Jim Handy, University of Saskatchewan

Research

land use peasant history capital coffee ethnic identity environmental change

Latest funding

Life Among the Ruins: Peasants, Labour, Capital and Ethnicity in La Antigua Guatemala and the Panchoy Valley, 1773-1873
SSHRC · 2024 · Principal investigator
$17,460
Globalization and area studies: a research agenda for the Twenty First century
SSHRC · 1999 · Co-investigator
$75,000

All 2 grants and awards

Life Among the Ruins: Peasants, Labour, Capital and Ethnicity in La Antigua Guatemala and the Panchoy Valley, 1773-1873

Principal investigatorSSHRC2024Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Handy, Jim

Keywords: land use; peasant history; capital; coffee; ethnic identity; environmental change

$17,460

Globalization and area studies: a research agenda for the Twenty First century

Co-investigatorSSHRC1999Research Development Initiatives

$75,000

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: land use Dear Professor Handy, 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 land use 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 "Life Among the Ruins: Peasants, Labour, Capital and Ethnicity in La Antigua Guatemala and the Panchoy Valley, 1773-1873" (2024), 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]