Distinguished honours | Canada Research Chairs | Endowed chairs | CIGI chairs | Book prizes | Tri-Council 2011

Distinguished honours and prizes (2007-present, selected)

Geoffrey Fong, Psychology - awarded the 2011 CIHR Knowledge Translation Award for his work in the International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project (ITC)

Mark Zanna, Psychology - awarded a 2011 Killam Prize for outstanding career achievement in social sciences

François Paré, French Studies– inducted in 2010 as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada for his internationally-regarded work on minority and diasporic cultures

Geoff Fong, Psychology – honoured in 2010 with the Canadian Medical Association Journal’s Top Canadian Achievements in Health Research for his leading work on the International Tobacco Control Project

William Coleman, Political Science - awarded a 2007 Trudeau Foundation Fellowship for outstanding contributions to the social sciences and humanities in Canada and around the world

Eric Helleiner, Political Science– awarded a 2007 Trudeau Foundation Fellowship for outstanding contributions to the social sciences and humanities in Canada and around the world

Paul Thagard, Philosophy - awarded a 2007 Canada Council Molson Prize for Social Sciences and Humanities Research for his multi-disciplinary work and publications on cognitive science.

Canada Research Chairs in Arts

Karen Collins, CRC in Interactive Audio (Tier 2)

James Danckert, CRC in Cognitive Neuroscience (Tier 2)

Chris Eliasmith, CRC in Theoretical Neuroscience (Tier 2)

Roxane J. Itier, CRC in Cognitive Neuroimaging & Neurodevelopmental Disorders (Tier 2)

Wendy Mitchinson, CRC in Gender and Medical History (Tier 1)

David Moscovitch, CRC in Mental Health Research (Tier 2)

Endowed Chairs in Arts

 Alice Kuzniar, Chair in Croatian Studies

James Diamond, Joe and Wolfe Lebovic Chair in Jewish Studies 

Carla Fehr, Wolfe Chair in Science and Technology Studies

Heather Douglas, Waterloo Chair in Science and Society

John H Smith, Rt. Hon. John G. Diefenbaker Memorial Chair in German Literary Studies

Centre for Global Governance Innovation (CIGI) Chairs & Fellows in Arts

William Coleman, CIGI Chair in Globalization and Public Policy at the Balsillie School of International Affairs

Andrew Cooper, CIGI Distinguished Fellow

Eric Helleiner, CIGI Chair in International Political Economy

Kathryn Hochstetler, CIGI Chair of Governance in the Americas in the Balsillie School of International Affairs

Sue Horton, CIGI Chair in Global Health Economics

Bessma Momani, CIGI Senior Fellow

Mark Sedra, CIGI Senior Fellow

David Welch, CIGI Chair of Global Security at the Balsillie School of International Affairs

Book prizes (2007-present, selected)

2010 John Porter Tradition of Excellence Award
for The Prestige Squeeze: Occupational Prestige in Canada Since 1965 (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2009) John Goyder, Sociology

2010 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing
for Just Watch Me: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 1968-2000 (Knopf Canada, 2009)
John English, History (Just Watch Me was also a finalist for both the 2010 Charles Taylor Award and the 2010 Governor General’s Litarary Award – Non-fiction)

2009 Donner Prize for Best Book in Canadian Public Policy
for Arctic Front: Defending Canada in the Far North (Thomas Allen Publishers, 2008)
Ken Coates and Whitney Lackenbauer (SJU), History (with William Morrison and Greg Poulzer)

2009 Donald V. Smiley Prize for Best Book in Canadian Political Science
for National Health Insurance in the United States and Canada: Race, Territory, and the Roots of Difference (Georgetown UP, 2008) Gerry Boychuk, Political Science

2008 Gabrielle Roy Prize, Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures
for Louis Hamelin et ses doubles (Nota Bene, 2008) François Paré, French Studies (with François Ouellet)

2007 Donner Prize for Best Book in Canadian Public Policy
for Towards North American Monetary Union?: The Politics and History of Canada's Exchange Rate Regime (McGill-Queens UP, 2007) Eric Helleiner, Political Science

Tri-Council awards

The Tri-Council is comprised of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).

Waterloo Arts faculty members are among the country’s most successful research grant winners in social science and humanities fields. Our researchers also win numerous awards under the other Tri-Council programs. In fact, the Department of Psychology is a powerhouse of Tri-Council grant holders. In 2011, 95% of Psychology’s 38 faculty members hold a total of 116 external research grants, most of them from SSHRC, NSERC and CIHR. 

SSHRC 

Over the past 5 years, applications from across the Faculty of Arts to the SSHRC Standard Research Grant (SRG) program has increased by 62%-- and thenumber of grants awarded has increased by an impressive 160%. In plain numbers that means

in 2006, Arts submitted 42 applications >> 10 grants were awarded

in 2010, Arts submitted 68 applications >> 26 grants were awarded

SSHRC Standard Research Grants, 2011

Karen Collins, Drama & Speech Communication. Exploring interactivity and immersion with multi-platform games

Altay Coskun, Classical Studies.  New history of ancient Galatia

Doreen Fraser,  Philosophy. A philosophical investigationof issues raised by particle physics       

Kimie Hara, East Asian Studies Program (REN). The San Francisco System and cold War Frontiers in the Asia-Pacific: Part 2 (1951-1980)       

Eric Helleiner, Political Science. The new politics of global derivatives regulation after the 2007-08 financial crisis               

Kathryn Hochstetler, Political Science. Charting the future of climate change: energy and development in Brazil and South Africa   

Carin Holroyd, Political Science. Environmental technology and national innovation in Japan       

Tim Kenyon, Philosophy. Testimony, assertion and justification               

Greta Kroeker, History. The era of Catholic innovation: 1480-1546           

Alice Kuzniar, Germanic & Slavic Studies. German Romanticism as the vital life force of homeopathy

Victoria Lamont,  English Language & Literature. Popular westerns: A women's history 1880-1940       

Theresa Libby,  School of Accounting & Finance. Fairness, moral sensitivity and incentive contracting 

Patricia Marino, Philosophy. Moral reasoning in a pluralistic world           

Aimee Morrison,  English Language & Literature. Deciphering digital life writing            

Jennifer Roberts-Smith, Drama & Speech Communication. Simulated environment for theatre (SET)    

Winfried Siemerling,  English Language & Literature: African Canadian writing, literary history and the presence of the past

Mikal Skuterud,  Economics. Gone fishing! Absenteeism, shirking and the weather

Alex Statiev, History. Adventure tourism in the Soviet Union and the Post-Soviet states             

Hongping Tan, School of Accounting & Finance. Determinants of financial analyst following and its value indications   

John Turri, Philosophy. New perspectives on Speech Acts          

Tony Wirjanto, School of Accounting & Finance. Examining the effects of increased volatility uncertainty of firms        

SSHRC Insight Development Grants, 2011

Steven Bednarski, History (SJU). A poisoned past: A reflexive microhistory of Margarita de Portu, a fourteenth-century poisoner

Jay Dolmage, English Language & Literature. A white man's country: The rhetorical construction of race and disability through Canadian eugenics and immigration restriction

John Turri, Philosophy. Norms of assertion

SSHRC Research/Creation in the Fine Arts Grant, 2011

Marcel O’Gorman, English Language & Literature. Pharmakon: Investigating technological impacts through digital art and applied media theory

SSHRC Partnership Development Grant, 2011

Guy Poirier, French Studies. Textes missionnaires dans l'espace francophone

SSHRC Partnership Grant LOI, 2011

Neil Randall, English Language & Literature. IMMERSe: Immersion & multi-modal experience research syndicate

SSHRC Aid to Research Workshops & Conferences in Canada Grant, 2011

Shelley Hulan, English Language & Literature. LITERATURE, Rhetoric, and Values (conference)

NSERC

NSERC Discovery Grants, 2011

Ori Friedman, Psychology. Children's pretense: representing fictional worlds and relating them to reality            

Jonathan Fugelsang, Psychology. Factors influencing judgments of causal relations

Katherine White,  Psychology. Specificity and flexibility in early word recognition

Other awards

Ontario Early Researcher Award (ERA), 2011

Veronica Kitchen, Political Science.  Integrated counter-terrorism institutions in comparative perspective
 

Grants awarded in 2010