Membership

Membership Fees & Categories (2025) 

• Undergraduate students: $32/ year 
• Low income / graduate students / post-doc/ retired: $51/ year ($137/ 3 years) 
• Regular employed, income less than $85,000 per annum (1 yr) $137 plus open-access levy $44 (1 yr) / $394 plus plus open-access levy  $128 (3 yrs)
• Regular employed, income between $85,000 and $120,000 per annum $152 plus plus open-access levy $49 (1 yr) / $442 plus plus open-access levy $144 (3 yr)
• Regular employed, income over $120,000 per annum $175 plus plus open-access levy $58 (1 yr) / $508 plus plus open-access levy $166 (3 yr)

All CASCA memberships enable you to register for CASCA’s annual conference.

Membership Policies

• The term of membership runs for one-year (365 days) or three-years (1095 days) starting on date of registration or renewal. The registration or renewal process is not completed until payment has been processed.
• Your membership must be renewed each and every year as renewal is not automatic.
• Membership is for individuals only and are non-transferrable.
• Membership fees must be paid in Canadian funds. This applies to those residing within and outside of Canada. 
• Payment may be made on-line through our membership management system via credit card. Contact us to pay by e-transfer, cheque or alternative method.
• Please note that your membership fees will not be reimbursed once paid. 
• A receipt will be generated after payment of your fees. Please print the online receipt for your records as no other receipt will be issued to you.

Donations

As CASCA was recognized as a Learned Society, an organization that promotes education and research, CASCA was granted Registered Charity status, and because of this can issue tax receipts for eligible donations made to our society.

Gifts from individual or corporate donors are welcomed. Official tax receipts for gifts will be issued. The Charities Division says that donors cannot benefit in more than a nominal way from their own gifts. That means that no receipts may be given for membership subscriptions. If you would like to donate additional monies, over and above your membership fees, to CASCA, you will be issued a tax receipt. We invite you to contact the Treasurer of CASCA if you require further  information.

If you wish, you may indicate which of CASCA’s charitable programs you want to support by selecting from:

• The Women’s Network.
• The Salisbury award, commemorating the achievements of McGill University applied anthropologist Richard Salisbury.
• The Student Travel Reimbursement program which helps Anthropology Graduate Students present papers at CASCA.
• The general CASCA fund where your contribution will help to support other CASCA programs such as the Weaver-Tremblay award which recognizes professional achievement in Applied Anthropology and Anthropologica, CASCA’s bilingual journal with a worldwide readership.

All donations are welcome, large and small, and it is your support that will ensure that anthropology  continues to grow and thrive in Canada.

Open Access Levy 

During the summer and fall of 2018, the Open Access Working Group (OAWG) in consultation with the Editor-in-Chief of Anthropologica, undertook a survey of CASCA members on the topic of Open Access publishing. The results of the survey of CASCA members made two things clear: 1) members supported open access publishing and wished to see Anthropologica become open; and, 2) members were willing to support open access publishing with an annual levy on membership dues of 32.5% on the regular categories. Initially in place until the end of 2023, the levy was reassessed by the Open Access Working Group during that year and it was decided to extend it until 2026 when need and percentage will once again be revisited.  For more information on the Open Access Working Group and the results of the survey of members please see this article in Culture. The transition to Open Access occurred January 2021. The OAWG welcomes your suggestions and your help to support CASCA’s commitment to open access. Please send correspondence to Tad McIlwraith at tad.mcilwraith@uoguelph.ca. 

Anthropologica and the CASCA Executive thank members for the ongoing support of our flagship journal!