PhD and MA Convocation and Awards 2018

Congratulations to the most recent graduates of our PhD and MA programs, and to the recipient of the W.J. Stankiewicz Prize. We took time to celebrate after the spring convocation to recognize the achievements of our most recent graduates.

PhD Graduates – Spring 2018

Conrad King
Şule Yaylacı (photo above)

MA Graduates – Spring 2018

Mitchell Bosley
Ellen May Brookes
Anson Ching
Max Gardiner
Brynne Amery Langford
Jessica Morgan Weller
Enilda Veronica Beatriz Hurtado Lozada
James Nathan Hammond

W.J. Stankiewicz Prize

David Johnson is the winner of the 2017 W.J. Stankiewicz Prize for the Best Essay in Political Theory, for his paper, “Theorizing Indigenous Economic Formations”.

The prize was presented by Professor Marketa-Goetz Stankiewicz, W.J. Stankiewicz’s widow.

W.J. Stankiewicz was a political philosopher with broad interests in the social sciences and published books on democracy, foreign policy, institutional change in Poland, ideologies and the importance of political theory. He was a professor at UBC from 1957 until his retirement in 1987. In 1997, Sam LaSelva along with Bogdan Czaykowski published a collection of essays in his honour entitled Holding One’s Time in Thought. He died in 2006.

Professor Marketa Goetz-Stankiewicz established the W.J. Stankiewicz Memorial Graduate Prize in Political Theory to recognize outstanding work in the area of political theory by a graduate student in the Department of Political Science, awarded annually for the best article-length work in the area of political theory.

Although it is preferred that only one prize be awarded annually, the award may be split between two recipients at the discretion of the Department Head in years when two candidates of equal achievement are nominated. The award is made on the recommendation of the Department.

Students Anson Ching and Ben O’Heran placed second and third for this prize.

Previous winners of the W.J. Stankiewicz Prize for the Best Essay in Political Theory, include: