Tyler Ball (York University) wins the 2021 CACLALS Graduate Student Presentation Prize for his paper “Insurgent Sea: Political Ecologies of the Indian Ocean.” Congratulations to Tyler Ball, PhD candidate at York University and SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier scholar. Tyler was selected by…

Margaret Boyce (McMaster University) wins the 2019 CACLALS Graduate Student Presentation Prize for her paper “Seeking Understanding in the Winnipeg Art Gallery’s Inuit Exhibition Catalogues.” Congratulations to Margaret Boyce, PhD candidate at McMaster University, for being selected by judges Drs.…

Brandi Estey-Burtt (Dalhousie University) wins the 2018 CACLALS Graduate Student Presentation Prize for her paper “Dancing across the Divide: J.M. Coetzee’s Postsecular Embodiment.” Congratulations to Brandi Estey-Burtt, PhD candidate at Dalhousie University, for being selected by judges Drs. Diana Brydon,…

Amanda Perry (New York University) Wins CACLALS 2017 Graduate Student Presentation Prize! CACLALS warmly congratulates Amanda Perry, PhD candidate at New York University, for being selected by judges Drs. Susie O-Brien, Mariam Pirbhai and Pamela McCallum as the winner of…

Jason Sunder Wins CACLALS 2016 Graduate Student Presentation Prize CACLALS warmly congratulates Jason Sunder, PhD candidate at Western, for being selected by judges Drs. Herb Wyile, John Ball, and Pamela McCallum as the winner of the 2016 CACLALS Graduate Student…

Winner Robert Pasquini (McMaster): “Exhausting Victorian Bio-Capital: Threatened Biota and the Working-Class Economics of Extinction” Runners-up Brandi Estey-Burtt (Dalhousie): “The Ethics of Thievery and Mapping in Peter Carey’s Jack Maggs” Jordan Gabriel Sheridan (McMaster): “Mice and Men, Genes and Germs”:…

Winner Stephanie Oliver (Western): “The Politics of Scattering Seeds: Cultivation and Diasporic Settlement” Runners-up Andy Verboom (Western): “Comparative Genocidal Theory: Macaulay’s Minute and the Davin Report” Tania Aguila-Way (Ottawa): “‘as pollution erodes these lines/ no sense in food or rhyme’:…

Winner L. Camille Van Der Marel (Alberta): “Marginal Returns: Debts, Indebtedness, and the Caribbean-Canadian Diaspora” Runners-up Gregory Fenton (Guelph): “Resisting Neoliberal Citizenship from the Humanities” Rebecca Campbell (Western) “Insurgency and Commemoration at Batoche” For a description, criteria for judging, and…

Winner Jennifer Hardwick (Queen’s) “A Space of Not Knowing”: Settler Ignorance and the Study of Indigenous Literatures” Runners-Up Tania Aguila-Way (Ottawa) “Uncertain Landscapes: Trauma, Risk and Scientific Knowledge in Madeleine Thien’s Fiction” Kasim Husain (McMaster) “At What Price Home? Queer…

Winner Jesse Arseneault (McMaster): “Animal Movements and Postcolonial Geographies” Runners-up Jessie Forsyth (McMaster) “Just a Speculation: Epistemological Economies in Equiano’s Interesting Narrative” Amanda Perry (British Columbia) “Sounding Out Cross-Cultural Relations in Edward Kamau Brathwaite’s Rights of Passage” For a description,…