Connaught Fund 2015

Carla DeMarco
car.demarco@utoronto.ca

The Connaught awards given to assistant professors who are within the first five years of their academic appointment at U of T will support a number of projects on topics at UTM ranging from sustainable cities, to late-Georgian era literature, to disability discrimination in Canada.

The following are the recipients for 2015 from U of T Mississauga:

  • Teresa Bejan, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto, Mississauga, “Mere Civility: Tolerating Disagr eement in Early Modern England and America”
  • Sara Hughes, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto, Mississauga, “The Politics of Sustainable Cities: Case Studies of Institutional Change”
  • Sonia Kang, Department of Management, University of Toronto, Mississauga, “Mental Health Stigma in the Workplace”
  • Igor Lehnherr, Department of Geography, University of Toronto, Mississauga, “Using Emerging Techniques to Investigate Climate Change Impacts on Mercury Cycling and Sources in the Canadian Arctic”
  • Peter  Loewen, Department of Political Science,University of Toronto, Mississauga, “The Local Parliament: Voter Preferences, Local Campaigns, and the Parliamentary Representation of Voters”
  • Shivaji Mukherjee, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto, Mississauga, “State Motivations, Counterinsurgency and Civil War Duration: Explaining sub-national variation in anti-Maoist counterinsurgency in India”
  • Matthew James Osborne, Department of Management    University of Toronto, Mississauga, “Designing Alerts to Help Consumers Avoid Overdrafts”
  • David Pettinicchio, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, Mississauga, “Pilot Project for a Résumé-Based Audit Study of Disability Employment Discrimination in Canada”
  • Trevor  Porter, Department of Geography, University of Toronto, Mississauga, “The Last 18 Million Years of Climate Change in Continental Yukon and Alaska Reconstructed from Water Isotope Proxies ”
  • John Ratcliffe, Department of Biology, University of Toronto, Mississauga, “Echoes and Light: Audiovisual Integration and Sensory Dominance in Bats”
  • Terry Robinson, Department of English & Drama    University of Toronto, Mississauga, “Impassioned Bodies: Acting and Physical Expression in Late Georgian-Era Literature and Culture”
  • Michel Serafinelli, Department of Economics, University of Toronto, Mississauga, “Mobility of Inventors and Innovation in Matched Patent-employer-employee Data”
  • Eduardo Augusto Souza Rodrigues, Department of Economics, University of Toronto, Mississauga, “The Dynamics of Commodity Prices, Deforestation and Carbon Emissions in the Amazon”
  • Dushyantkumar Vyas, Department of Management, University of Toronto, Mississauga, “What Were They Thinking? An Examination of the Role of Financial Analysts Before and During the Recent Financial Crisis”
  • Aida Sijamic Wahid, Department of Management, University of Toronto, Mississauga, “Professionalization of the Board of Directors and its Impact on Governance ”
  • Iva Zovkic, Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Mississauga,  “H2A.Z Function in Memory and Age-Related Cognitive Decline

This year the fund awarded a total of over $960,00 to 68 researchers across the university. See the full list and article.