CSSR Undergraduate Student Essay Prize 2025
Yassin Barour,
University of Toronto
Title of winning essay: “Bowing to the Sacred Deer: Ritualization and Material Religion in Tourist-Deer Interactions at Nara Park”
CSSR Graduate Student (MA) Essay Prize 2025
Guillaume Gagnon Dugas,
Université de Sherbrooke
Title of winning essay: “L’APPORT DE LA PSYCHOLOGIE DE LA RELIGION SUR LES PLANS PERSONNELS ET PROFESSIONNELS: Synthèse intégrative de trois perspectives universalisantes”
CSSR Graduate Student (PhD) Essay Prize 2025
C. William Campbell,
University of Victoria
Title of winning essay: “Divine-Human Capital: LDS Divinization through Self-Reliance”
CSSR Publicly Engaged Research in Religion Student Prize 2025
Reyhab Patel,
Carleton University
Title of winning project: “Khawab − A Mipsterz Collaboration: The Nexus of Muslim-futurism through Fashion, Art and Technology”
First-place Winner of the CSSR Undergraduate Student Essay Prize 2024
James Nowak,
St. Michael’s College
University of Toronto
Title of winning essay: “Regarding Creation: Praise, Visual Perception, and Double Movement in John Scottus Eriugena’s Periphyseon”
Second-place Winner of the CSSR Undergraduate Student Essay Prize 2024
Antonio Rodriguez,
Wilfrid Laurier University
Title of winning essay: “Religion of the Colonized: Towards a Fanonian Theory of Religion”
Winner CSSR PhD Student Essay Prize 2024
Joshua Zentner-Barrett,
Saint Paul University
Title of winning essay: “With Orca, Goose, and Bear: Expanding Canada’s Ritual Body”
First-place Winner of the CSSR Undergraduate Student Essay Prize 2023
Audrey Miatello, U
niversity of Toronto
Title of winning essay: “Reconnecting to Nature in the 21st Century: Considering Laudato Si’ as a Guide”
Second-place Winner of the CSSR Undergraduate Student Essay Prize 2023
Claire Hamilton,
Queen’s University
Title of winning essay: “Gnostic Conceptions of Genesis”
Winner CSSR PhD Student Essay Prize 2023
Catherine van Reenen,
University of Manitoba
Title of winning essay: Delicate Instruments and the Challenges of Empirical Observation in Psychical Research: The Technical Apparatus of T.G. Hamilton’s Teleplasm Experiments
Winner CSSR MA Student Essay Prize 2023
Marie-Ève Ouimette,
Université du Québec à Montréal (UQUAM)
Title of winning essay: “La culture religieuse à l’école: un sacrifice sur l’autel de la laïcité?”
First-place Winner of the CSSR Undergraduate Student Essay Prize 2022
None this year.
Second-place Winner of the CSSR Undergraduate Student Essay Prize 2022
None this year.
Winner CSSR PhD Student Essay Prize 2022
Catherine van Reenen,
University of Manitoba
Title of winning essay: “On the Limits of Auto-Critique in the Study of Religion”
Winner CSSR MA Student Essay Prize 2022
Ian Greer,
The American University in Cairo
Title of winning essay: “Angrezi Shariat: Islamic Law in 20th Century Britain and its Colonial Antecedents”