Mary Jane Miller (FSDVA) received a SSHRC grant of $36,000.00 (1994-1997) for her projects: Representation of aboriginal peoples in Canadian television drama [Book III] and Analysis of drama 1986-96 [Book IV].
Marilyn Rose (English) received a SSHRC grant of $10,675.00 (1992-1995) for her project: Literary Lives/Communities: Canadian Women Writers 1910-1949.
John Sainsbury (History) received a SSHRC grant of $15,000.00 (1993-1996) for his project: John Wilkes.
Elizabeth Sauer (English) received a SSHRC grant of $11,300.00 (1992-1995) for her project: Orchestrating Discourses: Alternative Voices and Multivocality in the Works of Milton.
The Historical Thesaurus project, located at Glasgow University and initiated by Professor Michael Samuels, in which Angus Somerville (English) is a participant, received a grant of £165,400 from the Leverhume Foundation in the spring of 1994.
Ernesto Virgulti (FIS) was recipient of a Government of Ontario Volunteer Service Award for his work in the Italian Community of the Niagara Region. He is currently the President of the Dante Alighieri Society of Niagara, an organization whose primary function is the promotion of Italian Language and Culture in the jurisdiction.
Alan D. Booth (Classics) has been appointed Adjunct Professor, Department of Classics, at McMaster University to assist in the graduate program there.
Rob Nunn (FSDVA) has contributed to a vital approach for teaching dramatic literature, where the script is a means to stage production rather than an end in itself. For his article on English-Canadian plays presented in French, Rob won the Richard Plant Award for theatre criticism in English. Rob is the current editor of Theatre Research in Canada.
Hedy McGarrell (DALS) was awarded a fellowship to teach and undertake research at Nanyang University in Singapore from August 1994 to August 1995.