Open Scholarship Awards

Sponsored by the Canadian Social Knowledge Institute and its partners.

Open scholarship incorporates open access, open data, open education, and other related movements that have the potential to make scholarly work more efficient, more accessible, and more usable by those within and beyond the academy. By engaging with open practices for academic work, open scholarship shares that work more broadly and more publicly.

Nature of the Awards

Award recipients demonstrate exemplary open scholarship via research, projects, or initiatives. These awards are intended to acknowledge and celebrate exemplary open scholarship, nominated via an open process. In addition to the recognition of accomplishment that comes with such acknowledgement, the Canadian Social Knowledge Institute will also offer one tuition scholarship for each recipient to the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI; dhsi.org).

2024 Open Scholarship Awards

For 2024, we are pleased to be able to award 2 Open Scholarship Awards and 2 Emerging Open Scholarship Awards, as well as a number of honourable mentions in each category.

Open Scholarship Awards (2024), for open scholarship carried out by scholars, librarians, citizen scholars, research professionals, and administrators.

Awards:

  • David Nelson (American Philosophical Society), contribution to Visualizing Women in Science
  • Clare Daniel (Tulane U), Jacquelyne Thoni Howard (Tulane U), Liv Newman (Tulane U), Niya Bond (StraighterLine), Enilda Romero Hall (U Tennessee Knoxville), Feminist Pedagogy for Teaching Online

Honourable Mentions:

  • Courtney Rivard (U North Carolina), Lauren Tilton (U Richmond), Taylor Arnold (U Richmond). Layered Lives: Rhetoric and Representation in the Southern Life History Project
  • Hannah MacGregor (Simon Fraser U), Amplify Podcast Network
  • Erin Fields (U British Columbia), #HonouringIndigenousWriters Edit-athon

Emerging Open Scholarship Awards (2024), for open scholarship carried out by undergraduate students, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and early stage professionals.

Awards:

  • Silvia Rivera Alfaro & Natalia Villarroel Torres (Indisciplinadxs: Feminist Linguistics), Repository of Feminist Linguistics
  • Sara Mohr (Hamilton C), Where is the Cuneiform?

Honourable Mentions:

  • Darren Reid (U C London), Ab Uno Sanguine: Letters to the Aborigines’ Protection Society
  • Mia Borgia (Larson Texts), Blues Analysis Project
  • Alexandra E. LaGrand (Texas A&M U), Points Like A Man: The Shakespearean Breeches Performance Catalogue 1660-1900

 

2023 Open Scholarship Awards

For 2023, we are pleased to be able to award 2 Open Scholarship Awards and 2 Emerging Open Scholarship Awards, as well as a number of honourable mentions in each category.  

Open Scholarship Awards (2023), for open scholarship carried out by scholars, librarians, citizen scholars, research professionals, and administrators.

  • Awards:
    • Suzanne W. Churchill (Davidson C), Linda Kinnahan (Duquesne University), and Susan Rosenbaum (University of Georgia, Athens), Mina Loy: Navigating the Avant-Garde
    • Andrea Korda (U Alberta), Mary Elizabeth Leighton (U Victoria), and Vanessa Warne (U Manitoba), Crafting Communities
  • Honourable Mentions:
    • Avan Fata (London School of Economics and Political Science), Daniel Howlett (George Mason University), Fraser Raeburn (University of Sheffield), James Currie (Royal Holloway, University of London), Jennifer Borgioli Binis (Schoolmarm Advisors), Jeremy Salkeld (University of Oxford), Lisa Baer-Tsarfati (University of Guelph), P.H. Jones (Independent), Roel Konijnendijk (University of Oxford / University of Edinburgh), Ruairi McGowan-Smith (Independent), Ryan Abt (Houston Community College), Sarah Gilbert (Cornell University), Simon Lam (University of Oxford), Stephanie Carlson (University of St Andrews), Thomas Lobitz (Independent), Travis Warlow (Independent), Viktoria Porter (Independent), Ask Historians
    • Xóchitl Flores-Marcial (California State U, Northridge), Moisés García Guzmán (Pueblo of San Jerónimo Tlacochahuaya, Oaxaca), Felipe H. Lopez (Seton Hall U), George Aaron Broadwell (U Florida), Alejandra Dubcovsky (U California Riverside), May Helena Plumb (U Texas-Austin), Mike Zarafonetis (Haverford C), and Brook Danielle Lillehaugen (Haverford C), Caseidyneën Saën
    • Kelly McCormick (U British Columbia), Behind the Camera: Gender, Power, and Politics in the History of Japanese Photography

Emerging Open Scholarship Awards (2023), for open scholarship carried out by undergraduate students, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and early stage professionals.

  • Awards:
    • Émilie Pagé-Perron (Wolfson C – U Oxford), contribution to Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative
    • Frédérick Madore (Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient), Islam Burkina Faso Collection
  • Honourable Mentions:
    • Elena Foulis (Texas A&M U – San Antonio) and Stacey Alex (Morningside C), Idioma Comunidad
    • Doris Wesley and Manushri Pandya (North Caroline State U), Existing & Evolving Aspects of Mobility in the Global South
    • Josefine Ziebell (City U New York), Queer and Trans Prison Voices: A Podcast Archive on Prison Abolition
2022 Open Scholarship Awards

Open Scholarship Awards (2022), for open scholarship carried out by scholars, librarians, citizen scholars, research professionals, and administrators.

  • Awards:
    • Electronic Literature Lab (ELL) Team (Washington State U), The NEXT
    • Martin Paul Eve (Birkbeck, U London), Open Library of Humanities
  • Honourable Mentions:
    • Rebecca Frost Davis (St. Edwards U), Matthew K. Gold (CUNY), and Katherine D. Harris (San Jose State U), Curating Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities
    • Sridhar Gutam (ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research), Open Access India
    • Mary Chapman, Jean Lee Cole, Joey Takeda, and Sydney Lines (U British Columbia), The Winnifred Eaton Archive

Emerging Open Scholarship Awards (2022), for open scholarship carried out by undergraduate students, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and early stage professionals.

  • Awards:
    • Davis McKenzie (Toxw oxw [Becoming Clear] Communications), contribution to As I Remember It: Teachings (Ɂəms tɑɁɑw) from the Life of a Sliammon Elder
    • Ananya Pujary, Khushi Gupta, and Muskaan Pal (FLAME U), The Indian Community Cookbook Project
  • Honourable Mentions:
    • Yohanna Joseph Waliya (U Calabar) and Alexander Boyd (U Central Florida), Multilingual African Electronic Literature Database & African Diasporic Electronic Literature Database
    • Ceyda Elgul, Fatih Asan, Eyup Tugay Bahar, Belemir Topcuoglu, Aynur Erzenoglu (Boğaziçi U), Lives in Turkish
    • Sylvia Fernández-Quintanilla (U Kansas), Huellas Incómodas / Uncomfortable Footprints

For more details on each project, please see the 2022 Open Scholarship Awards announcement.

 

2021 Open Scholarship Awards

Open Scholarship Awards (2021), for open scholarship carried out by scholars, librarians, citizen scholars, research professionals, and administrators.

  • Awards:
    • Doran Larson (Hamilton C), American Prison Writing Archive
    • Gretchen Arnold (St. Louis U), Nuisance Laws and Battered Women
  • Honourable Mentions:
    • Kathryn Starkey (Stanford U), Mae Velloso-Lyons (Stanford U), Danny Smith (Stanford U), and Quinn Dombrowski (Stanford U), Global Medieval Sourcebook
    • Mark Turin (U British Columbia), Digital Himalaya Project
    • Visionary Futures Collective, COVID-19 Response Tracker
    • Sara Humphreys (U Victoria), contributions to Why Write? A Guide for Students in Canada

Emerging Open Scholarship Awards (2021), for open scholarship carried out by undergraduate students, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and early stage professionals.

  • Awards:
    • Eric Gonzaba (California State U, Fullerton) and Amanda Regan (Southern Methodist U), Mapping the Gay Guides
    • Alix Shield (Simon Fraser U), contribution to The People and the Text
  • Honourable Mentions:
    • Chelsea A. M. Gardner (Acadia U), Sabrina C. Higgins (Simon Fraser U), Melissa Funke (U Winnipeg), Megan J. Daniels (U British Columbia), Carolyn M. Laferrière (U Southern California), and Christine L. Johnston (Western Washington U), Peopling the Past
    • Jonathan Reeve (Columbia U), Open Editions
    • Sarah Zhang (Simon Fraser U Library) and Allan Cho (U British Columbia Library), Hacking the Historical Data: Register of Chinese Immigrants to Canada, 1886-1949

For more details on each project, please see the 2021 Open Scholarship Awards announcement.

2020 Open Scholarship Awards

Open Scholarship Award (2020), for open scholarship carried out by scholars, librarians, citizen scholars, research professionals, and administrators.

  • Award: William J. Turkel (Western U) and Adam Crymble (U Hertfordshire), working with the Programming Historian Editorial Board and Project Team, The Programming Historian
  • Honourable Mentions:
    • Eduardo Viana da Silva (U Washington), Bate-Papo: An Introduction to Portuguese
    • Kenton Rambsy (U Texas, Arlington), #TheJayZMixtape

Emerging Open Scholarship Award (2020), for open scholarship carried out by undergraduate students, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and early stage professionals.

  • Award: Nastasia Herold (U Leipzig), Wiki Club Wikipetcia Atikamekw Nehiromowin, and Wikimedia Canada, The Atikamekw Knowledge, Culture and Language in Wikimedia Project
  • Honourable Mentions:
    • Melanie Walsh (Cornell U), Tweets of a Native Son
    • Ela Przybylo (Illinois State U), Feral Feminisms, Intersectional Apocalypse, The Labor of Open
    • Darren Reid (U Victoria), Peter O’Reilly Mapping Project

For more details on each project, please see the 2020 Open Scholarship Awards announcement.

2019 Open Scholarship Awards

Open Scholarship Award (2019), for open scholarship carried out by scholars, librarians, citizen scholars, research professionals, and administrators.

  • Award: Catherine Ryu (Michigan State U), Tone Perfect
  • Honourable Mentions:
    • Dene Grigar (Washington State U, Vancouver), Rebooting Electronic Literature: Documenting Pre-Web Born Digital Media
    • Michael E. Sinatra (U Montréal) and Marcello Vitali-Rosati (U Montréal), Parcours numériques
    • John Barber (Washington State U, Vancouver), American Dust

Emerging Open Scholarship Award (2019), for open scholarship carried out by undergraduate students, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and early stage professionals.

  • Award: Stephan Risi (Stanford U), Tobacco Analytics
  • Honourable Mentions:
    • Ashley Cheyemi McNeil (Georgia State U), ATLMaps
    • Monica Granados (Environment and Climate Change Canada), PREreview
    • Jane Wong (Western Washington U), Poetics of Haunting

For more details on each project, please see the 2019 Open Scholarship Awards Announcement.

2018 Open Scholarship Awards

Open Scholarship Award (2018), for open scholarship carried out by scholars, librarians, citizen scholars, research professionals, and administrators.

Award: Juan Alperin (Simon Fraser U), Public Access to Scholarship and Research

Honorable Mentions:

  • Dene Grigar (Washington State U) and Stuart Moulthrop (U Wisconsin Milwaukee), Pathfinders: Documenting the Experience of Early Digital Literature
  • Gantulga Lkhagva (Mongolian Libraries Consortium), Leadership in National Open Access Initiatives
  • Ernesto Priego (City U London) and Peter Wilkins (Douglas C), The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship

Emerging Open Scholarship Award (2018), for open scholarship carried out by undergraduate students, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and early stage professionals.

Award: Erin Rose Glass (UC San Diego Library), #SocialDiss

Honorable Mentions:

  • Avery Dame-Griff (Winona State U), Transgender Usenet Archive (TUA)
  • Luis Meneses (U Victoria), Social Media Engine
  • Patrick Smyth (CUNY Graduate Center), The NEH Impact Index