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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’

  • 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’ . 

  • 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 

  • 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)