2019 Gunn Prize

The winning essay ‘Voices of Migration: Exploring Agency within Canadian Immigration Policy and Greek Emigration Framework’ was written Alexandros Balasis, a PhD student at York University. Mr. Balasis looks at Greek immigration to Canada during the 1950s and 1960s through immigrants’ voices and is continuing his research interests around migrants’ agency and their diverse experiences….

CIHS and Carleton University are pleased to announce a new partnership to award the Gunn Prize for excellence in a student essay on an historical matter in Canadian immigration policies and programs. Click here for more information.

The winner of the 2014 Gunn Prize is University of Toronto PhD student Geoffrey Cameron, pictured here receiving his award from Dr. Jenna Hennebry (left) and Dr. Margaret Walton-Roberts (right), both with the International Migration Research Centre at Wilfrid Laurier University. The winning essay is online.

The 2017 Gunn Prize was presented to Iain Wilson at the recent CIHS AGM

The 2013 Gunn Prize is awarded to Ms Dara Marcus, a graduate student at the University of Ottawa in Public and International Affairs. Click here to read the essay. A jury consisting of CIHS members Dr. Gerry Van Kessel, Dr. Kurt Jensen and Rob Vineberg along with Drs. Abel Chikanda and Andrew Thompson of the Balsillie…

The 2025 Gunn Prize winner is Ms Michelle Faux, a PhD candidate at York University in Toronto. Her essay explores the political and social factors which led members of the Goan diaspora living in Uganda to migrate to Canada as refugees in 1972. The author argues that this pivotal moment in the immigration history of Goans…