{"id":2037,"date":"2015-12-31T14:25:44","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T19:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/robarts.info.yorku.ca\/?page_id=2037"},"modified":"2026-03-25T14:36:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T18:36:48","slug":"odessa-prize","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/research\/robarts\/odessa-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Undergraduate Essay Prize (retired)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Odessa Prize for the 快播视频 of Canada (Retired)<\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The $1000.00 Odessa Prize was awarded for the best essay written in English or French in an undergraduate, fourth-year course on a topic relevant to the study of Canada from 2010 to 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The Odessa Prize is made possible by the generous donation of York alumnus Irvin Studin (BBA Schulich, PhD Osgoode Hall Law School), past Rhodes Scholar and Governor General\u2019s Gold Medal winner, captain and two-time soccer All-Canadian with the 快播视频 men\u2019s varsity soccer team. The Odessa Prize is dedicated to Studin\u2019s parents, Yuri and Sima, both of whom hail from the famous port city of Odessa. The award was originally founded through the combined contributions of the many writers in Studin\u2019s 2006 book,\u00a0<em>What is a Canadian?\u00a0<\/em>(McClelland &amp; Stewart).<\/p>\n<h3>Odessa Prize Winners<\/h3>\n<p>2022-23: Christine Cooling (Communication and Media Studies), \"Reimagining Broadcasting Policy in a Networked Canada: Debating Digital\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Sovereignty and Democratic Reform\"<\/p>\n<p>2021-22: Brenda Martinez Castro (English, Glendon), \u201cAnd food was the dead giveaway\u201d: The Metaphor of Food in <em>What We All Long For<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>2020-21: Emily Belmonte (History), \"Understanding Treaty One: Subsistence and Survival 1871 - 1888\"<\/p>\n<p>2019-20: Natalia Santilli (English, Glendon), \"The Abject Horror of the Spanish Influenza in Canadian Theatre\"<\/p>\n<p>2018-19: Evania Pietrangelo-Porco (History), \"Sex and the City Streets: Intersections of Politics, Morality, Race and Community in Vancouver, 1983-1989\"<\/p>\n<p>2014-15: Jesse Thistle (History), \"We are children of the river\u2019: Toronto\u2019s Lost M\u00e9tis History.\"<\/p>\n<p>2013-14: Catherine Timms (History), \"Frederick G. Gardiner: An Exploration of High Modernism and the Metropolitan Toronto Council, 1953-1961<\/p>\n<p>2012-13: Lindsay Moore (Anthropology and Communication and Culture), \"Touring Toronto: Experiential Narratives of History, Culture and Identity\"<\/p>\n<p>2010-11: Lotoya Jackson (English), \"Compromises of Success: Politics of Representation and Paratext in Lawrence Hill's The Book of Negroes<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Odessa Prize for the 快播视频 of Canada (Retired) The $1000.00 Odessa Prize was awarded for the best essay written in English or French in an undergraduate, fourth-year course on a topic relevant to the study of Canada from 2010 to 2023. 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