Awards & Awardees

View awards opportunities and recipients for our faculty members, students, and postdoctoral fellows.


Faculty

Prof. Bruce Miller with the medal for the Weaver-Tremblay Prize for Applied Anthropology, awarded by Canadian Anthropology Society.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our faculty are deeply engaged in mentoring graduate and undergraduate students. They have won numerous awards for their teaching, as well as being recognized nationally and internationally for their research.

Amirpouyan Shiva

 

Susan Rowley

 

Andrew Martindale

 

Sabina Magliocco

 

Sabina Magliocco

Anthropology Undergraduate Student Association Outstanding Teaching Award

Anthropology Graduate Student Association award

Anthropology Undergraduate Student Association Outstanding Teaching Award

AMS/Open UBC Open Champion award for using open resources in teaching/research

Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, UBC Anthropology Student Association

2022

 

2021

 

2021

 

2021

 

2020

Sara Shneiderman Exemplary Graduate Student Mentor, UBC Anthropology Graduate Student Association 2020
Shaylih Muehlmann Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, Anthropology Student Association 2012
Vinay Kamat Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, UBC Anthropology Student Association 2011
  Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, UBC Anthropology Student Association 2010
Gaston Gordillo Killam Teaching Award, University of British Columbia 2008
Zhichun Jing Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, UBC Anthropology and Sociology Student Society 2007
Michael Blake Killam Teaching Award, University of British Columbia 2006
  Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, UBC Anthropology and Sociology Student Society 2006
Bruce Miller Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, UBC Anthropology and Sociology Student Society 2006
Vinay Kamat Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, UBC Anthropology and Sociology Student Society 2005
Alexia Bloch UBC Anthropology and Sociology Undergraduate Society Teaching Award 2004
Patrick Moore UBC Anthropology and Sociology Undergraduate Society Teaching Award 2004
William McKellin

 

Bruce Miller

Award for Excellence in Medical Education, British Columbia Children’s and Women’s Hospitals

UBC Killam Teaching Prize

2002

 

1998

Bruce Miller

Camilla Speller

 

Daisy Rosenblum

Carole Blackburn

 

Bruce Miller

Killam Research Prize

UBC Killam Accelerator Research Fellowship

UBC Killam Research Fellowship

Killam Faculty Research Fellowship

Weaver-Tremblay Prize for Applied Anthropology, awarded by Canadian Anthropology Society

2022

2022

 

2022

2021

 

2020

Shaylih Muehlmann Guggenheim Scholar, The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation 2020
Vinay Kamat Dean of Arts, Faculty Research Award 2019
Sabina Magliocco

 

 

Camilla Speller

SSHRC Insight Grant: "Fairy Tale Justice in Old and New Media: Transforming Wonder." Co-PI with Prof. Pauline Greenhill, University of Winnipeg

Canadian Foundation for Innovation, John R. Evans Leaders Fund award (CFI-JELF)

2019

 

 

2019

Zhichun Jing Golden Cauldron Award, National Congress of Chinese Archaeology 2018
Mark Turin Killam Faculty Research Fellowship 2018
  Wall Scholar, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies 2018
Carole Blackburn Early Career Scholar, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, 2016-2017
Michael Blake Society for Economic Botany Mary W. Klinger Book Award for Maize for the Gods (University of California Press 2015), outstanding book in Economic Botany/ Ethnobotany 2017
Alexia Bloch UBC, Dean of Arts, Faculty Research Awards 2017
Patrick Moore Award for Public Outreach and Community Service, Society for Linguistic Anthropology, November 2017
Patricia Shaw The Ken Hale Award, The Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA) 2017
Sara Shneiderman Wall Scholar, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies 2017
James Fisher Prize for First Books on the Himalayan Region, awarded by the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies 2017
Wade Davis Member, Order of Canada 2016
Grand Prize of the Salon du Livre de Montagne for Les Soldats de L’Everest, 26th Passy Mountain Book Festival, Passy, France 2016
Gaston Gordillo Honorable Mention, Society for Humanistic Anthropology’s Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing for Rubble: The Afterlife of Destruction (2014, Duke University Press) 2016
Susan Rowley Michael M. Ames Award, Committee for Museum Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association 2016
Darlene Weston Award for Most influential article published in BMC Evolutionary Biology in 2015 for the article, “The ancestral shape hypothesis: an evolutionary explanation for the occurrence of intervertebral disc herniation in humans,” 2016
“Kiem” Award, Koninklijke Nederlands Vereniging voor Microbiologie for best microbiology paper of 2015 with a Dutch first author (Ziesemer KA) for “Intrinsic challenges of ancient microbiome reconstruction using 16S rRNA gene amplification,” Scientific Reports 5, 16498

 

2016
Jennifer Kramer Canada Prize in the Humanities, Federation for Social Sciences and Humanities for Native Art of the Northwest Coast a History of Changing Ideas (co-edited by Charlotte Townsend-Gault, Jennifer Kramer and Ki-ke-in (UBC Press 2013) 2015
Susan Rowley History Alive! the Governor General's History Award for Museums 2015
Charles Redd Award of the Western Museums Association for Exhibition Excellence 2015
Patricia Shaw UBC Dean of Arts Award 2015
Gaston Gordillo Wall Scholar, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies 2014
Leslie Robertson Canadian Committee on Women’s History Book Prize, Best book in Women’s and Gender History for 2 years. Canadian Historical Association, for Standing Up with Ga’ax̱sta’las.

Canadian Committee on Women’s and Gender History Book Prize. Canadian Historical Association, for Standing Up with Ga’ax̱sta’las.

 

2014

 

 

 

2014

Darlene Weston National Award for Scientific Investigation, Cuban Academy of Sciences, for archaeological work on the site of El Choro de Maita, Cuba. 2014
Jennifer Kramer Early Career Scholar, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies 2013
Leslie Robertson Co-winner, K.D. Srivastava Prize
Office of the Vice-President Research and UBC Press, for Standing Up with Ga’ax̱stalas 2013
Canadian Historical Association Congress award for Standing Up with Ga’ax̱sta’las 2013
American Society for Ethnohistory Canadian Aboriginal History Book Prize for Standing Up with Ga’ax̱sta’las 2013
Canadian Historical Association Clio Book Prize for Standing Up with Ga’ax̱sta’las 2013
‘Exemplary Title, American Association of University Presses.’ University of Washington Press

Wheeler-Voegelen Prize. American Society for Ethnohistory, for Standing Up with             Ga’ax̱sta’las.

Canadian Aboriginal History Book Prize, Canadian Historical Association, for Standing Up with Ga’ax̱sta’las.

2013

 

 

2013

 

2013

Andrew Martindale

 

Bruce Miller

Early Career Scholar, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies

Winner of K.D. Srivastiva Prize for Excellence in Academic Publishing

2012

 

2012

Shaylih Muehlmann

 

 

 

 

Leslie Robertson

Ton Vallen Award, Babylon: Center for the Study of Multicultural Society, Tilburg School of the Humanities, for the article “Von Humboldt’s Parrot: The Countdown of Last Speakers in the Colorado Delta,”

Peter Wall Institute Faculty Associate, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies.

2012

 

 

 

 

2012

Bruce Miller

 

Shaylih Muehlmann

Oral History on Trial: Recognizing Aboriginal Narratives in the Courts

Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Language, Culture and the Environment

2011

 

2011

Gaston Gordillo Guggenheim Scholar, The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation 2010
Charles Menzies Honorable Mention, Columbus International Film and Video Festival award for Weather the Storm (2008) 2009
Shaylih Muehlmann Winner of the University of California Press/Public Anthropology Publishing Competition 2009
Patricia Shaw The Legacy of Hope Foundation, Ottawa, The Musqueam MIB-UBC FNLG program was selected for national best practices in language revitalization 2009
Alexia Bloch Killam Faculty Research Fellowship 2006
Leslie Robertson George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature for In Plain Sight: Reflections on Life in Downtown Eastside Vancouver 2006
Gaston Gordillo American Ethnological Society’s Sharon Stephens Book Award for Landscapes of Devils: Tensions of Place and Memory in the Argentinean Chaco (Duke University Press, 2004) 2005
Vinay Kamat Early Career Scholar, Peter Wall Institute of Advanced Studies 2005
 
Charles Menzies Jury Award, Society for Visual Anthropology Film Festival Award for Film Productions for The View from Gitxaala and Returning to Gitxaala 2005
Gaston Gordillo Early Career Scholar, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies 2004
 
Alexia Bloch Early Career Scholar, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies 2003
Zhichun Jing Canada Research Chair in Asia-Pacific Archaeology, Canada 2002


Students

Awards

Graduate awards

The following awards are assigned by the Department of Anthropology on a merit basis to students that meet the eligibility requirements for each individual award. Students do not need to apply for these awards, as nominations are submitted by faculty members and adjudicated by the departmental Student Awards Committee.

Michael Ames Scholarship in Museum Studies

A scholarship of $3,900 has been endowed by the volunteers of the Museum of Anthropology Shop and friends in honour of Dr. Michael Ames, Director of the Museum from 1974 to 1997. The award is offered to a student in Museum Studies.

Charles and Alice Borden Fellowship for Archaeology

A $13,850 fellowship has been endowed by Dr. Charles E. Borden, Professor Emeritus of Archaeology. The fellowship is awarded to a candidate in the program leading to the Ph.D., in Archaeology. Preference is given to a candidate whose thesis is concerned with problems related to the archaeology and cultural history of the Pacific Northwest. A candidate may also be considered whose thesis topic is concerned with problems pertaining to the archaeology and prehistory in any area of the Old or New World.

Wilson Duff Memorial Scholarship

A scholarship of $1,200 has been endowed in memory of Professor Wilson Duff, a member of the Faculty who worked extensively in the field of Indigenous history and culture. The award is available to a student in the Faculty of Arts or Law, who is doing work in the field of Indigenous history and culture. Preference is given to a student of Indigenous ancestry.

Francis Reif Scholarship

A $3,250 scholarship has been made available through an endowment established for a graduate student in the Department of Anthropology. Preference is given to a student who intends to pursue graduate work in the study of Northwest Coast Indigenous art.

Sentinel Prize in Anthropology

A prize totalling $700 has been endowed by members of the fan club of "The Sentinel", a television production filmed on campus.

AGSA-AGSC Travel Award

MA and PhD students are eligible to apply for reimbursements of up to $500 for travel and conference expenses. This award is typically given to six applicants each academic year. Students may only receive this award once during their program.

*the value of each award may vary on an annual basis

Julie Cruikshank Award for Best Graduate Student Paper

The Julie Cruikshank Award is given to the best term paper submitted in an anthropology (ANTH or ARCL) course. This award is given in honour of Julie Cruikshank, one of our most accomplished professors (now emerita).

David Aberle and Kathleen Gough Award in Applied Anthropology

Anthropology Emeriti Professors' Graduate Research Award

The Department of Anthropology wishes to honour the long-term work of its Emeriti Faculty and also to acknowledge and support the excellent research carried out by our graduate students with an annual award for the best research proposal submission by a Ph.D. student, and another award for the best research proposal submission by an MA student.

Undergraduate awards

The Department of Anthropology recognizes undergraduate excellence with two annual awards:

The Julie Cruikshank Award is given to the best term paper submitted in an anthropology (ANTH or ARCL) course. This award is given in honour of Julie Cruikshank, one of our most accomplished professors (now emerita).

The Hawthorn Award is given to the best undergraduate Honours thesis. This award recognizes the founding anthropologist of the department, Harry Hawthorn. Award recipients receive a $50 UBC Bookstore gift card.

UBC also has several awards for which anthropology students are eligible:

The Lui Lin Ping Memorial Scholarship ($1200) is offered to an undergraduate student in the final year of study in international relations, anthropology or geography whose studies are concerned with advancing cross-cultural understanding and who has achieved distinction in written work related to cross-cultural studies. The award is made on the recommendation of the Faculty of Arts in consultation with the respective departments.

*the value of each award may vary on an annual basis

Awardees

Our students stand out for their accomplishments in the classroom and in the pursuit of their chosen research, and are recognized by Departmental and University awards. Our graduate students have one of the most stellar records in the Faculty of Arts for procuring major external grants and fellowships.

Wenner-Gren

Name Supervisor Year
Manson, Daniel

Boltokova, Daria

Gordillo, Gaston

Moore, Pat

2016

2015

Trudeau 

Name Supervisor Year
Rosenoff, Lara

Hennessy, Kate

Moore, Pat

Moore, Pat

2011

2006

Vanier Award

Name Supervisor Year
Dario, Maya

Kina, Hilal

Turin, Mark

Robertson, Leslie

2021

2020

Nagai, Fumiya Blackburn, Carole 2020
Eaton, Jonathan Shneiderman, Sara 2019
Hak Hepburn, Michelle Muehlmann, Shaylih 2016
Cullis-Suzuki, Severn Shaw, Patricia 2016
Whitt, Clayton

Gomez-Ramirez, Oralia

Gordillo, Gaston

Bloch, Alexia

2015

2012

Docot, Dada Bloch, Alexia 2011

SSHRC CGS-M

Name Supervisor Year
Bratty, Joan Mckellin, William 2020
Hanks, Robert Turin, Mark 2020
Marshall, Jordanna Menzies, Charles 2020
Raven, Sarah Rowley, Susan 2020
Socholotiuk, Erin Weston, Darlene 2020
Balcombe, Erika Levell, Nicola 2017
Howe Bukowski, Nicholas

MacArthur, Ewen

Barker, John

Bloch, Alexia

2017

2016

Gendron, Danielle Renée Robertson, Leslie 2014
Manson, Daniel Gordillo, Gaston 2013
Carrier-Moissan, Marie-Eve Bloch, Alexia 2012
Manson, Daniel Gordillo, Gaston 2011

SSHRC CGS-D

Recipient(s) Supervisor Year
Simons, Eric Martindale, Andrew 2019
Ritchie, Morgan Blake, Michael 2018
Agro, Hilary Muehlmann, Shaylih 2017
Gendron, Danielle Renée Robertson, Leslie 2016
Greene, Ezra Rowley, Susan 2016
Feltes, Emma Blackburn, Carole 2015
Rogova, Anastasia

GermAnn, Fraser 

Bloch, Alexia

Barker, John

2016

2019

Joseph-Armand Bombardier CGS

Name Supervisor Year
Rogova, Anastasia Bloch, Alexia 2016

CIHR

Name Supervisor Year
Parmasad, Vishala Mckellin, William 2015
McGuire, Marlee Mckellin, William 2015

CASCA

Name Supervisor Year
Manson, Daniel (PhD)

Alexander, Elias (MA)

McAllister, Maeve 

Gordillo, Gaston

Creighton, Millie

-

2021

2021

2021

Public Scholars Initiative

Recipient(s) Supervisor Year
Deberdt, Raphael 

Hak-Hepburn, Michelle

Kamat, Vinay

Muehlmann, Shaylih

2021

2020

Sarlak, Lara Bloch, Alexia 2020
Daurio,Maya Turin, Mark 2020
Dowd, Patrick Turin, Mark 2019
Eaton, Jonathan Shneiderman, Sara 2019
Leischner, Emily Kramer, Jennifer 2019
Amburgey, Emily Shneiderman, Sara 2018
Ji, Yujie Turin, Mark 2018
Koike, Evan Creighton, Millie 2018
Simons, Eric Martindale, Andrew 2018
Cullis-Suzuki, Severn Shaw, Patricia 2016
Feltes, Emma Blackburn, Carol 2016
Fessenden, Sarah Menzies, Charles 2016
Gan, Gregory Bloch, Alexia 2016

Killam Doctoral Scholarships

Name Supervisor Year
Dowd, Patrick

Ritchie, Morgan

Greene, Ezra

Koike, Evan

Rogova, Anastasia

Turin, Mark

Blake, Michael

Rowley, Susan

Creighton, Millie

Bloch, Alexia

2019

2018

2016

2016

2016

 

Charles and Alice Borden Fellowship in Archeology

Name Supervisor Year
Ritchie, Patrick Morgan Blake, Michael 2019
Brown, Thomas Martindale, Andrew 2018
Waber, Nicholas Pokotylo, David 2017
Letham, Bryn Martindale, Andrew 2016
Waber, Nicholas Pokotylo, David 2016
Merchant, Peter Blake, Michael 2015

Michael Ames Museum Scholarship

Name Supervisor Year
Leisner, Emily

Leisner, Emily 

Smith, Christopher

Kramer, Jennifer

Kramer, Jennifer

Kramer, Jennifer

2022

2020

2019

McAfee, Rosaleen Levell, Nicola 2018
Leischner, Emily Kramer, Jennifer 2017
Roy, Rachel Levell, Nicola 2016
Solomonian, Adam Arthur Kramer, Jennifer 2015

Francis Reif Scholarship

Name Supervisor Year
Ahmed Sayed, Basant 

Leischner, Emily

Creighton, Millie

Kramer, Jennifer

2022

2019

Sorensen, Amanda Rowley, Susan 2018
Smith, Christopher Kramer, Jennifer 2017
Adler, Allison Bloch, Alexia
&
Levell, Nicola
2016
Wilson, Jordan Rowley, Susan 2015

Wilson Duff Memorial Scholarship

Name Supervisor Year
Cheyanne Connell

Hays, Malika

Turin, Mark

Martindale, Andrew

2022

019

Thomas, Karen Rowley, Susan 2018
Balcombe, Erika Levell, Nicola 2017
Volfova, Martina Moore, Patrick 2016
Zawadski, Krista Rowley, Susan 2015

Sentinel Prize in Anthropology

Name Supervisor Year
Gunawan, Rosalie 

Alexander, Elias

Creighton, Millie

Creighton, Millie

2022

2019

Koike, Evan Creighton, Millie 2018
Ahmed Sayed, Basant Creighton, Millie 2017
Beier, Deanne Moore, Patrick
& Turin, Mark
2016
Woolman, Jason Rowley, Susan 2015
Docot, Dada Bloch, Alexia 2012

Julie Cruikshank Award for Best Graduate Student

Name Supervisor Year
Gamboa, Jose Carvajal

Docot, Dada

 

Bloch, Alexia

2021

2012

David Aberle and Kathleen Gough Award in Applied Anthropology

Name Supervisor Year
Manson, Daniel Gordillo, Gaston 2012

Lui Lin Ping Memorial Scholarship

Name Supervisor Year
Medwayosh, Audrey Muehlmann, Shaylih 2021

 

Emeriti Professors Graduate Student Fund Recipients

Award  Recipient Name Year
Ph.D. award Lindsey Paskulin. 2022
MA award Sadie Rittman. 2022


Postdoctoral Fellows

The Department of Anthropology sets an internal deadline each year. For further information and to submit completed applications, please write to anth.grad@ubc.ca

Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship

Name Supervisor Year
Wind, Maya

Roses Labrada, Jorge

Szpak, Paul

Metcalfe, Jessica

 

Nomakonova, Tatiana

Leuhrmann, Sonja

Gusterson, Hugh

Shaw, Patricia

Shaw, Patricia

Blake, Michael/Richards, Michael

Martindale, Andrew

Bloch, Alexia

2022

2015

2013

2012

 

2011

2009-2011

SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowships

Name Supervisor Year
McElgunn, Hannah

Lewison, Elsie

Ruis-Serna, Daniel

Guiry, Eric

Metcalfe, Jessica

O’Day, Robin

Rosenblum, Daisy

Shneiderman, Sara

Gordillo, Gaston

Martindale, Andrew

Richards, Michael

Creighton, Millie

2020

2020

2019

2018

2015

2011

Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships

Name Supervisor Year
Roses Labrada, Jorge

Elfner, Emily

Shaw, Patricia

Shaw, Patricia

2015

2013

NSERC

Name Supervisor Year
Szpak, Paul Richards, Michael 2014

OTHER

Name Supervisor Year
Rogova, Anastasia

Docot, Dada

Gan, Gregory

Bloch, Alexia

Bloch, Alexia

Bloch, Alexia

2021

2021

2021

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