News Archive

Alanna Felt received an ISER MA Fellowship and an ISER Research grant for her project entitled, "Negotiating Velomobilities: The Politics of Policy Development in the Case of the St. John's Cycling Plan."Angelina Leggo was awarded the School of Graduate Studies F.A. Aldrich Fellowship for 2011/2012.

Reade Davis presented a paper titled: "The Political Ecology of an Altered State: Ecosystem Complexity, Neoliberalism, and the Social Construction of Ocean Space in Newfoundland, Canada" as part of the panel "The Conceptual Work of Ecology" at the 2011 American Anthropological Association Meetings, Montreal, QC, November 16-20, 2011.

Rachel Hogan received an ISER MA Fellowship for her project entitled, "A Day to Celebrate? Grand Falls-Windsor Workers' Political Action in the historic Labour Day Parade, Post Mill Closure."

Sayeed Al Russel was named the Fellow of of the School of Graduate Studies.

Sébastien Després is the recipient of the 2010-2011 MUNSU Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Reade Davis delivered a paper entitled "A Cod Forsaken Place: Fishing After the Fall in Newfoundland" at the Nature, Inc.: Questioning the Market Panacea in Environmental Policy and Conservation conference in the Hague, Netherlands on July 1, 2011 and a paper entitled "Reconceptualizing Ecosystem Complexity: A New Emphasis" at the MARE: People and the Sea VI Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 6, 2011.

Consuelo Griggio delivered a paper entiled "Himmelblå and the Vega Archipelago of Norway: a tourist flop!" at the conference ICASS VII (International Congress of Arctic Social Science) in Akureyri, Iceland 23-24 June 2011.

Andrea Procter delivered a talk entitled, "The Prospect of Uranium and Inuit Governance in Nunatsiavut, 1956-2011," as part of the CRC in the Aboriginal Studies Seminar Series at MUN, Thursday, April 7, 2011.

Gregory Gan delivered a seminar entitled: "Where do you place on the Pyramid of Happiness?: Notes of a filmmaker/participant-observer in a radical Ukranian sect" on Tuesday, February 15th, 2011, Mr. Gan discussed the making of his new film: "The Theory of Happiness." The web site for the film can be found here.

Monique Bourgeois has been awarded the Dr. Anna C. Templeton Memorial Graduate Scholarship for the 2010-2011 scholarship year.

Wayne Fife published a paper titled "Internal Borders as Naturalized Political Instruments" in Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 17(2): 255-279, 2010.

Sébastien Després is the 2010-2011 recipient of the Sceptre Investment Counsel Limited Bursary.

Consuelo Griggio has been awarded the Scotiabank Bursary for International Study (Graduate) for the 2010-2011 scholarship year.

Professor Jean Briggs is the recipient of an award from the 2010 SSHRC Public Outreach Grants competition.

Reade Davis delivered a paper titled "Immutable Mobiles and Mutable Subjects: Ocean Mapping and the Production of Silences" at the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, LA, November 17-21, 2010.

Consuelo Griggio delivered two papers titled "Art on the 'Rock': Struggles and strategies of three young female artists living on the island of Newfoundland, Canada" at the International Small Islands Studies Association (ISISA) on the island of Bornholm, Denmark, 23-26 August 2010 and "Women and tourism in White Harbour, Newfoundland, Canada: Filling the Gap between Tradition, Innovation, and Globalization" at the International Geographical Union, Commission on Islands (IGU) on the island of Ven, Sweden, 27-30 August 2010.

Travis Morpak has been awarded the SSHRC J. A. Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarships – Master's Scholarship.

Alanna Felt has been awarded the SSHRC J. A. Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarships – Master's Scholarship.

Dianne West has received graduate scholarship from the President's Office at Memorial.

Karen Samuels was awarded a SSHRC J. A. Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarships – Doctoral Scholarship.

Sébastien Després was awarded a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship.

Sébastien Després is the 2010 recipient of The Richard F. Salisbury Award.

Reade Davis delivered a paper titled "A Mari usque ad Mare: Ocean Governance as Nation-Building in Canada" as part of the “Theorising the Sea” panel at the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) Annual International Conference, London, UK, September 1-3, 2010.

Jill Allison delivered two papers titled "Clinical Confessionals: Intersections Between Procreative Morality and Fertility Medicine in Ireland" and "The Chatter of Silence: Online Infertility Support Websites as Sites of Contradiction " at the Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) 2010 Conference, Montreal, QC, June 1-3 2010.

Reade Davis delivered a paper titled "Eco-Casino: Unpredictability and Affluence in the New North Atlantic at the Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) 2010 Conference, Montreal, QC, June 1-3, 2010.

Sébastien Després delivered a paper titled "DIGI-ANTH 1000: Information and Communication Technologies in the Anthropology Classroom" at the Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) 2010 Conference, Montreal, QC, June 1-3, 2010.

Kathy Gordon delivered a paper titled "'The Market Sets the Price': Determining Prices in a Bolivian Marketplace" at the Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) 2010 Conference, Montreal, QC, June 1-3 2010.

Brent Kuefler delivered a paper titled "You Got to Teach Them Correctly: Becoming a Goose Hunter in Moose Factory, Ontario" at the Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) 2010 Conference, Montreal, QC, June 1-3, 2010.

Sharon Roseman served as the discussant for the panel "Movement and the Dilemmas of Cosmopolitan Ethics and Practices" at the Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) 2010 Conference, Montreal, QC, June 1-3 2010.

Karen Samuels delivered a paper titled "Maintaining Connections: Family and Tattoo in a Canadian Infantry Battalion" at the Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) 2010 Conference, Montreal, QC, June 1-3, 2010.

Ann Stewart delivered a paper titled "'Tradition' and 'Modernity' in Gàidhlig Language Media at the Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) 2010 Conference, Montreal, QC, June 1-3 2010.

Jill Allison has been named recipient of the Governor General’s Gold Medal in Graduate Studies.

Consuelo Griggio delivered two papers titled "Art on the ‘Rock’: Struggles and strategies of three young female artists living on the island of Newfoundland, Canada" at the International Small Islands Studies Association (ISISA)on the island of Bornholm, Denmark, 23-26 August 2010 and "Women and tourism in White Harbour, Newfoundland, Canada: Filling the Gap between Tradition, Innovation, and Globalization" at the International Geographical Union, Commission on Islands (IGU) on the island of Ven, Sweden, 27-30 August 2010.

Sébastien Després is the 2010 recipient of The Richard F. Salisbury Award.

Reade Davis delivered a paper titled "The Invisible Handler: Ecosystem Complexity and the Neoliberal State" at the “A Brief Environmental History of Neoliberalism” Conference, Lund, Sweden on May 10, 2010.

Benjamin Rigby was awarded a research grant from the Institute of Social and Economic Research to support his MA research project titled: "Making Fish: The Impact of Technological Change in the Salmon Aquaculture Industry on Newfoundland's South Coast."

Wayne Fife published the paper "Internal Borders as Naturalized Political Instruments" in Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 17(2): 1-25, 2010.

Sébastien Després has been awarded the GSU Award for Excellence in Teaching for 2010.

Monique Bourgeois was named the 2010 winner of the The Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education Master’s Thesis Award.

Jill Allison was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship from the Atlantic Rural Centre to investigate issues related to health, social inequality and gender in rural areas of Atlantic Canada. She was also awarded a research grant from the Harris Centre to support research expenses related to this research.

Tracy Winters was awarded a research grant from the Harris Centre to support her doctoral research project titled: "Leaving to Stay: Space, Place and Class Implications of the Newfoundland Turnaround."

Sebastien Deprés, Travis Morpak and Dianne West were each awarded a Scotiabank Bursary for International Study.

Monique Bourgeois was named the 2010 winner of the Dr. Anna C. Templeton Memorial Graduate Scholarship.

Samantha Breslin, Sébastien Deprés, Consuelo Griggio, Brent Kuefler, Andrea Proctor, Carolina Tytelman and Tracy Winters all delivered papers at the Aldrich Interdisciplinary Conference, March 26-27, 2010.

August Carbonella assumed the editorship of the Routledge journal "Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power" in January of 2010.

A special preview screening of TURNING BACK THE WAVES, an ethnographic film by Gregory Gan was shown on March 5, 2010.

Robert Paine delivered a seminar entitled "Friendship: Control, Fulfillment and Deception - An Anthropological Enquiry" on Thursday, January 19, 2010.

Mariana Soledad Porta began the 2010 Visual Anthropology Unit Screening and Discussion Series with a screening of her film "Social Animal" (original title, Animal Social) on Friday, January 15th, 2010.

Gregory Gan delivered a paper entitled "Negotiating Liminality: Women of the Intelligentsia in Post-Soviet Russia" at the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on December 6, 2009.

Reade Davis delivered a paper entitled: "Lost at Sea: Ecosystem Management and the Politics of Uncertainty" at the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on December 2, 2009.

Samantha Breslin delivered a seminar entitled '"Would you be a reel now or a Jig?' Playing Tunes in St. John's, Newfoundland" on Thursday, November 19th, 2009.

David Cooney delivered a seminar entitled "The Accentuation of Intra-Class Divisions in Post-Moratorium Bonavista" on Thursday, November 12th, 2009.

Jean Briggs delivered a seminar entitled "Language Dead or Alive:
What’s in a Dictionary?" on Thursday, November 5, 2009.

Kathleen Gordon published the paper "Marketplace vendors, decision-making, and the household." Research in Economic Anthropology 29: 123-146.

Raoul Andersen and John K. Crellin, recently published their edited collection: Mi'sel Joe: An Aboriginal Chief's Journey (Flanker Press 2009).

Janna Rosales delivered a seminar entitled "The Toll of Our Tools: Examining the Moral and Ethical Dimensions of E-Waste" on October 15, 2009.

Samantha Breslin was recently awarded the A.G. Hatcher Memorial Scholarship.

Jill Allison defended her PhD thesis, entitled "Affirmations, Contestations and Contradictions: Experiences of Infertility in Ireland" with distinction on September 8th, 2009.

Sébastien Deprés published the paper “Denying Cultural Tourism: A Pilgrimage to Medjugorje.” Culture and Tradition (January 2009).

Doctoral students Tracy Winters and Josh Lalor were both awarded SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarships.

Master's students Jennifer O'Connor, Sol Porta, and David Cooney were all awarded SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarships.

Josh Lalor published the paper "Ethnicity, Culture, and Globalization: Exploring the Memorandum of Understanding Between Newfoundland and Labrador and Ireland" in Newfoundland and Labrador Studies, 24, 1 (Spring 2009): 25-53.

Josh Lalor presented the paper "Policy" as Narrative: Evoking the "Natural" between Newfoundland and Ireland at the Canadian Anthropology Society/American Ethnological Society Joint Meeting at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC, May 13-16 2009.

Sébastien Després received his MA in Religious Studies and won the Chancellor's Graduate Award, presented to the student of the graduating class who has shown most leadership in student affairs at the graduate level, at the Spring 2009 Convocation.

Daniel Banoub and Lynette Fischer both began Master's degrees in Anthropology at York University in September 2009.

Daniel Banoub was awarded the University Medal for Academic Excellence at the Spring 2009 Convocation.

Sébastien Deprés published the paper "Making it Real: The Narrative Reconstruction of an Eastern European Pilgrimage Centre.” Illumine: a journal from the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society 7 (2008).