Past Winners
Academics
Betty G. Headley Senior Essay Award - Past Winners
Events
2022
BEST COURSE ESSAY
Madeline Medensky
Visionary Imagination Seeing Beyond in Gilead
BEST PERSONAL ESSAY
Scout Ruppe
Jumping with Both Feet: Reclaiming My Identity in a Disabled Community
2021
COURSE RELATED ESSAY
FIRST PLACE
Gillian Adrianne Wagenaar
The Coxswain’s Widow: Charity, Wisdom, and the Working Class in the Life and Death of James Maynard
PERSONAL ESSAY
FIRST PLACE - TIE
Valerie Josic
Better a Cracked Voice
Yasmina Mashmoushi
The Path Less Travelled: A Personal Essay
2020
COURSE RELATED ESSAYS
FIRST PLACE - TIE
Upama Poudyal
The Feasibility of Indigenous Decoloniality through Law School Education
HONOURABLE MENTIONS
Emma Tristan Little
In Defense of Damianakes: How a Cover Illustration Upholds Symbolism and Form in A Farewell to Arms
Peter Voltsinis
PERSONAL ESSAYS
FIRST PLACE
Emilie Stanley
Together Apart
2019
COURSE RELATED ESSAYS
FIRST PLACE
Tristan Mills
The Incantations of The Apple Trees at Olema
HONOURABLE MENTIONS
Jude Blasutti
Reading Rape in The Canterbury Tales
Mila Sevo
Jane Kenyon's Poetics and the Anna Akhmatova Translations:
A Dialogical Relationship
Julianna Suderman
Human Reality Uncovered in the Alien:
Heptapod Language in Story of Your Life and Arrival
PERSONAL ESSAYS
FIRST PLACE
Vinny Neang
HONOURABLE MENTION
Brianna D'Alessandro
2018
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JOINT FIRST PLACE WINNERS
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Selin Elyay
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Heather Lambert
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JOINT HONOURABLE MENTIONS
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Kayley Marner
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Oriana Confente
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2017
| FIRST PLACE |
| Alex Rollinson |
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Obscenity, Disgust and Embarrassment |
2016
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| Kristopher Kinsinger | Easton Page |
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From Moderates to Mythmakers: Postwar Foreign Policy in Canadian Federal Elections 1949-1957 |
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2015
| FIRST PLACE | SECOND PLACE |
| Janina (Ninka) Bielak | Dakota Pinheiro |
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The Grapes of Wrath: A Protest Against an |
2014
| FIRST PLACE | SECOND PLACE |
| Aaron Hernandez | Jacob McLellan |
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The Complete View of the Whole Eventuality: Zen in Gary Snyder's 'Pine Tree Tops' |
Estranged Through Writing: An Analysis of the Written Word in the Grapes of Wrath |
2013
| FIRST PLACE |
| Nadine Hiemstra |
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Intentional Community: Revaluing People Living With Disabilities |
2012
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| Kylie Bergfalk | Samantha Bradshaw | Ralph Neil |
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Taser Technology in Canada: Examining Whether Tasers Constitute Reasonable or |
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| Erika Toffelmire |
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Flipped Upside Down: A Reflection Paper on My Field Studies Experience in Madurai, India |
2011
2010
| FIRST PLACE |
| Matthew Thijssen |
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Enfields, Emissaries, and Experiences: Canadian Perspectives on the Korean War |
2009
| FIRST PLACE |
| Nicholas Herring |
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The Savage Faculty
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2006
| FIRST PLACE |
| Denis Clark |
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Writing to Survive? The Battle of the Plains of Abraham in English Canadian Historiography |
2005
| FIRST PLACE |
| David Zettel |
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The Moral Virtues as Prerequisites for the Philosophical Life in Plato's Gorgias |