Award 271429-CA
Research Chairs - General and interdisciplinary
- COMPETITION OPEN
- Awards to be taken up in the 2027-2028 Academic Year
- Applications accepted until September 15, 2026
- The next competition, for awards to be taken up in the 2028-2029 Academic Year, will open in February 2027
- US$25,000 for 4 months
- Grants begin in either September 2027 or January 2028
- Fulbright Canada Program Officer, Recruitment
- Applicants are strongly encouraged to contact the institution to discuss research interests and to include a letter of invitation from the intended host faculty/department.
Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Knowledges, Concordia University
Indigenous Futures Research Centre
The cross-faculty Indigenous Futures Research Centre (IFRC) will host the Chair. The IFRC is located in the Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology, and the Chair will have access to Milieux facilities as well as plentiful opportunities to interact with Concordia’s expansive research community. Concordia is known for its innovative approaches to Indigenous research, including hosting a number of large-scale programs that combine scholarly inquiry, creative production, and community engagement.
Concordia welcomes scholars in all fields, including expressions of interest from knowledge keepers and artists who may not have the usual academic profile but have acquired their knowledge through a lifetime of experience and practice.
Specializations: Indigenous knowledges as applied to various fields of study, including Indigenous studies, fine arts, public policy, as well as language and culture.
Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Justice and Reconciliation, King's University College at Western University
Social Justice and Peace Studies
Department of Religious Studies
Department of History
Centre for Advanced Research in Catholic Thought
King’s University College seeks a Fulbright Scholar qualified to explore concepts of justice and reconciliation. The scholar’s work should focus on the role of religion and religious institutions in truth and reconciliation processes in the context of colonialism in the Americas or globally. Historical and theoretical approaches are welcome, but the scholar must show how the research has practical relevance for those working to address contemporary reconciliation and restorative justice initiatives. The scholar should also demonstrate meaningful ongoing engagement with the communities impacted by their research.
The Fulbright Scholar will benefit from working in a highly collaborative and interdisciplinary environment recognized for producing high-quality research in the Catholic intellectual tradition.
King’s is a Catholic liberal arts university college formally affiliated with Western University, a top-ranked Canadian research-intensive university. Kings' is dedicated to initiatives that expand access to higher education, and address contemporary challenges with honesty and integrity, guided by a commitment to the common good.
Specializations: Applicants from any Humanities or Social Science discipline are welcome. Applicants should demonstrate how past/ongoing research projects explore aspects of restorative justice and reconciliation, broadly construed.
Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Brain, Language, and Music, McGill University
Centre for Research on Brain, Language and Music
The Centre for Research on Brain, Language and Music (CRBLM) at McGill University maintains faculty and student research support and engages in research training and scholarly development across eight Quebec institutions (McGill, Université de Montréal, UQAM, Concordia, U. Laval, ÉTS, Collège de Maisonneuve, and UQTR). Our mission includes: promoting the scientific study of language and music neuroscience, stimulating interdisciplinary and cross-domain collaboration among researchers on basic and applied problems in language and music, fostering innovative research training for graduate and postdoctoral students, disseminating research findings to clinical and educational end-users and forming national and international partnerships. Our goal is to develop a fundamental theoretical, behavioral and neuroscientific understanding of the neurobiological, social and communicative processes of language and music. The Chair will bring to McGill expertise in one or more of the following areas: experimental paradigms that are not yet well represented within the community, such as the application of optical imaging technologies (near-infrared spectroscopy [NIRS]), electrocorticography, transcranial alternating current stimulation, mathematical and computational modeling methods, or innovative neuroimaging techniques with emphasis on questions concerning the neural substrates for music and language processing; a substantial background in theoretical and evolutionary perspectives on the acquisition of music and language that would complement ongoing work in this domain within the Centre; complementary expertise in the research on parallels in the development and use of language and music to provoke new interdisciplinary initiatives; the development of language abilities with specific emphasis on bilingualism.
Specializations: Language, speech, music, neuroscience, development, bilingualism, neuroplasticity.
Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Scholarship, McMaster University
Indigenous Studies Department
McMaster Indigenous Research Institute
The Indigenous Studies Department and the McMaster Indigenous Research Institute (MIRI) will host the Chair, who will also have opportunities to interact across McMaster’s research communities. As one of Canada’s leading universities, known for its innovation and research intensiveness, McMaster University offers visiting scholars exciting and unique opportunities for research, education and global collaboration.
McMaster is interested in scholars whose research is aligned with the aspirations of Indigenous scholars, students and communities. This research may enhance existing areas of interdisciplinary expertise as identified by McMaster’s Indigenous scholars and community, including health, environment, language and culture, gender, peace studies and conflict resolution. The strength of Indigenous scholarship at McMaster University is evident in MIRI, a world-class facility recognized for its leadership in the field of Indigenous research. MIRI facilitates and promotes increased visibility of Indigenous Knowledge and methodologies, creating space for dialogue between Western research approaches and Indigenous research collaborations, and facilitating research initiatives with multiple partners by building upon and enhancing existing relationships between McMaster and community networks. McMaster’s Department of Indigenous Studies was established in 2022, building on McMaster’s Indigenous Studies program, in existence for thirty years.
Specializations: Indigenous knowledge, epistemologies, methodologies, across multiple disciplines.
Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Rural Aging, Population Health, and Health Systems, Thompson Rivers University
Population Health and Aging Rural Research Centre
School of Nursing
Faculty of Arts
Faculty of Education & Social Work
Faculty of Science
Thompson Rivers University (TRU) seeks to fill the position of a Fulbright Visiting Research Chair during the 2026-27 academic year. The Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Rural Aging, Population Health, and Health Equity will support leading U.S. scholars to undertake collaborative, interdisciplinary research focused on the health and wellbeing of aging populations in rural, remote, and underserved communities.
Rural regions across Canada and the United States face common challenges driven by population aging, health workforce shortages, inequitable access to primary care, and geographic isolation. These challenges are further intensified by climate change, social and digital inequities, and changing health system structures. This Chair will provide a platform for Canada–U.S. research collaboration that generates applied, policy-relevant knowledge to address these shared issues.
Anchored at TRU’s Population Health and Aging Rural Research (PHARR) Centre, the Chair will contribute to comparative research, student training, community-engaged scholarship, and knowledge mobilization aimed at improving health equity and supporting aging well in place in rural contexts.
Specializations: Specializations in a variety of disciplines that could address rural aging and aging in place, vulnerable populations, global environmental shifts, rural health systems and workforce innovation, community and regional engagement (including Indigenous communities and organizations, where invited), and comparative Canada-U.S. policy analysis.
Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Comparative Canada-U.S. Studies, Trent University
School for the Study of Canada
The Fulbright Chair will be expected to organize faculty and public talks and workshops, mentor students, share research insights, and offer a special topics course in their area of expertise with an emphasis on comparative analysis of Canada-US scholarship. The School for the Study of Canada will serve as the home institution for the “Open” Chair and will work closely with other Trent University Schools (for example, Chanie Wenjack School for Indigenous Studies, Trent School of the Environment) and Departments to ensure meaningful collaboration for the Fulbright Research Chair. The School will provide the Fulbright Research Chair with office space, internet, photocopy and printing facilities, and will help to organize course registration and teaching, seminar presentations, public talks and workshops.
Specializations: Comparative Canada-US expertise in any area. This may include social and health policy, environmental policy or analysis, urban planning, political and economic history, law, social history, culture, language and literature, indigenous studies and security studies.
Fulbright Canada Research Chair, Université du Québec en Outaouais
Université du Québec en Outaouais
Innovation and connections with the society and professional world are two components that characterize the fabric of research at Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO). UQO has a rich research environment with 17 research chairs, a research institute, 14 research networks and centres, 27 labs, 3 observatories and more than 20 inter-university research teams. UQO is the host of the INRS-UQO joint research unit on Cybersecurity and the Institute of Temperate Forest Sciences (ISFORT). With its multiple campuses in Gatineau, St-Jérôme and Ripon, UQO is not only deeply rooted in the Outaouais and Laurentian regions, but it is also one of the most important academic institutions of the region of Ottawa, otherwise known as Canada’s National Capital Region.
The Visiting Chair will focus on research development, and will develop new collaborations with UQO faculty, or further existing ones. It is expected that the Visiting Chair will engage in the academic life of UQO’s research units, and connect with faculty and students. Visiting Chairs will be invited to give at least one public lecture open to the entire community. Teaching is not expected, but the Visiting Chair may be invited to give occasional lectures and participate in some research development events. UQO’s Fulbright Visiting Chair is open to all fields, but priority will be given to research areas targeted in our strategic development plan.
Specializations: Cybersecurity; Development and Resilience to Environmental Shifts; Digital Transformation and Energy; Health, Well-being and Community-based Applied Research.
Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Popular Genre Fiction, University of Calgary
The University of Calgary is pleased to offer the opportunity for a Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Popular Genre Fiction. The visiting researcher will be a part of the Department of English and collaborate with a dynamic community of faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students—comprised of researchers and creative writers—whose scholarship and research-creation regularly intervene in speculative spaces and popular genre fiction. Our department members teach, research, and create in such areas as young adult fiction, video games, comic books, romance fiction, steampunk, science fiction, detective fiction, horror, and fantasy and would welcome a visiting colleague whose work intersects with these areas and would benefit from this collaborative opportunity. The selected scholar will be expected to mentor undergraduate and graduate students and deliver a guest lecture and/or master class while conducting their own research project. The Archives and Special Collections at the University of Calgary is home to a number of collections focused on popular forms, genre fiction, and comics including the Bob Gibson Collection of Speculative Fiction; the Eric Korn Collection of H.G. Wells; and the Canadian Paperback Collection, featuring an expansive run of the earliest romance fiction published by Canadian-based publisher, Harlequin.
Specializations: Researcher and/or research-creation in fantasy and/or romantasy; medievalism; futurism; historical fiction; alternate history; romance.
Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities, University of Guelph
The Humanities Interdisciplinary Collaboration Lab
Digital Humanities at the University of Guelph is a vibrant and expanding field of inquiry supported by the Humanities Interdisciplinary Collaboration (THINC) Lab, a space dedicated to exploring how digital tools and methods enrich research, teaching, and creative practice across disciplines. The Fulbright Chair will have the opportunity to pursue an independent research agenda while engaging with broad thematic areas central to the lab’s mandate, including but not limited to: public-facing digital humanities and digital storytelling; data visualization; interdisciplinary feminisms; ways digital systems shape collaborative, dynamic and interactive knowledge production; and the long-term stewardship, accessibility, and sustainability of cultural and scholarly materials.
Scholars from a wide range of fields in the humanities, arts, information studies, and interdisciplinary or practice-based areas, are encouraged to envision how their expertise connects with questions of digital culture, data representation, critical design, or digital creativity. The position welcomes research that addresses gaps or inequities in analog or digital knowledge environments, including work attentive to community perspectives, diverse ways of knowing, and more inclusive standards or infrastructures.
The College of Arts also includes robust communities in digital creative practice, performance, music, and visual arts. In addition to conducting their own research, the Fulbright Chair will participate in talks, short workshops, and collaborative learning sessions with students and faculty.
Specializations: Linked open data, cultural critique, or collaborative methods.
Fulbright Canada Research Chair, Field Open (3 chairs), University of Ottawa
University of Ottawa Faculties
University of Ottawa Research Centre or Institute
The University of Ottawa is among the top five Canadian universities for research intensity and the largest English-French bilingual university in the world. Rooted in the community and in the heart of a G7 capital, the University of Ottawa is a prime location to conduct research founded on excellence, relevance, and impact.
Leading American scholars are invited to apply to one of three newly established Fulbright Canada Research Chairs, open to all fields of research. Up to two of these Research Chairs will be reserved for Early Career Researchers (those within seven years of their first independent research/academic appointment).
Scholars may be hosted in one of the University of Ottawa’s ten Faculties or in a Research Centre or Institute. Prospective applicants are encouraged to connect with regular, full-time University of Ottawa professors with whom they share research interests to explore the potential for sustained collaboration.
The Fulbright Canada Research Chairs program has been in place at the University of Ottawa since 2005 and offers a proven opportunity for scholars to advance research, exchange with peers and graduate students, access state-of-the-art facilities, build long-term collaborations, expand international networks, and engage with a vibrant intellectual community in Canada’s capital.
Specializations: The University of Ottawa’s Fulbright Canada Chair is open to all fields, but priority will be given to research areas targeted in our Strategic Areas of Research.
Fulbright Canada Research Chair, University of Regina
The University of Regina (UofR) welcomes Fulbright scholars in a wide range of disciplines across the natural sciences, humanities, social sciences, health, and applied fields, including interdisciplinary exploration. The Visiting Chair will be hosted by the appropriate research centre and/or academic department and will influence leading edge practice, develop partnerships, as well as contribute to knowledge generation and knowledge transfer activities. The Chair will have opportunities to deliver lectures to students, the campus community, the general public, and otherwise support and contribute to the rich research culture at the University of Regina.
Over the last decade the UofR has emerged as a research-intensive university, leading in research impact, international collaborations, graduate student training, and industry funding in areas of strategic priority. Affiliating with one or more of the research strengths below, the Chair will have the opportunity to fully engage with the UofR’s robust research enterprise which spans 10 faculties, two academic units, dozens of academic departments, and 18 research centres and institutes. With more than 400 scholars actively engaged in cutting-edge research, the chair-holder will develop networks and access important resources across our campus to further academic pursuits.
Specializations: Mental Health and Wellness; Aging and Population Health; Public Safety Personnel/PTSI; Child Trauma; Clean Energy Technologies; Justice; Water Resilience; Extreme Weather; Digital Futures.
Fulbright Canada Research Chair, York University
York University, Faculties
Organized Research Units
York University fosters interdisciplinary approaches to teaching and scholarship and offers a full range of undergraduate and graduate programs in the liberal arts, fine arts, media, performance and design, sciences, engineering, environmental studies, health studies, and the professions, including business, law, nursing, social work, and education. The field of North American/U.S. Studies at York draws upon strengths in a wide range of these areas, including the humanities, social sciences, business, law, and the environment, to explore aspects of integration in the North American context.
Applicants are required to include a letter of invitation from the intended host Faculty/department at York University.
Specializations: Liberal arts, Fine arts, Media, Performance and design, Sciences, Engineering, Environmental studies, Health studies, and the professions, including Business, Law, Nursing, Social work, and Education.