Winning Research

Prizes

SSHRC awards a number of prizes to outstanding students and researchers in the social sciences and humanities:

• SSHRC Gold Medal for Achievement in Research
• SSHRC Aurora Prize
• SSHRC Postdoctoral Prize
• SSHRC William E. Taylor Fellowship
• Molson Prize

SSHRC Gold Medal for Achievement in Research ($100,000)

The SSHRC Gold Medal for Achievement in Research is the Council’s highest research honour. It is awarded to an individual whose leadership, dedication, and originality of thought have significantly advanced understanding in his or her field of research, enriched Canadian society, and contributed to the country's cultural and intellectual life.

• 2009: Jean-Jacques Nattiez, Université de Montréal
• 2008: Ian Hacking, University of Toronto
• 2007: Margaret Lock, McGill University
• 2006: Andrée Lajoie, Université de Montréal
• 2005: Richard Lipsey, Simon Fraser University
• 2004: Alex Michalos, University of Northern British Columbia
• 2003: Charles Taylor, McGill University

SSHRC Aurora Prize ($25,000)

The SSHRC Aurora Prize recognizes an outstanding new researcher who is building a reputation for exciting and original research in the social sciences or humanities.

• 2009: Sylvia Fuller, University of British Columbia
• 2008: Anthony Glinoer, University of Toronto
• 2007: Vinh-Kim Nguyen, Université de Montréal
• 2006: Diane Conrad, University of Alberta
• 2005: Jill Scott, Queen's University
• 2004: Michael Atkinson, McMaster University
• 2003: Darin Barney, University of Ottawa

SSHRC Postdoctoral Prize ($10,000)

The SSHRC Postdoctoral Prize is awarded each year to the most outstanding SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship recipient.

• 2009: Bruce Maxwell, Université de Montréal
• 2008: Sarah Desmarais, The University of British Columbia
• 2007: Richard G. Delisle, Université de Montréal
• 2006: Kirsty Robertson, Goldsmiths College, University of London
• 2005: Valerie Henitiuk, Columbia University
  

The William E. Taylor Fellowship is awarded each year to the most outstanding SSHRC doctoral award recipient.

• 2009: Erin Soros, University of East Anglia
• 2008: Katherine Madjidi, University of Toronto
• 2007: Abninder Litt, University of Waterloo
• 2006: Mingjun Lu, University of Toronto
• 2005: Michael Levi, Kings College London
• 2004: Dwight Newman, University of Oxford

Molson Prize ($50,000)

Each year, the Canada Council for the Arts, in conjunction with SSHRC, awards two $50,000 prizes to distinguished Canadians, one in the arts and the other in the social sciences and humanities. Funded by a $1 million endowment from the Molson Family Foundation, the Molson Prizes honour Canadians who have made important contributions to Canada’s cultural and intellectual heritage.

• 2009: Wayne Sumner, University of Toronto
• 2008: Angus McLaren, University of Victoria
• 2007: Paul Thagard, University of Waterloo
• 2006: Henry Mintzberg, McGill University
• 2005: Ramsay Cook, University of Toronto
• 2004: Richard Tremblay, Université de Montréal
• 2003: Janice Gross Stein, University of Toronto
• 2002: Margaret Locke, McGill University