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Scholarship & Awards
Applications for all student awards must be sumitted too ccms@sfu.ca.
Applications for Fall 2025 Are Open Now!
Applications are due to ccms@sfu.ca by May 15.
Dossa Graduate Student Travel Award
$3,300
This award is intended to support a graduate student in the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences pursuing research on an aspect of Muslim Society or Culture.
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Terms of Reference
- The Dossa Graduate Student Travel Award is supported by the Dossa Endowment Fund. It supports a graduate student award for a student in the who has undertaken research on Muslim societies and cultures. To be eligible for this award, students must be enrolled in a master鈥檚 or doctoral thesis program in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
- The criteria for this award are:
- full-time registration at 尤物视频 in a graduate program
- completed at least one term in a graduate program in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
- a program which requires travel abroad to undertake research on some aspect of a Muslim society or culture
- This award may be held in any term in conjunction with other awards made by 尤物视频 or other agencies where permitted by those agencies.
- Application must include:
- current, unofficial SFU transcript
- a research proposal concerned with Muslim societies and cultures
- a letter from the student鈥檚 supervisor attesting to the quality of applicant and supporting the need for research abroad for the applicant鈥檚 research
- The award will be made by the Dean of Graduate Studies, on behalf of the Senate Graduate Awards Adjudication Committee, upon the recommendation of the Chair of the Steering Committee, , Department of History.
Aziz and Parin Dossa Graduate Community Outreach Award
$2,600
This award is intended to recognize and provide financial support to one or more graduate students in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at 尤物视频 whose graduate research or community outreach project centers on building bridges and sustainable relationships between the Muslim community and other communities who wage the fight for equity, diversity and inclusion.
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Terms of Reference
- The purpose of this award is to recognize and provide financial support to one or more graduate students in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at 尤物视频 whose graduate research or community outreach project centers on building bridges and sustainable relationships between the Muslim community and other communities who wage the fight for equity, diversity and inclusion.
- One or more awards will be granted annually in any term to students who fulfill the following criteria:
- are registered full-time in a graduate program in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences;
- have demonstrated academic excellence in the most recent degree program completed
- or in their current degree program; and
- are conducting activist research or community outreach projects centered on building bridges and sustainable relationships between the Muslim community and other communities who wage the fight for equity, diversity and inclusion.
- This scholarship may be held in conjunction with other awards made by 尤物视频 or other agencies where permitted by those agencies.
- Applications will be adjudicated via the graduate awards system managed by Graduate Studies, and must be accompanied by:
- copies of post-secondary transcripts;
- one letter of reference from a faculty member familiar with the applicant鈥檚 work; and
- a one-page statement that addresses their research or community outreach pursuits.
The award will be granted each year to graduate students in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences by the Dean and Associate Provost, Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies upon the nomination from the Director, Centre for Comparative Muslim Studies.
- , Department of History.
Past Dossa Awards Winners
2024 Winners
Dossa Graduate Student Travel Award Winner: Tahmina Inoyatova
In her ongoing PhD research, Tahmina is exploring the intersection of identity, memory, and power in the context of post-Soviet cities with a special focus on Central Asia and Tajikistan鈥檚 capital Dushanbe. More specifically, she is interested in how cities and urban spaces mediate discourses of nationhood, development, and decolonization in Central Asia while being shaped by the forces of nationalism, capitalism, neoliberalism, and globalization. Tahmina鈥檚 other research interests include post-socialism and coloniality, decolonial studies, cultural studies, Eurasian studies, post-Soviet media and popular culture. Tahmina has a chapter in the forthcoming edited volume 鈥淢apping the Media and Communication Landscape of Central Asia: an anthology of emerging and contemporary issues鈥.
Dossa Graduate Community Outreach Award Winner: Tanjila Afrin Sejuty
Over the summer of 2024, she conducted her master鈥檚 thesis research fieldwork in Malaysia. Through this fieldwork, she was able to transform her research ambition into an experiential journey of using social science methods to understand the lives of Rohingya migrants. This research project that she has designed with her supervisor, Dr. Darren Byler, is the result of months of perseverance, literature review work, scholarly debate, as well as rigorous academic training that she received from her supervisory committee and other faculty members in the School for International Studies.