Established in 2005 through a donation from the late Oswald Hall, M.A. 1937 (University of Toronto Professor Emeritus and former Professor of McGill University from 1946 to 1955).
Awarded by Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies upon recommendation of the Department of Sociology to a student who has completed the other requirements of his/her Doctoral degree and has begun writing his/her Doctoral thesis.
Established in 1992 in honour of the late Oswald Hall, M.A. 1937 (University of Toronto Professor Emeritus and former Professor of McGill University from 1946 to 1955). The prize has been endowed by donations, in particular royalties from the book
The Sociology of Work: Papers in Honour of Oswald Hall, donated by the book's editor, Professor Audrey Wipper of the University of Waterloo.
To be awarded on the recommendation of the Departments of Sociology or Anthropology (each in alternate years).