Awards and honours

Award feature: Dr. Naila Keleta-Mae wins Dorothy Killam Fellowship

The National Killam Program announced that Dr. Naila Keleta-Mae (Communication Arts) has won a 2023 Dorothy Killam Fellowship that provides support for dedicated research time to scholars “whose superior, ground-breaking, best-in-class research stands to have significant impact on a national or global scale.”

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Recent distinguished awards and honours

  • Igor Grossmann, Psychology – Fellow, Social for Personality and Social Psychology (2022)
  • Kristina Llewellyn, Social Development Studies (Renison) – College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists, Royal Society of Canada (2022)
  • Kristina Llewellyn, Social Development Studies (Renison) – Postsecondary Teaching Award, Oral History Association (2022)
  • Jasmin Habib, Political Science – Weaver-Tremblay Award, Canadian Anthropology Society (2022)
  • Margaret Insley, Economics – Fellow of the Canadian Resource and Environmental Economics Association (CREEA) (2022)
  • Ian Milligan, History – Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (2022)
  • Lai-Tze Fan, Sociology and Legal Studies – N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature, Electronic Literature Organization (2022)
  • Igor Grossmann, Psychology – Site of the day for WorldafterCovid.info (2021)
  • Igor Grossmann, Psychology – Nominee for The best of the web 2021 — Developer Site of the Year (awwwards.com) for WorldafterCovid.info (2021)
  • David Moscovitch, Psychology – Elected Fellow, Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) (2021)
  • Derek Besner, Psychology – Donald O. Hebb Distinguished Contribution Award (2021)
  • Anna Esselment, Political Science – Mallory Grant, Canadian Study of Parliament Group (2021)
  • Geoffrey Fong, Psychology – Officer of the Order of Canada (2021)
  • Geoffrey Fong, Psychology – O. Harold Warwick Prize, Canada Cancer Society (2021)
  • Geoffrey Fong, Psychology – Governor General’s Innovation Award (ITC Project) (2021)
  • Kenneth Klassen, School of Accounting and Finance – Haim Falk Award for Distinguished Contribution to Accounting Thought, Canadian Academic Accounting Association (CAAA) (2021)
  • Bessma Momani, Top 50 Influencing Canadian Foreign Policy, Hillman Times (2021)
  • Guy Poirier, French Studies – Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (2021)
  • Abigail Scholer, Psychology – Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science (APS) (2021)
  • Abigail Scholer, Psychology – Early Career Award, Society for the Science of Motivation (2021)
  • Igor Grossmann, Psychology – Societies 2019 Young Investigator Award from the Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MIDI) (2020)
  • Eric Helleiner, Political Science – IPE Distinguished Scholar Award from the International Studies -Association (2020)
  • Kristina R. Llewellyn, Social Development Studies (Renison) – Teaching Excellence Award, Renison University College (2020)
  • Dillon Browne, Psychology – Ontario Early Researcher Award (2020)
  • Jay Dolmage, English Language & Literature — College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists, Royal Society of Canada (2020)
  • Geoffrey Fong, Psychology – Fellow, Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (2020)
  • Ian Milligan, History – Honorary Archivist Award, Association of Canadian Archivists (2020)
  • Imre Szeman, Communication Arts — Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (2020)
  • Imre Szeman, Communication Arts – Fellow, Canadian International Council (2020)

Book prizes (2010-recent, selected)

2022 Rik Davidson/Studies in the Political Economy Book Prize for Capitalist Political Economy: Thinkers and Theories, by Heather Whiteside, Political Science.

2022 Honorable Mention from the German Studies Association/DAAD book prize committee for Mediaeval Badges: Their Wearers and Their Worlds by Ann Marie Rasmussen, Germanic and Slavic Studies.

2021 Outstanding Book Award, Society of Professors of Education for Oral History, Education, and Justice: Limitations and Possibilities for Redress and Reconciliation, edited by Kristina R. Llewellyn, Renison University College (and Nicholas Ng-A-Fook, University of Ottawa).

2021 Publication Award for Edited Book, Canadian Association of Foundations of Education (CAFE) for Oral History, Education, and Justice: Possibilities and Limitations for Redress and Reconciliation, edited by Kristina R. Llewellyn, Renison University College (and Nicholas Ng-A-Fook, University of Ottawa)

2021 Donald Smiley Prize, Canadian Political Science Association for Fossilized: Environmental Policy in Canada’s Petro-Provinces, by Angela Carter, Political Science

2020 Waterloo Centre for German Studies Book Prize for Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement, by Tiffany N. Florvil

2019 CAS/Taylor & Francis Book Prize (Canadian Association of Slavists)
for The Portrayal of Jews in Modern Belarusian Literature, by Zinaida Gimpelevich, Germanic & Slavic Studies

2019 Canadian Shortlist, Griffin Poetry Prize (The Griffin Trust)
for The Art of Dying, by Sarah Tolmie, English Language & Literature

2017 C. P. Stacey Prize (Canadian Committee for the History of the Second World War)
for Crerar’s Lieutenants. Inventing the Canadian Junior Army Officer, 1939-1945, by Geoffrey Hayes, History

2016 Gabrielle Roy Prize (Association of Canadian and Quebec Literatures)
for Canadian Graphic: Picturing Life Narratives, co-edited by Linda Warley, English Language & Literature (with Candida Rifkind, University of Winnipeg)

2016 Francesco Guicciardini Prize for Best Book in Historical International Relations (International Studies Association) for The Forgotten Foundations of Bretton Woods: International Development and the Making of the Postwar Order, by Eric Helleiner, Political Science

2015 Gabrielle Roy Prize (Association of Canadian and Quebec Literatures)
for The Black Atlantic Reconsidered: Black Canadian Writing, Cultural History, and the Presence of the Past, by Winfried Siemerling, English Language & Literature

2015 Prose Award (Association of American Publishers) for Disability Rhetoric (Syracuse University Press, 2013), by Jay Dolmage, English Language & Literature

2011 John Porter Tradition of Excellence Award
for Measuring the Mosaic: An Intellectual Biography of John Porter (University of Toronto Press, 2010), by Rick Helmes-Hayes, Sociology & Legal Studies

2010 John Porter Tradition of Excellence Award
for The Prestige Squeeze: Occupational Prestige in Canada Since 1965 (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2009), by John Goyder, Sociology & Legal Studies

2010 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing
for Just Watch Me: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 1968-2000 (Knopf Canada, 2009), by John English, History (Just Watch Me was also a finalist for both the 2010 Charles Taylor Award and the 2010 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction)

Distinguished honours and prizes (2007-2018, selected)

Andrew Cooper, Political Science – Distinguished Scholar Award from the Diplomating Studies Section, International Studies Association (2019)

Geoffrey Fong, Psychology – Health Research Foundation (HRF) of Innovation Medicines Canada Medal of Honour (2019)

Igor Grossmann, Psychology – Sage Young Scholars, Society for Personality and Social Psychology (2019)

Allison Kelly, Psychology – Ontario Early Researcher Award (2019)

Aimée Morrison, English Language & Literature – Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Fellowship (2019)

Winfried Siemerling, English Language & Literature – Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (2019)

Jessica Thompson, Fine Arts – Ontario Early Researcher Award (2019)

J. Efrim Boritz, School of Accounting & Finance – Haim Falk Award for Distinguished Contributions to Accounting Thought (2018)

Geoffrey Fong, Psychology – Alton Ochsner Award Relating Smoking and Disease (2018)

James Skidmore, Germanic & Slavic Studies – Innovate German Award, DAAD and Canadian Association of University Teachers of German (2018)

Eric Helleiner, Political Science – Canada Council for the Arts Killam Research Fellowship (2017)

John Turri, Philosophy – Member of the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists (2016)

Colin MacLeod, Psychology – Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC) (2016)

John English, History – Officer of the Order of Canada (2016) 

James Walker, History – Member of the Order of Canada (2016)

Eric Helleiner, Political Science – Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC) (2015)

Bessma Momani, Political Science – Trudeau Foundation Fellow (2015)

Chris Eliasmith, Philosophy – NSERC John C. Polanyi Award (2015)

Chris Eliasmith, Philosophy – Inaugural Member of the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists (2014)

James Walker, History – Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC) (2013)

Paul Thagard, Philosophy – Canada Council for the Arts Killam Prize (Humanities) (2013)

Geoffrey Fong, Psychology – Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) Knowledge Translation Award (2011)

Mark Zanna, Psychology – Canada Council for the Arts Killam Prize (Social Sciences) (2011)

François Paré, French Studies – Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC) (2010)

Geoffrey Fong, Psychology – Canadian Medical Association Journal’s Top Canadian Achievements in Health Research award (2010)

William Coleman, Political Science – Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC) (2009)

William Coleman, Political Science – Trudeau Foundation Fellowship (2007)

Eric Helleiner, Political Science – Trudeau Foundation Fellowship (2007)

Paul Thagard, Philosophy – Canada Council for the Arts Molson Prize (2007)

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