The ICCS named one of our most important awards in honour of Brian Long, who passed away on 26 May 2017.
Brian Long was a good friend of Canadian Studies. He worked for the then Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade from September 1972 until 2000. He served in London doing cultural and information work, then spent some time in NATO, Brussels and Vienna, working on the Mutual and Balanced Force Reduction Talks between NATO and the Warsaw Pact. He returned to Ottawa working in the area of security of embassies and privileges and immunities. He was then posted to Buenos Aires, Argentina with accreditation also to Uruguay and Paraguay, acting as Second Secretary and Vice Consul. He returned to Ottawa and worked with international academic relations until his retirement with responsibilities for Canada’s scholarship and scholarly exchange programs, the program of Canadian Studies, departmental history, and youth exchanges. He then left to join the Commonwealth of Learning, the only Commonwealth Agency located outside London, helping Commonwealth governments ensure access to education for all their citizens, especially for those living in extreme poverty.
Objective
This ICCS Award is designed to recognize and promote each year an excellent PhD thesis on a Canadian topic that contributes to outstanding scholarship on Canada written by a member (or one of his/her PhD students) of a Canadian Studies Association or Associate Member Association. Members of the Canadian Studies Network are encouraged to apply for this award.
Application Guidelines
- Every Member Association or Associate Member Association of the ICCS can submit annually one PhD thesis written in any language, which has been successfully defended within the preceding two calendar years.
- The thesis must be a scholarly monograph dealing mainly with a Canadian topic. Comparative works are eligible if the Canadian content is 50% or more.
- The Awards and Grants Committee appointed by the International Council for Canadian Studies will act as the jury. Its judgment will be based on a 15–20-page summary of the thesis and on an assessment report, written in French or in English, provided by the external reviewers previously contacted.
- The author or the director of the thesis will include with the submission dossier a list of five specialists (including university affiliation, address, e-mail, etc.), one of whom will be asked to provide a detailed report in French or in English on the thesis’ merit.
- The Award is comprised of a certificate signed by the ICCS President.
- The Award includes a limited allowance toward travel and lodging expenses, in order for the recipient to travel to Toronto to officially receive the Award at the Annual General Meeting of the ICCS.
Eligibility Requirements
- The author or the director of the thesis must be a member in good standing of a Member Association or Associate Member Association of the ICCS.
- The application must be presented by the President of a Member Association or Associate Member Association and include an electronic version of the thesis.
Deadline
The deadline for submissions is November 24 .
PROCEDURE
An application must contain the following:
- an electronic version of the thesis being submitted;
- a 15–20-page summary in French or English;
- a curriculum vitae of the author;
- at least two examiner reports in English or French;
- a list of five specialists (including address, university affiliation, e-mail, etc.) able to read and provide in French or English a detailed assessment of the work submitted;
- a letter from the President of the Member Association or Associate Member Association supporting the application.
Contact
Requests for further information or submissions may be addressed to:
International Council for Canadian Studies
c/o Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies, York University
723 Kaneff Tower
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3, Canada
Email: iccsciec[at]yorku.ca
2024 WINNER
Claire Thomson, “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,” University of Alberta, Canada, 2022.
2023 WINNER
Margaret Anne Lindsay, “‘especially in this free Country’, Webs of Empire, Slavery and the Fur Trade”, Department of History, University of Manitoba, 2021.
2022 WINNER
Marie-Charlotte Franco, “La décolonisation et l’autochtonisation au Musée McCord (1992-2019) : les rapports de collaboration avec les Premiers Peuples et de l’inclusion de l’art contemporain des Premières Nations dans les expositions,” Department in Museology, Mediation and Heritage, Université du Québec à Montréal, 2020.
2021 WINNER
Melanie Dennis Unrau, “Tend the Rusted Steel Like a Shepherd: Petropoetics of Oil Work in Canada,” Department of English, Theatre, Film, and Media, University of Manitoba, 2019.
2020 WINNER
Warren Bernauer, “Extractive Hegemony in the Arctic: Energy Resources and Political Conflict in Nunavut, 1970–2017”