Student Awards
2011
Undergraduate Students
- Eric Proulx was accepted into the highly competitive Juno Beach Centre
Guide Programme in Normandy, France. - Michael Farrelly: Stephen McIntyre Memorial Book Prize in History, a
$500 prize in recognition of academic excellence. - Jenny Shutek: Cleveland Prize in African Middle-Eastern Asian
History, a $500 prize for a superior undergraduate term report or essay. - Lucas McFadden-Gummeson: European History Book Prize, a $240
prize for a superior undergraduate term report or essay. - Abby Rolston: Margaret Ormsby History Prize, a $400 prize for best
essay by an undergraduate upper level student enrolled in a Canadian
History course at SFU.
Graduate Students
SSHRCs
- Maddie Knickerbocker (PhD)
- Andrea Walisser
- Ivan Drury
- Ron Hughes
- Timothy Stielow
- Michael Smith
Foreign Study Supplement Travel Award 2011
- Andrea Walisser
- Jeremy Milloy
Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship
- Sean Springer
Graduate (International) Travel Awards
- Paulo Amaral
- Andrea Walisser
Travel and Minor Research Awards
- Eden Dovauo
- Eryk Martin
- Andrea Walisser
- Maddie Knickerbocker
- Bonnie Schmidt
- Jeremy Milloy
- Mariam Klait
- Edip Golbasi
PRIVATE AWARDS
William & Jane Saywell
- Cory Scott
- Joseph Howard
Leon J Ladner
- Stacey Bishop
Cook Conference
- Edip Golbasi
Douglas Cole
- Rose Golzadeh
Baldwin Graduate Scholarship
- Andrea Walisser
Aberbach
- Jeremy Milloy
I.O.D.E. Seaman Morley Scott Memorial Graduate Scholarship
Sarah Nickle
Christensen Graduate Scholarship
- Madeline Knickerbocker
Mme. Justice Bertha Wilson Bursary
- Stacey Bishop
Katevatis Scholarship
- Lucia Petersen
Niarchos Foundation
- Jason Smith
Muslim Studies Graduate Student Travel Award
- Mariam Klait
CTEF — Graduate Fellowship — 2011
- Eryk Martin
Graduate Fellowships — 2011
- Edip Golbasi
- Mark Grueter
- Ivan Drury
- James Ensom
- Joseph Howard
- Ron Hughes
- Mariam Klait
- Maddie Knickerbocker
- Timothy Stielow
- Andrea Walisser
- Ron Verzuh
President Research Stipend — 2011
- Ron Verzuh
- Eryk Martin
2010
Graduate Students
- Andrea Walisser: Joseph McGann Memorial Prize for best graduate student paper.
- Sean Wilkinson: SSHRC MA scholarship.
- Christi Garneau: SSHRC MA scholarship.
- Alexander Olson: SSHRC MA scholarship.
- Star Deibert-Turner: SSHRC MA scholarship.
- Cory Scott: SSHRC MA scholarship.
- Danielle LeBlanc: SSHRC MA scholarship.
- Paulo Amaral: SSHRC MA scholarship.
- Eden Dovauo: SSHRC MA scholarship.
- Sarah Nickel: SSHRC MA scholarship.
- Dominic Pistor: SSHRC MA scholarship.
2009
Undergraduate Students
- Timo Schaefer: SFU Gold Medal and prize in History and Stephen McIntyre Book Prize ($500). Timo was the top graduating student in the History department in 2009, achieving a remarkable 4.09 GPA in his History courses. Timo is now working on his MA in Latin American History at UBC.
- Ozren Jungic: nominated as SFU’s candidate for the BC Rhodes Scholarship. Although Ozren did not receive the award, it was a distinctive honour to have been nominated from amongst SFU’s brightest and best.
HISTORY ESSAY PRIZES - Sean Wilkinson: Richard Morgan Memorial Book Prize (Canadian Aboriginal
History - $250). - Michael Farrelly: William L. Cleveland Essay Prize in African/Middle-Eastern/Asian History ($450).
- Star Deibert-Turner: Margaret Ormsby Prize (Canadian History - $275).
- Everett Messamore: European History Essay Prize ($230).
Graduate Students
- Davide Turcato: a PhD student with the department of History has won the prestigious Governor General's Gold Medal. This is the highest award granted to a Canadian student for academic achievement and was awarded to Davide for his thesis "Making Sense of Anarchism: The Experiments with Revolution of Errico Malatesta, Italian Exile in London, 1889-1900."
- Shadaab Rahemtulla: a recent MA in Middle East/Islamics from our department, has won both a SSHRC and an Oxford Overseas Research Scholarship.
- Eryk Martin: SSHRC doctoral fellowship; Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship; Cook Conference Award; William and Jane Saywell Graduate Scholarship.
- Jeremy Milloy: SSHRC doctoral fellowship; Pacific Century Graduate Scholarship; Alan Aberbach scholarship (declined).
- Allison Kilgannon: SSHRC MA scholarship; William F. and Ruth Baldwin scholarship.
• Sandra Borger: SSHRC MA scholarship. - Stacy Bishop: SSHRC MA scholarship.
- Dustin Harris: SSHRC MA scholarship; International Research Travel Award; William and Jane Saywell Graduate Scholarship.
- Stuart Slaven: Alan Aberbach Scholarship.
- Christine Garneau: Alan Aberbach Scholarship.
- Julia Smith: Leon J. Ladner Graduate Scholarship; Laurine Harrison Graduate Thesis Award.
- Sean Wilkinson: Douglas Cole Memorial Graduate Entrance Scholarship.
- Alanna Gammage: Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship.
2008
Undergraduate Students
- Kyle Jackson: Gold Medal and Stephen McIntyre Book Prize (top graduating student in History, $400).
- Sheena Ridley: Margaret Ormsby Prize (best essay in Canadian history, $275).
- Timo Schaefer: European History Prize (best essay in European history, $250).
- Paulina Ivanova: William L. Cleveland Essay Prize (best essay in African/Middle Eastern/Asian history, $200).
- Sean Wilkinson: Richard Morgan Memorial Book Prize (best essay in Canadian Native History, $250).
- Kyle Jackson: BC Sugar Achievement Award.
- Sara Ellis, Iain O’Shea, Timo Schaefer: SSHRC grant winners, 2008.
Graduate Students
- Alyssa Baartman, F. Scott Murray: SSHRC grant winners, 2008.
- Sean Carleton: Canadian History of Education Association’s Honourable Mention for the best English language thesis published on the History of Education in Canada between 2006 and 2008.
2006/07
Undergraduate Students
- Troy Baril: Gold Medal and Stephen McIntyre Book Prize (top graduating student in History, $400).
- Robynn Gill: Margaret Ormsby Prize (best essay in Canadian history, $275).
- Jennifer Bancroft: European History Prize (best essay in European history, $250).
- Natalie Brown: William L. Cleveland Essay Prize (best essay in African/Middle Eastern/Asian history, $200).
- Troy Baril: Richard Morgan Memorial Book Prize (best essay in Canadian Native History, $250).
- Kyle Jackson: World History Association and Phi Alpha Theta Essay Prize.
Graduate Students
- Anne Cummings, Stephen Fielding, Laura Ishiguro, Jeremy Milloy, Bonnie Schmidt, Anne Toews, Rachel Torrie: SSHRC grant winners, 2006.
- Emilie de Rosenroll, Miles Powell, Julia Smith: SSHRC grant winners, 2007.