Winners of the thesis prize between 1994 and 2003 were judged by the selection committee (Chair, Association for Manitoba Archives, Head, University of Manitoba Department of Archives and Special Collections, and the Archivist of Manitoba) to have written the best thesis completed in the Archival Studies program in a given calendar year. Those who have won the prize after 2003 have done so on receiving the designation "pass with distinction" from their thesis examination committee.
Past winners are:
2020 | Samantha Booth | "The Role of Archives in Indigenous Language Maintenance and Resurgence" |
2020 | 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" |
2020 | Christopher Calesso | "At the Intersection of Archives, Human Rights and Museums: The Canadian Museum for Human Rights and Its Archives" |
2020 | Christopher Kshyk | "Transparency and Access to Records at Intergovernmental Organizations: IAEA and NATO" |
2017 | Sarah Story | "Offering our Gifts, Partnering for Change: Decolonizing Experimentation in Winnipeg-based Settler Archives" |
2017 | Jesse Boiteau | "The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation and the Pursuit of Archival Decolonization" |
2017 | Mary Horodyski | "'Society Seems Like it Doesn’t Even Know…': Archival Records Regarding People Labelled with Intellectual Disability Who Have Been Institutionalized in Manitoba" |
2016 | Amanda Linden | “The Advocate’s Archive: Walter Rudnicki and the Fight for Indigenous Rights in Canada, 1955-2010” |
2016 | 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" |
2012 | 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" |
2010 | Not Awarded | |
2009 | Alicia Rekrut | "Reconnecting Mind and Matter: Materiality in Archival Theory and Practice" |
2008 | Not Awarded | |
2007 | Heather Beattie | " 'The Texture of the Everyday': Appraising the Values of Women's Diaries and Weblogs" |
2007 | 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” |
2006 | Charlotte Woodley |
"Nature’s Memory: Building an Appraisal Strategy for Ontario Provinicial 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" |
1996 | Not Awarded | |
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" |