2020

• Undergraduate Essay: Sarah Sturken (McGill University) “Honour and Glory to the Heroes: Cultural Memory, Politics, and the Controversial Legacy of Poland’s ‘Cursed soldiers.'”
• Graduate Essay: Benyamin Villani (McGill University) “The Refugees’ Revolution: Displaced Persons, the Eastern Bloc, and the United Nations.”

2019

• Undergraduate Essay: Yaroslav Gouzenko (McGill University) “Shaimiev and the Tatarstan Model: A Successful Highjack.”

2018:

• Undergraduate Essay: Flora Deverell (McGill University) “Rushing the Maidan: Understanding the Relationship between the 2004 Orange Revolution and the 2013-14 Revolution of Dignity in Ukraine,” and Hannah Rudderham (University of Alberta) “Who Wore the Uniform? The Question of Soldier Identity in Revolutionary Russia, February-October 1917.”
• Graduate Essay: Sean Patterson (University of Alberta) “Prefiguring Privilege: Mennonite Self-Defence as a Symptom of Imperial Decolonization.”

2017:

• Undergraduate Essay: Samuel Hull (McGill University) “Violence and Power: The Expulsion of the Sudeten Germans and the Fall of the Benes Regime.”
• Graduate Essay: Rachel Van Fraassen (McMaster University) “Black Ikons: Experiencing Racial Categorization in the Interwar Soviet Union.”

2016:

• Undergraduate Essay: Christopher Martin (McGill University) “Community and the Sacred: A Durkheimian Approach to Polish Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Russian Poland.”
• Graduate Essay: Violčne Dauvois (University of Ottawa) “AQUA VITAE, AQUA MORTIS: Le système atemporel de l’eau dans l’œuvre Watermark de Joseph Brodsky.”

2015:

• Graduate Essay: Stephanie Dreier, PhD Student (Germanic Studies, UBC) “The Problem of Literary History.”

2014:

• Undergraduate Essay: Nicolas Tetreault (McGill University) “Foreign Tourism’s Under-Assessed Challenge to the Polish United Workers’ Party, c. 1970-1980.”
• Graduate Essay: Meagan Fairholm (University of Alberta) “Motherly Compassion and Matriarchy” (a chapter from MA thesis “Mothers, Wives, Housekeepers and More?  Maria Feodorovna and Women’s Education in Russia, 1796-1828.”).

2013:

• Undergraduate Essay: Antony Kalashnikov (BA University of Alberta; currently enrolled in the graduate program on Russian and East European Studies at Oxford) “Party Ideology in the Late Soviet Period: an Althusserian Analysis.”
• Graduate Essay: Zsofia Surjan, PhD Student (Department of History, University of Victoria) “Fertility Treatment in Sixteenth-Century Hungary: The Correspondence of a Count, His Wife and a Physician.”

2012:

• Undergraduate Essay: Dennis Khaiter (University of Toronto) “Reflecting the Problems from One Epoch to Another: A Contrast of Pushkin and Tchaikovsky’s Versions of Yevgeni Onegin.”
• Graduate Essay: Francesca Silano, PhD Student (Department of History, University of Toronto) “‘A Link in the Chain of Art’: The Life of Maria Yudina.”

2011:

• Undergraduate Essay: Sara Miller (University of Ottawa) “From the Politics of Amnesia to the Politics of Remembrance: An Analysis of the Katyn Massacre’s Historical Narrative.”
• Graduate Essays: Will McFadden, PhD Candidate (Department of History, University of Toronto) “The Power and the Paradox: The Early Lives and Writing of John Dos Passos, John Scott, and Vasily Grossman”; and Ian Garner, PhD Candidate (MA Student at the time of submission, Department of History, University of Toronto). “Why the USSR Sent Troops into Kabul in December 1979.”

2010:

• Undergraduate Essays: Stephen Ejack (University of Alberta) “A Brief Critical Analysis of the War Industries Committees’ Political Activities: May – September 1915”; and Terrance David Reid (University of Waterloo) “Laying the Theoretical Groundwork of Biomechanical Technique: Understanding the origins and theories of ‘Biomechanics’.”

2009:

• Graduate Essay: Ben McVicker (University of Toronto) “The Creation and Transformation of a Cultural Icon: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in Post-Soviet Russia, 1994-2008.”

2008:

• Undergraduate Essay: Megan Butler (University of Lethbridge) “The Prayers of the Soviets.”
• Graduate Essay: Timothy Sayle (University of Toronto) “Andropov and the Hungarian Complex.”

2007:

• Undergraduate Essay: Alex Souchen (University of Ottawa) “The Czechoslovak Legion in Russia.”
• Graduate Essay: No prize awarded this year.

2006:

• Undergraduate Essay: Talia Zajac (University of Toronto) “Silk and Crosses: Contextualizing the Rus’ Conversion of 988 in Byzantine and Rus’ Sources.”
• Graduate Essay: Auri Berg (University of Toronto) “From Town to City: Urbanization and Social Integration in late 19th Century Nizhnii Novgorod.”

2005:

• Undergraduate Essay: Paul Ferguson (Carleton University), “The Failed Middle Path: Russian Liberalism, 1900-1914.”
• Graduate Essay: Olga Kesarchuk (University of Toronto), “Loving Investment, Hating Investors? The Case of Ukraine.”

2003:

• Undergraduate Essay: Emily Anglin (   ), “‘A Disastrous and Dangerous Illness’: Division and Danger in A Double Life.”
• Graduate Essay: Max Bergholz  (University of Toronto), “Who was the Soviet Professional?”

2000:

• Graduate Essay: Denis Kozlov (University of Toronto): “The Leningrad Martyrology: A Note on the Statistics of 1937 Executions in Leningrad City and Region.”

1998-99:

• Graduate Essay: Peter Waisberg (Carleton University), “A Citizenship Law for Tatarstan.”

1997-98:

• Graduate Essays: Heather DeHaan (U of Toronto), ” Russia’s rebirth: The Spiritual Aspect of Enlightenment”; and Tawnia Sanford (Carleton U), “The Creation of Criminal Russia.” Articles based on both of these submissions were published in CSP,Volume 43, Nos. 3-4 (Sept.-Dec. 1999).