Michelle Hamilton, Western University

Research

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Latest funding

Hear, Here SoHo: Making Public the Oral History of Marginalized Peoples, 1850-2018
SSHRC · 2018 · Principal investigator
$31,752
International Federation for Public History Conference
SSHRC · 2012 · Principal investigator
$49,270
Franz Boas papers: documentary edition
SSHRC · 2012 · Co-investigator
$2,500,000

All 4 grants and awards

No publications available.

Hear, Here SoHo: Making Public the Oral History of Marginalized Peoples, 1850-2018

Principal investigatorSSHRC2018Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Hamilton, Michelle A.

Keywords: public history; oral history; public outreach; digital humanities; heritage; research tools and methodology

$31,752

International Federation for Public History Conference

Principal investigatorSSHRC2012Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Hamilton, Michelle A.

Keywords: knowledge mobilization; public history; internationalization; digital history; heritage; social memory; teaching; material culture; museums; archives; best practices; research tools and methdology

$49,270

Franz Boas papers: documentary edition

Co-investigatorSSHRC2012Partnership Grants

Keywords: Franz Boas; history of anthropology; British Columbia ethnology and linguistics; public intellectual; public history; Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl); collaborative anthropology; digital repatriation

$2,500,000

Aboriginal peoples and the censuses of Canada, 1851-1921

Principal investigatorSSHRC2011

Principal investigators: Hamilton, Michelle A.

Keywords: Aboriginal history; Aboriginal-government relations; cultural identity; colonialism; enumeration; historical demography; population studies

$53,575

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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