Join us in congratulating Carole Therrien (Ph.D. candidate, Carleton University), who received the Richard F. Salisbury Scholarship 2024, awarded annually to an outstanding doctoral candidate enrolled at a Canadian university to cover expenses incurred while conducting fieldwork for a dissertation. The award is named in memory of Dr. Richard Frank Salisbury, a founding member of the Department of Anthropology at McGill University.

In Carole's own words, the research supported by this grant focuses on the following topic and questions:

The Caribbean island of St. Martin, as a tourism-dependent economy supported by weak administrative and political structures, continues to face serious threats related to climate change, such as more severe hydrometeorological storms, rising sea levels, coastal flooding, and food shortages. Women in St. Martin, in addition to being active members of the workforce and the ones who weave the social fabric of their communities, often bear the burden of financially supporting extended families, friends, and neighbors, as well as providing volunteer care within civil society and religious communities. As St. Martin continues to live with risk, what does life with risk and disasters look like for these women? What are the cultural and social impacts? And is it time to examine the definitions of vulnerability and resilience as different sides of the same coin, based on our own positionality?

We look forward to learning more about this work at an upcoming CASCA meeting.