PhD student awarded Urban Studies Prize

Chris Morash has been awarded a prize by the British Association for Canadian Studies (BACS).

Chris Morash received his prize from the chair of the British Association for Canadian Studies (BACS), Dr. James Kennedy at Senate House in the University of London. The prize was for the best paper in Urban Studies by a graduate student at the annual BACS conference. The prize was awarded for his work on the Young Ireland generation's role in state-building and nation-builiding in Melbourne and Montreal during the 1850s and 1860s. Part of the research for this paper was funded by a Canada-UK Foundation Travel Award.