The Governor General's International Award for Canadian Studies is an award established in 1995 by the
International Council for Canadian Studies The International Council for Canadian Studies is a federation of twenty-one national and multi-national Canadian Studies associations and six associate members in thirty-nine countries. Established in 1981, the council operates in both official ...
. The support for this award by the Office of the
Governor General of Canada
The governor general of Canada () is the federal representative of the . The monarch of Canada is also sovereign and head of state of 14 other Commonwealth realms and resides in the United Kingdom. The monarch, on the Advice (constitutional la ...
was at the initiative of late Governor General Ramon Hnatyshyn The award honours a living scholar who has made an outstanding contribution to scholarship and to the development of Canadian Studies internationally, and involves international jury selection. In alternate years, the award is referenced to a scholar of Canadian Studies whose scholarship has been developed in Canada, and a scholar of Canadian studies whose scholarship has been developed outside of Canada.Award description www.iccs-ciec.ca. Recent honourees have included
Maria Teresa Gutierrez-Haces
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(2007),
Christl Verduyn Christl Verduyn (born 1953) is Professor of English Literature and Canadian Studies at Mount Allison University.Serge Jaumain (2005).