In 2012, 30 students from 17 departments and programs received awards to work under the supervision of faculty members.
Art History and Communication Studies
"Phantom Witness: The 1964 Genovese Murder and Its Cultural Legacy"
Patrick DeDauw, English
Prof. Carrie Rentschler, Art History and Communication Studies
"Thinking the Temporally Evolving Chemical Object in Enlightenment Britain"
Flora Dunster, Art History
Prof. Matthew Hunter, Art History and Communication Studies
McGill Institute for the Study of Canada (MISC)
"McGill University as Media Hub"
Danyse Golick, English
Prof. Will Straw, Art History and Communication Studies
Economics
"Changes in the Progressivity of the US Income Tax System"
Saad Qazi, Economics and Mathematics
Prof. Markus Poschke, Economics
"Long-Term Care: Macroeconomic Implications and Policy"
Sam Gyetvay, Economics and Mathematics
Prof. Daniel Barczyk, Economics
"Tail Thickness Measures in High Frequency Return Data"
Gavril Petrov, Economics and Mathematics
Prof. John Galbraith, Economics
"Variability Canadian GDP Forecasting"
Matthew Meland, Economics
Prof. John Galbraith, Economics
English
The Irish Way of Dying: Ulysses and Funeral Processions
Kevin Droz, English
Prof. Allan Hepburn, English
"Thomas Ogle and the Photographic Illustration of Romantic Writing"
Emily Halpert-Cole, English
Prof. Tom Mole, English
History
"Public Opinion and Andrew Jackson’s Invasion of Florida"
Jonathon Booth, History and Economics
Prof. Jason Opal, History
"Tracing Montreal's Migrants to Santos, Brazil in 1896: Towards a Database Construction and Interpretation"
Benjamin Gordon, History
Prof. John Zucchi, History
Institute for Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies (IGSF)
"Framing Citizenship: Minority Women and the Regulation of Identity"
Amar Nijhawan, Political Science and International Development Studies
Prof. Vrinda Narain, Institute for Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies
Institute of Islamic Studies
"Scientific Traditions in Islamic Societies"
Wendy Belisle, Middle Eastern Studies and Anthropology
Prof. F. Jamil Ragep, Institute for Islamic Studies
Jewish Studies
"The Bio-Critical Introduction to Rachel Korn"
Elay Kornecki, English
Prof. Esther Frank, Jewish Studies
Languages, Literatures and Cultures
"The Werther Effect: Topologies of Eighteenth-Century German Literature"
Carol Fraser, German Studies and East Asian Studies
Prof. Andrew Piper, Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Langue et littérature françaises
"Médias 19: pratiques et poétiques journalistiques au 19e siècle"
Félix-Antoine Marcoux, Langue et littérature françaises
Prof. Pascal Brissette, Langue et littérature françaises
"Suzanne de Nervèze, libelliste sous Mazarin"
Elizabeth Plante, Langue et littérature françaises
Prof. Diane Desrosiers, Langue et littérature françaises
Linguistics
"The Acquisition of Spanish Plural by Native Speakers of English: Extending the Prosodic Transfer Hypothesis"
Madeleine Revill, Linguistics
Prof. Heather Goad, Linguistics
"Investigation of Negation and Quantifiers in Korean"
Erica Jiye Yoon, Cognitive Science
Prof. Junko Shimoyama, Linguistics
"Acquisition and Processing of Degree Quantifiers in English"
Kalyna Franko, Linguistics and Psychology
Prof. Yosef Grodzinsky, Linguistics
Philosophy
"The Cognitive Science of Geometry"
Rachael Berta, Cognitive Science
Prof. Dirk Schlimm, Philosophy
"Cognitive Modeling of Arithmetic with Different Numeral Systems"
Samuel Stathakos, Cognitive Science
Prof. Dirk Schlimm, Philosophy
Political Science
"Aboriginal Politics and the Charlottetown Accord: Diversity and Consensus"
Remy Ventura, Political Science
Prof. Christa Scholtz, Political Science
"Civic Engagement, Participation and Social Capital in Comparative Perspective"
Michael Robichaud, History and Political Science
Prof. Dietlind Stolle, Political Science
"Marx's Transformation of Socialist Principles"
Jake Z. Bleiberg, Political Science
Prof. William Clare Roberts, Political Science
"Oxford History of Eighteenth-Century Political Thought"
Elisa Muyl, Political Science and International Development
Prof. Jacob T. Levy, Political Science
Institute for the Study of International Development (ISID)
"Toward New Public-Private Partnerships for Sustainable Development in Resource Extraction Industries"
Emma Feldman, History
Prof. Philip Oxhorn, Political Science and the Institute for the Study of International Development
Social Work
"Disclosure Processes of Childhood Sexual Abuse Experiences among Adult Survivors"
Andrea Palmer, Social Work
Prof. Delphine Collin-Vézina, Social Work
Sociology
"Interpersonal Relations and Group Cohesion in the Military"
Radu Andrei Parvulescu, Sociology
Prof. Eran Shor, Sociology
"Police Killings in Canada, 1990-2010"
Anne-Sophie Ponsot, Sociology
Prof. Jason Carmichael, Sociology
