Graduate Student Essay Award
Graduate students who presented papers at the current annual UAAC-AAUC conference can submit complete versions of their essays, in English or French, for consideration by the UAAC-AAUC Board for the Annual Graduate Student Essay Award. The winning essay will be awarded a $250 prize and will be published in the subsequent spring issue of RACAR.
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| Year | Recipient | Essay |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | M Gnanasihamany | Seeing Through Carceral Geographies: Translucency as Abolitionist Aesthetic Method |
| 2024 | Setayesh Nejadi | Conspicuous Presence of a Forbidden Minority: Artistic Means of Resistance by Queers in the Heart of Tehran |
| 2023 | Raphaël Ouellet | From Forms to Form: Micro-Art Histories of Bureaucracy and the practice of bureaucratic everyday life |
| 2022 | Georgia Phillips-Amos | A Threatening Presence: Regina José Galindo’s Aparición |
| 2021 | Erika Kindsfather | From Activism to Artistic Practice: (Re)imagining Indigenous Women’s Labour Activism in Contemporary Art |
| 2020 | Marie Ferron-Desautels | Satire et sociabilité au cœur de la pratique caricaturale de Lady Dalhousie (1786–1839) : vers une histoire des femmes caricaturistes britanniques |
| 2019 | Sarah Carter | India and the Antiquarian Image: Richard Payne Knight’s A Discourse on the Worship of Priapus |
| 2018 | Caitlin E. Ryan | Eli Lotar and Jacques-André Boiffard aboard the Exir Dallen |
| 2017 | Vanessa Bateman | Ursus Horribilis: Seth Kinman’s Grizzly Chair at the World’s Columbian Exposition |
| 2016 | Elysia H. French | Transformations of Oil: Visibility, Scale, and Climate in Warren Cariou’s Petrography |
| 2015 | Elizabeth Anne Cavaliere | Onward! Canadian Expansionist Outlooks and the Photographs that Serve Them |
| 2014 | Kathryn Desplanque | Repeat Offenders: Reprinting Visual Satire Across France’s Long Eighteenth Century |
| 2013 | Jennifer Orpana | Turning the World Inside Out: Situating JR’s Wish within Cultures of Participation |
| 2012 | Erin McLeod | By a Wing and a Tale: Authenticating the Archive in Mohamad Said Baalbaki’s Al Buraq | The Prophet’s Human-Headed Mount |