Past Recipients

Yana Stainova, assistant professor at McMaster University

Sonorous Worlds: Musical Enchantment In Venezuela. University of Michigan Press

Michael Lambek

Susan Vincent

Bachelor’s Awards

• Grayson Thate, Athabasca University
• Cassandra Sundin, Saint Mary’s University
• Devin Kyle, University of Saskatchewan
• Althea Pilapil, Dalhousie University
• Gabriel Jamieson, Simon Fraser University
• Paige Leslie, University of Victoria
• Makenna Mestinsek, Saint Francis Xavier University
• Sonya Prasad, University of British Columbia
• Pengpeng Chen, University of British Columbia
• Alex DiGiovannantonio, Mount Royal University
• Alyanna Denise Chua, University of Toronto Scarborough
• Leann Ling, University of Toronto Mississauga
• Iakoiewáhtha Patton, University of Toronto St. George
• Paula Rodrigo, Carleton University
• Anna Haglund, University of British Columbia – Okanagan

Master’s Awards

• Jenny Reich, Dalhousie University
• Jessica Jack, University of Saskatchewan
• Jennifer Argan, University of Victoria
• Sophia Champion, University of Toronto
• Emma Jing Li, University of British Columbia
• Sonya Gray, Carleton University
• Madelaine Lekei, University of British Columbia – Okanagan

PhD Awards

• Bryce Anderson, Dalhousie University
• George Mantzios, University of Toronto
• Cassandre Campeau-Bouthillier, University of Victoria
• Patrick Morgan Ritchie, University of British Columbia
• Justin Raycraft, McGill University
• Kirsten Francescone, Carleton University

Colin Scott

Alice Miot-Bruneau

Alexis Black, “Talking and Acting a Pandemic: Ethnography of COVID-19 in Montmartre”

Yana Stainova, assistant professor at McMaster University

Sonorous Worlds: Musical Enchantment In Venezuela. University of Michigan Press

Pamela Downe
Udo Krautwurst
Donna Patrick

Bachelor’s Award

• Bronwyn Lee, Dalhousie University
• Maia Kima, Kwantlen Polytechnic University
• Emily Henry, St. Francis Xavier University
• Laurence Martin, Université de Montréal
• Andréane Chabot, Université Laval
• Autumn Perry, University of Guelph
• Amara Wristen, University of Saskatchewan
• Maddalena Jacobson, University of Winnipeg
• Sydney Dawson, Western University
• Mika Billie Hjorngaard Ferentzy, York University
• Rachel Stewart-Dziama, University of Victoria
• Kendall Sneyd, University of Toronto – St. George
• Sonja Tilroe, Mount Royal University
• Manda Craig, University of Toronto – Mississauga
• Prisha Vaidya, University of British Columbia, Okanagan
• Meghna Vijai, University of British Columbia
• Saskia  McKay, Carleton University

Master’s Awards

• Briana  Kelly, Dalhousie University
• Catherine Villeneuve, Université de Montréal
• Charles-Antoine Lesage, Université Laval
• Victoria Clowater, University of Guelph
• Marley Duckett, University of Saskatchewan
• Kathleen Downie, York University
• Dylan Hillis, University of Victoria
• Tiina Maripuu, University of Toronto – St. George
• Kelly Panchyshyn, University of British Columbia, Okanagan
• Basant Ahmed Sayed, University of British Columbia
• Leo Ruhl, Simon Fraser University
• Carmen West, Carleton University

PhD Awards

• Katie MacLeod, Dalhousie University
• Marianne-Sarah Saulnier, Université de Montréal
• Sarah Bourdages Duclot, Université de Montréal
• Meredith Evans, York University
• Tommy Happynook, University of Victoria
• Erika Finestone, University of Toronto – St. George
• Frida Lona-Durazo, University of Toronto – Mississauga
• Lindsay Harris, University of British Columbia, Okanagan
• Emma  Feltes, University of British Columbia, Okanagan
• Megan Muller da Silva, Carleton University

Jasmin Habib

Amanda Foote

Andrée-Ann Métivier, “Des psychologues en pleine conscience.Tension entre légitimation scientifique et adhésion morale dans la recherche sur le mindfulness”

Janice Graham
Alan Smart
Josephine Smart

Bachelor’s Awards

• Ashley Megan Williams, Athabasca University
• Sara Hormozinejad, University of Calgary
• Monica Regan, St. Francis Xavier University
• Angela Murray, University of Saskatchewan
• Ileanna Cheladyn, Simon Fraser University
• Marly Hill, Nipissing University
• Jordanna Marshall, University of British Columbia-Okanagan
• Benjamin Malo, Universié Laval
• Zoe Slusar, Mount Royal University
• Jamie Fairbairn, University of Lethbridge
• Katherine Lütz, Saint Mary’s University
• Rehan Sayeed, University of Victoria
•  Briana Kelly, Dalhousie University
•  Rajdeep Dhadwal, University of British Columbia
•  Ciara Farmer, University of Alberta

Master’s Awards

• Megan Beth Sampson,  University of Calgary
• Kelsey Marr, University of Saskatchewan
• Natali Euale, University of Guelph
• Raphaël Preux, Université de Montréal
• Jordan Hodgins, York University
• Clara MacDonald, University of Toronto
• Carolyne Bolduc, Université Laval
• Bradley Clements, University of Victoria
• Erin Hanson, University of British Columbia
• Julian Kapfumvuti, Memorial University of Newfoundland
• Tiffany Campbell, University of Alberta

PhD Awards

• Nicole McFadyen, York University
• Eva-Marie Kovacs, University of British Columbia-Okanagan
• Anne-Sophie Deleuze, Université Laval
• Karoline Guelke, University of Victoria
• Tonya Canning, Dalhousie University
• Gregory Gan, University of British Columbia
• Samantha Breslin, Memorial University of Newfoundland
• Jennifer Miller, University of Alberta

Noel Dyck’s journey to anthropology began when, as a master’s student in history at the University of Saskatchewan, he conducted archival research on the impacts of the disappearance of the buffalo on the peoples of the Canadian Prairies in the late 1870s. Out of that devastating transition came a mode of federal administration that reduced First Nations from treaty partners to captives of the state. Seeking to move beyond archival sources and into more contemporary developments, Dyck studied social anthropology at the University of Manchester. His doctoral research focused on the opposition of First Nations to the Canadian government’s post-1969 policies and tactics to extricate itself from any responsibility for meeting the needs of First Nations members who had been denied basic civil rights and the freedom to decide their futures for a century. In this research and that which followed after Dyck began teaching anthropology at Simon Fraser University, he enjoyed the privilege of working with band councils, tribal councils, and a provincial First Nations association. Out of this emerged his analysis of “coercive tutelage,” whereby a system of restraint or guardianship is imposed by one party upon another based on the alleged incapacity of the latter to determine his or her own best interests. In addition to writing about government policy with respect to Indigenous peoples in Canada and internationally, Dyck also conducted and published a study of the history of Indian residential schooling for the Prince Albert Grand Council of First Nations.

Dyck’s fascination with formal and informal policies that mediate social and political contexts where identities and lives are worked out also led him to identify a rather different social field within which tutelage is, nonetheless, well-ensconced and can be coercive. What caught his attention is how urban and suburban community sport organizations for children and youths seek to reconcile the provision of fun, fitness, and competitive opportunities to boys and girls with the use of these activities to support the child-rearing responsibilities of many Canadian parents. Indeed, community sports are a locus for intersecting interests that reach beyond local families and playing fields to provincial and national sport organizations, government agencies at all levels, and commercial and corporate interests keen to shape the direction of this popular and increasingly lucrative sector. The power of ethnography to illuminate complex issues has been essential to his work on sport and Indigenous-state relations and to his ongoing teaching in both anthropology and urban studies.

Abra Wenzel – PDF / FR

Honours Awards

• Jake Vinje, University of Lethbridge
• Sarah England, Dalhousie University
• Annabelle Fouquet, Université Laval
• Thulasi Kandiah, McMaster University
• Kelsey Mackenzie, Mount Royal University
• Jessica Hinton, University of New Brunswick
• Anna Lorraine Thompson, University of Victoria
• Kristin Leis, University of Waterloo
• Frankie Di Renzo, Carleton University
• Jenna Locke, Saint Mary’s University
• Rebecca Marie Nokleby, University of Alberta
• Caitlin Stonham, University of British Columbia
• Nicole Davies, McGill University
• Carly Piatocha, University of Northern British Columbia

Master’s Awards

• Chloe Westlake, Dalhousie University
• Olivia Roy-Malo, Université Laval
• Diana El Richani, University of Ottawa
• Carson Rehn, University of New Brunswick
• Melanie Callas, University of Victoria
• Erin Van Der Meulen, University of Waterloo
• Stephanie Mayell, McMaster University
• Justin Langille, Carleton University
• Faun Ember Rice, University of Alberta
• Kendra Jewell, University of British Columbia
• Callan Ross-Sheppard, McGill University

PhD Awards

• Carolina Tytelman, Memorial University
• Isabelle Auclair, Université Laval
• Celeste Pedri, University of Victoria
• Lauren Wallace, McMaster University
• Matthew Hawkins, University of Alberta
• Clayton Whitt, University of British Columbia
• Katherine Sinclair, McGill University
• Logan Cochrane, University of British Columbia

Margaret Critchlow (award 2017), PhD, was Professor of Social Anthropology at York University in Toronto for 25 years before moving to BC and taking early retirement in 2010. She is past-president of the Canadian Anthropology Society. Her fieldwork in the SW Pacific islands of Vanuatu and in Canadian rental housing co-ops has resulted in over 50 academic articles and 7 books on land tenure, development, and housing issues. She has always enjoyed collaborating with others including co-editing, and co-authoring. In 2007, she was one of four co-editors of House-girls Remember: Domestic Workers in Vanuatu. Upon retiring to Sooke, BC, Margaret helped create Harbourside Cohousing, the first senior cohousing community in BC. She is also the founding director of the non-profit Canadian Senior Cohousing Society.

Jing Jing Liu – PDF / EN

Marie-France Labrecque earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in anthropology from Université Laval before completing a doctorate in social and cultural anthropology at City University of New York in 1982. She was a Professor with the Université Laval Department of Anthropology for more than 30 years, earning the title of Emeritus Professor in 2012. Her many initiatives in the field were concentrated in Mexico as well as the Andes. Dr. Labrecque’s research initially focused on the class struggles of the Mexican peasantry from a historical materialistic standpoint. Subsequently, her focus shifted to the conditions of peasant and indigenous women, adopting a feminist political economy approach. This research—which continually strived to promote student training in the field—led her to specialize in criticism of international development, particularly in connection with the Gender and Development approach. This specialization in turn prompted her to take part in applied interdisciplinary studies leveraging participatory approaches to examine maternal and child health (in Peru), agriculture and livestock production (in Colombia), and food security (in Mali).

The whole of her academic work over the past 30 years has investigated what might be described as approaches to mobility, whether in terms of ideas (as in the case of international guidelines for integrating women into development or gender mainstreaming), capital and goods (as in the case of indigenous women’s labour in subcontracting factories, i.e., maquiladora plants), or people (as in the case of migration).

Her current research centres on crosscutting North-South dynamics, whether by comparing femicides in Mexico and in Canada or by studying Mayan temporary farm workers from the Yucatan who migrate to Canada on a seasonal basis to work in the agricultural sector. Although retired, she continues to pursue her research activities, working from an activist and feminist perspective. Dr. Labrecque is a prominent member of the international community of Mexicanists and Americanists and has been a visiting professor at numerous universities.

Deidre Cullen – PDF / EN

Adrian Tanner was born in the UK and came to Canada as a young farm worker. He went on to work on weather stations in the arctic, where he gained some familiarity with Inuit hunters. He attended UBC, where he conducted research with Yukon Indigenous  peoples and communities, and McGill, where he was introduced to the Quebec Cree, before gaining a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. He has been with the Anthropology Department at Memorial University since 1972, where he is now Honorary Research Professor. His current research interests are with the Indigenous peoples of Quebec, Labrador and northern Ontario, on such topics as social suffering, community healing, Indigenous rights, forestry, land tenure, hunting, politics, and the documentation of local knowledge. He has also conducted research outside Canada, especially on the people of the Colo Navosa region of Vitilevu, Fiji.

Karine Gagné – PDF / EN

Carly A. Dokis – PDF / FR