Jill Vickers Prize
The Jill Vickers Prize has been established in honour of professor Jill Vickers, an activist and a leader in Canadian feminist scholarship, and the author of numerous books and articles in the fields of feminist political science, epistemology and interdisciplinary methodology, feminist theory and movements for change. The prize is awarded every year.
Rules 2025
- The prize will be awarded to the author of the best paper presented, in English or French, at the 2024 conference on the topic of gender and politics.
- The call for submissions will be addressed and circulated to all panels’ discussants and stipulate that papers from any section of the conference programme are eligible for the prize as long as they address the topic of gender and politics.
- The jury will consist of the Women, Gender and Politics section head for the conference in which the papers were presented and two other members appointed each fall by the Board.
- The deadline for submission of papers is June 23, 2024.
- The winner will be announced at the 2025 CPSA Conference.
- To be considered for the prize, the author or the panels’ discussants must email a digital version of the paper to each member of the Prize Jury (click on their names below to access their e-mail addresses) and to the CPSA Prize Team. Subject line: 2025 JILL VICKERS PRIZE PAPER – “Paper title”
2025 JURY MEMBERS:
Memorial
Manitoba/SFU
UNB – Saint John
2023 Jill Vickers Prize
Tracey Raney and R. Michael McGregor’s paper examines public attitudes toward men’s harassment of women in Can . . .
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2022 Jill Vickers Prize
Dans son article « Fixing the Upper House? A Gender and Race-based Analysis of the Canadian Senate’s Harassment . . .
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2020 Jill Vickers Prize
Labelle’s paper makes a compelling case for the importance of epistemology to intersectional research. Her discussion . . .
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2019 Jill Vickers Prize
This is an excellent example of scholarship in the field of gender and Canadian politics that provides original research …
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2018 Jill Vickers Prize
This paper offers a conceptually sophisticated analysis of patterns of feminist identification and critical action …
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2017 Jill Vickers Prize
This paper examines the political dimensions of the Zika virus in regard to maternal health. The virus itself is …
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2016 Jill Vickers Prize
Meticulously well-researched and argued, Wagner et al.’s research makes a novel contribution to the study . . .
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2015 Jill Vickers Prize
Karen Bird’s paper makes a rich and original contribution by bringing together two significant areas of . . .
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2014 Jill Vickers Prize
In this well-written and expertly presented research which offers fresh insights to the literature, the author’s . . .
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