STUDENT PRESENTATION AWARDS
Graduate Podium Awards
Samira Torabi (PhD Student)
Recipient of the Ember Archaeology
Conference Travel Award for Top Graduate Podium Presentation
Paper: "What Gives Us Away? Reconfiguring What Constitutes Native Anthropology"
Viktoriya Popovych (MA Student)
Recipient of the Ember Archaeology Conference Travel Award for Runner-Up Graduate Podium Presentation
Paper: "There Is No Ukraine Without Salo"
Undergraduate Podium Awards
Anika Lukie (Undergraduate Student)
Recipient of the Western Heritage Conference Travel Award for Top Undergraduate Podium Presentation
Paper: “The Rise of the Grocery Store Perogy: Shifting Responsibilities of Traditional Food Knowledge In the Ukrainian Canadian Community”
Prithvi Kahlon (Undergraduate Student)
Recipient of the Western Heritage Conference Travel Award for Runner-Up Undergraduate Podium Presentation
Paper: "Stone Tools & Our Primate Relatives"
Isabella Sheptak (Undergraduate Student)
Recipient of the Western Heritage Conference Travel Award for Runner-Up Undergraduate Podium Presentation
Paper: “Baba's Holubtsi: A Comparison of Ukrainian and Ukrainian-Canadian Culinary Traditions”
Poster Awards
Megan Bieraugle (PhD Student)
Recipient of the Western Heritage Conference Travel Award
for Top Poster
Poster: “Relationships between Indigenous People and Dogs on the Canadian Plains”
Brianne Bertram (MA Student)
Recipient of the Ember Archaeology Conference Travel Award for Runner-Up Poster
Poster: "Black Bone Disease in Forensics"
Rebecca Nikota (Undergraduate Student)
Recipient of the Ember Archaeology Conference Travel Award for Runner-Up Poster
Poster: “How sick were children during the Industrial Revolution in England?: An analysis of linear enamel hypoplasia in British dental collections”
Panel Excellence Awards
Hajar Ghorbani, Hande Gür, Nazia Mahmud, and Samira Torabi: "Into the Field: Self-Reflection of the Researcher in the Study of Muslim Worlds" Panel Session
Anika Lukie, Viktoriya Popovych, and Isabella Sheptak: "Ukrainian Foods in Canada" Panel Session