Oshinsky-McKern Award for Best Student Podium Presentation | Canadian Association for Biological Anthropology / l’Association canadienne d’anthropologie biologique

Year	Recipient	Title	Award
2021	Florence Landry	Why should I get involved? Female and male behaviour during inter-unit interactions: the case of Rwenzori colobus monkeys.	$500
2021	Creighton Avery	Changing childhood diets: Increamental stable isotope analysis of tooth dentin from Imperial Roman Italy (1-4th century CE).	Honourable Mention
2017	Natasha Hoehn University of Calgary	Maternal mental health is not associated with an index of child health in rural Nicaraguan children aged 2-12 years	$500
2017	Emeline Raguin Université de Montréal	Zonal osteons: comparison between BSE/SEM and Polarized Light Microscopy techniques	Honourable Mention
2016	Iulia Bădescu University of Toronto	Weaning and comfort nursing in wild chimpanzees shown using fecal stable isotopes and behavioural data	$500
2015	Adrianne Offenbecker University of Calgary	Examining violence at Casas Grandes, Mexico using strontium isotope analysis	$500
2015	Madeleine Mant McMaster University	Femoral neck fractures in post-medieval urban London: Palaeopathology and patterns	Honourable Mention
2014	Madeleine Mant McMaster University	Fracture prevalence at the Royal London Hospital: Archival and skeletal evidence	$500
2013	Geneviève Maltais Lapointe University of Toronto	Validation using 3D CT of the new interpretation of Gerasimov’s nasal projection method for forensic facial approximation	$500
2012	Catherine Merrit University of Toronto	Patterns of skeletal age markers on underweight vs. obese individuals	$500
2011	Andrew Wade University of Western Ontario	Re-evaluating classical stereotypes in the body cavity treatment of ancient Egyptian mummies	$500
2010	Dyan Semple University of Alberta	Re-examination of the nature and purpose of Macramallah’s Rectangle, a First Dynasty cemetery at Saqqara, Egypt	$500
2009	Julia Robert Université de Montréal	Influence of locomotion on the hominoid humeral distal joint	$500
2008	Heather Battles McMaster Universiity	Patterns of diphtheria in Hamilton, Ontario in the Early 20^th Century	$500
2008	Amy Scott University of Western Ontario	An analysis of body size indicators and their use to examine sub-adult stress in a cold-adapted population	Honourable Mention
2007	Fernando Campos University of Calgary	Coping with dry heat: Behavioral thermoregulation in wild capuchin monkeys	$300
2006	Kim Valenta & Linda Fedigan University of Calgary	Dispersal by white-faced capuchins (1): Evaluating quality	$200
2005	Martyna Wrobel University of Toronto	Bone weathering and the post-mortem interval: femur vs. metatarsal	$200
2004	Tracey Galloway McMaster University	Results of anthropometry in a sample of rural Ontario school children	$200
	Hilary Young et al. University of Calgary	Sharp spines and toxic stings: How Cebus capuchins overcome the defense mechanisms of insects in Costa Rica	$200
	Corrine Marceau University of Alberta	Unknown	Honourable Mention
	Jodi Blumenfeld et al. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	Unknown	Honourable mention
2003	Sarah Turner University of Calgary	Maternal and infant congenital limb malformation in a free-ranging group of Japanese macques on Awaji Island, Japan	$200
	Jocelyn Williams University of Calgary	Unknown	Honourable Mention
	David Cooper University of Calgary	Unknown	Honourable Mention
2002	Kate Dougherty University of Western Ontairo	Unknown	$200
2001	Sandra Garvie-Lok University of Calgary	Isotopic evidence for millet and maize use in Medieval and Ottomon Greece	$200
2000	John Albanese McMaster University	Potential methodological problems when combining skeletal data from different sources for the study of secular change	$200
1999	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
1998	Sharon Bruce University of Manitoba	Diabetes among western Canadian aboriginal populations	$200
1998	Brad McVittie University of Calgary	Nesting behaviour in chimpanzees from the Budongo Forest, Uganda	Honourable Mention
1997	Jay Stock University of Guelph	Body size and cross-sectional dimensions of cortical bone in the human femur	$200
1996	Stacey Burke University of Toronto	Who chooses to breast-feed? Infant decisions among Gibraltarian women, 1960’s-1990’s	$100
1995	Sandra Garvie-Lok University of Manitoba	Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios of human bone collagen from Fidler Mounds, Manitoba and their implications for Late Woodlands lifeways in southern Manitoba	$100
1994	Paul Vasey Université de Montréal	Alliances, formation and homosexual behaviour in female Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata)	$100
	Tamara Varney University of Guelph	Assessment of the relationship between ‘collagen’ integrity and historical preservation in bone derived from an archaeological context	$100
	Roman Harrison & Gillian Crane University of Calgary	Postmodernism and physical anthropology	Honourable Mention
1993	Tina Moffat McMaster University	Infant mortality in an aboriginal community: Fisher River, Manitoba 1910-1939	$100
1993	Robert Hoppa McMaster University	Random variation in age-at-death and sex distributions in cemetery samples	Honourable Mention
1992	Ruben Kaufman University of Alberta	The relationship between aggression and grooming behaviour in brown lemurs, Eulemur fuvus	$100
1991	Unknown	Unknown	$100
1990	Unknown	Unknown	$100
1989	Bret Waddell Simon Fraser University	Palaeopathological diagnosis of infantile scurvy	$100
	David Daegling Stony Brook SUNY	Biomechanics of the Great Ape mandible	$100
	Ruben Kaufman University of Alberta	Dominance in Red-fronted Brown Lemurs	Honourable Mention
1988	Chris Knüsel Simon Fraser University	A biomechanical model of the hominid cranium with specific reference to Homo erectus and the Neanderthals	$100
1987	Carol de Vito McMaster University	Discriminant analysis of deciduous crown dimensions to determine sex	Unknown
1987	Christine White University of Toronto	The ancient Maya from Lamanai, Belize: Diet and health over 2,000 years	Unknown
1986	Richard Lazenby McMaster University	Unknown	Unknown
1985	Ian Colquhoun McMaster University	Dominance and “Fall-Fever”: The reproductive behaviour of male Brown lemurs (Lemur fulvus)	$50
1985	Carol Lang University of Toronto	Osteometric differentiation in male and female hip bones: An exploratory analysis of some unorthodox measurements	$50
1984	Unknown
1983	Mary McDonald The University of Alberta	Thecourtship behaviour of female Japanese monkeys	Unknown
1982	M. Anne Katzenberg The University of Toronto	X-ray flourescence analysiss of prehistoric bone from southern Ontario	Unknown
1981	Brian Chisholm Simon Fraser University	Unknown	Unknown
1980	Nasha Holt McMaster University	Social dominance in a group of captive mandrills (Madrillus sphinx): An analysis of behavior indices	Unknown
1979	Diane Berthelette Université de Montréal	Variation dex niveaus de santé dans une populationde travailleurs Quebecois – II	Unknown
1979	Robert Larocque Université de Montréal	Rapport preliminaire sur une etude des cranes du site Dawson	Unknown
1978	William Fitzgerald McMaster University	The Hood site: Longhouse burials in an historic Neutral village	Unknown
1977	Rosemary Vyvyan University of Manitoba	Unknown	$100
1976	Susan Hornshaw University of Toronto	Unknown	$100
1975	Shelley Saunders University of Toronto	Unknown	$50