2023-24 Historical Studies Award Recipients

On behalf of the Department of Historical Studies and the Historical Studies Awards Committee, we are very proud to congratulate our 2023-24 Awardees on their important achievements! We thank all our students, teaching assistants, and instructors for their contributions this past academic year.

2023-24 Department of Historical Studies Award Recipients:

Ida and Sam Aster Memorial Award in Historical Studies – Martha Burchert

History Emerti Award – Arnold Machado da Silva

The Desmond Morton Book Prize – Sarbjot Bhander

The R.E.A. Morton Prize – Ava Johnson

The Hans-Georg Neumann Scholarship – Daston Babakan & Alvina Babar

Hugh Smith Scholarship in Canadian History – Rhiannon Hoffman

The McNab Scholarship in Religious Studies (Erindale) – Arpan Pandey

Historical Studies Graduate School Transition Award – Gursharn Kaler

Historical Studies Creative Activity Award – Jonathan Divine Angubua & Kavya Tillekeratna

Historical Studies Best Paper Award – Tatiana Rios

Historical Studies Classical Civilization Merit Award – Emily Phillips

Classical Civilization Research and Study Grant – Angela Campbell

WGS Student of the Year/UTM Study of Women and Gender Program Award – Deborah Tawiah Brown

Women and Gender Studies Prize – Alissia Sannuto

Historical Studies Teaching Assistant Award – Sabrina Chung

Historical Studies Teaching Award (Faculty) – Caleb Wellum

Historical Studies Teaching Award (Sessional) – Anthony Scott

Additionally, students from our programs were UTM and UofT Undergraduate award recipients.

Outstanding Program Performance – 2023-24 UTM Dean’s Office Undergraduate Student Awards:

Historical Studies - Angela Campbell

University of Toronto Student Leadership Awards 2024:

Loridee De Villa & Sayesha Gupta