2023 Writing Contest Winners
Posted on 2024-02-28Thank you to all the students who submitted your brilliant work to the writing contest this year.
Announcing the prize winners and hourable mentions in each category:
First Year Category
First Prize:
Author: Carmen Campbell
Paper Title: Civic Engagement: Perspectives on Active Citizen Participation in Political Life
Second Prize:
Author: Jaclyn Chan
Paper Title: Media Analysis of “Nosedive” (Black Mirror): A Symbolic Interactionist Perspective
Honourable Mentions:
Author: Alayna Hillier
Paper Title: Wedded Cages and Better Places: An Analysis of Central Metaphors Within Poems by Sylvia Plath & William Blake
Author: Javier Burgos
Paper Title: On Social Host Liability
Author: Rigyaju Tripathi
Paper Title: The Rise of Wooden Skyscrapers
Middle Years Category
First Prize:
Author: Olivia Yung
Paper Title: Like, Whatever: The Syntactic Evolution of a Morpheme
Second Prize:
Nava Karimi
Paper Title: Karma Police, Arrest This Artist! – On Cancel Culture and “Deplatforming”
Honourable Mentions:
Author: Christine Borillo
Paper Title: It’s Giving Syntactic Shift: Examining the Syntactic Pattern of It’s Giving “X”
Author: Sophia Herd
Paper Title: To what extent did Indigenous peoples manage clam gardens along the intertidal zone on the coast of British Columbia?
Author: Balqees Jama
Paper Title: Black Media Literacy and the Pedagogy of Healing
Fourth Year+ Category
First Prize:
Author: Gabrielle Wong
Paper Title: Placemaking or placekeeping? The dual role of the arts in the gentrification of Manhattan’s Chinatown
Second Prize:
Author: Isaac Schoeber
Paper Title: Marian Miracles at Constantinople and Lepanto, 1422 and 1571
Honourable Mention:
Author: Nazafarin Esfandiari
Paper Title: Evaluating the Need for a National Pharmacare Program in Canada: Opportunities and Challenges
Plurilingual Prize
First Prize:
Author: Nat Begg
Paper Title: Han Father, Minzu Children: Gender and Family in China’s Ethnic Governance
Second Prize:
Audrey Heath
Paper Title: Fireweed as a Gitxsan Clan!?
Congrats to all winners and honourable mentions and thanks again to everyone who made the contest a success again in 2023.