The Following Successful Applicants Were Awarded Grants Totalling $27,700 from the Symons

The following successful applicants were awarded grants totalling $32,843.58 from the Symons Trust Fund for Canadian Studies, February 2012:

Proposal / Applicant(s) /
Support for National Symposium at the Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies:
Diverse Spaces: examining identity, community and citizenship within Canadian public culture / Professor Julia Harrison and Dr. Susan Ashley
Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies
Traill College
Trent University
Postdoctoral Research Support:
Museum-making: ‘New’ Canadians re-imagine heritage and citizenship / Dr. Susan Ashley
Postdoctoral Fellow
Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies
Traill College
Trent University
Support for Research Phase of senior thesis: The Effects of Biochar in Crop Productivity in Ontario Soils: Effects of quantity, source and form of application on a common cereal crop in Peterborough County Soils / Miss Cara Hernould
Ecological Restoration Joint (Trent-Fleming) Degree-Diploma Student
136 Lock Street
Peterborough, ON K9J 2Y4
Research Funding for 8th book, a monograph on the Quebec referendum of 1995: The 1995 Quebec Referendum / Professor Robert Wright
Dept. of History
(Oshawa Campus)
Trent University
Support Travel to conferences to disseminate research which examines an area of teacher education that is relatively unexamined, and also to receive critical, peer review in preparation of articles for submission in scholarly journals. / Dr. Christine Cho
School of Education and Professional Learning
Otonabee College 159
Trent University
Publication Support for a book entitled: Desiring Canada: CBC Contests, Hockey Violence and other Stately Pleasures / Professor James Cosgrave
Department of Sociology
Otonabee College
Trent University
Support for the 8th Annual Trent-Carleton Graduate Student Conference in Canadian Studies entitled: Canada and the New World Order: The National Contexts of Global Change, March 9-10, 2012, Trent University / Ms. Julia Smith
Ph.D. Candidate
Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies
Traill College
Trent University
Assistance with support for funding the contract of an Administrative Assistant for the newly founded Canadian Studies Network – Réseau d’études canadiennes (CSN-RÉC) / Professor Colin Coates, Director, Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies, York University and
Professor Juia Harrison, Director, Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies, Traill
College, Trent University
Support for proposed book entitled
People of Manitoulin / Professor Shirley Williams and Dr. Rhonda Paulsen
Indigenous Studies Program
Gzowski College
Trent University
Assistance with the final production of an edited collection of illustrated essays centered on the ecological region of Southern Ontario known as The Land Between / Professor Emeritus Alan Brunger and (Geography)
Professor Emeritus, John Wadland (Canadian Studies)
Department of Geography
ESB
Trent University
Assistance with research travel and accommodation re postdoctoral research entitled: Optimizing breeding phenology in a changing arctic environment / Dr. Laura McKinnon
Department of Biology
Life and Health Sciences Bldg.
Block D
2140 East Bank Drive
Trent University
Operating costs for the Symons Seminar Series on Graduate Student Research, 2011-2012 / Ms. Kaitlin Breton-Honeyman and Erin Koen
Coordinators for the Thomas H. B. Symons Seminar Series
Traill College, P.O. Box 326
Trent University
Support for the 2nd Annual Northern Studies Student Colloquium / 2nd Annual Northern Studies Student Colloquium Organizing Committee
C/O Ms. Meghan Buckham, Arts Chair and M.A. Candidate
Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies
Traill College
Support for analysis of faunal remains recovered during the August 2011 excavation at Henry House, Oshawa, Ontario / Professor Helen Haines
Department of Anthropology (Oshawa)
Life & Health Sciences Bldg.
Trent University
Support for research project: Biting insects I the boreal forest of northern Ontario – implications for woodland caribou / Professor James Schaefer
Department of Biology
Life & Health Sciences Bldg.
Trent University
Support for 2nd phase of a pilot project entitled: Fair time, Festival Days: Digital Stories from the Agricultural Fairs of Ontario / Professor Miriam Davidson
Coordinator of Integrated Arts
School of Education and Professional Learning
Otonabee College
Trent University
Support for a series of events that will encourage discourse surrounding and inquiry into contemporary food issues, community development, and youth engagement / Ms. Aimee Blyth
Seasoned Spoon Coordinator
Champlain College
Trent University