Karla McManus, University of Regina

Research

art history visual arts pedagogy indigenizing decolonizing globalizing experiential learning active learning

Latest funding

Art Under the Big Sky: Building a Prairie Art Historians Network and Summer Institute 2023
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$23,094
Flight of Fancy or Fact? Producing, Circulating, and Viewing Ornithological Art and Photography as Ecological Knowledge
SSHRC · 2020 · Principal investigator
$62,673

Art Under the Big Sky: Building a Prairie Art Historians Network and Summer Institute 2023

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Connection Grants

Principal investigators: McManus, Karla K.

Keywords: art history; visual arts; pedagogy; indigenizing; decolonizing; globalizing; experiential learning; active learning; object-based learning; learner-centred teaching; regionalism; glocalism; community-based research; accessibility; digital humanities

$23,094

Flight of Fancy or Fact? Producing, Circulating, and Viewing Ornithological Art and Photography as Ecological Knowledge

Principal investigatorSSHRC2020Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: McManus, Karla

Keywords: art history; photography history; environmental humanities; print culture; history of photographic reproductions; bird photography; wildlife art; conservation science; science and art; ecological knowledge-formation

$62,673

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 McManus, 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 "Art Under the Big Sky: Building a Prairie Art Historians Network and Summer Institute 2023" (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]