Recipients 2024

The ICCS is pleased to announce the awardees of the Pierre Savard Award, the Brian Long Best Doctoral Thesis in Canadian Studies, the Best International Thesis in Canadian Studies Award and the Graduate Student Scholarships. Congratulations to all.

Brian Long Best Doctoral Thesis in Canadian Studies Award (best thesis)
Claire Thomson, University of Alberta, Canada
Canadian Studies Network
Digging Roots and Remembering Relatives: Lakota Kinship and Movement in the Northern Great Plains from the Wood Mountain Uplands across Lakóta Tȟamákȟočhe Lakota Country, 1881–1940

Best Doctoral Thesis in International Canadian Studies
Laetitia Ndota-Ngbale, Université Grenoble-Alpes (France) and Université Laval
(Canada)
Association française d’études canadiennes
L’efficacité du droit de l’internationalisation des municipalités du Québec:Une voie de compréhension des relaitons entre les normes des trois ordres gouvernementaux

Pierre Savard Award
Maria Löschnigg
Association for Canadian Studies in German Speaking Countries
The Routledge Introduction to the Canadian Short Story

Graduate Student Scholarships

Aubonnet, Clara (Université Paris 8, France)
French Association for Canadian Studies/ Association française d’études canadiennes
Les feux de forêt transfrontaliers dans le Nord-Ouest américain : étude géopolitique en Colombie-Britannique (Canada) et dans l’Etat de Washington (États-Unis)

Chen Zhitong (Sichuan University, China)
Association for Canadian Studies in China
The Economy of Prestige of Alice Munro’s Works

Cores-Antepazo, Celia (University of Salamanca, Spain)
Spanish Association for Canadian Studies (Asociación Española de Estudios Canadienses, AEEC)/Fundación Canada
Literary theory and criticism; resilience and memory in North American counter-narratives

Manga Diaba, Fernande Coeurbie (Université de Lorraine, France)
African Network for Canadian Studies
Federalism and sovereignty: study based on the case of the Belgian and Canadian federal states

Preusser, Alisa (Potsdam University, Germany) (declined)
Association for Canadian Studies in German Speaking Countries
Resisting Water Colonialism: Indigenous Literary and Cultural Intervention

Schwarz, Markus (Salzburg University, Austria)
Association for Canadian Studies in German Speaking Countries
Black Indigenous futurism and speculative writing at the intersection of climate change and outer space colonization discourses

Turner, Robin (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States)
Association for Canadian Studies in the United States
Stigmatized trailblazers to celebrated deviants: Heteronormative Discourses of (homo)sexuality after the Québec Quiet Revolution, 1969-1977

Van Dijk, Ilse (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
Association for Canadian Studies in the Netherlands
The relationship between culture and climate change, focused on the effects of climate change on culture/practices, coming from a climate justice and climate equity perspective.

The ICCS wishes to thank the Awards Committee for its dedication and diligence.