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Brian Cowan

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ProfessorDepartment of History and Classical StudiesMcGill University

Brian Cowan

Professor

Department of History and Classical Studies

Faculty of Arts

McGill University

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

No papers or grants found since 2011

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Principal investigator on 5 research grants (4 SSHRC, 1 CFI), most recently in 2011.

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Charismatic things celebrity, materiality and partisan politics in Britain, circa 1678-1789
SSHRC · 2011 · Principal investigator
$50,000
Canada Research Chair in Early Modern British History
SSHRC · 2010 · Principal investigator
$500,000
The Sacheverell trial: media politics and the state trials of early 18th century Britain
SSHRC · 2005 · Principal investigator
$90,000

All 6 grants and awards

Charismatic things celebrity, materiality and partisan politics in Britain, circa 1678-1789

Principal investigatorSSHRC2011

Principal investigators: Cowan, Brian W.

Keywords: celebrity; material culture; partisanship; British history; charisma; eighteenth-century; Henry Sacheverell; Benjamin Hoadly; Titus Oates; Admiral Edward Vernon; Admiral John Byng; John Wilkes; and Edmund Burke

$50,000

Canada Research Chair in Early Modern British History

Principal investigatorSSHRC2010

Principal investigators: Cowan, Brian

Keywords: history, great britain, england, early modern, media history, politicization of commerce

$500,000

The Sacheverell trial: media politics and the state trials of early 18th century Britain

Principal investigatorSSHRC2005Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Cowan, Brian W.

Keywords: early modern British political history; media studies; Henry Sacheverell; religious toleration

$90,000

Canada Research Chair in Early Modern British History

Principal investigatorSSHRC2005Canada Research Chairs

Principal investigators: Cowan, Brian bwc

Keywords: british history 1600-1800; intellectual history; cultural history; political history; history of the book

$500,000

Sacheverell Project of the McGill Centre for Early Modern Media and Politics

Principal investigatorCFI2005John R. Evans Leaders Fund: Canada Research Chairs Infrastructure Fund

Principal investigators: Cowan, Brian

Keywords: British history 1600-1800, intellectual history, cultural history, political history, history of the book

$20,087

Making publics: media, markets and association in early modern Europe, 1500-1700

Co-investigatorSSHRC2004Major Collaborative Research Initiatives Program

Principal investigators: Yachnin, Paul

Keywords: early modern Europe; public life; media; markets; forms of association; artistic and intellectual works

$2,494,925

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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