总理的研究椅子

The award of a Chancellor's Research Chair is intended to encourage and sustain high levels of scholarly activity by faculty and to retain high quality faculty who have made, and will continue to make, exceptional contributions to research in their field. The candidates should be excellent emerging researchers who have demonstrated particular research creativity; have demonstrated the potential to achieve international recognition in their fields in the next five to ten years; have the potential to attract, develop and retain excellent trainees, students and future researchers; and be proposing an original, innovative research program of high quality.

该奖项适用于终端学位10年以内或获得任期后5年内的终身任期或任期教师。总理研究主席的候选人必须是新兴的学者，至少应担任助理或副教授。主席通常每年被授予内部候选人，以获得三年的不可再生学期。

Dr. Jenny Heijun Wills

授予：2020年5月

Dr. Jenny Heijun Wills is an associate professor in the Department of English. She writes about race, identity, and adoption both as a scholar and creative writer. She is the first University of Winnipeg Chancellor’s Research Chair whose output is creative in nature.

The majority of her three year term will be spent researching and writing a historical novel that spans the 1950s-1990s. Loosely based on the lives of Jim Jones’s three Korean adopted children, the novel will explore themes of racial violence within progressive, liberal, anti-racist contexts. Dr. Wills will work with BIPoC student writers, undertaking archival research as well as literary research throughout the course of this project.

彼得·J·米勒（Peter J. Miller）博士，经典

授予：2019年5月

Dr. Peter J. Miller is an assistant professor in the Department of Classics. His research focuses on the representation of gendered, socioeconomic, and ethnic identities in ancient Greek poetry, and he has published studies of ancient Greek drama and verse that are driven by contemporary critical theory. He has also published on ancient Greek and Roman sports and spectacle, their cultural importance in ancient contexts, and their influence on the contemporary global sports that emerged in the late 19th century.

Dr. Miller’s current focus is a SSHRC-funded study of the role of ancient sport and Classical scholarship in the development of modern sport and the ways in which Greco-Roman antiquity continues to pervade the modern sports landscape, from the Olympic Games, to the physical infrastructures of health and fitness, to the artistic representation of sport in art, literature, and cinema. The goal of this project is to produce a variety of academic and non-academic publications that interrogate, interpret, and demonstrate how ancient and modern sport are intertwined; how antiquity and modernity continue to exist together; how the past – or rather history, one interpretation of the past – inflects the present day and the future, in this case, through the global reach of contemporary sport.

米勒博士的总理研究主席工作将在某种程度上成为布卢姆斯伯里学者的“古代与现代”系列的卷，名为《体育：古代及其遗产》。布卢姆斯伯里（Bloomsbury）系列“古人和现代人”，“旨在向学生和普通读者交流该领域最佳作品的深度，能量和兴奋。它寻求参与，挑衅和刺激，并展示在世界上大部分地区，格拉科 - 罗马古代如何继续与文化，政治和社会中的辩论有关”（根据该系列的描述）。

诺拉·卡森博士Geography

授予：2018年5月

Dr. Nora Casson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography investigating impacts of climate change and other environmental pressures on subarctic freshwater ecosystems and the tundra in Churchill, Manitoba. Her research also includes a community engagement-driven approach to synthesize scientific knowledge around impacts of climate change on fresh water aquatic resources in the region.

这个奖项的三年任期内,在collaboration with researchers at the Churchill Northern Studies Centre (CNSC), Dr. Casson will be using a combination of lab and field-based manipulations, to investigate the roles of landscape and sediment processes in mediating the nutrient response of subarctic aquatic ecosystems to climate change. Graduate and undergraduate students will have a chance to do research at the CNSC allowing further investigation into the pressures on the unique and important northern ecosystems and also offer exciting research opportunities.

Dr. Delia Gavrus, History

授予：2017年5月

Dr. Gavrus is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History studying the history of science, medicine, technology, as well as American and Canadian cultural and social history. Her work explores the ways in which theories about the human brain and mind have been fashioned in conjunction with the various scientific, clinical, social, and cultural realities of the 19th and 20th centuries. During her Chancellor’s Research Chair term, Dr. Gavrus will be working on a biography of Dr. Wilder Penfield, a renowned Canadian neurosurgeon and Renaissance man.

加夫鲁斯博士将彭菲尔德（Penfield）描述为心理哲学家，他将自己的知识，外科经验和文学博学带给了也许是最困难的问题 - 人类意识。彭菲尔德（Penfield）是一个开创性的神经外科医生，被驱使释放人脑的奥秘。他彻底改变了脑外科手术的技术，并就人类的认知，记忆和感觉进行了重大发现。该传记将是加夫鲁斯博士的作品的延续，这将使她能够利用新的镜头来关注有关我们对大脑理解的问题，通过研究彭菲尔德博士的悠久生活。

Dr. Renée Douville, Biology

授予：2016年5月

Dr. Douville is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biology studying neuroprogressive disease. During the Chancellor’s Research Chair term the Douville research laboratory will continue to focus on developing an understanding of how human endogenous retroviruses (ERVs), which reside in our DNA and are normally dormant, become re-activated in certain neurological diseases. Dr. Douville’s lab has discovered a novel ERV protein with neurotoxic potential; their work aims to determine the protein’s association with neuronal damage and inflammation in the brain.

Douville博士致力于进行研究，以改善与病毒相关脑疾病（如ALS和精神分裂症）患者的生活质量和护理。通过研究纳入人类DNA的病毒，她发现了我们身体对抗病毒的复杂方式，以及这些过程如何促进神经退行性和神经精神疾病，这是发展新型治疗策略的第一步。

刑事司法凯文·沃尔比博士

授予：2015年4月

Dr. Walby is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice studying the corporate security within the three levels of government primarily using freedom of information requests and interviews.

As the Chancellor’s Research Chair he will investigate the establishment and operations of public sector corporate security units at three levels of government in Canada and the USA. The transfer of corporate security into government has never been the focus of research in Canada or in the USA. Municipal, provincial and state, and federal governments are now rethinking in-house security, which raises questions about security policy transfer from the private to the public sector. Since 2001, municipal corporate security (MCS) units have emerged as prominent features of local governments in 21 Canadian cities. MCS units are now responsible for a range of practices including asset protection, camera surveillance and policing of ‘nuisance’ conduct (e.g., littering, loitering, alcohol consumption) on public lands, as well as surveillance of municipal employees and citizens. MCS units are nominally public agencies, yet their principle knowledge and technology transfer partner is the international private security industry, specifically American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS) International. Provincial and federal government agencies are now establishing corporate security units too. How public sector corporate security units operate in security networks and how security policies for corporate security units have diffused across government in Canada and the USA remains unknown. This dearth of empirical research restricts academic understandings of: security, government, and crime control practices; the differences between private and public sector corporate security; the differences between public sector corporate security in Canada and the USA; and debates about security networks and consumption. It also restricts policymakers from engaging in informed discussion about public sector corporate security unit merits and accountability.

Bruno Silvestre博士，商业与管理

授予：2014年5月

客户越来越希望专门为他们的需求而设计的产品和服务，以较低的价格交付，并且也是可持续的（社会，经济和环境的。）然而，该领域几乎没有得到研究的关注。

Dr. Silvestre’s research project aims to answer the following key questions:如何有效地开发，实施和管理链条？这些创新如何影响供应链的可持续性（即经济，环境和社会）绩效？

该项目将涉及对有关创新，供应链管理和可持续性的文献进行系统的审查，以及与曼尼托巴航空航天，农业，建筑和能源部门的人的面对面访谈和问卷。学生将在三年项目中积极参与。

Dr. Melanie Martin, Physics

Awarded: April 2013

梅兰妮·马丁（Melanie Martin）博士正在研究诊断多发性硬化症和阿尔茨海默氏病的方法。随着一个人的衰老，大脑会萎缩，但阿尔茨海默氏症的人的大脑缩小了速度更快。马丁认为，随着阿尔茨海默氏病迅速收缩的大脑区域是海马，这是负责记忆的。

马丁目前正在开发创新的磁共振成像（MRI）技术，以使研究人员可以实时查看大脑并测量大脑收缩。希望这项技术能够使医生早日诊断阿尔茨海默氏病，并具有客观的标记，即脑收缩，以评估治疗方法。

Dr. Angela Failler, Sociology/Women’s and Gender Studies

Awarded: April 2012

Dr. Failler is leading a new Cultural Studies research team at UWinnipeg consisting of sixteen co-investigators who are faculty members from across the Humanities and Social Sciences. The team has launched a research project engaging with the developments of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR).

Failler和她的团队将进行一个项目，该项目是出于渴望为CMHR提供有意义的文化生产，公共对话和教学遭遇的潜力的愿望而出现的。该项目将作为公共智能交流的典范，并证明加拿大文化研究奖学金在国民和国际舞台上对人权和社会正义的批判性讨论的丰富贡献。

Failler currently holds a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Standard Research Grant (SRG) as Principal Investigator of a program entitled “Building Communities of Memory: Remembrance Practices After the 1985 Air India Bombings”, which theorizes the impact of the bombings on the national imagination in terms of how Canadians conceive of themselves, each other, and what it means to be Canadian - particularly in a post-9/11 culture of “war on terror.” The relevance of this research for the newly launched Cultural Studies project lies in its attention to how public engagement with representations of human loss and suffering can be used to foster a better understanding of the conditions necessary for promoting and protecting human rights and social justice.

Craig Willis博士，生物学

Awarded: July 2011

Dr. Craig Willis is an Associate Professor in Biology studying the ecology, behaviour, and physiology of wild mammals. He and his students conduct research about mammalian ecology and evolution, as well as applied conservation research that is important for understanding the impacts of climate change, industrial development, and habitat loss on wildlife. Recently the Willis lab has been part of the major international effort to understand a disease called White Nose Syndrome (WNS).

WNS was discovered in 2006; it has spread rapidly throughout eastern North America and recently into Ontario and Quebec. The disease is named for a white fungus (called Geomyces destructans) which grows on the exposed skin of the muzzles and wings of the bats. Little brown bats, one of the most common North American species, are the hardest hit. Current estimates predict local extinction for this species within 20 years of the arrival of WNS in an area. This is a crisis for bat conservation but also has wider consequences for ecosystems, forestry, and agriculture, given the role of bats as the primary consumers of night-flying insects. Recent estimates suggest that bats are worth billions of dollars annually for North American agriculture because of reduced crop damage and pesticide costs.

威利斯博士拥有多ple research grants from NSERC, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Canada Foundation for Innovation. These funds support field and laboratory studies to better understand precisely how Geomyces destructans is killing bats and to determine the potential for natural selection to help bat populations rebound from WNS in the future.