Andrew Ivaska, Concordia University

Research

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Latest funding

Sino-Tanzanian encounters: beyond high-politics
SSHRC · 2012 · Co-investigator
$61,387
Black diasporic politics and style in 1960s and 1970s Tanzania: a transnational history
SSHRC · 2007 · Principal investigator
$55,000
Life stories of Montrealers displaced by war, genocide, and other human rights violations
SSHRC · 2007 · Co-investigator
$999,870

All 3 grants and awards

No publications available.

Sino-Tanzanian encounters: beyond high-politics

Co-investigatorSSHRC2012Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Schneider, Leander

Keywords: Africa-China relations; development; transnationalism

$61,387

Black diasporic politics and style in 1960s and 1970s Tanzania: a transnational history

Principal investigatorSSHRC2007Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Ivaska, Andrew M.

Keywords: Africa; Tanzania; African diaspora; cultural history; popular culture; 1960s political movements; urban history

$55,000

Life stories of Montrealers displaced by war, genocide, and other human rights violations

Co-investigatorSSHRC2007Community-University Research Alliances (CURA)

Keywords: oral history; life stories; Holocaust; genocide; war; atrocity crimes; human rights; Montreal; immigration; refugees; new media; education; community theatre; storytelling; pedagogy; sharing authority; memory; Rwanda; Latin America; Cambodia; Haiti

$999,870

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.

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