FASS Essay Competition
The FASS Essay Competition is an annual contest for students registered at Dalhousie University. There are three competitions with a prize of $7,000 each (top prize amounts for each competition that may be awarded for the 2025-2026 academic year): The Irving and Jeanne Glovin Award, the Mushkat Memorial Essay Prize and the Halifax Overseas Club Essay Prize. Contest deadline for the 2026 competition is Monday, February 23, 2026 at 4:30 p.m.
FAQs
Learn more about each part of the FASS essay competition at the links above (and in the right side bar on this page) and find answers to some of your questions about the requirements and eligibility on our FAQ page. If you don't find an answer here, feel free to contact the Dean's Office at fassnews@dal.ca .
Congratulations to the 2025 winners
| Halifax Overseas Club Essay Prize | |
|---|---|
| Grace E. Alberts | |
| Mushkat Memorial Essay Prize | |
| James N. Dixon | "The Reality of Race: Critiquing Logical Positivism through the Lens of Africana Philosophy" [PDF 464 KB] |
| Irving and Jeanne Glovin Award | |
| Clarisse Paron |
"Eugenic Logics and the Pathologization of Children's Bodies: Evaluating the American Pediatric Obesity Guidlines for Harmful Scientific and Medical Conduct" |
The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, hosted a ceremony where the winners of the three parts of the 2025 FASS Essay Competition each presented excerpts from their winning papers. See links to the presentations below.
Winners of the three parts of the 2025 FASS Essay Competition
Pictured from left to right: Clarisse Paron (PhD candidate in Philosophy), James Dixon (BA student with double major in Black and African Diaspora Studies and Philosophy), and Grace Alberts (BA student with double major in Environment, Sustainability & Society and Environmental Science).