Gunn Prize 2022

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 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 2013 Gunn Prize winner Dara Marcus had her article on the Hai Hong published in ‘Bout de papier’ magazine (Vol. 28-1, published May 2014 by the Professional Association of Foreign Service Officers). We post the article with the permission of Ms Marcus and with the collaboration of PAFSO.

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…

The 2019 Gunn Prize has been awarded to Lianne Koren for her essay on Jewish Moroocan migration to Montreal