2017-2018
First Place Prize
Not awarded this year.

2016-2017 
First-Place Prize
Evan Vipond (York University), “Becoming Culturally (Un)Intelligible: Exploring the Terrain of Trans Life Writing.”
 
Second-Place Prize
Sadaf Ahmed (McMaster University), “Decolonizing through De-Secularization: Carving Out Epistemic Spaces for Divinely Inclined Feminisms in WGS.”
 

2015-2016:
First-Place Prize:
Jessica Fontaine (University of Winnipeg), “‘Second Skins,’  Absences, and a Sealskin of Sounds: The Embodiment and Envelopment of MMIWGT2S in Tanya Tagaq’s Polaris Prize Performance.”
 
Second-Place Prize:
Cornel Grey (University of Toronto), “’Ship’s Log,’ After Claudia Jones: For mintah, Mary Prince, Marie-Joseph Angelique, Viola Desmond, Mattie, Delicia Peterson, CeCe McDonald, Beryl Gilroy and All Her Other Sisters.”

2014-2015: University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON
 
First Place Essay Prize
 
Not awarded this year.
 
2013-2014: Brock University, St Catharines, ON

First Place Essay Prize
Karen Lawford (University of Ottawa), “Locating Invisible Policies: Health Canada’s Evacuation Policy as a Case Study.”
 
Second Place Essay Prize
Zaren Healy White (Memorial University), “Femaleness, Fakeness, Freakery: Nina Arsenault’s Male to Female Transformation.”
 
2012- 2013: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC
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First Place Essay Prize
Nicole Charles (Western University), “Mobilizing the self-governance of pre-damaged bodies: Neoliberal biological citizenship and HPV vaccination promotion in Canada.”
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2011-12: Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON

First Place Essay Prize
Not awarded this year. 

2010-11: University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB

First Place Essay Prize
Alex Rowlson, “’Negotiated Nuptials’: A Transnational Analysis of the International Marriage Broker Industry and the Russian ‘Mail-Order Bride’” (Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Toronto).

2009-10: Concordia University, Montreal, QC

First Place Essay Prize
Katherine Mazurok, “The Metaphoric Middle (Im)Passage: Beauty and National L/Anguish” (Queen's University)

2008-09: Carleton University, Ottawa, ON

First Place Essay Prize
Not awarded this year.

2007-08: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC

First Place Essay Prize
Sonja Boon, "Last Rites, Last Rights: Corporeal Abjection as Autobiographical Performance in Suzanne Curchod Necker's Des inhumations précipitées (1790)" (Simon Fraser University; now at Memorial University)

2006-07: University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK

First Place Essay Prize
Not awarded this year.

2005-06: York University

First Place Essay Prize
Tina Virmani, "Gender, Nationalism, and the Regulation of Globalization in India" (York University)

2004-5: University of Western Ontario, London, ON

First Place Essay Prize
Katie Larsen, "Emancipatory Strategies: Using Postmodernism and Standpoint Theory to Redefine Feminist Methodology" (University of Toronto)