Awards + Prizes

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Our Awards

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)

    Instructor

    Mariam Nargolwalla

  • The Labrecque-Lee Book Prize

    Winner: The Best Place by Dr. Dr. Danya Fast, University of British Columbia

    Honorable mention: Good Intentions in Global Health by Dr. Nicole S. Berry, Simon Fraser University

  • CASCA Fellows

    Brian Noble, Dalhousie University

  • Outstanding Graduating Anthropology Student Awards

    Bachelor's Award

    1. Sarah Scott — University of Guelph

    2. Anne-Catherine Bergeron — Université Laval

    3. Em Diemer — Trent University

    4. Jennifer Preece — University of Victoria

    5. Lachlan Brown — Saint Mary's University

    6. Maya James — Carleton University

    7. Madeleine Chevaucherie — Université d'Ottawa

    8. Kelsey Carson — University of Saskatchewan

    9. Clover Aydogan — Dalhousie University

    10. Stacy Toews — Mount Royal University

    11. Solomon Wilson — University of British Columbia

    12. Kai Yee Tsai — University of British Columbia Okanagan

    13. Eric Lawrence Acland — Simon Fraser University

    14. Charlotte Gilmore — University of Waterloo (no certificate — late submission)

    Master's Award

    1. Brooklyn Barber — University of Guelph

    2. Logan Elson — Trent University

    3. Emma Wilton — University of Victoria

    4. Alison Schultz — Carleton University

    5. Adrianna Vanos — Dalhousie University

    6. Tara Tikuisis — Université d'Ottawa

    7. Caroline Stampliaka — University of British Columbia

    8. Savannah Kosteniuk — University of British Columbia Okanagan

    9. Sarah Bidinosti — Western University

    10. Vaughn Curioso — Simon Fraser University

    11. Aicha Lariani — University of Waterloo (no certificate — late submission)

    PhD Award

    1. C. William Campbell — University of Victoria

    2. Meysoon Amin — Carleton University

    3. Khalil Habrih — Université d'Ottawa

    4. Erika Balcombe — University of British Columbia

    5. Luis Meléndez Guerrero — Western University

    6. Yuan Wei — Simon Fraser University

  • Weaver-Tremblay Award

    Dr. Sylvie Poirier, Université Laval

  • Salisbury Award

    Sarah Yems, Concordia University

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