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Employee Achievement Awards
FASS Employee Achievement Awards recognize the dedication and hard work of FASS employees including staff, faculty and temporary instructors in our collective service to the arts, humanities and social sciences and to our communities.
2026 winners - Staff Awards
Lifetime Contributions Award
Harry Janke
Office of the Dean
Changemaker Award
Jane Pan
Political Science
Individual Work Performance Award
Brian Chand
Public Policy and Urban Studies
Team Work Performance Award
Economics Staff
Economics
Azam Bhatti, Jianping Chen, Melanie Kang, Anthea Pasin, Carina Thanabadeepathara, Sarah Turner, Lana Kwan Wakelam, and Anna Zofka
Team Work Performance Award
Marketing and Communications
Office of the Dean
Ash Tanasiychuk, Ashley Schultheiss, Carmen Chin, and Robyn Humphreys
2026 winners - Teaching Awards
Sessional Instructor Award
Troy Boucher
Psychology
Teaching Assistant Award
Jeff Hsieh
Economics
Term Teaching Award
Leah Shipton
Public Policy
Past Winners
2025:
Staff
- Changemaker: Tess Williams, FASS Dean's Office
- Lifetime Contributions: Judi Fraser, History
- Individual Work Performance: Ellen Siew Meng Yap, International Studies
- Team Work Performance: Administrative Team, FASS Dean's Office
- Stacey Fujimoto, Ophelia Fu, Nicole Yoo, Clare Zheng, Sophia Zeng
Teaching
- Term Teaching: Evan Caldbick, Psychology
- Term Teaching: Michelle "Elle" Walks, GSWS and Sociology & Anthropology
- Sessional Instructor: Valérie Vézina, French Cohort Program and Political Science
- Teaching Assistant: Richard Rigby, Psychology
2024:
- Changemaker: Tess Williams, FASS Dean's Office
- Lifetime Contributions: Judi Fraser, History
- Individual Work Performance: Ellen Siew Meng Yap, International Studies
- Team Work Performance: Administrative Team, FASS Dean's Office
- Stacey Fujimoto, Ophelia Fu, Nicole Yoo, Clare Zheng, Sophia Zeng
- Term Teaching: Evan Caldbick, Psychology
- Term Teaching: Michelle "Elle" Walks, GSWS and Sociology & Anthropology
- Sessional Instructor: Valérie Vézina, French Cohort Program and Political Science
- Teaching Assistant: Richard Rigby, Psychology
2023:
- Individual Work Performance: Huyen Pham, Global Humanities
- Term Teaching or Research Faculty: Adam Blanchard, Psychology
- Sessional Instructor: Evan Caldbick, Psychology
- Teaching Assistant or Tutor Marker: Richard Hohn, Psychology
- Teaching Assistant or Tutor Marker: Sara Doering, Criminology
2022:
- Changemaker: Derrick Woo, FASS Dean's Office
- Individual Work Performance: Lauren Gilbert, Global Humanities
- Team: FASS Managers, FASS Dean's Office
- Tracey Anbinder, Mike Perry, Lynn Kool, Leena Edmeads, Valerie Ceppi, Roberta Neilson, Anne Marie Barrett, Judi Fraser, Cristina Serverius, Phil Cunningham, Ellen Yap, Rita Parmar, Laura Bologea, Brian Chand, Tara Smith, Dawn Allison, Sylvia Chow, Karen Sawatzky, Maria Hamilton
- Lifetime Contributions: Jasper and the FASS IS and FASS TRACS team, FASS Dean's Office
- Jasper Stoodley, Tess Williams, Edward Molina, Michel Hasrouni, Harry Janke, CJ Ng, Elise McClay, Michael Hsu, David Deng, Jianping Chen, Erik Tryggvason, Jiansen Lu, Chiyoko Kawano
- Teaching Assistant or Tutor Marker: Hollis Schmidt, Criminology
- Term Teaching or Research Faculty: Sepideh Fotovatian, Economics
2020-21:
- Individual work performance: Abdul Zahir, School of Criminology & Anne Marie Barrett, Department of Gerontology
- Team award:
- Department of Indigenous Studies - Phil Cunningham, Brett Romans, Shagufta Saddiq, Aman Chandi
- FASS Advisors - Meghan Grant, Rachel Chiang, Elisa Herrell, Tracey Sherwood, Toyosi Bamgboye, Rosaline Baik, Claire de Lisser, Allen Yee, Emily Co, Gabriel Sauro, Morgan Jeffery, Azam Bhatti, Anthea Pasin, Kathryn Ward, Hélène Pouliot, Rachelle Hiebert, Roberta Neilson, Anne Marie Barrett, Tessa Wright, Katie Nordgren, Lorraine Yam, Phil Cunningham, Ellen Yap, Aleks Besan, Terrence Yang, Elda Hajdarovac, Rita Parmar, Laura Bologea, Brian Chand, Maria Hamilton
- Teaching assistant or tutor marker: Beau Wallbridge, Department of Psychology & Violeta Dima, Department of Political Science
- Sessional instructor: Dr. Sherrie Atwood, Department of Psychology
- Term Teaching or Research Faculty: Dr. Leanne Roderick, Urban Studies Program and Department of Geography & Dr. Lesley Schimanski, Department of Psychology
- Changemaker: Gladys We, FASS Dean's Office
2019:
- Lifetime contributions: Malcolm Toms, Manager, Network Operations
- Individual work performance: Eliza So, Undergraduate Program Assistant, Political Science
- Teaching assistant or tutor marker: Anthony Nguyen, Philosophy
- Sessional instructor: Nicole Muir, Psychology
- Limited term instructor: Mark Deggan, World Literature
2018:
- Lifetime contributions: Anita Turner, Psychology
- Individual work performance: Roberta Neilson, Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies
- Teaching assistant or tutor marker: Thomas Vigié, Economics
- Sessional instructor: Charmaine Perkins, Criminology
- Term Teaching or Research Faculty: Clare McGovern, Political Science
- Changemaker: Genevieve Fuji Johnson, Political Science
- Team: Department of Economics