Celebrating our 2024 Vanier Scholars

Every year, doctoral students from across Canada apply to the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship competition, a prestigious national awards program that provides significant funding for doctoral research based on three areas of criteria: academic excellence, research potential and leadership. 

This year, the College of Social Sciences and Humanities is pleased to learn that three students from the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Education have been named 2024 Vanier Scholars.

“It is amazing to have three students from our college recognized for their innovative research by such a prestigious award,” says Helen Vallianatos, associate dean education for the college. “I congratulate these individuals and look forward to learning more from these promising scholars.”

She adds:

“I’d also like to thank all who support our graduate students’ development, from supervisors and supervisory committees to classmates and others who provide feedback and support to these early career scholars, as well as staff in libraries, departments and elsewhere without whom our learning and research environments would not function.”

The college would like to extend heartfelt congratulations to the following students:

• Hajar Ghorbani, Anthropology (supervised by Marko Živković)
  • Project: Dead Bodies' Agency in Iran and Western Politics: The Woman, Life, Freedom Movement in Iran and its International Political Impacts

• Megan Tipler, Education (supervised by Dwayne Donald)
  • Project: Big auntie energy: Storying sâkihitowin and experiences of Indigenous aunties as a pathway for reimagining and rematriating educational practices (more on Megan's project in this story)

• Nakita Valerio, Religious Studies (supervised by Joseph Hill)
  • Project: Keepers of the Qur'an: Women's Religious Literacy & Leadership in Morocco