Overview The Gordon Darroch International Scholar Award will be granted annually to a full-time international Ph.D. student in any year of study enrolled in the Graduate Program in Sociology at York University. To be eligible for the award, students must be a fulltime international Ph.D. student and demonstrate outstanding academic achievement. Recipients can receive this […]
Overview Morris Wolfe (1938-2021) was a prominent cultural nationalist Canadian writer whose thoughts about media were published in regular columns Saturday Night and The Globe and Mail, and in book form in Jolts: The TV Wasteland and the Canadian Oasis (1965). Wolfe advocated for and wrote about Canadian media in A Saturday Night Scrapbook (1973), […]
Overview The Wilhelm Cohnstaedt Social Justice Award will support a graduate student in the School of Arts, Media, Performance and Design or the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies whose research focuses on the principles of social justice and issues of human rights, equality, equity and inclusion. Priority will be given to research that […]
Overview The Graham Lockett-Lees Memorial Award was created to benefit graduate students in the third to final year of pursuing a PhD in the Social and Political Thought program. Applicants must submit a copy of their CV, an up-to-date grade report, a 500-word statement outlining their research focus in Social and Political Thought and demonstrate […]
OVERVIEW The W.W. Anderson Award in Caribbean Studies will be granted to a graduate student who identifies as Afro-Caribbean, or Black and isregistered in the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC) graduate diploma program, or is a research associate with CERLAC, and is otherwise engaged in research in the Caribbean and/or […]
Overview Sarah Akhtar (MA, Development Studies 2012), was a beloved PhD student at York University and Teaching Assistant for SOSC 1430 - Introduction to International Development Studies. Sarah made enormous contributions towards introducing first-year students to the field of development studies and helped educate an entire generation of students in the program. The Sarah Akhtar […]
Overview The Pierre Elliott Trudeau Fellowship at York University is made possible through the sale of the limited edition, The Essential Trudeau, edited by Ron Graham. The award will assist graduate students in the humanities and social sciences with travel costs, subsistence, copying and other related research expenses at archives, libraries and repositories in Canada and […]
Overview This award was established by York alumna Diana Imonikhe ’05, ’08, ’17 to hounour her father, Kingsley Abu Omokhovwa Imonikhe (1955-1991). He was a hardworking, loving father who had a keen interest in education. He receives a Diploma in Engineering from Auchi Polytechnic, pursued Civil Engineering and Management at the University of Leeds in […]
The Mariano A. Elia Chair in Italian Canadian Studies Scholarship supports York University graduate students in any discipline whose research contributes to our understanding of Italians in Canada, or the Italian-Canadian (or related) experience. How to Apply For detail, please visit the Mariano A. Elia Chair website.
The Mary-Jo Nadeau Activist Scholar Award (The M.J.) for Graduate Students in Sociology was established by family, friends, and colleagues of Dr. Mary-Jo Nadeau, a graduate (’05) of York University’s Graduate Program in Sociology. Her anti-racist feminist research and activism focused on white supremacy in the Canadian women’s movement, labour rights, anti-poverty campaigns, and Palestinian […]