Financial awards
There are several forms of funding available to students who are accepted into one of our graduate programs. No form of funding can be guaranteed to applicants before acceptance to a graduate program. Once a September applicant is accepted to the program, their application enters into a competition for several financial awards. A January admission does not offer entrance awards. While it is typical that accepted applicants are offered some form of funding, we cannot guarantee that all accepted applicants will receive funding. Applicants are strongly encouraged to apply for external grants and scholarships such as those awarded through SSHRC and FQRSC.
Internal Awards
Entrance Awards; Open Competition Awards; Other Concordia Awards ; Cary Boucock Award
Entrance and Open Competition Awards
Successful applicants are automatically considered for Entrance Awards and Open Competition Awards. Top-ranking applicants may be offered one or more of several awards:
Doctoral Fellow in Critical Policy Studies / Social Network Analysis
Two positions will be offered for September 2019 to August 2020. View ad for details
Department-wide competition
- Faculty of Arts and Science PhD Fellowship ($12,000* annually for 3 years)
- Concordia University PhD Fellowship ($10,000* annually for 3 years)
- Concordia International Full Tuition Award (international students only)
- Concordia International Tuition Fee Remission Award (international students only)
*These values accurate as of 2017-18. They may change in subsequent years.
University-wide competition
- Concordia Merit Scholarship
- Frederick Lowy Scholars Fellowship
- Helene Linder Doctoral Fellowship
- J.W. McConnell Graduate Fellowship (Canadian citizens/permanent residents only)
- Bourse d’études Hydro-Québec de l’Université Concordia (Canadian citizens/permanent residents – Quebec residents only)
- Concordia University Special Entrance Award (students who enter their graduate program with SSHRC funding activated)
For more information, see the School of Graduate Studies’ complete list of Entrance Awards and Open Competition Awards. For more information on the values of these awards see the School of Graduate Studies "Graduate Awards at a Glance flyer".
Department-wide competition
- Faculty of Arts and Science MA fellowship ($7000* for one year)
- Concordia University Partial Tuition Scholarship (international students only)
*These values accurate as of 2012-13. They may change in subsequent years.
University-wide competition
- Elgart/Bacher Graduate Fellowship
- Concordia University Graduate Fellowship
- Concordia Merit Scholarship
- J.W. McConnell Graduate Fellowship (Canadian citizens/permanent residents only)
- Bourse d’études Hydro-Québec de l’Université Concordia (Canadian citizens/permanent residents – Quebec residents only)
- Concordia University Special Entrance Award (students who enter their graduate program with SSHRC funding activated)
For more information, see the School of Graduate Studies’ complete list of Entrance Awards and Open Competition Awards. For more information on the values of these awards see the School of Graduate Studies "Graduate Awards at a Glance flyer".
Program students have the opportunity to apply for other financial awards offered by Concordia University annually. For most of these awards, MA students must apply within the first two years of their program, and PhD students, within the first five years of their program. Detailed information about specific application criteria is provided on the application forms for each competition.
- Graduation Bonus
- Conference and Exposition Award
- Ryan F. Cianflone Memorial Award 2012-2013
- Brian T. Counihan Scholarship for Outstanding Contribution to Student Life
Some financial awards competitions take place only in a given year. When such awards become available, the competition is announced to all program students who are then free to make an application should they meet the conditions for the award.
Each year, two awards are given to graduate or undergraduate students from the Department of Sociology and Anthropology to support conference travel.
Cary Boucock Memorial Awards
The Cary Boucock Memorial Award was established in 2000 as a tribute to the life and work of Cary Boucock, one of our young faculty members.
It was originally funded with a donation from the Société du Congrès Mondial de Sociologie 1998 as a thank-you gesture for our students' involvement in the International Sociological Association Meetings that took place in Montréal. This money was intended to support student participation in scholarly conferences.
When Cary died in 2000, the department used these funds to establish an Endowment Fund in his memory. We received a generous donation from the Boucock Family, and the rest from faculty and staff members of the department to reach our goal of $10,000. The first award was given in 2003-04. Recent recipients can be seen below.
All undergraduate and graduate students in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University are eligible to apply. Two awards of up to $300 are given to support student conference participation each year. The deadline for applications is normally in April each year with the award announcement in May. Information regarding the application procedures can be found by clicking here.
Recent Recipients of the Cary Boucock Memorial Award
2018-2019
Kristopher Millett, PhD Social & Cultural Analysis
Connie Phung, PhD Social & Cultural Analysis
2017-2018
Onder Gunes, PhD Social & Cultural Analysis
Rachel Begg, PhD Social & Cultural Analysis
2016-2017
Lydia Fanelli MA, Sociology
Zahra Ghassemi Zavieh, MA Anthropology
2015-2016
Danielle Miller-Beland, MA Sociology
Myriam Tardif, MA Anthropology
2014-2015
Chantal Gailloux, PhD Social & Cultural Analysis
Matthew Perks, MA Sociology
2013-2014
Casey Scheibling, MA Sociology
External Awards
Government agencies offer a number of Master’s, Doctoral, and Postdoctoral fellowships and graduate scholarships annually. Program students and students in their final year of undergraduate programs or MA programs who are intending to pursue (further) graduate studies in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology are strongly encouraged to apply for external funding through Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture (FQRSC) or Fonds de recherche en santé du Québec (FRSQ) (provincial agencies), and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) or Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) (federal agencies). Only Canadian citizens/permanent residents are eligible to apply for these awards.
Follow these links for further description of these awards, information about the application process, and application submission deadlines:
- Tri-Council Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship (open to international students)
- Trudeau Foundation Doctoral Scholarship (open to international students)
- Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship (open to international students)
For a description of all financial awards, internal and external, available to program students see the School of Graduate Studies Awards Directory.
A number of teaching assistantships are distributed as entrance awards for first year graduate students. Other teaching assistantships can become available to students during the course of their program. These positions are announced within the department and all program students are invited to submit applications for these TAships to the course instructor.
The value of a full-year TAship (fall and winter semesters; 260 labour hours) is $6400.*
The value of a half TAship (either fall or winter semester 130 labour hours) is $3200.*
*These values are accurate as of 2017-18. They may change in subsequent years.
Research Assistantships
Research Assistantship contracts may be offered to students by faculty members who hold research grants. Each contract is established individually between a faculty member and a student. RAship wages are standardized by Concordia University. See the current list of RA opportunities offered by faculty members in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. For further information regarding a specific RA opportunity, students should contact the relevant faculty member.
Cross-Cultural Jurisprudence. Up to two (2) $1,600 research contracts. Bibliographic and conceptual research. Finding and analyzing cases from Quebec and elsewhere in Canada where the practices of a minority culture are on trial because they contravene the norms of the dominant culture. Part of a general critique of the reasoning and recommendations of the Bouchard-Taylor report on "reasonable accommodation."
See http://www.mcgill.ca/files/humanrights/Centaur_Project_Description.pdf
Hands-On Museum. Up to two (2) $1,600 research contracts. Sensory ethnography of one or more museum exhibitions. The increasing emphasis on staging "interactive" exhibitions in order to engage the public more fully in the museum experience has resulted in there being a lot more for the visitor to hear, touch, taste and smell, as well as see. But how does the immersive quality of the contemporary exhibit compare with the experience of the early museum, when it functioned like a "sensory gymnasium"?