Undergraduate
Prizes, Awards, and Scholarships
Each year the Department of History gives out a number of awards. There are six essay prizes given for outstanding undergraduate essays. Ordinarily, instructors nominate essays for submission, but students may submit superior essays directly. Essay submission guidelines are here.
For all other Departmental awards, the Faculty of Arts and Science selects the eligible students. The Associate Chair then chooses recipients from these ‘nominees’. For further information consult the Undergraduate Administrator at hisugadm@utoronto.ca.
UNDERGRADUATE TRAVEL AWARDS
Travel Grant Guidelines (word document)
- Barbara Frum Travel Scholarship
Requirements: To be awarded to undergraduate and/or graduate student(s) in the Department of History to undertake research and access archives, libraries and collections throughout the world. - Jerome Samuel Rotenberg 7TO Memorial Travel Award in History
Requirements: To be awarded to undergraduate and/or graduate student(s) in the first instance to student(s) whose focus is on 18th and/or 19th century British history; if no suitable candidate is found, the travel award will be awarded to student(s) whose focus is on British history; finally if no suitable candidate is found, the travel award will be awarded to student(s) who are in the Department of History.
ESSAY AWARDS/SCHOLARSHIPS
Essay Prize Guidelines (pdf document)
All Souls Historical Essay Scholarship
Requirements: Student submitting the best essay on a subject in the pre-modern and/or the modern period of history, with special consideration given to essays on medieval or modern Europe. Essays may have been written for a course, or written solely for the competition. If written for a course, they must receive the best grade in a course numbered 300 or above in History. Either the instructor or the student may take the initiative to submit the essay.
Year: Any
Professor R. Birla/History Book Prize
Requirements: To be awarded to the student writing the top essay in either HIS470H1 – History, Rights and Difference in South Asia, or HIS480H1 – Modernity and its Others: History and Postcolonial Critique.
Year: III/IV
The Michael Bliss Essay Prize in Canadian Political History
Established by the friends, students & colleagues of Professor Michael Bliss.
Requirements: To be awarded to the best essay in Canadian political history written for a course given in the Department of History. Students must apply to the Department of History with a copy of their essay.
Year: Any
Canadian Labour Congress Book Prize
Requirements: Awarded to the student writing the best essay on Canadian labour in a Canadian history course.
Year: Any
Bertie Wilkinson Scholarship
Requirements: Awarded to the first or second year student, part-time or full-time, who “writes the best essay in the medieval period for one of his/her history courses.
Year: I/II
Ziedenberg Family Undergraduate Award
Requirements: Awarded annually to undergraduate student(s) as a prize for the best paper on the Holocaust determined by the professor or lecturer teaching HIS338H or HIS361H based on submissions to the course.
AWARDS, PRIZES AND SCHOLARSHIPS
- The Abella Prize in Canadian History
Created by friends and colleagues of Rosalie (B.A. 1966, LL.B. 1969, LL.D. 1990) and Irving (B.A. 1963, M.A. 1964, Ph.D. 1969) Abella in recognition of their distinguished contributions to Canada. Requirements: Student with the highest cumulative GPA in History courses who has taken three or more full course equivalents in Canadian History over the course of his/her academic career. Year: IV
- G.H. Armstrong Scholarship
Requirements: Student who has taken three or more full course equivalents in Canadian History over the course of his/her academic career.
Year: IV
- Sydney Frank Buckland Memorial Scholarship
Requirements: Awarded annually to an outstanding student whose program includes: for the first year award, at least one HIS course; for awards in other years, at least two HIS courses.
Year: I/II/III/IV
- Maurice Cody Memorial Prize
Requirements: Awarded annually to an outstanding student in the specialist program in modern History.
Year: IV
- John Fraser Gray Scholarship in Modern History
Requirements: Student whose program in third year includes a minimum of two full course equivalents in History.
Year: III
- Marsha Kideckel & Larry Robbins Scholarship in Jewish History
Requirements: To be awarded to an undergraduate student enrolled in a program in the Department of History who has taken a course in Jewish history.
Year: Any
- John King Scholarship
Requirements: Student in the Specialist program in History.
Year: III
- Edward Kylie Fellowship
Requirements: Student enrolled in a program offered by the Department of History who has been accepted for graduate study at the university in the United Kingdom. Application due in the History Department by May 31.
Year: III/IV
- Brian Mulroney Prize
Requirements: Awarded to a student who, among the eligible students has received the highest mark in ECO 230Y (International Economics Institutions and Policy), HIS 263Y (Introduction to Canadian History), or POL 214Y (Canadian Government and Politics).
- Albert E. Rabjohns Scholarship
Requirements: Student in the Major or Specialist program in History with the highest combined GPA in the courses taken in second and third year.
Year: III
- The Stacey Prizes in Canadian History
Established from the gifts of donors in the memory of Colonel C.P. Stacey, two are awarded annually to continuing undergraduate students having completed third year, specializing in History.
Requirements: 1) Student in the Major or Specialist program in History; 2) Student in the Major or Specialist program in History, who has take two or more full course equivalents in Canadian History over the course of his/her academic career.
Year: III
- John B. Tinker Scholarship in History
Requirements: To be awarded on the basis of academic merit and financial need, to an undergraduate student enrolled in the Department of History – in the first instance to a student whose focus is on early modern European history; if no suitable candidate is found, the scholarship will be awarded to a student whose focus is on European history; finally if no suitable candidate is found, the scholarship will be awarded to an outstanding student in the Department of History.
Year: II/III/IV
- The Women’s Canadian Historical Society of Toronto Scholarship
Established in 1995-96 to mark the Society’s centenary, to perpetuate its name, and to continue its contributions to maintaining Canadian heritage.
Requirements: Student in the Major or Specialist program in History who has taken at least three full course equivalents in Canadian History, two of which are at the 300/4// level, in the course of his/her academic career.
Year: III
- George M. Wrong Scholarship
Requirements: Student in the Major or Specialist program in History who has taken at least three full course equivalents in History in that year.
Year: II
[Updated 04/15]