AWARDED TO: Individual(s) in the University of Manitoba archival studies program who receives a “pass with distinction” designation on the completion of their thesis.
AWARD: Cash award
NOMINATED BY: Thesis examination committee
SELECTION: Thesis examination committee
DEADLINE: Determined by course instructors.
AWARDED: Spring OR Once an academic year
ADMINISTERED BY: Management Committee in conjunction with the University of Manitoba.
History of the Award: This award was established by the AMA in conjunction with the University of Manitoba and members may contribute to the award on an ongoing basis. Recipients of the award between 1994 and 2003 were determined by a selection committee comprised of the AMA Chair of the Board, the Head of the University of Manitoba Department of Archives and Special Collections and the Archivist of Manitoba. The award was given to the student judged to have written the best thesis completed in the Archival Studies program in a given calendar year. Since 2003, the award has been given to students receiving the designation "pass with distinction" from their thesis examination committee.
Past Recipients
2021
Krystal Payne, Archival Harm Reduction: Utilizing Public Health Harm Reduction Concepts for Reconciliatory Power Shifts in Archives
2020Samantha Booth, The Role of Archives in Indigenous Language Maintenance and Resurgence
Christopher Calesso, At the Intersection of Archives, Human Rights and Museums: The Canadian Museum for Human Rights and Its Archives
Jason Carrie, Archives of the North, by the North, for the North: The Meaning, Value, and Challenges of Creating, Keeping and Running Archives in the Canadian Territories
Melissa Castron, Towards Transdisciplinary Archival Strategies: Canadian Cartographic Materials in a Digital Context
Christopher Kshyk, Transparency and Access to Records at Intergovernmental Organizations: IAEA and NATO
2017
Jesse Boiteau, The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation and the Pursuit of Archival Decolonization
Mary Horodyski, "Society Seems like it Doesn't Even Know...": Archival Records Regarding People Labelled with Intellectual Disability Who Have Been Institutionalized in Manitoba
Sarah Story, Offering our Gifts, Partnering for Change: Decolonizing Experimentation in Winnipeg-based Settler Archives
2016
Amanda Linden, The Advocate's Archives: Walter Rudnicki and the Fight for Indigenous Rights in Canada, 1955-2010
Sarah Ramsden, Defining "Community" in Models of Community Archives: Navigating the Politics of Representation as Archival Professionals
2015
Natalie Vielfaure, Medical Records Redefined: The Value of the Archival Record in Medical Research
2014
Jordan Bass, Getting Personal: Confronting the Challenges of Archiving Personal Records in the Digital Age
2013
Daniel Elves, Advocating Electronic Records: Archival and Records Management Promotion of New Approaches to Long-term Digital Preservation
2012
Konrad Krahn, Looking Under the Hood: Unraveling the Content, Structure, and Context of Functional Requirements for Electronic Recordkeeping Systems
Madeleine McLuhan-Myers, The Archival Web: Contextual Authority Files and the Representation of Institutional Textual Documents in Online Description
2011
M. Anne Lindsay, Archives, Willard Ireland, Regina v. White and Bob, and Calder v. the Attorney General of British Columbia, 1963-1973, and the Expansion of Aboriginal Rights in Canada.
2009
Alicia Rekrut, Reconnecting Mind and Matter: Materiality in Archival Theory and Practice
2007
Heather Beattie, "The Texture of the Everyday": Appraising the Values of Women's Diaries and Weblogs"
Katherine Timms, Arbitrary Borders? New Partnerships for Cultural Heritage Siblings – Libraries, Archives and Museums: Creating Integrated Descriptive Systems
2006
Diane Boyd, Franco-Manitoban Memory Online: "Au pays de Riel" as a Case Study in Archival Public Programming
Charlotte Woodley, Nature's Memory: Building an Appraisal Strategy for Ontario Provincial Parks, Algonquin Provincial Park as a Case Study
2003
Bronwen Quarry, Photo-graph/Writing with Light: the Challenge to Archivists of Reading Photographs
2002
Karyn Taylor, From Paper to Cyberspace: Changing Communication Technologies and the Implications for Personal Records Archivists
2001
Kara Quann, Remapping Archives: Cartographic Archives in Theory and Practice at the Provincial Archives of Manitoba
2000
Martha McLeod, Redrawing the Boundaries of Societal Memory: Introducing a Modified Macro-Appraisal Approach at the Great-West Life Assurance and the London Life Insurance Companies
1999
Kathleen Epp, Telling Stories Around the "Electronic Campfire": The Use of Archives in Television Productions
1998
David Horky, Archival Perspectives on the Evolution and Organizational Impact of E-Mail System Technologies
1997
Mark Vajcner, Maintaining our Documentary Heritage: The Challenge of Electronic Records Archives at the University of Manitoba
1995
Brian Masschaele, Memos and Minutes: Arnold Heeney, the Cabinet War Committee and the Establishment of the Canadian Cabinet Secretariat During the Second World War
1994
Deidre Simmons, Custodians of a Great Inheritance: An Account of the Making of the Hudson's Bay Company Archives, 1920-1974