Awards


ILSA Student Presentation Award

ILSA is happy to introduce its annual Graduate Student Award. This award recognizes the most thought-provoking unpublished essay or creative work (on any topic/theme related to Indigenous studies) written by a graduate student and presented at ILSA’s annual gathering. The award is valued at $500.

Submissions will be solicited following the gathering, and the winning submission will be chosen and announced soon thereafter.

Questions about the ILSA Graduate Student Award can be sent via our “contact us” form or via email, here.

*2024 submissions for this award have closed. Winners will be announced soon!*


Past Winners:

2024

Tina Munroe (she/her)

“Slipstreams of Desire in Linda Hogan’s Solar Storms.”

2024 Honourable Mention:

Alexei Perry Cox (she/her)
“Mobilization(ing): the poetics of wind and breath in the resurgent solidarities of Palestine and Turtle Island” Jesse Desjarlais (he/him)
“The People Who Write Themselves: Métis Approaches to Fixed Form Poetry.”


2023

Hann Scurlock (they/them)

“Tobacco and Whippoorwills: Uncoiling Sovereignty from Erotic Indigiqueer Futures in Drowning in Fire by Craig Womack"“

2023 Honourable Mention:

Krista Collier-Jarvis (she/her)
”Emlsigtmat: Ghostliness and Presencing in Betty”
Marissa Magneson (she/her)
“Beadwork as Mnemonic Storytelling Device”


2022

Matthew Tétreault (he/him)

“On Visiting in Alexandre de Laronde’s ‘La Vallée de Qu’Appelle’”

2022 Honourable Mention:

Marissa Magneson (she/her)
“My Methodology Moccasins: Walking in the Footsteps of My Ancestors”