Alison Crosby, York University

Research

memory and memorialization violence transnational feminism intersectionality decolonization

Latest funding

Remembering and Memorializing Violence: Transnational Feminist Dialogues
SSHRC · 2019 · Principal investigator
$25,000
Bodies in translation: activist art, technology, and access to life
SSHRC · 2016 · Co-investigator
$2,499,684
Sexuality Studies Summer Institute
SSHRC · 2016 · Co-investigator
$25,000

All 6 grants and awards

Remembering and Memorializing Violence: Transnational Feminist Dialogues

Principal investigatorSSHRC2019Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Crosby, Alison D.

Keywords: memory and memorialization; violence; transnational feminism; intersectionality; decolonization

$25,000

Bodies in translation: activist art, technology, and access to life

Co-investigatorSSHRC2016Partnership Grants

Keywords: disability arts and culture; research creation and arts based methods; knowledge translation; technological innovation; accessibility and vitality

$2,499,684

Sexuality Studies Summer Institute

Co-investigatorSSHRC2016Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Wahab, Amar

Keywords: sexuality; race; psychoanalysis; perversion

$25,000

Bodies in translation: activist art, technology, and access to life

Co-investigatorSSHRC2015Partnership Grants

Keywords: disability arts and culture; research creation and arts based methods; knowledge translation; technological innovation; accessibility and vitality

$20,000

The inhabitance of loss: a transnational feminist project on memorialization

Principal investigatorSSHRC2014Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Crosby, Alison D.

Keywords: Guatemala; Sri Lanka; memory; memorialization; violence; trauma; gender; transnationalism

$179,250

Understanding women's struggles for justice, healing and redress: a study of gender and reparations in postwar Guatemala

Principal investigatorSSHRC2009Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Crosby, Alison D.

Keywords: women; gender; reparations; transitional justice; Guatemala; violence; human rights; truth commissions

$85,226

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: memory and memorialization Dear Professor Crosby, 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 on memory and memorialization 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 "Remembering and Memorializing Violence: Transnational Feminist Dialogues" (2019), 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]