Awards and Research Grants

Testimonio Delegation November 2023

Delegation in Antigua, Guatemala - November 2022

Catherine Nolin, PhD
Professor & Chair

BA (University of Calgary), MA, PhD (Queen's University at Kingston, 2000)

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Recent Research Funding

Principal Investigator

No End in Sight: Root Causes of Forced Migration from Honduras and Guatemala (PI: C. Nolin & G. Russell). SSHRC Exchange Grant, ÂÜÀòÉäÇø, 2020 (1 year)

Living in a Time of Impunity in Post-Genocide Guatemala (PI: C. Nolin). ÂÜÀòÉäÇø General Research Grant Competition, 2017 (1 year)

Memory-Truth-Justice: The Crisis of the Living in the Search for Guatemala’s Dead and Disappeared, (PI: C. Nolin; Collaborators: E. Henderson & F. Peccerelli, FAFG Guatemala). SSHRC Internal ÂÜÀòÉäÇø Grant Competition, 2015 (1 year)

Project Disappeared: Documenting the Search for Memory, Truth, and Justice in Contemporary Guatemala (PI: C. Nolin; Collaborators: E. Henderson & F. Peccerelli, FAFG Guatemala). ÂÜÀòÉäÇø Seed Grant Competition, 2015 (1 year)

Life in the periphery: Neoliberal policy and disputed lands in rural British Columbia (PI: C. Nolin; Collaborator: N. Einbinder).ÂÜÀòÉäÇø Office of Research, Seed Grant, 2010

    Co-investigator and/or Collaborator, Recent

    Buzz, Boom, and Bust: A Comparative Case Study of the Gendered Impacts of the Speculative Phase of Resource Development in New Brunswick and British Columbia (Co-PIs: Marieka Sax & Daniel Tubb). SSHRC Insight Grant, 2018-2021. Collaborator

    Centre for Indigenous Conservation and Development Alternatives (CICADA) (PI: Colin Scott, McGill University). Quebec FRQSC (Fonds de recherché Société et culture), Centre en fonctionnement, 2018 - 2023. Collaborator

    Indigenous Engagements with Mining in Canada and Guatemala: Developing Refined Understandings through Collaboration and Comparison (PI: Karine Vanthuyne, University of Ottawa). SSHRC Insight Grant, 2014 – 2016, Collaborator

    Centre for Indigenous Conservation and Development Alternatives (CICADA) (PI: Colin Scott, McGill University). Quebec FRQSC (Fonds de recherché Société et culture) Regroupements stratégiques ‘centre’ (emergence), 2014 - 2016. Collaborator

    One the Move: Geographies of Worker Mobilities in Canada (PI: Barb Neis, Memorial University). SSHRC Partnership Grant, 2012-2017, Collaborator


    Distinctions, Honours, Fellowships, Scholarships
     

    • , Confederation of University Faculty Associations of British Columbia (CUFA BC), May 2023
    • ÂÜÀòÉäÇø Excellence in Service Award that recognizes exemplary service to the University, community, and our professions, May 2022
    • ÂÜÀòÉäÇø Natural Resources and Environmental Studies Institute (NRESi) Community Advancement Award, October 2015
    • , Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG), August 2013
    • , Western Division of the Canadian Association of Geographers (WDCAG), March 2009
    • ÂÜÀòÉäÇø Nominee, , January 2008 & January 2009
    • ÂÜÀòÉäÇø Excellence in Teaching Award Recipient, May 2007
    • ÂÜÀòÉäÇø Excellence in Teaching Nominee, April 2003 & April 2008
    • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, , 2001-2003. Held in Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Dalhousie University (Halifax, NS) and the Geography Program at ÂÜÀòÉäÇø (Prince George, BC)
    • Queen's University, Queen's Thesis Bursary, 2000 (Summer Term)
    • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, , 1998-2000
    • International Development Research Centre (Ottawa), , 1998-99
    • Ontario Graduate Scholarship, 1998-99, Declined
    • Queen's University nominee, Senior Women Academic Administrators of Canada (SWAAC) Graduate Student Award of Merit for, 1998/99
    • Queen's University, Dean's Doctoral Field Travel Grant, 1998-99
    • Queen's University, Queen's Graduate Fellowship, 1997-98
    • Queen's University, Dean's Award, 1996-97; 1994-95
    • Queen's University, Dean's Canadian Racial Minority Award, 1996-97
    • Queen's University, Queen's Graduate Award, 1996-97; 1994-95; 1993-94