2015 student and faculty award winners announced

Congratulations to all the winners of the 2015 student and faculty awards! All of the applications this year were extremely strong.

Faculty Research Grant

Congratulations to Dr. Jordan Stanger-Ross of the department of history and the Landscapes of Injustice project. Dr. Stanger-Ross won the 2015 CAPI Faculty Research Grant for his research proposal "Deportees and Dispossession: Laying the foundation for a transnational research project".

Student Awards

Student Essay Prize

Prize for the best essay focusing on the Asia-Pacific region completed for a UVic course during the current academic year.

Paul Castrodale (winner)
Migration, Innovation, and Chinese Knowledge Economy: 'Immaterial Labour' and Consumer Electronics Manufacturing

Victoria Philibert (runner up)
Pronatalism in Hosada Mamoro's Wolf Children

Student Research Fellowship ($2500)

Funding for travel and other expenses related to research done in the Asia-Pacific region.

Alessia Kockel (Masters Candidate, UVic Department of Geography)
Evaluating the trade-offs of systemic conservation planning approaches for designing networks of marine protected areas in the Philippines

Student Language Fellowship ($2500)

Funding for travel and other expenses related to language learning done in the Asia-Pacific region.

Benjamin Lawrence (PhD Candidate, UVic Faculty of Law)
Khmer lessons at the Language Institute of Natural Khmer in Phnom Penh, Cambodia to support fieldwork regarding the Cambodian constitution