Harry Velensky Human Relations Prize
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The Harry Velensky Human Relations Prize is awarded annually to an undergraduate for the best essay on the subject of human relations, with a view to the promotion of a better understanding between all peoples at all levels of society.
| Year | Name | Title of essay | Held at UNB Archives |
| 1961 | Barry Mackay | "An analysis of social structure" | Yes |
| 1962 | Ellen J. Rowley | "The great depression" | Yes |
| 1963 | David Efraty | "The social organization of Israel" | Yes |
| 1964 | Hazel Ross | "The aims and methods of the Girondists and the nature of their conflict with the mountain" | Yes |
| 1965 | Donald C. Bird | "Slum clearance - a successful failure?" | Yes |
| 1966 | Brian E. Butler | "Creativity in perspective" | Yes |
| 1967 | James McNaughton | "The Drama Society of St. Thomas" | Yes |
| 1968 | Patrick S. Bennett | No | |
| 1969 | Carolyn Keirstead | "The engineer - what manner of man" | Yes |
| 1970 | Gail M. McWilliam | "The cultural implications of the new Indian Act" | Yes |
| 1971 | Anne Marie Harley | "Juvenile delinquency as a symptom of alienation" | Yes |
| 1972 | Constance Seymour | "A small drop of ink: the relationship of the Canadian Prime Minister and the press" | Yes |
| 1973 | Jerome K. Turner | "The sociology of law underlying the criminalization of marijuana" | yes |
| 1974 | Marcia Williamson | "An analysis of two revitalization Movements as alternative responses to similar socio-Cultural situations" | Yes |
| 1975 | Sharyn L. Pope | "An explanation of the hostility experienced by the Oriental population of British Columbia | Yes |
| 1976 | William Singleton | No | |
| 1977 | Barbara L. Hughes | No | |
| 1978 | Not awarded | No | |
| 1979 | Joseph S. O'Toole | "The hippy culture - a compromise analysis" | Yes |
| 1980 | Wilfred M. Langmaid | No | |
| 1981 | Debra McDonough | "The Laurier-Greenway Compromise - Laurier's approach to the Manitoba School Question" | Yes |
| 1982 | Martin L. Nicolai | "The involvement of German industry in the Holocaust" | Yes |
| 1983 | Not awarded | No | |
| 1984 | Gregory K. Betts | No | |
| 1985 | P. Smith Abraham | "Why did Pope Pius XII remain silent during the Holocaust?" | Yes |
| 1986 | Vaughn L. Barnett | R. vs. Morgentaler: the abortion issue revisited" | Yes |
| 1987 | Janice M. Cook | "What happened to the poor in Colonial Maritime society?" | Yes |
| 1988 | Janice M. Cook | No | |
| 1989 | Not awarded | No | |
| 1990 | Charlotte Glencross | No | |
| 1991 | Rachael T. Brown | No | |
| 1992 | Lee Marie Dugas | "Sir Oswald Mosley, British Fascism and the Nazi Cabal" | Yes |
| 1993 | Tammy Yates | "Contemporary attitudes about women's work in Britain's early industrial period" | Yes |
| 1994 | Robert Peacock | "Ford's Pinto - the ethical issues" | Yes |
| 1995 | Jeremy Hayhoe | "Crime and criminals in London, 1750-1810" | Yes |
| 1996 | Kim Branch | "The factory girl in nineteenth century Britain" | Yes |
| 1997 | Sarah Miller | "Domestic ideology and the role of the English middle-class women in the family and in enterprise" | Yes |
| 1998 | Marc-Andre Hache | Literature of conquest: European descriptions of the New World in the 16th century" | Yes |
| 1999 | Not awarded | No | |
| 2000 | David Ford | "The Artful Voyeur and the Terrible Beauty: The similarities between Yeats and Heaney as seen through Æaster 1916 and Punishment" | Yes |
| 2001 | Terence J. Chandra | "Neo paganism and Judeo-Christian through in Nazi historical and mythical remembrance" | Yes |
| 2002 | Sharon Weaver | "Two talented women of 1789" | Yes |
| 2003 | Angela Waite | "Poverty, public policy, and panhandling in the City of Fredericton" | Yes |
| 2004 | Jennifer Allaby | "The rise of the workhouse system of poor relief in England, c.1300-1900" | Yes |
| 2005 | Jacob William Taylor | “Priest and Peasant: Declining Clerical Influence in Rural France” | No |
| 2006 | Katharine Rebecca Orkus | “Mi’kmaq and Maliseet: The Colonial-Native Relationship in New Brunswick, mid-19th Century" | No |
| 2007 | Christiane Aiton | "The American indigenous in the eyes of the sixteenth century European" | Yes |
| 2008 | Sara Dunton | "The male voice and viewpoint of Janet Schaw" | Yes |
| 2009 | Not awarded | No | |
| 2010 | Steven Hansen | "A provision for the sick poor pious physic and healing in sixteenth and seventeenth century England" | Yes |
| 2011 | Rachael Anne Wyatt | Blonde Roots: Evaristo's destabilizing translations and reflections" | Yes |
| 2012 | Travis Patrick Wysote | No |
Source(s):
- UA Case 148.
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