Miguel Gonzalez, York University

Research

autonomy Indigenous rights Afro-descendant Peoples Indigenous Peoples Self-determination self-governance Central America workshop

Latest funding

Designing Dynamic Environmental Treaties
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
$38,867
Beyond the Plantation: Making Black Geographies Visible in Colombian Land Use Planning
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
$18,459
Emancipatory Horizons for Self-determination of Indigenous and Afro-descendant Peoples in Central America
SSHRC · 2023 · Principal investigator
$71,385

All 5 grants and awards

Designing Dynamic Environmental Treaties

Co-investigatorSSHRC2024Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Morin, Jean-Frédéric

Keywords: global environmental politics; treaty design; environmental agreements; international institutions

$38,867

Beyond the Plantation: Making Black Geographies Visible in Colombian Land Use Planning

Co-investigatorSSHRC2024Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Cordoba Blandon, Diana Marcela

Keywords: Black geographies; sustainability; agrodiversity; decolonization; planning; participatory action research; decolonial land use planning methodologies; feminist political ecology; Colombia

$18,459

Emancipatory Horizons for Self-determination of Indigenous and Afro-descendant Peoples in Central America

Principal investigatorSSHRC2023Partnership Development Grants

Principal investigators: Gonzalez, Miguel

Keywords: Indigenous Rights; Afro-descendant Peoples; Indigenous Peoples; Self-determination; autonomy; self-governance; Central America

$71,385

Emancipatory Autonomies in Central America: A Knowledge-Exchange Workshop

Principal investigatorSSHRC2021Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Gonzalez, Miguel

Keywords: workshop; autonomy; Indigenous rights; human rights; social policy

$24,723

Too big to ignore: global partnership for small-scale fisheries research

Co-investigatorSSHRC2011Partnership Grants

Keywords: small-scale fisheries; global analysis; regional case studies; community forums; policy dialogue; web-based database; information system; training modules; distance learning

$2,498,895

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: autonomy Dear Professor Gonzalez, 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 autonomy 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 "Emancipatory Horizons for Self-determination of Indigenous and Afro-descendant Peoples in Central America" (2023), 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]