Congratulations to the YCAR Faculty Associates who received funds as part of more than $13 million in new federal funding will support over 60 York University-led research projects across the social sciences and humanities. Recipients were announced in July 2026.
Insight Grant awardees
- Patrick Alcedo (Dance) | From Field to Stage: Choreographing for Theatre Philippine Folk Dance Practices through Ethnographic Research ($163,951)
- Lalaie Ameeriar (Anthropology) | We Inherit Each Other: Racialized Care Work and Reproductive Labour during and after COVID-19 ($109,580)
- Shital H. Desai (Design) | Prompting Rule-based Activities to Support Relational Communication Closeness in Dementia Care ($417,127)
- Ena Dua (Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies) | (D)EDI At Crossroads: Between Mainstreaming and Elimination ($411,890)
- Hong Kal (Visual Art & Art History) | Grievable Images: Visualizing State Violence and Resistance in South Korea Since 1948 ($115,556)
- Nazilla Khanlou (Nursing) | Inclusive Social Care for Racialized Families of Children and Youth with Developmental Disabilities: Addressing Intersectional Trauma ($390,389)
- Guida Man (Sociology) | Aging in a Foreign Land: Filial Piety and Elder Abuse Risks among Chinese Immigrants in Canada, Co-investigator ($166,450)
- Yuka Nakamura (Kinesiology & Health Science) | Community and Connection: Understanding the Growth and Social Impact of Ethnic, Cultural and Religious Sport Organizations in Toronto ($172,229)
A full of recipients is available at this link. Read the YFile story at this link.
Insight Development Grant awardees
- Russell Belk (Schulich School of Business) | Beyond Prediction: Integrating Interpolation and Conceptual Blending to Better Understand Human Meaning-Making, Co-Investigator ($75,210)
- Vikrant Dadawala (English) | Ghosts into Ancestors: Literature, Religion, Mass Migration ($62,857)
- Abi Eshra (English) | Women in Exile: Memoirs and the Politics of Agency in Canada ($66,211)
- Hong Kal (Visual Art & Art History) with YCAR Research Associates Tomoe Otsuki and Huiyao Sun, Co-Investigators | The Girl Moves: Memory, Redress, and Diasporic Engagement with the Japanese Military "Comfort Women" Statue in Canada ($84,342)
- Vanessa Lamb (Social Science) | Cryptocurrency's "hidden" social-natures: Following the money used by social-environmental justice movements in Southeast Asia ($66,777)
- Casey Mecija (Communication Studies ) | Sonic Reckoning: The Social and Affective Role of Music in 2SLGBTQ+ Youths’ Lives ($45,907)
A list of recipients is available at this link. Read the YFile story at this link.
Partnership Development Grant awardees
- Yee Ling Elene Lam (School of Social Work) | Behind the Badge: Collaborative Research on Anti-Trafficking Policing and Its Impacts in Canada, Co-Investigator ($198,100)
- Ethel Tungohan (Politics) | Intersections of Policy, Racism, and Precarity in Canada’s Evolving Home Care Worker Programs, Co-Investigator ($199,985)
A list of recipients is available at this link. Read the YFile story at this link.
Connection Grant awardee
- Ethel Tungohan (Politics) | Asian Canadian Studies as a Collective Project: Looking Back, Looking Forward, Looking Beyond, Co-Investigator ($25,000)
A list of recipients is available at this link. Read the YFile story at this link.