2010 - Nathan Bennett for his Masters of Environmental studies thesis (Nature Based Recreation and Tourism, Lakehead University) “Conservation, Community Benefit, Capacity Building and the Social Economy: A Case Study of Lutsel K’e and the Proposed National Park.”
2009 - Claude Peloquin, University of Manitoba.
For his thesis: "Variability, change and continuity in social-ecological systems: insights from James Bay Cree cultural ecology".
2008 Suzanne Mills - Queen's University
Gita Laidler -University of Toronto
2007 - Gita Laidler, for a Ph.D. thesis titled "Ice, Through Inuit Eyes: Characterizing the importance of sea ice processes, use, and change around three Nunavut communities" . The supervisors were Dr. Vincent Robinson, Dept. of Geography, University of Toronto at Mississauga and Dr. Deborah McGregor, Dept. of Geography and Aboriginal Studies Program, University of Toronto.
2006 - 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.
2005 - Ryan Walker for his thesis was “Urban Citizenship and Aboriginal Self-Determination in the Winnipeg Low-Cost Housing Sector".
2004 - Bettina Koschade for her thesis "The Tay River watershed is our responsibility": The Ardoch Algonquins and the 2000-2002 Environmental Review Tribunal Hearings. The thesis examined Ardoch Algonquin First Nation and Allies' (AAFNA) interventions in juridical and legislative settings at the Tay River Ontario Environmental Review Tribunal. AAFNA attempted to introduce their knowledge of the environmental deterioration caused by a Permit To Take Water issued to a multinational corporation by the Ontario Ministry of Environment. The case study explored concepts of Algonquin knowledge, jurisdiction, and responsibility and it examined the strategies AAFNA used to integrate their perspective into legal proceedings constructed by the Canadian government. This case study revealed the way some Algonquin people conceived of space and responsibility in deeply ecological, rather than narrowly juridical, terms. It established that these broad concepts of knowledge, land, and jurisdiction were incompatible with existing Euro-Canadian divisions of legal responsibility and ecological knowledge, but at the same time they served as a means to challenge the current structure of Aboriginal and Canadian relations.
2003 - Yael Levitte from the Department of Geography, University of Toronto, was the 2003 winner. The title of Yael’s thesis was “Social Capital and Aboriginal Economic Development: Opportunities and Challenges.” Her thesis supervisors were Professor Meric Gertler and Professor Amrita Daniere. Yael’s thesis explored the history and future of economic development in three Northern Ontario Aboriginal communities. The thesis critically examines the usefulness of a social capital framework for understanding Aboriginal economic development, and it offers some insights into the major determinants of present-day social and economic hardships in Aboriginal communities. By way of conclusion, the thesis suggests ways in which lessons learned in the Aboriginal framework may be transposed elsewhere.
2002 to Dr. Kathleen Wilson for her Ph.D. dissertation entitled "The Role of Mother Earth in Shaping the Health of Anishinabek: A Geographical Exploration of Culture, Health and Place."
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