Congratulations! Leslie McCartney and Gwich’in Tribal Council received the Oral History Association Book AwardB. Lynne Milgram of OCAD is the overall winner of the 2022 SAFN Anthropology Day Photo Contest.
Ruby Peter and Helene Demers won a Nautilus Book Award (memoir category) for the book What Was Said to Me: The Life of Sti’tum’atul’wut, a Cowichan Woman. Peter and Demers additionally won a Silver Award in the Forward Indies (Multicultural – Adult Nonfiction). Demers was also recently shortlisted for the 2022 Tom Fairley Award for Editorial Excellence.
Professor Kamari Maxine Clarke and Professor Kevin Lewis O’Neill, cross-appointed professors with the Department of Anthropology, have recently received a major Mellon Foundation award. Named the Sawyer Seminar, this prestigious grant will allow them to bring together faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students for events and workshops focused on the theme of “Evasion: Thinking the Underside of Surveillance.”
PhD candidate Walter Callaghan has been asked to serve on the Minister of Veterans Affairs “Care and Support” Advisory Group for the Government of Canada.
Celia Haig-Brown has been named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Academy of Social Sciences. An Anglo-Canadian scholar, Haig-Brown has spent her career committed to respectful and reciprocal research and practice working closely with Indigenous collaborators from Secwépemc territory to the Naskapi Nation. Her 1988 book, based on testimonies of Indian residential school survivors, has served as the basis for two films and a 2022 version with Indigenous contributions. Her next SSHRC-funded film: Rodeo Women: Behind the Scenes is in post-production.
