A UVic student has won a W. Kaye Lamb Award for Best Student Works, taking a $1,000 prize in the third-and-fourth-year category for a project exploring the impacts of the internment of Japanese Canadians.
Fourth-year anthropology student Djuna Nagasaki's submission 'Am I Japanese? Am I Nikkei? An Exploration of the Identities of Yonsei and Gosei Japanese Canadians,' an honours research project, looked at the affects of the Internment of Japanese Canadians in the 1940s on fourth and fifth generation Japanese Canadians, or Nikkei, "reflecting on her own experience as the descendant of Internment camp survivors," according to a news release.
The $750 prize in the first- and second-year category was awarded to archeology major Kira Sokolovskaia for her paper 'Distribution patterns of Vancouver Island petroglyphs in association with cultural and geographic traits' as part of a Simon Fraser University and Douglas College partnership program.
The W. Kaye Lamb Award is presented annually to post-secondary student projects relating to the history of British Columbia. The 2024-2025 awards were presented on May 3 at the British Columbia Historical Federation’s 2025 conference in Williams Lake.
