University of Toronto Scarborough Anthropology Associate Professor Christopher Krupa has been awarded the 2023 Society for Economic Anthropology Book Prize for his book  A Feast of Flowers: Race, Labor, and Postcolonial Capitalism (2022).

At the University of Saskatchewan, thirteen graduates and faculty members of the University of Saskatchewan College of Arts and Science are finalists for this year’s Saskatchewan Book Awards. Authors nominated in 2023 include Professor Clinton N. Westman for Cree and Christian: Encounters and Transformations (University of Nebraska Press).

Dr. Michael Halpin at Dalhousie University has been awarded a President’s Research Excellence Award for Emerging Investigators

Alyssa A. James, now a PhD candidate in Anthropology at Columbia and a MA graduate of York University, was the 2023 recipient of the Setha M. Low Engaged Anthropology Award. 

The Department of Archeology & Anthropology at the University of Saskatchewan has launched the first practicing anthropology master’s programme in Canada.