2015 Fulbright Canada grants

Political science PhD candidate Sam Grey has been awarded a Fulbright Canada student grant to conduct research at the University of Minnesota in 2015–16 on her project, “Irreconciled and Unforgiven: Emotion, Virtue and the Politics of Reparation in Mini Sota Makoce.” Grey received her MA in Indigenous Governance from UVic and holds prior degrees in philosophy, Indigenous studies and international development from Trent University. She has published on food systems politics, Indigenous women’s rights, bioethics and the ontology of health, Indigenous political thought, solidarity politics, decolonization, historical injustice, and peacemaking; and edited three books on Indigenous knowledge and rights-based advocacy. Grey’s primary research interests are political virtue, the politics of emotion, Settler-colonialism, and reparations for historical injustice. These converge in her dissertation on ‘unforgiveness’ and ‘irreconciliation’ in Mini Sota Macoce (Dakota Homeland).

Thi Hong Phuc Dang, a PhD student in UVic’s Social Dimensions of Health program, has also been awarded a Fulbright Canada student grant to conduct research at the University of Kentucky on her 2015–16 project, “Are We Measuring Up? Exploring Public Health Performance and Health Equity in the US and Canada.” Dang enrolled in UVic’s Equity Lens in Public Health (ELPH) program to study health equity in BC. As a Fulbright scholar, Dang will further explore how accountability structures and measures influence core public health activities that impact health equity, using data from the US National Longitudinal Survey of Public Health Systems Instrument combined with demographic and health status surveillance data. Her work has previously been recognized with the ELPH Doctoral Fellowship, Academy Health Public Health Systems Research Student Scholarship, President’s Surgite Award, Ontario Graduate Scholarship and the Ida Marietta Houston Graduate Scholarship.