S. history; multiculturalism; theory

$65,062

Technocultures: sight, sound, and the question of difference

Co-investigatorSSHRC2003Image, Text, Sounds and Technology

Principal investigators: Brown, Elspeth H.

Keywords: visual culture; aural culture; information technology; new media

$30,000

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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