Tina Hilgers, Concordia University

Research

informal settlements informal labour resistance chronic violence precarity ethnography participatory methods Brazil

Latest funding

Democratic Innovations from Social Movements, Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Communities: Latin America to the World
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
$69,944
Informality, violence, and resistance in Latin America and the Caribbean
SSHRC · 2020 · Principal investigator
$156,982
Informality, violence, and resistance in Latin America and the Caribbean
SSHRC · 2020 · Principal investigator
$96,020

All 5 grants and awards

Democratic Innovations from Social Movements, Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Communities: Latin America to the World

Co-investigatorSSHRC2024Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Montambeault, Françoise

Keywords: outreach school; intersectional; interdisciplinary; knowledge mobilization; knowledge brokering

$69,944

Informality, violence, and resistance in Latin America and the Caribbean

Principal investigatorSSHRC2020Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Hilgers, Tina

Keywords: informal settlements; informal labour; resistance; chronic violence; precarity; ethnography; participatory methods; Brazil; Colombia; Jamaica

$156,982

Informality, violence, and resistance in Latin America and the Caribbean

Principal investigatorSSHRC2020Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Hilgers, Tina

Keywords: informal settlements; informal labour; resistance; chronic violence; precarity; ethnography; participatory methods; Brazil; Colombia; Jamaica

$96,020

Rights, benefits, and identity: clientelistic and democratic representation in Latin America

Principal investigatorSSHRC2012Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Hilgers, Tina

Keywords: clientelism; democracy; open-ended interviews; process-tracing; historical institutionalism; Argentina; Brazil; Mexico

$116,273

Clientelism and violence in subnational Latin American and Caribbean politics

Principal investigatorSSHRC2012

Principal investigators: Hilgers, Tina

Keywords: workshop; violence; Latin America; Caribbean; clientelism; subnational

$35,816

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: informal settlements Dear Professor Hilgers, 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 informal settlements 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 "Informality, violence, and resistance in Latin America and the Caribbean" (2020), 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]