CCGES – together with BMW Canada – is pleased to announce that Lee Kuhnle, a PhD student in Social and Political Thought, is the recipient of the 2008 BMW Canada Award for Excellence. This honour is presented annually to the student enrolled in the Centre’s Graduate Diploma program who is judged to best combine academic excellence with a contribution to Centre life.

Lee Kuhnle has been a Centre-affiliated student since 2004 and in has made an active contribution to the Centre during his time at CCGES. Among the highlights of Lee’s activities at the Centre is his work helping organize a reading group on the work of members of the Frankfurt School of cultural critics and theorist and his oversight of the 2007 graduate student conference which resulted from the reading group’s activities. In addition, he has the distinction of having received the William Graf Essay Prize for best paper by a Centre affiliated student in both 2005 and 2006.

CCGES is pleased to able to recognize Lee for his contributions to the Centre, and is grateful for the support of BMW Group Canada which makes the awarding of this honour possible.

Christian Feilmeier (VP Finance & Administration, BMW Group Canada),
Lee Kuhnle (2008 BMW Canada Award for Excellence Winner),
Lindsay Duffield (CEO, BMW Group Canada) and Klaus Rupprecht (Director, CCGES)