CASCA Executive
President-Elect: Marie Nathalie LeBlanc
Anglophone Member at Large: Chris Fletcher
Francophone Member at Large: Martin Hébert
Past-President: Deirdre Meintel
Communications Officer: Michel Bouchard
President: Janice Graham
Janice Graham is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Bioethics and the Scientific Director of the Technoscience and Regulation Research Unit (TRRU) and the Qualitative Research Commons & Studio (QuRCs) in the Faculty of Medicine at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada.
As a medical anthropologist, Professor Graham draws upon anthropology, science studies, technology assessment and bioethics to approach cultural, technical and moral issues in health. Challenges of safety, effectiveness, standardization, risk, and trust figure prominently into Graham’s mapping of biotechnological innovation to health inequalities.
Graham’s work on Alzheimer’s disease and other dementia diagnostics during the 90s led to an interest in the moral basis of profit when disease is seen as a market opportunity. She studies regulatory practices, diagnostic imaginaries, and databases as cultural texts. Her recent ethnographic research examines safety and efficacy in the regulation of emerging biotherapeutics and vaccines at Health Canada and internationally. She is examining the development and introduction of a new conjugate vaccine in sub-Saharan Africa as well as global policies and practices of pandemic planning.
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President-Elect: Marie Nathalie LeBlanc
Marie Nathalie LeBlanc is an anthropologist and full professor at the Department of Sociology at UQAM. She completed her doctoral studies at the Department of Anthropology at London’s University College.
Her main publications examine youth and social transformation in Postcolonial Africa (Ivory Coast and Mali) as well as religion and popular culture in Quebec. She recently directed a project on young rappers, sociability and discrimination in Montreal. She has participated in numerous international research projects including studying the role of Islam in the public sphere in West Africa, working with researchers from Africa and France.
Her recent research interests focus on the new charisma (spiritual gifts) in the context of new information and communication technologies, the feminization of Islam in the Ivory Coast and the role of religious NGOs in African civil society.
She was treasurer of CASCA in 2002, French-speaking editor of the Canadian Journal of African Studies from 2000 to 2005 and is currently co-director of the journal Diversité urbaine.
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Treasurer: Robert Adlam
Dr. Robert Adlam is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Mount Allison University. As well, he is Adjunct Professor in the Interdisciplinary Studies Program at the University of New Brunswick and was a Research Associate with the Frost Centre for Canadian Heritage and Development Studies, Trent University from 1990-2000. He received a B.Sc. (Hon.) from Trent University in 1975, and an M.A. (1976) and Ph.D. (1986) in Anthropology from the University of Toronto. He has been on faculty at Mount Allison since 1994.
Since 2000, Dr. Adlam has served as a member of the Oceans Management Research Network (OMRN) where his research has centred on fishing practices and competing claims of fishers from communities around the estuary of the Miramichi River of north eastern New Brunswick.
Dr. Adlam serves as a member of the Association of Atlantic Universities’ Working Group on Aboriginal Issues. Additionally, he continues to write on topics related to Aboriginal Peoples of Canada.
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Secretary: Craig Proulx
Dr. Craig Proulx is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at St. Thomas University. He received his Ph.D. from McMaster University.
Dr. Proulx's research interests include: Aboriginal peoples in Canada (urban and rural), Legal anthropology, Anthropology of Sport, Anthropological theory and methods, critical discourse analysis.
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Anglophone Member at Large: Christopher Fletcher
Christopher Fletcher is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Alberta. He holds an MSc and PhD (2002) from l’Université de Montréal and a BES from the University of Waterloo.
Christopher Fletcher is an ecological and medical anthropologist whose primary work for the past 15 years has been with arctic and subarctic Aboriginal communities in Canada. He has also conducted research on the social expression of illness experience in Nova Scotia and he has ongoing interests in urban spaces in France and Canada. His research is animated by the idea of ecological subjectivity as a part of human experience. Within each of his research areas he is interested in the articulation of traditional and alternative research methods, tools and dissemination strategies. He teaches medical, ecological and visual anthropology and studies visual pedagogy.
Francophone Member at Large: Martin Hébert
Dr. Martin Hébert is an Associate Professor at the Université Laval. He completed his Ph.D. at the Université de Montréal, conducting fieldwork in the Chiapas region of Mexico, examining confict and collaboration. He is a political anthropologist by training, specializing in issues of political mobilization and social justice. Of particular interest is the nexus of the imaginary and the political, which has led him to study a variety of topics ranging from American militarism to science fiction.
Currently, Dr. Hébert is studying the imaginary and political and economic strategies of indigenous peoples and the environment. The goal being to bring together groups from Mexico and Québec and examining their vision of the forest, and how such discourses are received in the context of consultation and partnership. The study of this "meeting of visions" and the institutional constraints that hinder them, is a central part of a larger analysis of the conditions and characteristics required for social justice.
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Past-President: Deirdre Meintel
Deirdre Meintel is a full professor at the Université de Montréal's Department of Anthropology. She has been teaching at the Université de Montréal since 1987 and received her Ph.D. at Brown University in 1978. She has equally served as visiting professor at the Université Lyon 2 and the Université Paris 7. Dr. Meintel is the director of the urban diversity research group (GRDU) at the Centre d'études ethniques des universités montréalaises (CEETUM). The CEETUM is an interdisciplinary research centre on ethnic studies composed of researchers from all the Montreal universities.
Dr. Meintel has conducted research on gender, migration and ethnicity, identity, and more recently issues of religion and modernity. She has conducted research in Mexico, the Republic of Cape Verde, the United States and Montreal.
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Communications Officer: Michel Bouchard
Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Northern British Columbia, Dr. Bouchard received his Ph.D. from the University of Alberta.
My main areas of expertise include the Russian-speaking Diaspora, the Russian Federation and its constituent populations, nationalism and ethnicity, identy and belonging and French North America.At the outset, the research I conducted took for granted the recent invention of nations. However, as new lines of inquiry emerge, I have developed a new theoretical framework for understanding nationhood and other forms of community. Rather than accepting the easy premise that states create nations, I am proposing that other institutions are equally (if not more) important than states in the emergence of national communities.
Currently, I have assumed the task of webmaster for CASCA. Please, forward any concerns about the website and suggestions as to how to improve the design and structure of the website. I welcome all feedback.
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