Tri-Council Grants Received
UW/SSHRC Explore Grant
2019 Stealing Home: Settler Identity, National Myth Making, and Baseball as America $6,938
Social Sciences and the Humanities Research Council, Connection Grant
2017 Speaking Fruit: Art, Activism & Migrant Justice from a Mobile Fruit Stand $49,950
University of Waterloo Research Office – SSHRC Matching Funds
2017 Speaking Fruit: Art, Activism & Migrant Justice from a Mobile Fruit Stand $10,000
University of Waterloo Faculty of Arts – SSHRC Matching Funds
2017 Speaking Fruit: Art, Activism & Migrant Justice from a Mobile Fruit Stand $3,000
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Doctoral Fellowship
2012 Unsettling Movements: Decolonizing Non-Indigenous Radical Struggles $20,000
Tri-Council Grants Applied
Social Sciences and the Humanities Research Council, Connection
2019 Imagining Abolitionist and Decolonizing Futures. $49,452, Pending Adjudication.
Tri-Council Grants Unsuccessful
Social Sciences and the Humanities Research Council, IDG
2019 Stealing Home: Settler Identity, National Myth-Making, and Baseball as America $63,730
2018 Home Field Advantage: Settler Colonialism, Nationalism and Baseball $59,590
Other External Grants
Ontario Graduate Scholarship
2011-2015* Unsettling Movements: Decolonizing Non-Indigenous Radical Struggles $15,000.
*declined in 2012
Internal Grants
Renison Research Grant
2019 Abolition Social Work. $1,988
2019 Kabechenong//Humber: Memorializing and Disrupting the Canadian National Myth Along the Banks of the Humber River. $2,000
2018 Home Field Advantage: Settler Colonialism, Nationalism and Baseball as a site of political contestation. $1,825
2017 The Settler Colonialism of Social Work and the Social Work of Settler Colonialism. $1,890
2016 A Field of Dreamers: Place, Space, and Belonging in Toronto’s Recreational Softball Leagues – An Ethnography. $1,995
Pierre Elliott Trudeau Field Work Fellowship – York University
2013 Unsettling Movements: Decolonizing Non-Indigenous Radical Struggles. $3,750
Rosemarie Abella Scholarship for Studies in Equity – York University
2014 Unsettling Movements: Decolonizing Non-Indigenous Radical Struggles. $5,000
Tzu Chi Buddhist Award for Social Justice – University of Toronto
2005 Regent Park is Our Fallujah’: Constructing an Activist Praxis Within Local Contestations of War & Globalization in Toronto. $2,500
Dr. Ann Goldberg Bergman Academic Excellence and Leadership Award – University of Toronto
2004 Regent Park is Our Fallujah’: Constructing an Activist Praxis Within Local Contestations of War & Globalization in Toronto. $1,500
J.R. Coutts Students Without Borders International Volunteer Award -University of Waterloo
2002. $2,500
Kerr-Ostrander Leadership in the Public Interest Award – University of Waterloo
2002. $2,500
Community Grants & Awards
Canadian Heritage: Youth Engagement & Leadership Grant
2007 – 2009 For Grassroots Youth Collaborative to develop a series of educational workshops, research roundtables, a major forum and video production to support racialized and marginalized youth’s ability to influence and develop policy that impacts their day-to-day lives. $250,000
Lawson Foundation: Community Leadership and Capacity Building
2007 – 2009 For the Grassroots Youth Collaborative to support training and cross-city consultations with similar groups in NYC and Vancouver, build membership base of youth-led network in Toronto, Ontario. $339,000
Ontario Roots of Youth Violence Secretariat – Research Grant
2007 For the Grassroots Youth Collaborative to conduct research to develop policy solutions to the root causes of youth violence in Ontario. $45,565
Ontario Trillium Foundation – Community Engagement Grant
2006 – 2008 For the Grassroots Youth Collaborative to ensure core staff funding for youth-led network of grassroots organizations in the city of Toronto. $225,000
SSHRC – Canadian Review of Social Policy
2004 For the Canadian Review of Social Policy to maintain staff and expand publication capacity (including online publication) of the academic journal. $91,670
Academic Distinctions and Teaching Awards
Ian Greene Teaching Award – York University
2012 Student Council of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (SCOLAPS), York University
Gordon Cressy Student Leadership Award – University of Toronto
2005 University of Toronto
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