Every year, CDRS offers annual research and research creation awards. The calls for funding are announced every September, with awards presented in October.
Please click here to find information about the 2024-2025 funding calls and the announcement of the winners.
Funding Call Award Winners by Academic Year
2024-2025
- Mihaela Pirvulescu (Professor, Language Studies), Jeffrey Steele (Professor, Language Studies), Marie-Paule Lory (Professor, Language Studies), Katherine Rehner (Professor, Language Studies), and Michelle Troberg (Professor, Language Studies), $3,316 for "UTM Multilingualism Student Research Symposium"
- Marie-Pier Boucher (Assistant Professor, ICCIT), $4,480 for "UTM Space HACK4Sustainability"
- Elizabeth Wijaya (Assistant Professor, Visual Studies), $4,000 for "UTM DVS Filmmaker in Residence"
- Kevin Coleman (Associate Professor, Historical Studies), $3,200 for "Public Lecture Series on Far-Right Christianity in Latin America"
- Elizabeth Wijaya (Assistant Professor, Visual Studies), $1,500 for "The Sea is Calm Tonight"
- Kevin Coleman (Associate Professor, Historical Studies), $1,500 for "Creative Non-Fiction Project"
2023-2024
- Lawrence Switzky (Associate Professor, English & Drama), Michael Nixon (Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, ICCIT), and Chris Young (Head, Collections and Digital Scholarship, UTML), ($4,000 for "Workshop Series in Critical Game Studies"
- Wanja Gitari (Associate Professor, ISUP), $2,250 for "Accessibility for Diverse Learners in the University"
- María J. Méndez (Assistant Professor, Political Science) and Martha Balaguera Cuervo (Assistant Professor, Political Science) $4,000 for “Embroidering Absence"
- Signy Lynch (Assistant Professor, English & Drama) $4,420 for "Artists on Audiences"
2022-2023
- Alison Smith (Assistant Professor, Political Science), $4,900 for events studying the housing crisis in Canada
- Lorena Bennardo (Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Department of Classics), $2,049.28 for the conference “Impoverished Aesthetics: New Approaches to Marginality in Latin Literature”.
- Jerry Flores (Associate Professor, Department of Sociology) and Elizabeth Parke (CRIS), $7,000 for "Broadening access to the Kaxúmbekua (way of life): Saving P’urhépecha culture across English speaking countries"
- Tyler Evans-Tokaryk (Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, ISUP), $1,000 for "Reimagining the University Classroom: Advancing the Study of University Pedagogy in Technology-Enhanced Learning Environments"
2021-2022
- Zoë H Wool (Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology), $2,090 for TWIG Research Kitchen Collaborwrite Sessions
- John Paul Ricco (Professor, Visual Studies), $4,700 for Peer-to-Peer Academic Book Proposal Workshop Series
- Janine Clark (Professor, Political Science) and Emma Paszat, $1,667 for Workshop on Regional and Cross-Regional LGBTQ Advocacy in the Global South: Challenges, Opportunities and Significance
- Sherry Fukuzawa (Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream), Veronica King-Jamieson (MCFN), and Nicole Laliberte, $4,650 for Community-Engaged Learning: A Virtual Roundtable with the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation
- Derek Denis (Assistant Professor, Linguistics) and Samatha Jackson, $5,000 for Workshop on Linguistic Equity and Justice
2020-2021
- Anna Thomas (Assistant Professor, English & Drama), $5,000 for "Research Methodologies for the Black Humanities"