2006 Winner of the Robins Armstrong Memorial Prize for Excellence in Native Studies

Piotr Wilk

The Robin Armstrong Memorial Prize winner for this year is Piotr Wilk, for a Ph.D. thesis titled "Self-Employment on Indian Reserves". The supervisors were Dr. Paul Maxim and Dr. Jerry White, Department of Sociology, University of Western Ontario. This study relied on methods of multi-level modeling to examine how individual and community level characteristics interact and influence entrepreneurship among Canada's First Nations.