Nicholas Sammond, University of Toronto

Research

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Latest funding

The abject objection: animation, alternative comics and graphic dissent, 1950-2000
SSHRC · 2015 · Principal investigator
$131,052
Blackface minstrelsy and early American animation
SSHRC · 2007 · Principal investigator
$75,000

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The abject objection: animation, alternative comics and graphic dissent, 1950-2000

Principal investigatorSSHRC2015Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Sammond, Nicholas

Keywords: comparative media studies; history of social theory; history of media; cultural history

$131,052

Blackface minstrelsy and early American animation

Principal investigatorSSHRC2007Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Sammond, Nicholas

Keywords: film history; cultural history; archival research; formal film analysis

$75,000

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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