Mary Hunter, McGill University

Research

art history nineteenth-century France waiting temporality visual culture modernity Impressionism global exchange

Latest funding

James Tissot's Art Abroad: Collecting, Identity and Cultural Exchange
SSHRC · 2025 · Principal investigator
$112,178
Waiting: slow time in the Impressionist era
SSHRC · 2018 · Principal investigator
$86,755
Encountering Art in Hospitals: A comparative analysis of the forms and perceived functions of commissioned contemporary art in two new Montreal mega-hospitals
SSHRC · 2016 · Co-investigator
$58,516

All 5 grants and awards

James Tissot's Art Abroad: Collecting, Identity and Cultural Exchange

Principal investigatorSSHRC2025Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Hunter, Mary J.

$112,178

Waiting: slow time in the Impressionist era

Principal investigatorSSHRC2018Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Hunter, Mary J.

Keywords: art history; nineteenth-century France; waiting; temporality; visual culture; modernity; Impressionism; global exchange; duration; history of medicine; science and technology

$86,755

Encountering Art in Hospitals: A comparative analysis of the forms and perceived functions of commissioned contemporary art in two new Montreal mega-hospitals

Co-investigatorSSHRC2016Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Tembeck, Tamar

Keywords: (1) Contemporary Art; (2) Public Art; (3) Hospital Art; (4) Medical Humanities; (5) Ethnography; (6) Cultural Policy

$58,516

While no one was looking: art and decolonial action in Montreal

Co-investigatorSSHRC2016Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Rentschler, Carrie A.

Keywords: Montréal 375; Canadian history; collective memory; visual and performance cultures; women artists; artistic interventions; feminist activism; Indigenous feminism

$12,184

The politics of portraying doctors and patients in nineteenth-century France

Principal investigatorSSHRC2011Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Hunter, Mary J.

Keywords: 19th-century French art and visual culture; medical representations; realism; medical collections and display; sex and gender studies; portraiture; visual culture of third republic; history of photography; masculinity studies; history of caricature

$59,946

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: art history Dear Professor Hunter, 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 art history 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 "James Tissot's Art Abroad: Collecting, Identity and Cultural Exchange" (2025), 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]