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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Networks
We connect researchers through ever-evolving professional networks.
Please review our guidelines for CASCA networks.
Women's Network
The CASCA Women's Network serves to bring together women in Canadian anthropology, conducting research on the status of women in anthropology and in academia more broadly, and reporting to the general assembly on our work.
The Women's Network fosters mentorship, recognition and support through a lifetime achievement award and best graduate student paper award, which includes a cash prize and publication in Anthropologica.
The co-coordinators of the CASCA Women's Network are Dr. Heather Howard and Dr. Pauline Mckenzie Aucoin. Please contact CASCA for further information.
Awards
The CASCA Women's Network invites nominations for the CASCA Women's Network's Lifetime Achievement Award for Contributions to Feminist Anthropology in Canada.
Award DetailsLingAnthLing
LingAnthLing represents anthropologists working broadly within the fields of linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, semiotics and the ethnography of communication. The group facilitates networking and mentorship opportunities for members and organizes panels and workshops of interest to linguistic anthropologists at the annual conference.
Coordinators
- Eric Henry (Saint Mary's University)
- Sarah Shulist (Queen's University)
- Cécile B. Vigouroux (Simon Fraser University)
EnvAnth Network
The Environmental Anthropology Network provides a forum for the exchange of knowledge, news, and resources related to environmental anthropology and advocacy. We accept posts on conferences, literature, opportunities, scholarships and other resources.
Anthropology in Praxis (AP)
Anthropology in Praxis
Anthropology in Praxis (AP) is dedicated to providing a forum to practicing, professional, and applied anthropologists for the exchange of ideas, information, and experiences related to the practical application of anthropology and ethnography. CASCA's Professional, Practicing, and Applied Anthropologists Network (PPAN) is continuing as AP. If you were a member of PPAN, you are now a member of AP.
Our Mission:
- Provide a network for non-academic or post-conventional anthropologists to share their work and learn from each other.
- Provide resources to support careers in the private, public, and NGO sectors.
- Promote local practitioner work.
- Provide a directory of practicing, professional, and applied anthropologists working in Canada.
- Build awareness of the diverse application of anthropology in the private, public, and NGO sectors.
We welcome all Canadian professional, practicing, and applied anthropologists to join. Membership is free. AP is an official network of CASCA but you are not required to be a member of CASCA to join. A CASCA membership will be required to enjoy the additional benefits of CASCA and attend the annual meeting.
MedAnth Network
The CASCA Medical Anthropology Network is made up of a broad range of anthropologists working in the areas of science, technology and medicine who study, interpret, challenge, disrupt and contribute to evidence and best practices across diverse landscapes of health, illness, sickness, infection, abilities and disease in Canada and around the world.
Individuals, institutions and organizations wishing to join and/or submit items may subscribe below.
Awards
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
Award DetailsNetwork for Precarious Anthropologists
The Network for Precarious Anthropologies was founded in recognition that there are a growing number of Canadian anthropologists who find themselves in precarious circumstances with limited or no employment security. This network facilitates solidarity and communication, and opportunities to work through, together, the common (and uncommon) issues that we face.
A Facebook group Network for Precarious Anthropologists has been created in order to aid in linking us together, and sharing ideas about the nature, purpose and future of this network. If you are not in precarious circumstances, we hope that you will let people you may know who are in precarious circumstances know that this network is in the works. Contact David Thorsen-Cavers to join.
Critical Pedagogy in Canadian Anthropology
The Critical Pedagogy in Canadian Anthropology Network is interested in the intersections between anthropology, ethnography, and critical pedagogy, with a particular focus on the unique pedagogical challenges and possibilities faced by those of who work in Canadian anthropology (whether by virtue of research interests, institutional affiliation, or both).
The Network sponsored its first panel (Critical Pedagogy and Changing Climates in Canadian Anthropology) at the annual meeting in Vancouver in November 2019, and maintains a list serve where members share calls for papers, relevant news items, and teaching resources.
In light of the COVID-19 crisis and in the spirit of keeping in touch, maintaining a sense of community, the Network for Critical Pedagogy in Canadian Anthropology has started a new online community of anthropology teachers on Facebook.
The CASCA Labour Committee
The Labour Committee advocates for precariously employed anthropologists and explores solutions to the current labour environment.
Cultural Expertise Network
The Cultural Expertise Network supports anthropologists and allied social scientists working at the intersection of anthropology, law, policy, and applied practice. Cultural expertise refers to the use of anthropological and socio-cultural knowledge to assist decision-making authorities — both in court and out of court — by contextualizing evidence, claims, and lived experience within broader cultural, historical, and legal frameworks.
The work of CASCA's Cultural Expertise Network is guided by a series of interrelated goals:
- Contribute to the further development and refinement of cultural expertise as a service and career pathway in Canada.
- Facilitate the professionalization of, and support provided to, graduate and early-career CASCA member-anthropologists entering the field.
- Help ensure anthropologists' practice of cultural expertise is legally principled and sound, culturally competent, and ethical at disciplinary, deontological, and legal scales.
- Link Canadian anthropologists to scholarly, service, and employment opportunities — such as asylum and refugee claims, criminal and family law, and treaty negotiations and claims.
- Foster the exchange of experiences and scholarship between CASCA member-anthropologists and other associations active in cultural expertise.
- Consolidate the role of anthropologists acting as experts in court for voicing and making room for the voices of the beneficiaries of cultural expertise.
Network Membership
The Network welcomes anthropologists and allied practitioners at all stages of their careers and life courses, including students, scholars, and professionals, who are curious about how anthropological knowledge can be mobilized responsibly and ethically in contexts of rights, justice, and advocacy. CASCA members interested in learning more about and/or joining the Cultural Expertise Network are warmly invited to contact its Chair Dr. Emma Varley.
About the Network's Chair
Dr. Emma Varley is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Brandon University. Her ethnographic research in South Asia highlights the forces associated with poor maternal and neonatal health indicators, reveals the complexity of the social determinants of health during conflict and in zones of unstable governance, and engages in-depth with the cultural, ethical, and experiential textures of medicine. She has served since 2014 as a cultural and country expert appointed in legal proceedings in the United Kingdom, United States, and Canada, predominantly on asylum and refugee claims.
Membership
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