Outstanding Graduating Anthropology Student Awards 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. Each spring, departments may select one…
By Mary-Lee Mulholland, Mount Royal University Welcome to the newest issue of Culture on Resilience/Résilience! After everything that 2020 has doled out, it is with trepidation that I go to my “home office” tucked in the corner of my bedroom…
The Labrecque-Lee Book Prize was established in 2018, and named in honour of two outstanding Canadian anthropologists. Marie-France Labrecque, Emeritus Professor at the Université Laval Department of Anthropology, where she taught for more than 30 years. Since 1982, she has…
By Clint Westman, University of Saskatchewan In autumn 2019, I began doing fieldwork in a different province, on a new topic. After 10 years living in Saskatchewan, I wanted to launch a new project, actually doing (rather than just teaching)…
PhD Candidate Stephanie Mayell (department of anthropology at University of Toronto) commented for Radio-Canada on the mental health session for migrant workers proposed by the Consul of Mexico in Leamington, Ontario.La candidate au doctorat au département d'anthropologie de l'Université de Toronto, Stéphanie Mayell,…
PhD Graduate and Postdoctoral Fellow Celeste Pang shares a new digital collective mural Presents and Futures of Care. The mural was co-created by participants in a 12-week virtual arts-based project that explored themes of home, care, and futures of personal…
CASCA is excited to announce the theme of the 2023 conference (to be held with the AAA in Toronto, November 15-19, 2023): Transitions Please see more information, including the CFP abstract on our 2023 conference webpage, which will be updated regularly,…
By Daniel Tubb, University of New Brunswick Prolific British Marxist Eric Hobsbawm was a consummate repackager of his own ideas, according to Historians Emile Chabal and Anne Perez (2021). They write his “student lectures became book chapters; newspaper op-eds became…
By Éric Gagnon Poulin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill What a year full of challenges, unforeseen events and uncertainties in virtually every sphere of social life! The pandemic has turned upside down our research, our methodologies and anthropological…