Ten researchers from McMaster’s Faculty of Social Sciences have been awarded a total of $478,661 in funding through the federal government’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council’s Insight Development Grants.

The federal government is investing $141 million to support nearly 3,000 of Canada’s most talented scholars, including early-career researchers, Science and Sport Minister Kirsty Duncan announced.

“Social sciences and humanities research are at the heart of understanding the challenges and opportunities facing our communities and our people,” Duncan said. “Nurturing young talent in these disciplines is one of the best ways to build a healthier, stronger and more prosperous Canada.”

The award recipients and their research projects are:

• Bettina Brueggemann, assistant professor,  Economics
  Entrepreneurial Portfolio Choices with Aggregate RISC: Theory, Empirics and Implications for Policy
• Jeffery Denis, associate professor, Sociology
  Azhe-mino-gahbewewin: Identifying Indigenous Priorities for Reconciliation in Kenora, Ontario
• Ana Duggan, post-doctoral fellow, Anthropology
  Jenner’s Legacy: uncovering the origins and dissemination of smallpox vaccines in the 19th-20th centuries
• Paul Glavin, associate professor, Sociology
  Regional Economic Determinants of Canadians’ Transitions into Precarious and Entrepreneurial Self-Employment
• Dana Hollander, associate professor, Religious Studies
  Talmud and Philosophy: Toward a Redefinition of the Role of Rabbinics in Jewish Studies
• Inder Marwah, assistant professor, Political Science
  Evolution Against Empire
• Mark Norman, post-doctoral fellow, Health, Aging and Society
  Sport & Physical Recreation in Ontario Youth Detention Centres: A Comprehensive Investigation
• Alina Sajed, associate professor, Political Science
  Third Worldism revisited: anti-colonial connectivity and the politics of national liberation
• Alisa Tazhitdinova, assistant professor, Economics
  The Effect of Various Forms of Taxation on Trade
• Vanessa Watts, assistant professor, Sociology and Academic Director of the Indigenous Studies Program
  An Indigenist Sociology of Knowledge: Indigenous social lives in the fields of Indigenous studies, sociology and political science and beyond