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ICCS-CIEC Graduate Student Scholarship
ICCS-CIEC Best Doctoral Thesis in International Canadian Studies
ICCS-CIEC Pierre Savard Awards
ICCS-CIEC Certificate of Merit
ICCS-CIEC Governor General’s International Award in Canadian Studies
ICCS-CIEC Postdoctoral Fellowship
ICCS-CIEC Awardees
Anna Branach-Kallas
ICCS-CIEC Pierre Savard Award for the best monograph in Canadian Studies written in a language other than English and French, 2015
Title of the book: Uraz przetrwania. Trauma i polemika z mitem pierwszej wojny światowej w powieści kanadyjskiej. Wydawnictwo Naukowe UMK, 2014
ICCS-CIEC Certificate of Merit, 2023
Dagmara Drewniak
ICCS-CIEC Pierre Savard Award for the best monograph in Canadian Studies written in a language other than English and French, 2023
Title of the book: Figura domu. Szkice o najnowszej anglojęzycnej literaturze emigrantów z ziem polskich i ich potomków w Kanadzie. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, 2022
Ewa Krasnodębska
Certificate of Merit, 2022
Kalina Kukiełko-Rogozińska
ICCS-CIEC Pierre Savard Award for the best monograph in Canadian Studies written in a language other than English and French, 2016
Title of the book: Między nauką a sztuką. Teoria i praktyka artystyczna w ujęciu Marshalla McLuhana. Narodowe Centrum Kultury, 2014
Józef Kwaterko
Certificate of Merit, 2013
ICCS-CIEC Governor General’s International Award in Canadian Studies, 2023
Marcin Markowicz
Graduate Student Scholarship, 2019
ICCS-CIEC Best Doctoral Thesis in International Canadian Studies, 2022
Anna Reczyńska
Certificate of Merit, 2019
Eugenia Sojka
Certificate of Merit, 2018
Joanna Warmuzińska-Rogóż
ICCS-CIEC Pierre Savard Award for the best monograph in Canadian Studies written in a language other than English and French, 2017
Title of the book: Szkice o przekładzie literackim. Literatura rodem z Quebecu w Polsce. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, 2016
The award for the best thesis on a Canadian topic was created in 2011. The award is named after Professor Nancy Burke, who passed away on February 12, 2006. Professor Burke was the mother of Canadian studies in Poland, an inspiration to Polish Canadians and one of the people who led to the establishment of the Polish Association for Canadian Studies.
The competition is open to undergraduate and graduate theses written in Polish, English or French, on broadly defined Canadian subjects, including comparative aspects (if the Canadian component is at least 50%), defended in Poland in the year preceding the year of the competition announcement.
Electronic submission of the thesis should include:
Applications should be sent to PACS at ptbk@wa.amu.edu.pl by the deadline specified in the competition announcement.
The call for entries (theses defended in 2023) will open in March 2024.
2020-2022
Awards not presented.
2019
Sebastian Byszuk
“Powstanie, rozwój i upadek kanadyjskiego ruchu komunistycznego”
Supervisor: Prof. Anna Reczyńska
Thesis defended in 2018 at Jagiellonian University.
Julia Siepak (distinction)
“Construction of Indigenous Identities and the Aesthetics of Survivance in Louise Erdrich‘s LaRose and Thomas King‘s Green Grass, Running Water”
Supervisor: Prof. UMK dr hab. Anna Branach-Kallas
Thesis defended in 2018 Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń.
2018
Estera Wala
“A comparative study of Canadian – Israeli relations from the perspective of Canadian government policies towards Israel and the Jewish diaspora under the premierships of Stephen Harper and Justin Trudeau”
Supervisor: dr hab. Eugenia Sojka
Thesis defended in 2017 at the University of Silesia.
Michał Kapis (distinction)
“Orality in contemporary Canadian and South African aboriginal prose”
Supervisor: Prof. UAM dr hab. Agnieszka Rzepa
Thesis defended in 2017 at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.
2017
Marcin Markowicz
“Unlayering the multilayered: an intertextual study of selected prose by George Bowering”
Supervisor: Prof. UAM dr hab. Agnieszka Rzepa
Thesis defended in 2016 at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.
2016
Karolina Pietrzok
“Studio D jako odbicie sytuacji kobiet w Kanadzie w XX wieku”
Supervisor: Prof. Anna Reczyńska
Thesis defended in 2015 at Jagiellonian University.
Izabela Świerkot (distinction)
“Pozycja ustrojowa oraz system prawa Quebecu”
Supervisor: Prof. Andrzej Dziadzio
Thesis defended in 2015 at Jagiellonian University.
Małgorzata Bobowska (distinction)
“Remembering the Forgotten: the influence of historical violence on the Japanese Canadian feminine subjects in Roy Kiyooka`s Mothertalk: Life Stories of Mary Kiyoshi Kiyooka, Joy Kogawa`s Obasan and Kerri Sakamoto`s The Electrical Field and One Hundred Million Hearts”
Supervisor: Prof. UAM dr hab. Agnieszka Rzepa
Thesis defended in 2015 at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.
2015
Kamila Scheithauer
“Coming Back to the Roots: Struggle Against the Colonial Educational Legacy and the Process of Rediscovering Aboriginal Knowledge in Contemporary Canada”
Supervisor: dr Eugenia Sojka
Thesis defended in 2014 at the University of Silesia.
Agata Sieroń
“Traduire la littérature québécoise postmoderne: problèmes traductologiques dans la traduction du Vengeur masqué contre les hommes-perchaudes de la Lune de François Blais”
Supervisor: dr hab. Krzysztof Jarosz
Thesis defended in 2014 at the University of Silesia.
Jagoda Tuz (distinction)
“The Hipster in Three Contemporary Canadian Novels”
Supervisor: prof. dr hab. Joanna Durczak
Thesis defended in 2014 at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University.
2014
Award not presented.
2013
Sylvia Bezak
“Inuici kanadyjskiego rejonu Arktyki wobec postępującej zmiany klimatu i środowiska naturalnego na początku XXI wieku”
Supervisor: Prof. Anna Reczyńska
Thesis defended in 2012 at Jagiellonian University.
2012
Alicja Śmigielska
“Widziane oczami dziecka. Z syberyjskiej tajgi do kraju pachnącego żywicą”
Supervisor: dr hab. Jan Lencznarowicz
Thesis defended in 2011 at Jagiellonian University.
Jacek Mulczyk-Skarżyński
“Dialectique de l’aliénation dans les drames de Michel Tremblay”
Supervisor: Prof. Józef Kwaterko
Thesis defended in 2011 at the University of Warsaw.
Jolanta Dziuba (distinction)
“Processes of Dehumanization and Rehumanization of Canadian First Nations People in the Context of Indigenous Methodologies. Study of the Work of Salish Writer Lee Maracle”
Supervisor: dr Eugenia Sojka
Thesis defended in 2011 at the University of Silesia.
2011
Urszula Spolitakiewicz (I)
“United Church of Canada — Historia, działalność, problemy”
Supervisor: Prof. Anna Reczynska
Thesis defended in 2010 at Jagiellonian University.
Sabina Sweta Sen (I – ex aequo)
“Identities on the move: dance performance as the embodiment of culture and social organisation of the Tsimshian nation”
Supervisor: prof. Wojciech Kalaga
Thesis defended in 2010 at the University of Silesia.
Hanna Mrozek (distinction)
“Colonial and postcolonial representations of Potlatch ceremonies of the Kwakwaka’wakws First Nations in ethnographic and cinematic discourses”
Supervisor: prof. Wojciech Kalaga
Thesis defended in 2010 at the University of Silesia.
2010
Anita Zawisza
Tytuł pracy: “La quête d’identité dans les romans d’Anne Hébert”
Supervisor: Prof. Józef Kwaterko
Thesis defended in 2009 at the University of Warsaw.
Joanna Staśkowiak
Tytuł pracy: “Pozycja Quebeku w kanadyjskim systemie federacyjnym a dążenia prowincji do uzyskania suwerenności”
Supervisor: Prof. Michał Klimecki
Thesis defended in 2009 at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń.
Thanks to the fruitful cooperation between PACS and the Canadian Embassy in Poland, young PACS members can apply for an internship at the Canadian Embassy.
The first edition of the internship competition was held in 2021. The winner of the competition was Ms. Gabriela Kwiatek, a student at Jagiellonian University.
Recruitment for the third edition of the competition for an internship at the Canadian Embassy will begin in March 2024. Only PACS members are eligible to apply for the competition.
