Archives: GR Awards

Monday, April 19, 2021

Congratulations Kimiya Missaghi!

Department of Law and Legal Studies MA candidate, Kimiya Missaghi, has been awarded Research Impact Canada's 2021 Research Impact Canada Engaged Scholarship Award in the Master’s category. Congratulations! Kimiya Missaghi is a MA candidate at the Department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University currently completing her thesis. Her... More

Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Congratulations Safiyah Rochelle!

Congratulations to Dr. Safiyah Rochelle for being awarded a Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement! Safiyah worked under the supervision of Professor Christiane Wilke and successfully defended her thesis “Capturing the Void(ed): Muslim Detainees, Practices of Violence, and the Politics of Seeing in Guantanamo Bay” this past... More

Friday, June 19, 2020

PhD Student Jean Ketterling Wins Prestigious Vanier Award!

PhD student Jean Ketterling said her heart rate shot through the ceiling when she clicked on an email notification to check the 2020 Vanier scholarship results. “Once my heart rate went back to normal, I was thrilled!” says Ketterling. Ketterling is one of three Carleton University students to win a Vanier Graduate Student Scholarship... More

Tuesday, April 7, 2020

Congratulations Veronica Øverlid!

Veronica Øverlid, a second-year Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton, has been awarded a 2020 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Scholarship. Her research focuses on migration and refugee law. Øverlid has a degree in Spanish and Latin American Studies (BA) and an MA in International Human Rights Law. Prior to... More

Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Law Phd Student Wins Award for Dissertation

Tiffany MacLellan’s dissertation for the Department of Law and Legal Studies has won the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities Julian Mezey Dissertation Award. The annual international prize is awarded to “the dissertation that most promises to enrich and advance interdisciplinary scholarship at the intersection of law,... More

Wednesday, October 24, 2018

LLS Doctoral Candidate Jay Ramasubramanyam Wins a Major Award!

Congratulations to Jay Ramasubramanyam, a PhD candidate in the Law and Legal Studies program, for winning the 2018-2019 TD Graduate Fellowship in Migration and Diaspora Studies! The Fellowship is awarded annually by the Dean of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs to a full-time graduate student who is pursuing courses in Migration and Diaspora... More

Monday, November 7, 2016

MA Grad Student Awarded 2016 Senate Medal

Congratulations to recent MA graduate, David Meinen, who has been named a recipient of a 2016 Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement! David's thesis entitled, "Pacification through humanitarian aid: Examining Canada's security-development role in Haiti", was completed under the supervision of Prof. George Rigakos, with support from... More

Wednesday, March 30, 2016

EDC’s Outstanding TA Award Recipients and Honourable Mentions

Congratulations to MA candidate Shannon Dempsey, who has been named one of five recipients of the EDC's 2015-2016 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Awards, and to PhD candidate Jayantha Ramasubramanyam, who was selected as one of five honourable mentions! This award celebrates the contributions and support Teaching Assistants give to the... More

Tuesday, March 29, 2016

2016 Chet Mitchell Memorial Award Winner Announced!

This year's recipient for the Chet Mitchell Memorial Award in Law is M.A. Legal Studies candidate, Sydney Jacklin! The award was presented to Sydney at the 11th Annual Carleton Graduate Legal Studies Association Conference which took place on Thursday, March 17, 2016. Sydney's research is interested in how the law constitutes ways of 'knowing'... More

Monday, March 21, 2016

Nominees Announced for EDC’s Outstanding TA Awards

Congratulations to the Law and Legal Studies teaching assistants who have been nominated for the EDC's 2015-2016 Outstanding TA Awards! Shannon Dempsey Margaret Fitzgerald Murphy Shanna Hickey Matthew Hintermann Batoul Hrieche Joshua Hruschka Meghan Johnston Garrett Lecoq Jayantha Ramasubramanyam Amy Resmer Devon Valentine Ross Williamson The... More

Tuesday, September 9, 2014

PhD Legal Studies student Jessi Ring awarded OGS

Congratulations to PhD Legal Studies student Jessi Ring, who has recently been awarded an Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS)! Jessi's primary research interest involves focusing upon feminist engagement in technology and digital spaces. Currently, her work is focused on analyzing ‘The Hacker Ethic’—a set of practices and ideals that define... More

Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Prof. Douglas wins Dissertation Award from ASLCH

Congratulations! Prof. Stacy Douglas has won the 2014 Julien Mezey Dissertation Award from the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities (ASLCH). She will formally receive the award in March at the 17th Annual ASLCH Conference at the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville, VA. Her Ph.D. dissertation entitled, "Curating... More

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