Odessa Essay Prize for the Study of Canada
Final Submission Deadline for 2014-15: May 15, 2015

The $1000.00 Odessa Prize for The Study of Canada is awarded annually to a fourth-year, undergraduate student who is judged to have written the best essay on a topic related to the study of Canada.

Submission Process: Faculty are invited to submit one essay with a short covering letter explaining the context in which the work is written.

Submissions will be adjudicated by a committee formed by the Robarts Centre, and the prize winner will be announced in June 2015.

Hard copy submissions (one copy) should be sent to:
Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies
7th floor York Research Tower
York University

The Odessa Prize in The Study of Canada was established by Irvin Studin, a York alumnus and former Rhodes scholar. Mr. Studin was the editor of What is a Canadian? Forty-three Thought-Provoking Responses (Douglas Gibson Books, McClelland and; Stewart, 2006). The son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, the book is dedicated to his parents, who were from Odessa. The Odessa Prize was made possible by the generous donation of profits from the sale of the book.

For further information, please contact: Laura Taman, 416-736-5499 (robarts@yorku.ca)
http://robarts.info.yorku.ca/awards/