Canada Council for the Arts Molson Prizes

Current winners

Dr. Gordon J. G. Asmundson (Social Sciences and Humanities)

Gordon J. G. Asmundson, PhD, is a registered doctoral psychologist, a full professor of psychology at the University of Regina and the co-director of the Psychology of Pandemics Network. He is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Anxiety Disorders and the Clinical Psychology Review. Dr. Asmundson is one of Canada’s most influential mental health researchers. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (2009), has received the Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) Donald O. Hebb Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Science of Psychology (2014) and was recently invested to the Saskatchewan Order of Merit (2020). Most recently, he has focussed his attention on understanding and developing evidence-based interventions regarding the mental health consequences of COVID-19 and has already gained international renown for this work.

For more information about Dr. Asmundson's work, visit the Psychology of Pandemics Networkwebsite.

NourbeSe Philip (Arts)

Born in Tobago, M. NourbeSe Philip (PWA – Poet Without Ambition) is an unembedded poet, essayist, novelist, playwright and independent scholar who lives in the space-time of Toronto. A former lawyer, her published works include the award-winning YA novel Harriet’s Daughter, the seminal poetry collection She Tries Her Tongue; Her Silence Softly Breaks, the speculative prose poem Looking for Livingstone: An Odyssey of Silence, and her genre-breaking book-length epic Zong!. M. NourbeSe Philip is a Guggenheim and Rockefeller fellow (Bellagio) and in 2020 was the recipient of PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature.

For more information, visit M. NourbeSe Philip’s website.