Leander Schneider, Concordia University

Research

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Latest funding

Sino-Tanzanian encounters: beyond high-politics
SSHRC · 2012 · Principal investigator
$61,387
Life stories of Montrealers displaced by war, genocide, and other human rights violations
SSHRC · 2007 · Co-investigator
$999,870
Property and poverty: Maasai transitions from collective to private land holding in Kenya
SSHRC · 2007 · Co-investigator
$145,500

All 3 grants and awards

No publications available.

Sino-Tanzanian encounters: beyond high-politics

Principal investigatorSSHRC2012Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Schneider, Leander

Keywords: Africa-China relations; development; transnationalism

$61,387

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

Property and poverty: Maasai transitions from collective to private land holding in Kenya

Co-investigatorSSHRC2007Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Galaty, John G.

Keywords: common property; privatization; land tenure; property rights; development; poverty; east Africa; pastoralism; natural resource governance; civil society; livestock markets; NGO's; food security; demography; social change

$145,500

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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