Please join us in congratulating Carole Therrien (PhD Candidate, Carleton University) who has been awarded the 2024 Richard F. Salisbury Award, given each year to an outstanding PhD candidate, enrolled at a Canadian university, for the purposes of defraying expenses incurred while carrying out dissertation fieldwork. The award is named in memory of Dr. Richard Frank Salisbury, a founding member of the McGill University Department of Anthropology.

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

The Caribbean Island of St. Martin, as a tourism-dependent economy with weak administrative and political structures, continues to face severe climate change-related hazards such as worsening hydrometeorological storms, sea level rises, coastal floods, and food scarcity. St. Martin women, in addition to being active labor force members and to weaving the social fabric of their communities, often shoulder the burden of financially supporting extended families, friends, and neighbors, and of heightened volunteer care roles in civil society and faith communities. As St. Martin continues to live with risk, what does living with risk and disasters look like for these women? What are the cultural and social impacts? And is it time to look at the definitions of vulnerability and resilience as different sides of the same coin, depending on our own positionality?

We look forward to learning more about this work at a future CASCA meeting.