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Anthropology

Award winners

Congratulations to our recent undergraduate award winners! Learn about these scholarships and how they're awarded. 

Jamie Cassels Undergraduate Research Award (JCURA)

JCURA 2026 winners

  • Evelyn O'Hara: (supervisor Dr. Erin McGuire)
  • Lily Collins (supervisor Dr. Yin Lam)
  • Catherine Davison (supervisor Dr. Alex Boudreault-Fournier)
  • Finola Reed (supervisor Dr. Alison Murray)
  • Logan Hudson (supervisor Dr. April Nowell)

Learn about all winners’ JCURA 2025 research projects

  • Skye Bartel-Ens: The Zooarchaeological Study of Sculpin (Cottidae) at an Ancient W̱SÁNEĆ Village Site (supervisor Dr. Brian Thom and Dr. Yin Lam)
  • Fynley Calder-Rasmussen: Denial of Compensation For Marine Conservation: ​ Pelagic Northern Fur Sealing as an Indigenous Industry on the Northwest Coast Archaeological & Historical Comparisons (supervisor Dr. Iain McKechnie)
  • Dana Ferderick: Reframing Food Sovereignty in Eastern Cuba: Resilience and Agency Among Small-Scale Farming Communities (supervisor Dr. Alex Boudreault-Fournier)
  • Sarah Stockdale: Evaluating leopard predation pressure on chimpanzee temporal and spatial habitat use in West Africa (supervisor Dr. Ammie Kalan)

Learn about all winners’ JCURA 2024 research projects. 

  • Audrey Lefort: A Time for Recollection: Exploring the Temporality of Victoria‘s Sea-to-Sea Green Blue Belt Campaign (supervisor Dr. Tommy Happynook)
  • Djuna Nagasaki: “Am I Japanese? Am I Nikkei?” An exploration of Yonsei and Gosei Japanese Canadian Identities (supervisor Dr. Melissa Gauthier)
  • Cooper Bell: From the Ground Up: A Comparative Analysis of Virtual Reflectance Transformation Imaging and Traditional RTI in the Context of Cemetery Conservation (supervisor Dr. Erin McGuire)

Valerie Kuehne Undergraduate Research Awards (VKURA)

Learn about anthropology VKURA research projects here

  • 2023: Mariana Verdejo Hernandez: The future of connection: how artifcial intelligence is transforming the way we connect and build relationships (supervisor Dr. Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier)
  • 2023: Nicole Campbell: “Contextualizing Community Currency: Understanding the Comox Valley LETS (supervisor Dr. Daromir Rudnyckyj)
  • 2023: Chloe Bailer: Mapping Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw Place Names (supervisor Dr. Duncan McLaren)
  • 2022: Ellis Martiskainen: An Assessment of Aging Systems in Zooarchaeology (supervisor Dr. Yin Lam and Dr. Stephanie Calce)