We are delighted to announce that several History Department faculty members have received generous support through the Canadian government’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).
Dr. Behnaz Mirzai and her collaborator Dr. Eckart X.Y. Woertz (German Institute of Global and Area Studies) have received a SSHRC Connection Grant in the amount of $45,336, covering the period 2026-2027, for their project, “Entangled Histories: Slavery and Its Legacies in the Indian Ocean, Mediterranean, and Middle Eastern Worlds.”
Dr. Colin Rose has been awarded a SSHRC Insight Grant (Stream A) in the amount of $115,096, coverinig the period 2025-2031, for his project, “Mapping Crime and Conflict in Early Modern Italy.”
Project description: “The grant will support a research program around justice, conflict resolution and civil society as ideas and as practices in early modern Florence and Bologna. These cities represent two different forms of judicial governance and social organization. In each, individuals and communities practiced conflict, negotiation and peacemaking in their own socioeconomic, institutional, and spatial contexts. How did differing political forms shape local conflict resolution practices? How did local understandings of space and place manifest in justice-seeking processes? Investigating the social practices of ordinary and elite conflict resolution in this thickly-archived region will advance our understanding of how communities in the past negotiated a variety of problems and challenges. By doing so, I aim to help people understand modern social conflict through lenses of social trust, civil society and justice.”
Dr. Mark Spencer and his co-applicant Dr. Marc Hanvelt (Carleton University) are recipients of a SSHRC Insight Grant (Stream B) in the amount of $315,365, covering the period 2025-2031, for their project, “David Hume’s History of England: The Critical Edition and New Methods of Historical Editing.”
Project description: “David Hume (1711-1776) is widely regarded as one of the leading European philosophers, political thinkers, and historians of the eighteenth century. And yet, there exists no critical edition of his capstone work, The History of England. This SSHRC Insight Grant will support our work to produce one, contracted with Oxford University Press for inclusion in their Clarendon Hume Edition Series. Together with our collaborator (Mikko Tolonen, University of Helsinki), we are developing a new approach to editing a critical edition that blends traditional methods of historical research and text editing with digital tools and techniques that were unavailable to earlier generations of scholars.”
Congratulations, all!