Diana Allan, McGill University

Research

Palestinian refugees histories of 1948 displacement refugee camps in Lebanon oral history ethnography indigenous onto-epistemologies colonial archives social justice

Latest funding

Reimagining responses to forced migration through the Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN)
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
$20,000
Generations: Continuity and Rupture in Contemporary Syrian Revolutionary Documentary
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$39,375
Anthropology of Living Archives
SSHRC · 2020 · Principal investigator
$240,000

All 5 grants and awards

Reimagining responses to forced migration through the Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN)

Co-investigatorSSHRC2024Partnership Grants

Keywords: forced migration; knowledge co-production; power; partnered research; policy processes; global South; global governance of displacement; global refugee regime

$20,000

Generations: Continuity and Rupture in Contemporary Syrian Revolutionary Documentary

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Allan, Diana K.

Keywords: documentary; Syria; revolutionary art; Arab Spring

$39,375

Anthropology of Living Archives

Principal investigatorSSHRC2020Canada Research Chairs

Principal investigators: Allan, Diana

$240,000

Anthropology of Living Archives

Principal investigatorSSHRC2020Canada Research Chairs

Principal investigators: Allan, Diana

Keywords: Palestinian refugees; histories of 1948 displacement; al- Nakba; refugee camps in Lebanon; oral history; ethnography; indigenous onto-epistemologies; colonial archives; social justice; refugee rights; reparations; decolonial methods; collaborative practice; documentary film; Digital Humanities; living archives.

$240,000

Enduring Exile: The Nakba as Lived Experience

Principal investigatorSSHRC2018Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Allan, Diana

Keywords: (1) Palestine refugees in Lebanon; (2) Nakba of 1948; (3) displacement and forced migration; (4) oral history; (5) embodied experience; (6) political remembrance; (7) refugee rights; (8) nationalist history; (9) colonialism; (10) archive

$64,097

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: Palestinian refugees Dear Professor Allan, 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 palestinian refugees 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 "Generations: Continuity and Rupture in Contemporary Syrian Revolutionary Documentary" (2022), 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]