Graduate Student Essay Prize

Thank you to all those graduate students from across the university who submitted work for consideration for the 2024 McGill Refugee Research Group Graduate Student Essay Prize. It’s wonderful to see such diverse and compelling research on refugee issues being undertaken here at McGill. 

Congratulations to Rabia Salihi, recipient of the 2024 MRRG Graduate Essay Prize for her paper, “(in)Visible Borders: An autoethnographic analysis of identity and displacement after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.”

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Winners from 2023

1st prize: “‘Those Troublesome Third Genders’: Hijra politics of refusal, refugeehood, and the sex worker movement of 1970-1990 in Kolkata, India”, by Sarah Nandi (PhD candidate, Department of Political Science)

2nd prize: “Chronicles of Disappearance: Palestinian Encampment in the Bekaa Valley”, by Cynthia Kraichati (PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology)

And

“Against the Charge of Charity: Revisiting the Colonial Underpinnings of Humanitarianism”, by Merve Erdilmen (PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science)

3rd prize: “Drawing Back: Narrative Resistance to Anti-Refugee Rhetoric in Kate Evans’s Threads: From the Refugee Crisis”, by Martin Breul (PhD Candidate, Department of English)