Eligibility
Recipients will be members of ACSUS who have a record of substantial activity in support of the administrative, programmatic, advisory, and/or decision-making efforts of the association and its mission to advance the academic study of Canada. Eligible recipients also may be noted for conspicuous service to the cause of Canadian Studies in the United States that have not directly involved the activities of the association.
Criteria
The award will be presented on a biannual basis through a process including nominations (by a member of the association) to the ACSUS Awards Committee. Selected recipients will be chosen as a result of a recommendation of the ACSUS Awards Committee to the ACSUS President.
Past Winners
The 2025 George Sulzner Award recipient was Amy Sotherden, at SUNY Plattsburgh.
Amy Sotherden’s promotion of the study of Canada throughout the K-12 and higher education communities, her support of the development of future generations of Canadian specialists through the CONNECT initiative, her ten years of service as Secretary of ACSUS and her organizational support for multiple ACSUS biennials, and her collaboration with many institutional and academic partners such as the United States Department of Education, Fulbright Canada, the Canadian-American Center at the University of Maine, the National Council for Social Studies, and the American Council for Québec Studies, have all served to showcase her considerable talents and, more importantly, her selfless devotion to serving the Canadian Studies community well beyond the walls of the Center for the Study of Canada & Institute on Québec Studies at the State University of New York, Plattsburgh.
The 2023 George Sulzner Award recipient was Robert Timko, Professor Emeritus at Commonwealth-Mansfield University
Robert Timko is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Canadian Studies at Commonwealth-Manfield University. He has been active in Canadian Studies since 1992 with a special interest in Canadian Philosophy. Since 2017 he has served as a Volunteer Instructor at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Temple University Center City, Philadelphia, where he teaches a variety of courses in Canadian society, culture, history and literature from a philosophical perspective. He served as President of the American Association of Philosophy Teachers and the Middle Atlantic and New England Council for Canadian Studies and has held Visiting Teaching and Research Professorships in Philosophy and Canadian Studies in Russia (Volgograd, Volzhsky, and St. Petersburg), Canada (Guelph and Fredericton), and the U.S. (Philadelphia). He has authored, and co-authored with Joan Whitman Hoff, several textbooks in philosophy which emphasize diverse and inclusive approaches to questions of identity, beliefs, and worldviews. He is an enthusiastic fan and devoted student of the Murdoch Mysteries.
The 2021 George Sulzner Award recipient was André Senecal, Professor Emeritus at the University of Vermont
