Oshinsky-McKern Award for Best Student Podium Presentation | The Canadian Association for Physical Anthropology

Year	Recipient	Title	Award
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