Dr. Katherine Bowers (CENES) and Dr. Heidi Tworek (History and School of Public Policy and Global Affairs) have been awarded $100,000 in the 2026 Grants for Catalyzing Research Clusters (GCRC) competition for their project “Sovereignty in a Fractious Age.”
Sovereignty is an increasingly urgent topic in our current moment. It is striking that concepts and practices of sovereignty are being broadly reconfigured as groups of scholars, journalists, and members of the public have started to place it at the centre of how they understand the contemporary world.
At UBC, many scholars research aspects of sovereignty, but have not engaged with each other. This cluster brings together UBC scholars from multiple disciplines to discuss digital, cultural, and territorial sovereignty. Revisiting and re-imagining sovereignty is crucial as this scholarship can have significant and near-term impact for the present.
Their research cluster joins 25 others funded in this cycle. The full list of GCRC recipients can be found here.
