Awards + Prizes

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Medical Anthropology Network

CASCA’s Medical Anthropology Network (CMA) has established a Best Paper Award. The Award will be awarded once per year to the Anthropologica research article or multi-modal publication that is assessed by the adjudicatin

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Student

Every year, CASCA offers small travel grants to doctoral and master's students who are presenting at our annual conference. Every year, the award committee struggles with the gap between the many strong applications we r

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Women's Network

This award was set up in 2009 as part of the celebration of the 25th Anniversary of the CASCA Women's Network. Its goal is to encourage research into gender and gender issues from a feminist perspective by emerging schol

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Women's Network

The CASCA Women's Network invites nominations for the CASCA Women's Network's Lifetime Achievement Award for Contributions to Feminist Anthropology in Canada.

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Student

The Richard F. Salisbury student award is given in memory of Dr. Richard Frank Salisbury, a founding member of the McGill University Department of Anthropology as well as the McGill Centre for Developing Areas Studies. D

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CASCA

In 1992 the Society for Applied Anthropology in Canada established the Weaver-Tremblay Award, naming it after Marc-Adélard Tremblay and Sally Weaver, two of Canada's most respected anthropologists. Both Weaver and Trembl

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Student

This award, launched in 2017, aims to help Canadian university and college anthropology departments recognize their top graduating Bachelor’s, Master’s, and PhD students and to promote awareness of CASCA.

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CASCA

At the Annual General Meetings of 2013, 2014, and 2015, the Canadian Anthropology Society recognized a select number of Founding Fellows whose contributions have defined anthropology in Canada. The Founding Fellows come

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CASCA

The CASCA Awards for Teaching Excellence (CATE) have been established to recognize the contributions to excellence in teaching and student learning in anthropology. Two awards will be made every year at our annual confe

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CASCA

The Canadian Anthropology Society is seeking submissions for the Labrecque-Lee Book Prize. Established in 2018, the Labrecque-Lee Book Prize recognizes outstanding anthropological publications in either French or English

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Award Recipients

2025

Congratulations to this year's award recipients!

  • CASCA Awards for Teaching Excellence (CATE)

    Faculty

    Eva-Marie Kovacs-Kowalke

  • The Labrecque-Lee Book Prize

    Under Pressure by Dr. Lindsay Bell, Western University

    When Forests Run Amok by Dr. Daniel Ruiz-Serna, Dawson College, Montreal

  • CASCA Fellows
  • Outstanding Graduating Anthropology Student Awards

    Bachelor’s Award Recipients

    Anna Haglund (University of British Columbia, Okanagan)

    Nat Begg (Simon Fraser University)

    Cerena Bond (Mount Royal University)

    Elizabeth Knechtel (Dalhousie University)

    Isabelle Jensen (Athabasca University)

    Maya Saltzman (University of Guelph)

    Capitu Petersen (Saint Mary’s University)

    Djuna Nagasaki (Victoria)

    Gabby Barber (University of Calgary)

    Cerena Bond (Mount Royal University)

    Connor Probert (University of Saskatchewan)

    Savannah Slimmon (University of Waterloo)

    Megan Nguyen (University of British Columbia, Vancouver Campus)

    Sydney Nethersole (Université d’Ottawa)

    Garrett Davies (Western)

    Megan-Vi Nguyen (University of British Columbia, Vancouver Campus)

    Amanda Singh (University of Toronto, St. George)

    Elisabeth Langton (University of British Columbia, Okanagan)

    Master’s Award Recipients

    Hanna Paul (University of British Columbia, Okanagan)

    Morgaine Lee (Simon Fraser University)

    Yamin Rahman (University of Guelph)

    Roberto Alberto (University of Victoria)

    Gill Taylor (University of Calgary)

    Morgan Herbert (Dalhousie University)

    Fan He (York University)

    Natalya Jones (University of Saskatchewan)

    Camila Font (University of Waterloo)

    Rosalie Gunawan (University of British Columbia, Vancouver Campus)

    Manuel Charette (Université d’Ottawa)

    Ashley Henry (Western University, Department of Anthropology)

    Rosalie Gunawan (University of British Columbia, Vancouver Campus) – resubmission with correction

    Dimuth Tharaka Gamage (University of British Columbia, Okanagan)

    PhD Award Recipients

    Kelsey Marr (University of British Columbia, Okanagan)

    Robert Gustas (University of Victoria)

    Galina Belolyubskaya (University of Calgary)

    Elias Galindo Paredes (Dalhousie University)

    Lea Alilović (York University)

    Lucy Sdahl Ḵ’awaas Bell (Simon Fraser University)

    Rebecca Bourgeois (University of Alberta)

    Laura Beach (University of Toronto)

    Marie-Dominik Langlois (Université d’Ottawa)

    Tamara L. Britton (Western University, Department of Anthropology)

    Michelle Hak Hepburn (University of British Columbia)

  • Weaver-Tremblay Award
  • Salisbury Award

    Etni Zoe Castell Roldàn

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