Graduate fellowships & awards

This award is intended to recognize and provide financial support to graduate students whose research focus is within liberal studies. The ideal candidates are those who foster progressive discourse and innovative thought while creating a community of engaged citizens.

The Ewan Clark Memorial Award is available to students who have a demonstrated history as an artist, musician, writer, or actor.

The purpose of the Jean-Jacques Rousseau Award is to provide financial support and recognition to a graduate student working on a capstone project (e.g., extended essay, a project, or a thesis) in the Graduate Liberal Studies Program.

The purpose of the Julie Andreyev Animal Lover Graduate Scholarship in Animal Ethics is to recognize and provide financial support to one or more graduate students in the Graduate Liberal Studies program who are pursuing research, making an impact through volunteerism, community involvement or through their work, and have a substantial demonstrated interest in the ethics of care for other-than-human animals.

Examples of territories of research may include: ethics of care, ecofeminism, ecopoetics, post-humanism, post-anthropocentric philosophy, post-anthropocentric aesthetics, relational ontologies between human and nonhuman beings, critical animal studies, panpsychism, animism, environmental philosophy, more than human kinship studies, ethics of inclusion, environmental activism, or advocacy for nonhuman life.

The L.R. Wright Award is a GLS bursary award available only to our students.  If sufficient funds are available, and multiple students meet the criteria for this scholarship, multiple scholarships of equal value may be granted. Bursaries are accessible through Student Services—scroll down to "Bursary/Work Study Application." You will need your computing ID to log in.

The prize recognizes a student in a Master of Arts degree program in the Department of History or the GLS program who has written the best essay or thesis. The prize alternates each year between History and GLS until the endowment funds can support two prizes, one in each department.