The 2013-14 recipients of the Odessa Prize for the Study of Canada and the Barbara Godard Prize for the Best York University Dissertation in Canadian Studies were announced in Y-File in July.

Monique Giroux (Music) was awarded the Barbara Godard Prize for her dissertation "Music, Power and Relations: Fiddling as Meeting Place between Re-settlers and Indigenous Nations in Manitoba."

Catherine Timms (History) received the Odessa Prize for her paper "Frederick G. Gardiner: An Exploration of High Modernism and the Metropolitan Toronto Council, 1953 - 1961."