Patrick Lee (MA 2018, University of Calgary) has received the Governor General’s Gold Medal in November.

The Governor General’s Academic Medal was first awarded in 1873 by the Earl of Dufferin, and has since become one of the most prestigious awards that a student in a Canadian educational institution may receive. Awarded annually at Fall convocation to the graduate student who achieves the highest academic standing (one each at MA and PhD level).

Lee recently graduated with a Master of Arts in Anthropology from the University of Calgary under the co‐ supervision of Dr. Charles Mather and Dr. Julio Mercader. In Digging Droughts: Maasai and Palaeoanthropological Knowledge, Subsistence, and Collaboration in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, Lee explores scientific knowledge production at this key human origins research site, contending that Maasai and palaeoanthropological epistemologies are equally logical and that subsistence exigencies – especially ontologically distinct versions of drought – have precluded mutually beneficial collaboration. Lee just commenced PhD studies at the University of Toronto, working with Dr. Shiho Satsuka and Dr. Lena Mortensen to examine the co‐production of knowledge between palaeoanthropological, local, and tourist communities in East Africa.

Please join us in congratulating Patrick on this remarkable achievement!

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