Honours and Awards
Student and Recent Graduate Awardees
Dr. Polina Kukar is the recipient of the 2020 E. Lisa Panyotidis Dissertation Award by the Canadian Association of Foundations of Education.
Suleyman Demi is the recipient of the 2019 Lisa Robinson Award for Excellence in Research.
Leroy Baker is the recipient of the 2019 Dionne Brand Award for Excellence in Liberal Arts.
Suleyman Demi and Ezinwanne Odozor are recipients of the 2019 Gordon Cressy Leadership award.
Jessica Wright is recipient of the Ontario Graduate Scholarship in both 2017-2018 and 2018-2019, as well as the 2018-2019 recipient of the University of Toronto Graduate Award for Scholarly Achievement in the Area of Gender-Based Violence.
Maya Chacaby is recipient of the 2017-2018 Amilcare Iannucci Graduate Fellowship in the Humanities.
Staff Awardees
Sezen Atacan is recipient of the Dr. Claire Alleyne Staff Excellence Award.
Faculty Awardees
Miglena Todorova is awarded 2019 SSHRC Insight Development Grant for "Sexual and Gender-based Violence among International Students: A Qualitative Approach."
Miglena Todorova is awarded 2019 SSHRC Connection Grant for "Social Innovation in Media Literacy Education."
rosalind hampton is awarded 2019 SSHRC Insight Development Grant for "Coalition Building by and with Black Students at Canadian Univerities from 1960-2000."
Lauren Bialystok is the recipient of the 2018 OISE Distinguished Contributions to Teaching.
Abigail Bakan is awarded 2017 SSHRC Insight Grant for "The UN as knowledge producer: World conferences on women, racialized and Indigenous people."
George Dei is awarded 2017 SSHRC Insight Grant for "The potential for elders' cultural knowledge to contribute to a new education futurity."
John Portelli is awarded 2017 SSHRC Insight Grant for "Investigating the impact of the Ontario equity policy."
Njoki Wane is awarded 2017 SSHRC Insight Grant for "Black women's experience in leadership positions in Canadian universities."
George Dei has been elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada 2017. This is recognition of “distinguished scholars and artists selected on the basis of their exceptional contributions,” following an extensive nomination and selection process across Canada.
Honours and Awards Archive
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Below is a list of past award recipients.
Alumni Awardees
Anne McGuire (PhD 2011) wins the first Tobin Siebers prize in Disability Studies in the Humanities at the Modern Languages Association for her book "War on Autism: On the Cultural Logic of Normative Violence"
Kate Cairns (PhD 2011) wins the 2013 Alice Wilson Award from the Royal Society of Canada.
Paloma Villegas (PhD 2012) wins the 2012 OISE Leithwood Award for Oustanding Thesis of the Year.
Michael Mcgarry (PhD 2013) wins the 2014 Canadian Philosophy of Education Society Dissertation Award (To read, write, and cast accounts: Foucault, Governmentality and Education in Upper Canada/Canada West).
Student Awardees
Academic Excellence
Laura Kwak (OISE) 2013-2014
Best Student Paper
Laura Landertinger, Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA) for "The Best Student Paper" presented at the annual NAISA Conference in 2014
Dr. E. Bruce Hendrick Scholarship
Terri-Lynn Langdon, Ph.D. candidate, recipeint of the Dr. E. Bruce Hendrick Scholarship.
Excellence In Leadership
Jacqui Spencer, recipient of the Leonard Braithwaite Award for Excellence in Leadership.
Joseph-Armand Bombardier
Marissa Largo, Doctoral (2013-16)
Ashling Ligate, Masters
Averie MacDonald, Masters
Amanda Parris, Masters
Jaclyn San Antonio, Doctoral (2013-16)
OISE Muriel Fung Student Appreciation Award
Harriet Akanmori, PhD student (2015)
Francisco Villegas, PhD Candidate (2014)
Cindy Ruvashtre Sinclair, PhD Candidate (2013)
Ontario Graduate Scholarship
Raneem Azzam (2013)
Leroy Baker (2014)
Veronica Carr (2013)
Patricia Douglas (2013)
Trystan Goetze (2013)
Jennifer Jagire (2013)
Yongfang Jia (2013)
Natalie Kourie-Towe (2013)
Laura Kwak (2013)
Laura Landertinger (2013)
Jia Luo (2013)
Katherine Milley (2013)
Selena Nemorin (2013)
Kendra Pitt (2013)
Eric Ritskes (2013)
Nashwa Salem (2013)
Jijian Voronka (2013)
SSHRC
Laura Landertinger (2014)
Ashling Ligate (2013)
Averie MacDonald (2013)
Amanda Parris (2013)
Aman Sium (2013)
Preeia Surajbali (2013)
U of T Women's Association A&C Coman Scholarship
Kate Zankowics, winner of the University of Toronto Women's Association A&C Coman Scholarship, 2013-2014
Vanier Scholarship
David Pereira, Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships 2013-16
William Waters Scholarship
Roopa Cheema, William Waters Scholarship
Surekha Gangopadhyay, William Waters Scholarship
