Boyd Cothran, York University

Research

Indigenous methodologies borderlands history historical theory community engaged research

Latest funding

Indigenous Borderlands in North America
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$25,000
Not the last of their tribes: stories of Indigenous survival from nineteenth-century California
SSHRC · 2014 · Principal investigator
$51,174

All 2 grants and awards

Indigenous Borderlands in North America

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Cothran, Boyd

Keywords: Indigenous methodologies; borderlands history; historical theory; community engaged research

$25,000

Not the last of their tribes: stories of Indigenous survival from nineteenth-century California

Principal investigatorSSHRC2014Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Cothran, Boyd

Keywords: U.S. Indigneous History; Nineteenth Century U.S. History; Cultural History; Memory Studies; Biography; Settler Colonialism; microhistory; Ethnohistory; California; Global Indigenous

$51,174

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: Indigenous methodologies Dear Professor Cothran, 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 indigenous methodologies 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 "Indigenous Borderlands in North America" (2022), 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]