Research Support

2019
Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies Senior Scholars' Research Fund ($1000)

2017
Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada Connection Grant for Workshop, October 2017, "Women, Men, and Plants in 19th-Century Canada: New Resources, New Perspectives"  ($23,738)

Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies Senior Scholars' Fund ($990)

2014
Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies Senior Scholars’ Research Fund ($738)

2010
SSHRC Conference Travel Grant ($500)

2008
SSHRC Conference Travel Grant ($700)

2006
Research Fellowship, Yale Center for British Art, Yale University, February 2006

2005-06
YUFA Sabbatical Leave Fellowship, “Women and Cultures of Science” ($5500)

2001
SSHRC Aid-to-Scholarly Conference grant, “Visual Cultures of Gender in 19th Century Science” ($9100)

2001-02
Gerstein Foundation: York Seminar for Advanced Research: “Figural Vocabularies of Gender in Science, Medicine, and Technology” ($7500)

2000-03, 04-06
SSHRC Research Grant: “Figuring Flora: Women and the Cultural History of Botany” ($49,000); with full 2.5 course release

1999
York Sabbatical Leave Fellowship: “The Vegetable Estate” ($2865)

1999
SSHRC Small Grant: “A Cultural History of Botany in England” (Part I) ($2500)

1999
Atkinson Minor Research Grant: “Toward a Social History of Botany” ($1600)

1998
Canadian Centre for German and European Studies Small Grant: "Science for Women in 18th-Century German Magazines" ($1000)

1998
Faculty of Arts Research Grant: "Floral Iconographies" ($1000)

1996
Atkinson Minor Research Grant: "John Lindley, Part 2" ($1040)

1995
SSHRC Research Grant: "Graduate Women's Studies: Visions and Realities" ($5500)

1995
Atkinson Minor Research Grant: "John Lindley and Botany" ($1100)

1991-94
SSHRC Research Grant, "Women's Writing and Science Culture" ($23,765)

1991
Atkinson Minor Research Grant: "Three Women Botanical Writers of the 1840s-50s" ($1100)

1991
SSHRC Travel Grant: International Congress on the Enlightenment ($800)

1990-91
SSHRC Small Grant: "Resources for a History of Women and Botanical Culture: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation ($590)

1990-91
Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council Grant: "Women, Botany Books, and Science Culture in England, 1830s-1850s" ($40,896) (awarded but not funded)

1990
Atkinson Minor Research Grant: "Botanical Periodicals of the 1830s-1850s" ($1200)

1989
Atkinson Grant for Travel to Conference ($500)

1988-89
Atkinson Research Fellowship (full paid leave)

1988
Atkinson Grant for Travel to Conference ($400)

1987
Atkinson Minor Research Grant: "Advice Literature and Moral Tales 1780-1820: Women Writers" ($1250)

1986
Atkinson Minor Research Grant:  "Emily Dickinson's Herbarium Part II" ($475)

1986
Atkinson Grants for Travel to Conferences ($480, $800)

1985
Atkinson Grant for Travel to Conference ($850)

1984
Faculty of Arts Research Grant: "Women and Botany: Early 19th Century" ($500)

1984
Atkinson Minor Research Grant: "A History of Women and British Botany" ($1200)

1984
Atkinson Grants for Travel to Conferences ($200, $333)

1983
Atkinson Minor Research Grant: "Emily Dickinson's Herbarium" ($413)

1983
Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council Grant for Travel to Conference ($743)

1982
Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council Grant for Travel to Conference ($470)

1982
Atkinson Grant for Travel to Conference ($185)

1981-82
Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council Grant: "Biography of Priscilla Wakefield" ($4802); Extension 1982-83

1981
Atkinson Grant for Travel to Conference ($183)

1979        
President's Ad Hoc Fund for Travel to Conference $306)

1978
Atkinson Minor Research Grant: "18th-Century British Botanical Writers"

1977
Atkinson Minor Research Grant: "Women and British Botany" ($840)

1976
Atkinson Grant for Travel to Conference ($165)

1976
Atkinson Minor Research Grant: "Translation of Latin Botanical Documents" ($400)

1974
Canada Council Research Grant: "Albrecht von Haller and Botany" ($1410)