When these fellowship monies are added to our very good share of university and national awards, teaching and research assistantships, the total funding of our Ph.D. students exceeds one million dollars annually, a figure only a few research-oriented departments in North America can match. It has strengthened our ability to attract the best incoming students, and to provide support for advanced students in one of the leading training grounds in anthropology in North America. We are not yet able to guarantee four years of full funding to all incoming doctoral students, as at departments at leading private universities in the U.S., like Harvard and Princeton, but it is a goal we hope to achieve one day, with the help of alumni and friends. Three tenure stream faculty members at St. George and one at Erindale have joined us. It is my strong hope that with provincial funding on a stable basis and with the success of the Campaign for the University of Toronto, the erosion of faculty strength in anthropology will stop and financial support for both undergraduate and graduate students will increase, so that our department will be able to strengthen its role in North American anthropology and in the education of students at the University of Toronto.
Many activists see themselves more in terms of global identities rather than nationally-based ones.
Examples of such movements are environmentalism, refugees, indigenous rights, biotechnology, and economic justice. Her in-depth ethnographic studies of the activists themselves and the local contexts in which their global identities will provide insights unavailable in other disciplines. Cunningham's doctoral dissertation reported on her research with a coalition of religio-political activists in the underground sanctuary movement, located in the southwestern United States. The underground sanctuary movement arose in the early 1980s to aid fugitives seeking safe haven from civil wars in Central America. Many of these activists saw offering sanctuary as similar to the creation of the underground railroad from the United States to Canada in the pre-Civil War period.