SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGYNEWSFALL 2020 CHAIR’S MESSAGE FACULTY OF ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES Department of Sociology IN THISand Social ISSUE Anthropology 1 Chair’s Message 2 Faculty Updates 8 Changing Climates - CASCA and AAA hold joint conference in 8 Graduate Student Updates 10 SOSA Speakers’ Series 2019-2020 10 SOSA Speakers’ Series 2018-2019 11 Reflections on a Career in SOSA 13 SOSA Honours Symposiums 14 Alumni Updates 16 MA Students’ Proposal Presentations 17 2018-19 Simon and Riva Spatz Visiting Chair in Jewish Studies 18 2019-20 Fulbright Canada Research Chairing amidst a pandemic. Chair in Society & Culture 19 Kudos to our Students! 19 External Graduate Student I HOPE THAT THIS NEWSLETTER finds you and yours safe and Funding Awards well. These are trying times, and as such ripe for sociological and 20 Doctoral Defences anthropological analysis. C. Wright Mills anyone? (As many SOSA alum will recall, C. Wright Mills called on us to employ our ‘sociological’ 20 SOSA Babies! imaginations by turning our trained gazes on the problems that STAY CONNECTED confront the world we live in.) Sitting down to write this greeting Department of Sociology and which opens a newsletter about what the SOSA community has Social Anthropology Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences been up to for the last two year seems odd. I find myself engrossed Marion McCain Building, Room 1128 in the peculiar present and near future of social change and online 6135 University Avenue EVERYTHING. Yet there are a lot of changes in SOSA --some exciting, PO Box 15000, Halifax NS B3H 4R2 some bittersweet-- that we want you to know about. Our faculty,  902.494.6595  [email protected] students, visitors and alumni have been up to diverse and impressive  dal.ca/sociologyandsocialanthropology things. Follow us on social media and stay up to date Bittersweet first, I think. In 2019 the Department of Sociology at Western  @Dal_ALUMNI Pauline Gardiner Barber officially retired University, in London, ON. Howard has  Dalumni from Dal… to become an Emeritus truly left his mark not just on SOSA, but FASSDal Professor, complete with PhD students, on Dalhousie more broadly and our local  @dal_fass ongoing research grant, and her usual community. Howard’s commitment to Visit alumni.dal.ca to update your energy. Nonetheless the department informing public debates on pressing contact information and stay connected took a moment to thank Pauline for her issues of the moment (C. Wright Mills with . transformative role in SOSA (see photos again) means that you may well have For information on events within the page 11). In July 2020, Howard Ramos Continued on page 2 Faculty or to plan a reunion, visit moved on to take a position as Chair of dal.ca/fass or email [email protected] CHAIR’S MESSAGE cont’d heard his voice, or read his op-eds, not University. (See inside to learn what rigorous curriculum in online formats. just in the local Nova Scotia media, but they got up to while here.). We are also It is a big experiment, we are learning on the national stage. We thus look very fortunate that Tsafrir Gazit will a lot, but we hope it ends soon. As forward to continuing to be informed continue to teach with us full time, hard as we are trying to recreate the by his incisive commentary on current while Jonathan Amoyaw begins a two- magic, I doubt there is anything like social issues – even though not in front year stint with us this fall. the personal face-to-face connections of our SOSA photocopier anymore. We Then Coronavirus hit. In-person that make working, teaching and wish him very well. classes switched to online with only conducting research in our SOSA We more wholeheartedly celebrate a week’s hiatus to get organized. community so rewarding. other transitions. We have been Our honours and graduate students Something tells me 2020 will be a joined by two tenure track faculty, had their final presentations remade watershed moment. And of course, Tim Bryan and Michael Halpin bring by the virus. The honours students it isn’t just coronavirus and its fallout new, and compelling teaching and presented their final work to each that I am thinking of here. Urgent research expertise to the department. other online, while MA students made conversations about race, racism, Tim’s work on how police deal with online presentations of their research and colonialism are front and center hate crimes could not be more timely. proposals to the wider department. It in the wider society. Amidst these Michael Halpin, for his part, takes is quite amazing how well everyone has multiple crises, our sociological (and up the pressing question of how life adapted to our weird circumstances. I anthropological) imaginations are scientists explain social problems. think you will be impressed by the array imperative. We hope that you, our In the last two years we have been of topics our students are working on SOSA alumni, find yourselves well fortunate to host two eminent visiting (see inside pages). served by the tools for critical enquiry scholars. In 2018-19 anthropologist Which brings us to the present. As and engagement which our disciplines Smadar Lavie held Dalhousie’s Simon you may have heard, Dalhousie is pretty offer. and Riva Spatz Visiting Chair in Jewish much all online this year. SOSA faculty Studies. In 2019-20 we hosted another have worked tirelessly (well maybe we Wishing you strength and health. anthropologist, Jessaca Leinaweaver, got tired, but you know what I mean…) Lindsay DuBois, Chair Fulbright Canada Research Chair over the summer to figure out how in Society and Culture at Dalhousie to offer our engaging, relevant and FACULTY UPDATES TIMOTHY BRYAN AFUA COOPER giving permission to print an image— This past year was Dr. Timothy Bryan’s In Sept. 2019, Afua Cooper as chair instead, he would deliver Rudnicki’s first year at Dalhousie University and of the scholarly panel, that examined original painting to Dalhousie to display in the Department of Sociology and Lord Dalhousie’s History on publicly for a long-term period.” The Social Anthropology. Dr. Bryan had an and Race, launched the report of the painting shows the arrival of some of exciting and eventful year which began same name. The Report delved into the Black Refugees of the War of 12 with his move to Halifax from Toronto. the founder of the university, Lord landing at Halifax Harbour. Dr. Cooper In the fall, he successfully developed Dalhousie’s troubled relationship with had used the painting as one of the and taught two courses: SOSA 2181 the Nova Scotian Black community, images in the Report. Explaining Crime and Criminal and the links of the university to Behaviour and SOSA 3285 Sociology Caribbean and Atlantic slavery. The of Law. He also received the Dalhousie Report was based on three years of University Belong Fellowship Award historical research. It stands as a great and began a new research project that contribution to Dalhousie’s curricular examines the policing of hate crimes interventions, and EDI initiatives. in the Halifax Regional Municipality. This report makes Dalhousie the first Building on his previous research, Dr. Canadian university to investigates the Bryan’s new research project examines imbrications between race, slavery, how law enforcement and non-law and higher education. As a result of the enforcement agencies collaborate Report Dalhousie joined the Universities Afua Cooper with Richard Rudnicki’s to combat hate crime in Halifax. In Studying Slavery (USS) Consortium. “Freedom Halifax, 1814.” November 2019, Dr. Bryan presented [https://www.dal.ca/dept/ldp/findings. In addition, Dr. Cooper helped in the his research at the panel discussion and html] The Report inspired the Army creation of “Jamaican-Nova Scotian workshop entitled Policing Black Lives; Museum of Halifax to donate Richard Connections” Exhibit which opened at is this too Much Noise about Nothing Rudnicki’s painting “Freedom Halifax, Pier 21 Immigration Museum in Feb. held at Dalhousie and in June 2020 Dr. 1814” to Dalhousie. Ken Hynes, the 2020. It will run until Oct. 2020. The Bryan was featured in Dalhousie’s Ask curator of the Army Museum explains exhibit highlights the almost three an Expert series where he discussed that after reading the Report, “he was hundred-year connection between the police violence, race, and racism. inspired to do something beyond just island of and the province of

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Nova Scotia. The Jamaican LAURA ERAMIAN in her introductory and advanced who were deported off the island by the Dr. Eramian is delighted to have undergraduate courses, Finally, in more British after the in been awarded tenure and promotion personal news, Dr. Eramian is thrilled to 1796 are featured in this exhibit. The to Associate Professor this year. have given birth to a baby girl in June Maroons were transported to Halifax, She published two peer-reviewed 2020. Nova Scotia. They helped in the journal articles that appear in Social construction of the Citadel Fortress. In Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale and April 2019, Afua received the Canadian Housing Studies, and she co-published Muslim Women Who Inspire award from a third article in Genocide Studies the Canadian Council of Muslim and Prevention. She also co-organized Women, for her work in Black studies, a session on the anthropology of poetry, and human rights. In Sept. friendship and co-presented a paper on 2020, Roseway Publishing (an imprint of her collaborative research on difficult Fernwood) releases Black Matters: friendships at the 2019 joint conference Poetry and Photography in Dialogue. of the American Anthropological Black Matters is an artistic collaboration Association and Canadian Anthropology between Afua Cooper and German Society. At the conference, she was scholar and artist Wilfried Raussert. awarded an Honourable Mention Laura Eramian receives 2019 Honourable for the Labrecque-Lee Book Prize Mention in the Labreque-Lee book prize LINDSAY DUBOIS for her monograph, Peaceful Selves: Much of Dr. DuBois’ time has been from Richard Lee himself. Personhood, Nationhood, and the Post- taken up with chairing a lively Conflict Moment in Rwanda. In teaching department. But time still permitted and supervisory activities, she thoroughly continuing work on Argentina’s enjoyed working with several wonderful important conditional cash transfer graduate students this year and program. One of the highlights over three groups of enthusiastic students this last while was participating in a Symposium marking the 10th anniversary of the conditional cash Continued on page 4 transfer program in Buenos Aires in July of 2019. The conference made possible a quick trip to revisit colleagues and friends in Argentina, and to touch base on the ever-shifting terrain of Argentine politics and social policy. It was gratifying that that symposium offered an opportunity to publish in Spanish, in the form of a book chapter with former student Justine Correia. Later that year, DuBois presented on the CCT as class warfare, at CASCA/AAA conference in the spectacular Vancouver conference center. Work with graduate students has been particularly varied and engaging and educational over the last while. She has had the pleasure of supervising students on such varied topics as Cuba’s double currency system, Acadian popular memory, the Canadian middle class imperative to own a home, the political possibilities of freelance digital workers, and the place of play for marginalized Brazilian youth (apologies to the students whose work was just reduced to a phrase!)

SOSA people (and friends) at a Zoom baby shower for Laura and Peter.

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ELIZABETH (LIZ) FITTING instance, knocking over a giant planter entire department! As Coordinator Liz Fitting has started two new, with a monstrous rented pickup truck. of the Gender and Women’s Studies overlapping, research projects: the The Rural Futures Research Centre has (GWST) Program, she chaired the first examines debates about social been busy conducting several telephone Unit Review of the Program which reproduction by focusing on the surveys, thanks to a team of amazing resulted in recognition that GWST is experiences of and Mexicans undergraduate interviewers and a critical program at Dalhousie and in the Seasonal Agricultural Workers graduate interviewers and supervisors. needs to maintain strong support to Program on Nova Scotian farms; the It also has a shiny new website at meet the needs of DAL students who project is funded by a SSHRC Insight www.rfrc.ca. In 2019, Karen, Dr. Fitting continue to enrol in GWST classes in Grant (2019-2024) and expands on and Dr. Catherine Bryan (Social Work) large numbers. Liesl also presented research she started twenty years ago received a $170K grant from the EU papers at two international conferences: with Mexican migrants and farmers. Liz Mobilities Forum to conduct mixed the Canadian Anthropology Society is also a Co-Investigator on a second methods research about the global (CASCA) joint conference with the project exploring the global political footprint of the local food movement American Anthropological Association economy of Nova Scotia’s local food in Nova Scotia. All components of the - “Senior Housing and the LGBTQ movement, with two Dal colleagues, Dr. project have been proceeding apace, Community” in Vancouver, and; the Catherine Bryan and Dr. Karen Foster, with support from research associate International Association of Gerontology and in collaboration with, and funded by, Jason Ellsworth, despite the curveball and Geriatrics (IAGG) conference in the Mobile Lives Forum. Over the past thrown by COVID19. With the soon- Gothenburg, Sweden, “Meeting the two years, Liz taught three new courses: to-depart Dr. Ramos, Karen is also Needs of Older LGBT Persons through one on Migration and Identity, another a co-investigator on an OFI-funded Specialized Community Housing”. on The Environment and Culture, study of social perceptions of climate Both papers were developed through which focuses on political ecology and change, which hired a post-doctoral research that Liesl carried out in the environmental racism, and a third called fellow. The PDF, Dr. Gillian Kerr, will European Union. She also had the Globalizations, co-taught with Dr. Ruben join us at Dalhousie in August. Two exciting experience of teaching a class Zaiotti, as an introductory course to other projects—a survey of Sociology for senior students in the Schulich sociology, anthropology and political graduates about their career pathways, School of Law at Dalhousie focusing science. Liz has finished a couple of and a survey of young adults with on Qualitative Research Methods and publications recently: a chapter on GM Autism about their housing desires— Interviewing Techniques. In 2019 Liesl crops and the remaking of Latin America were stalled by the pandemic but became a Board Member of the Access was published in Placing Latin America: are now picking back up. As of July to Justice and Law Reform Institute of Contemporary Themes in Human 1st, 2020, Karen will go on her first Nova Scotia. She continues work as a Geography (eds. Bosco and Jackiewicz, sabbatical with a naively optimistic plan co-investigator on the CMHC/SSHRC 2019) and a co-authored chapter to get a bunch of things done. funded project funded “Housing Policy examining Colombian seed activism is She has also been enjoying bike rides and Older LGBT Adults” and will be a currently in press for an edited collection and hikes near home. co-author on upcoming publications. called The Social Life of Standards (eds. Finally, Liesl is working on a manuscript Graham, J.E., Holmes, C.P., McDonald, LIESL GAMBOLD examining “Aging by Design” and F., and Darnell, R., 2021). Two of Liz’s various forms of senior housing. graduate students have completed, or are about to complete, their degrees TSAFRIR GAZIT Dr. Gazit has been working on several during the COVID-19 pandemic: projects over the last year. The first congratulations to Lexie Milmine, who encompasses the social science wrote a sociology thesis entitled “Don’t component of the Ocean Tracking Throw Glitter on our Carpet”: Cultivating Network with a final paper discussing Queer Safe Space(s), and to Martine the history and development of the Panzica, an MA student in International OTN written with Dr. Apostle, a SOSA Development Studies, who defends her emeritus professor. The second paper thesis on the use of information and analyzes the funding-research-policy communication technologies among process as well as the links between queer refugees in Canada this summer. Drs. Tonya Canning, Liesl Gambold and brian Campbell at SOSA graduation government funded scientific endeavors KAREN FOSTER reception. and the resulting scientific knowledge Since the last newsletter, Karen has been and its transition into policy (sociology crisscrossing the province conducting Dr. Liesl Gambold has been quite of knowledge). This research followed interviews for her Insight-funded project focused on bringing two of her Social the ways OTN data and technology on rural family business succession, Anthropology PhD students (Canning are being presented to and are used sometimes with a photographer in tow, and Campbell) and an MA student by different actors, such as external experiencing the best parts of being a (Peel) through to completion. This is scientists, fishery management, NGOs, social researcher, occasionally getting always a very celebratory time for the coastal and inland communities, and stuck on muddy farm roads and, in one the like. During the past three years, Dr. Gazit has been studying the impact

4 | SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY FACULTY UPDATES cont’d of the “Overlanding” movement in the Zoom. Religion and Public Scholarship in the USA and in Canada. This study has many Digital Age” centered at the University faces as our social and environmental MICHAEL HALPIN of Boulder Colorado. He will also landscape change. The main focus is The big news for me is that my continue his work on a Collaborative on the impact of overlanding on semi/ daughter, Audrey, was born on May Research Grant supported by the nonregulated open spaces from a 4th 2019. She’s super curious and American Academy of Religion for policy perspective as well as from a wonderful. I am also excited to join the project “Video Games and Value cultural phenomenon perspective. This the SOSA department as an Assistant Systems” with the University of summer Dr. Gazit was planning to do his Professor (as of July 1) and look forward Helsinki. fieldwork. However, due to Covid-19 the to contributing to the department for initial plan postponed to next year. One years to come. In terms of research, my FIONA MARTIN unexpected outcome of Covid-19 was paper detailing how neurobiologists Over the last two years, Fiona has the exponential rise of local overlanders explain social issues has been accepted worked on several local, national and due to international and provincial / for publication in Social Problems, international projects. She has been state border closures. This forced an while another paper on disadvantage collaborating with colleagues in the adaptation of the original research and prodromal Huntington Disease has Maritimes on a CIHR-funded CBR grant plan. Other ongoing projects include been accepted at Society and Mental based in Nova Scotia, titled “Preventing environmental, risk perception, and Health. With a colleague of mine at the spread of HIV: The critical role of activism in the energy sector, and the the University of Texas – Austin, I’ve addiction treatment services,” while also shifting patterns of formal and informal published a paper in the Sociology continuing her own research on the environmental activism. of Health & Illness on doctor-patient provision of OST to pregnant women in interactions involving experimental Nova Scotia. She and local colleagues JEAN-SEBASTIEN GUY medications for terminal cancer. I also recently submitted an application Despite the pandemics, this last year was also very happy to co-author an to CIHR to undertake a ‘rapid-response’ has been a great year for Jean-Sébastien encyclopedia entry on social isolation study of drug addiction treatment for two main reasons. First, his book with Kayla Preston (one of our SOSA transformation due to COVID-19. She with Palgrave-Macmillan was released grad students). Kayla has been my has also participated in a Michael Smith in September 2019. You can now get RA for a SSHRC Explore study on Health Research Foundation-funded your copy of Theory Beyond Structure socially isolated men, and she is an learning alliance to address the needs and Agency: Introducing the Metric/ all-around a great collaborator. Most of of caregivers for those engaged with Nonmetric Distinctions. Second, he has my conferences were cancelled due to the substance use treatment system been promoted to the rank of Associate COVID-19, but I will be doing a virtual in Canada. She and colleagues from Professor! In addition, Jean-Sébastien presentation at the Society for the the U.K., the U.S. and Australia were has published (1) an article entitled Social Studies of Science in August. recently awarded a three-year ESRC “Sexuality and systems theory: from (U.K.) grant to conduct a relational symbiotic mechanism to functional CHRISTOPHER HELLAND ethnography of parents who use differentiation” in the Italian journal In February 2019, Professor Helland’s opioids’ experiences of the health and Sociologia e politich sociali; (2) a former spouse (Dr. Sandra Alfoldy) social care system. In terms of writing chapter (in French) entitled “La sexualité passed from Cancer. Professor Helland and publications, Fiona co-edited and comme système social” in the volume took leave at that time for mental health contributed to a themed section of the Intimités et sexualités contemporaines issues and to care for their two teenage International journal of drug policy on the edited by Chiara Piassezi, Martin Blais, boys. He is thankful to the support he governance of parenting and substance Julie Lavigne and Catherine Lavoie received from Dalhousie University’s use, published in the Winter 2019, Mongrain (Presses de l’Université de Human Resource Department and and co-authored a recent paper on Montréal); (3) a book review of Peter is happy to be returning to work in policy responses to parental substance Baehr’s The Unmasking Style in Social September 2020. While on leave, use in the journal Contemporary Drug Theory for the Canadian Journal of Professor Helland, at the request of Problems, to be published this year. Sociology. Moreover, he has submitted the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Fiona has also enjoyed working with an article entitled “Durkheim meets American History, presented a paper excellent graduate students over the Cthulhu: the impure sacred in H. P. on his current research project for a last two years, as a supervisor and as Lovecraft” to the Journal for Cultural panel on Religion and Innovation in the graduate co-ordinator for the SOSA Research. Jean-Sébastien was planning Washington, DC. Helland’s research Department. to attend the Canadian Sociological examined the use of Computer Association’s conference this year, for Mediated Communication by the Dalai BRIAN NOBLE which he had created three sessions. Lama and new ritual activities in 3D Over the last year, supported by a When the conference was cancelled virtual reality environments. [https:// SSHRC Exchange grant and a FASS due to COVID-19, he organized in www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9- Burgess Research Award, Dr. Noble replacement for it a virtual mini- e6I9oBrA&list=LLavmdHwmYM9l7- has continued to advance the “Crows, colloquium with other members of CSA’s jbm75rK6w&index=47] Starting this Coyotes, Humans, Treaty” collaborative relational sociology research cluster. Fall, Professor Helland will be returning The colloquium was held on June 12 on to the Luce Funded project “Public Continued on page 6

5 FACULTY UPDATES cont’d research project. The project brings donated to the youth-focused language effort, Martha took a welcome six- together Indigenous knowledge holders restoration and activist project month sabbatical leave to carry on from three – Mi’kmaq, Hablemos Chatino para que Siga la her research in New Orleans, where Piikani Blackfoot, and Secwepemc – Palabra (“Speak Chatino so our word MA student Briana Kelly joined her to guided respectively by Dr. Sherry Pictou, will prevail”) in Oaxaca, Mexico. conduct fieldwork during the last two Elders Reg and Rose Crowshoe, and weeks of carnival season. Covid-19 cut Kukpi7 Judy Wilson. This intensive multi- ROBIN OAKLEY Martha’s fieldwork short in mid-March, year collaborative exchange is a new, Robin Oakley has a paper in press an experience she wrote about for the socially- and politically-pressing Inter- exploring colonial-era reserves, health CASCA newsletter Culture (Radice disciplinary, Inter-epistemic research and well-being and published one book 2020). New Orleans was hit hard initiative drawing knowledge holders review in American Ethnologist. Among and fast by the disease, and carnival of these Indigenous Nations into direct some of the courses taught were Health celebrations in 2021 will take a very conversation with Biological and Social and Culture, Health, Illness and the different form. Ethnographic research Scientists / legal experts, activating World System, Myth, Meaning. Ritual methods also have to change, shifting around Settler Canadian and Indigenous and Symbol, Qualitative and Field to online, mediated social worlds for Peoples Treaty and Earth-sustaining methods and Aging Cross Culturally. now. obligations. Crows and Coyotes – or MARTHA RADICE Radice, Martha. 2018. “Putting the corvids and canids – are amazingly Public in Public Art: An Ethnographic present and highly adaptive beings Approach to Two Temporary Art both ecologically and eco-socially in the Installations.” City & Society 30 (1):45- life and storied worlds of Indigenous 67. doi: doi:10.1111/ciso.12155. Peoples, as they are indeed in circuits Radice, Martha. 2020. “Doing/Undoing/ of Setter Canadian, “cosmopolitan” Redoing Carnival in New Orleans in life and scientific worlds. The aim of the Time of COVID-19.” Culture 14 these intensive conversations, between (1): online. [https://cascacultureblog. peoples and engaging non-human wordpress.com/2020/04/20/doing- species, is to learn from critical human- undoing-redoing-carnival-in-new- creature relations, both how to live orleans-in-the-time-of-covid-19/]. well with them, with each other, and Martha Radice chats with Ed Liebow, to activate our shared and contrasting Executive Director of the AAA HOWARD RAMOS knowledges in reconciling relations (photo credit: AAA) During the last year Dr. Ramos has on the threatened lands we inhabit been active publishing a new edited book with Jill Grant and Alan Walks together so precariously. The research Dr Martha Radice has been continuing on Changing Neighbourhoods and seeks to embody decolonial action, her SSHRC-funded ethnographic socio-spatial income polarization support ’ territorial research on carnival practices in New across Canadian cities. He has also authority, aligning in turn with the U.N. Orleans. Framed as a contribution to published a number of peer-reviewed Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous the anthropology of happiness, this research articles on methods for Peoples. Dr. Noble has partnered as project has led Martha to develop an studying neighbourhood change, Co-PI with PI Dr. Colin Scott at McGill upper-level seminar called ‘Happiness, scoping reviews on research on refugee University in submitting a Letter of Play, and Celebration,’ which has children and youth, and funding of Intent via the NFRF-Transformations been as enjoyable to teach as the organizations at the municipal level. program, to gather strong funding name suggests! Relatedly, she also He has likewise been active in working support for this project, under the won the competition to host the next on a project looking at hockey as a umbrella of the international initiative MacKay Lecture Series on the topic multicultural space with Dr. Lloyd “Territories of Life: Indigenous Visions ‘Happiness in Troubled Times,’ which Wong, who is the principal investigator for a Future Worth Living”. He welcomes has been postponed to 2021 due to the at the University of Calgary, and queries from prospective students to Covid-19 pandemic. Martha’s earlier Master’s student Patrick Bondy at engage in this research! research is still making waves: her Dalhousie University. He continues On other fronts, Dr Noble was very article ‘Putting the Public in Public to also work with Doctoral students pleased to learn that his Co-edited Art’ (Radice 2018) was one of the top Emma Kay and Rachel McLay on his volume Transcontinental Dialogues: 20 most downloaded articles in the perceptions of change project. During Activist Alliances with Indigenous urban anthropology journal City & the year he has likewise presented his Peoples of Canada, Mexico and Australia Society that year. Martha was kept busy research on immigration at Harvard has been chosen to become an open serving as Past President (2017-2018) University with Dr. Yoko Yoshida and at access e-book through the international of the Canadian Anthropology Society/ the University Osnabrück in Germany. program “Knowledge Unlatched”. It Société canadienne d’anthropologie He has also begun a project funded is also going to be translated and (CASCA) and co-organizing CASCA’S through the Ocean Frontiers Institute republished in Spanish by the Mexico unprecedented joint conference with Dr. Karen Foster, as well as with Dr. City based academic / activist publisher, with the American Anthropological Mark Stoddart at Memorial University, IWGIA-Pochote Press-CIESAS. Proceeds Association, held in Vancouver in looking at perceptions of environmental of the Spanish language volume will be November 2019. After this grand

6 | SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY FACULTY UPDATES cont’d change in Atlantic Canada. During the Spirituality, from Routledge Press was Morgan, and The Two Victorias—for year he has also actively engaged public co-authored with Shayan Asadi, an their inspiring stick-with-it-ness; they issues in print media as well as radio undergrad psychology student at the started in a hurricane, finished in a and television in English and French University of Toronto. “Last Night A pandemic, and still produced amazing and since the start of the Covid-19 DJ Saved My Life: Hip Hop, Cultural theses. You’re all superstars. pandemics has written op-eds on its Continuity and First Nations Suicidality,” implications for race and ethnocultural will appear in We Still Here: Hip Hop health statistics, affordable housing, North of the 49th Parallel, edited by and online teaching. Charity Mash and Mark Campbell, coming in October from McGill-Queen’s MARGARET ROBINSON Press. Margaret is now designing In 2019 Dr. Margaret Robinson accepted a new course, ENGL 4840, Queer a probationary tenure-track position as Representations in Detective Fiction, Assistant Professor, cross-appointed and revising INDG/CANA 3050, her Possible cover image for Emma Whelan’s in English and SOSA. She was also Indigenous Research Methods course, work-in-progress? awarded a Tier II Canada Research to function asynchronously online. As Chair in Reconciliation, Gender, and help her in the coming year, Margaret YOKO YOSHIDA Identity, and is now partnering with took online learning modules from Dr. Yoshida continued to work on the fellow CRC holders Dr. Karen Foster Dalhousie’s Centre for Learning & research pertaining to the retention and Dr. Kiran Banerjee to develop a Teaching, and the College of Continuing and integration of immigrants research training initiative for social Education. (as the Principal Investigator of a science students. She co-authored SSHRC Insight Grant) as well as a forthcoming article in Signs EMMA WHELAN refugee children and youth (as about queer women’s experience of Emma Whelan’s news is mostly the Co-Investigator of a SSHRC embodiment, and a literature review of pandemic-related. She continues work Partnership Grant). Working with poverty among lesbian, gay, bisexual, on a book, tentatively entitled Health colleagues, she published a few transgender, queer, and two-spirit in Your Hands: Handwashing and the articles in academic venues, including populations in Canada. In December Responsible Individual, 1920-2020 International Migration, and Applied of 2019 Margaret shared her work on (under contract with the University of Psycholinguistics (accepted), as two-spirit poverty with scholars and Regina Press’s Exquisite Corpse series, well as in a book, titled Refugees in policy makers at CIHR’s Best Brain on cultural histories of the body). The Canada and Germany: From Research Exchange. She will apply her learning book presents an historical sociology to Policies and Practice, published from that event to her current work of handwashing education in England by the GESIS Leibniz Institute for with Dr. Maryam Dilmaghani at Saint and Canada, from the campaigns the Social Sciences. Working with Mary’s University, examining hiring of the interwar years to the present Jonathan Amoyaw (a new colleague in discrimination in a SSHRC-funded COVID-19 pandemic, which provided SOSA) and Rachel McLay (SOSA PhD experimental study. Margaret delivered lots of additional source material, some student), Yoko also produced a short six talks, including one to environmental sent to her by her fantastic Morality & report on refugee retention in four advocacy group Nation Rising, but Health seminar students, with whom Canadian provinces, which explains her planned trip to Rostock, Germany she experienced a kind of living lab at how community groups or government had to be cancelled due to pandemic the end of the winter term. (Special agencies can use Statistics Canada restrictions. thanks to Briana Kelly for her photo of online resource on the Longitudinal Margaret produced eight book chapters, sidewalk art in Halifax!). Emma hopes Immigration Database (IMDB). She was half of which explore Indigenous food the pandemic is over soon so that she also active in delivering talks. With her sovereignty and treaty responsibilities to can visit the UK to finish research at colleague, Dr. Howard Ramos, Yoko other animals. With Mi’kmaw filmmaker the National Archives in London and delivered a talk titled “Why immigration Brett Hannam Margaret co-authored soap corporation Unilever’s archives is a solution, not a problem in Atlantic a chapter to appear in Insiders/ in Port Sunlight. She was to present Canada” at Harvard University’s Outsiders: The Cultural Politics and a paper in early June at the Canadian Canada Program Seminar (October 21, Ethics of Indigenous Representation Sociological Association conference in 2019). She was also invited to speak and Participation in Canada’s Media London, Ontario, on representations at GESIS Leibniz Institute’s German- Arts, edited by Dana Claxton and Ezra of the normal and natural child in Canadian Conference on Migration and Winton, coming from Wilfrid Laurier Canadian mothercare literature but, Integration in Osnabruck, Germany; University Press. A chapter on two- well, that got cancelled. She did have as well as the Migration and Ethnic spirit mental health, published in a chapter published in the edited Relations Program’s Speaker Series at The Oxford Handbook of Sexual and collection Media Analysis and Public Western University in London, Ontario. Gender Minority Mental Health, was Health: Contemporary Issues in Critical On this high note, however, Dr. Yoshida co-authored with undergraduate Naomi Public Health (Routledge). Most of is taking a leave from Dalhousie to Bird, and a chapter on associations all she wants to congratulate the join the Department of Sociology at between religion and mental health Honours students she supervised with Western University. Reflecting on her published in Bisexuality, Religion, & this year—Emily, Kristen, Mackenzie, 10 years in SOSA, she says, “I am very

7 CHANGING CLIMATES FACULTY UPDATES cont’d - CASCA AND AAA HOLD JOINT CONFER- lucky to have been with SOSA. Thank ENCE IN VANCOUVER you all for all the support, collegiality and friendship. I will definitely miss In November 2019, almost working with you! But I am hopeful that all the anthropologists in our paths will cross in conferences and SOSA participated in the first research. And to SOSA students, good ever joint conference of the luck in pursuing your dream; I look Canadian Anthropology Society forward to encountering you in various (CASCA) and the American venues!” Anthropological Association (AAA), which was held in Vancouver’s Convention Centre. Yoko Yoshida and Howard Ramos bid With an overarching theme of farewell to Nova Scotia. “Changing Climates: Struggle, Collaboration, and Justice,” the conference was co-chaired by SOSA’s own Dr Martha Radice, a former president of CASCA, GRADUATE STUDENT UPDATES with Dr Pam Downe (CASCA, U PATRICK BONDY bringing 28 scholars into conversation, Sask) and Dr Nicole Peterson (MA Social Anthropology) is on schedule for the press later this (AAA, UNC). The conference Patrick finished data collection for his year. Recent publications also include was a huge success, featuring research just before lockdown began two book chapters: “Glocalization of over 1100 events, including in March, and he has analyzed data Buddhist Food Projects on a Small three presidential sessions, 15 and begun drafting since then. While Canadian Island” and “Religion is the executive sessions, 742 regular conferences he was planning to attend Opium of the Scholar.” One notable sessions, nine late-breaking have been cancelled due to COVID-19, highlight took place at the AAAs in sessions, 171 gallery poster he has been working on an article Vancouver, where Jason had the presentations, 29 workshops, manuscript along with his supervisor, pleasure of co-organizing two panels 19 installations, and over 150 Dr. Ramos. The article is currently titled uniting 10 researchers from around the board, business, or committee “Textures of Solitude: Social Forms, globe on “The Climate of Commodity Boundaries and Community in Hockey Discourses: Values We Produce, Market meetings. The conference also Arenas”. & Consume,” where he also presented saw CASCA’s membership his own paper.” numbers rise to an unprecedent JASON ELLSWORTH 1100+. (PhD Social Anthropology) ADAM GREARSON (PhD Sociology) Over my first year at Dalhousie, I have completed the coursework requirement for my PhD. I am now beginning the process of outlining my comprehensive exams and drafting a reading list for my methods exam. In April, I learned that I was awarded the Outstanding Graduating Student Award, provided by Martha Radice, centre, with the Canadian Sociological Association, Nicole Peterson, UNC, left, and for my Master’s degree achievements PhD students Jason Ellsworth, Daniel right, Sabrina Doyon, U Laval at McMaster University. I submitted Salas and Ulises Villafuerte. and CASCA President 2019-2020 a co-authored journal article with my (photo credit: AAA) In addition to spending time lecturing MA supervisor based on my thesis at SOSA and continuing to try to finish findings, as well as helped to submit a a pesky dissertation on value, social co-authored methods article concerning enterprises, and global Buddhism as my past research assistant role for my part of his SSHRC funded doctoral MA supervisor in a longitudinal study. I research – in early 2020 Jason started co-authored a book review with fellow a position as a Research Fellow. He members of the Mad Studies Reading joins Drs. Fitting, Foster and Bryan’s Group from McMaster University which project on local food movements was published in the journal Disability & Changing Climates- conference and international labour migration. Society. I was awarded the Nova Scotia with a view. His co-edited volume “Fabricating Graduate Scholarship upon entering my Authenticity” (Equinox Publishing), PhD.

8 | SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY EMMA KAY of school closures in small Nova Scotia drafted parts of his dissertation. In the (PhD Sociology) communities. I was forced to rethink summer term, Dani taught a distance In 2019 Emma completed her my research methods in the face of course that focuses on the politics of comprehensive examinations and COVID-19. Meanwhile, there is a new socialist transition and development in began work on her dissertation article by Karen Foster and me in Cuba. He also contributed a literature proposal. This past year, through her the Journal of Rural and Community review to a rural development project work as the Atlantic Representative of Development: Last resort: The promise coordinated by prof. Karen Foster, and the Canadian Sociological Association’s and problem of tourism in rural Atlantic TA-ed in several courses offered by the Student Concerns Subcommittee, she Canada. department. assisted in planning and hosting nine KATIE MERRITT BRENNA SOBANSKI webinars. She also presented survey (MA Sociology) (MA Social Anthropology) data from her master’s research at three conferences in the summer of Katie began the MA program this past My fall and winter semesters involved 2019, including CSA@Congress, the fall, completing her coursework and coursework, area essays, preparing my Qualitatives, and “Because of Her” area essay examinations. She has also research proposal, and the delightful hosted by the Association Françaises been working as a TA for introductory surprise of being awarded the George d’Études Canadiennes (AFÉC) in level Sociology courses. In the spring Cooper Killam Master’s Prize. I am Bordeaux, France. The paper she she presented her MA research proposal currently recruiting and interviewing presented in Bordeaux is being to the SOSA department virtually via participants for my M.A. research on published this summer in issue 88 of Zoom. Additionally, Katie was accepted employees’ experiences of work in Canadian Studies/Études Canadiennes. to present at the Canadian Sociology social justice non-profits. I’m engaged GRADUATE STUDENT UPDATES Association’s annual conference, but in research assistant work for Dr. KATIE MACLEOD it was cancelled due to the COVID-19 Radice looking at how people in the (PhD Social Anthropology) pandemic. Katie is currently finishing Halifax Regional Municipality speak Katie has spent much of the last year up her written MA thesis proposal. about community, and I am beginning drafting and revising her doctoral Her research focuses on lesbian work as a research assistant on a dissertation. She has forthcoming representation on television. project with Drs. Ramos and Foster on perceptions of climate change in publications on Acadian rural language MAEGHAN TAVERNER rights, Indigenous Research Ethics in Atlantic Canada. Outside of school, and (MA Sociology) Mi’kma’ki, and Eastern Metis identities prior to the pandemic arriving in N.S., I in Nova Scotia. She also gave paper Maeghan is coming to the end of was volunteering at the Halifax Refugee presentations at the joint annual her first year in the program after a Clinic. I gathered information to support meeting of AAA and CASCA, Heritage challenging and educational year. Her refugee claims, researched provincial Interpretation in Atlantic Canada research interests include rural youth healthcare policies, and accompanied conference, and as part of the oral outmigration, rural queerness, and people to appointments. I’m attempting history and archival session of Songs, queer youth identities. She is currently to combine both thought and action in Stories and Sacred Fire: Fostering working on completing her area essays my work. and thesis proposal and her research Reconciliation through Collaborative BROOKE THOMAS-SKAF Research in Unama’ki. Katie lives in will be focusing on the reasons rural (MA Sociology) Sydney, Nova Scotia and has been queer youth out-migrate to city centres, working as a Research Associate with in the Atlantic Canadian region. She Beginning her SSHRC funded MA in Unama’ki College and teaching in the is navigating the Covid-19 world as Sociology this fall, Brooke has spent the Department of L’nu, Political, and Social she prepares to start her research in past year completing course work, area Studies at Cape Breton University. the upcoming year. Maeghan is also a essay examinations, and preparing a queer, disabled artist and educator and proposal for her thesis research which HANNAH MAIN hopes to raise awareness and improve explores how ‘trauma’ discourses are (PhD Sociology) accessibility in the arts and academia. mobilized by registered social workers in Alberta and Nova Scotia to morally In the 2019-2020 year, I was busy with DANI SALAS research and other activities. In October regulate children and youth. She is (PhD Social Anthropology) 2019, I travelled to St. John’s, NL for currently awaiting ethics approval to the Canadian Rural Revitalization During the past year, Dani continued begin collecting data for her study. Foundation (CRRF) conference, where working in his dissertation centred Throughout the past year, she has supervisor Karen Foster and I presented on the politics of value of rural Cuba, also enjoyed her role as a TA for two a paper on rural tourism, and I also while also carrying out teaching and first-year SOSA courses, celebrated the presented on “The Right to Rural research assistant activities in FASS. publication of her first journal article Schools.” This conference was also the For Dani, the year’s highlight was the titled “Bringing social justice into launch of State of Rural Canada III: publication of his article “Practices of focus: ‘Trauma-informed’ work with Bridging Rural Data gaps, a project that double currency: value and politics in children with disabilities” in Child Care I coordinated. In March, I presented rural Cuba” in Dialectical Anthropology. in Practice, and was awarded a Scotia my dissertation proposal: The heart This paper won the Roseberry-Nash Scholars Award to continue her studies of the community? The conflicting Award of the Society for Latin American this upcoming year. Currently, she is roles of a rural school. This research and Caribbean Anthropology. Dani also helping to edit a short volume of stories focuses on reasons and consequences presented a paper to the AAA-CASCA of former children in care in Alberta. 2019 conference in Vancouver and

9 SOSA SPEAKERS’ SERIES 2019-2020

SEPTEMBER 20: Dr. Jessaca Leinaweaver, Solidarity FEBRUARY 28: Dr. Peter Lenco, Gilles Deleuze: From Fancy Problems: Kinship and International Adoption in Spain French Philosophy to Serious Social Science

OCTOBER 25: Dr. Susan Vincent, Planning for retirement in MARCH 6: Dr. Janice Graham, Faultlines in Regulating Peru: Family, Pensions and the State Emerging Health Technologies: evidence, expertise and authority

NOVEMBER 29: Dr. Lesley Frank, Infant food insecurity in Canada: The breastfeeding paradox, politics of infant food charity, and second-hand baby food environments

SOSA SPEAKERS’ SERIES 2018-2019

SEPTEMBER 21: Dr. Jeremy Schmidt, Assistant Professor of FEBRUARY 12: Dr. Tim Bryan, Policing Hate: Race, Diversity Geography, Durham University, WATER OUT and the Politics of Hate Crime Response.

OCTOBER 30: Dr. Smadar Lavie, Single Mothers of color, FEBRUARY 15: Ciara Bracken-Roche, Policing the skies: Bureaucratic Torture, and the Divinity of the Nation-State navigating regulation and deployment in the Canadian dronescape. NOVEMBER 2: Dr. Daniel Tubb, Simulacra of extraction: Transforming cocaine with gold in Colombia MARCH 6: Dr. Smadar Lavie, The War on Gaza and Mizrahi Feminism NOVEMBER 9: Dr. Ted Rutland, Displacing Blackness: Power, Planning, and Race in Twentieth-century Halifax, Co-sponsored MARCH 29: Dr. Michael Halpin, A Prelude to Illness: How with the Canadian Studies Program. neuroscience is reshaping mental health

JANUARY 25: Dr. Holly Pelvin, YOU DON’T HAVE TO MAKE APRIL 5: Dr. Rachel Barken, Age, Disability, and Encounters AN APPOINTMENT TO BE ARRESTED: The Punitive disruption of with Care: Contested Meanings of (In)dependence arrest and detention

FEBRUARY 8: Dr. Ross Boyd, AI IN SOCIOLOGY- SOCIOLOGY IN AI

Photo APTN Wet’suwt’en Conflict https://www.aptnnews.ca/topic/wetsuweten-conflict/

TWO SOSA PROFS (FITTING AND NOBLE) HELPED WRITE A STATEMENT OF SOLIDARITY with the Wet’suwet’en, which became a CASCA resolution, found here: [https://cascacultureblog.wordpress.com/2020/04/15/resolution-2/]

For more information about Wet’suwet’en Land Rights and Self-Determination, and on the anti-pipeline struggle, check out the Unist’ot’en camp webpage: [https://unistoten.camp/about/wetsuweten-people/]“

10 | SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY REFLECTIONS ON A CAREER IN SOSA By Pauline Gardiner Barber

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2020 IS THE FIRST FULL YEAR of my longer but to paraphrase Chris Murphy, with two graduate students, one from retirement which began last July. It also recently retired and renowned each country, we will explore the is the year no-one will forget. I know I for his oratorical talents, I will miss implications of the rapidly growing won’t. New Year’s Day saw me dodging students and talking with them, but I presence of Tim Hortons’ cafes in the forest fires in Australia, enroute to visit will not miss teaching per se, especially Philippines. More so than in Canada, family in New Zealand. By the end of not now, in this unprecedented time Tim Hortons in Manila is strikingly January during the early days of the of unease. The pandemic shift to on- upscale, yet still branded as Canadian. Corona Virus, I was in South East Asia, line teaching would not have suited We ask how this example reflects transiting through Hong Kong during my teaching style so that at least is a the multi-generational arrivals of Chinese New Year. Masks were ever matter of relief. Good luck everyone for Filipinos on temporary labour contracts present and socially accepted, setting the challenges 2020/21 brings! to Canada. What are the gender, a global example from one of the most And, on a brighter note, 2020 also generation, and class consequences of densely populated cities in the world; bought news that I was awarded a the circulating mobilities (of capital and an example for which we now know to new SSHRC grant – “Fast food, slow labour) along the ever-shifting migration be grateful. Back in Halifax at the end migrations: Canada’s temporary corridor connecting the Philippines to of February people were living normally workers at home in the Philippines”. Canada? but not for long. Retirement and a As a Professor Emeritus with a pandemic happening simultaneously continuing appointment in the Faculty CAPTIONS are not the best combination, especially of Graduate Studies, I will lead this 1. Retirement party for for those of us with dispersed families project, working with Catherine Bryan Pauline Gardiner Barber and too many and far flung research sites. The (PhD SOSA 2017), now Assistant friends to mention. boredom and anxieties of the lock-down Professor in the Dalhousie School 2. Margaret Robinson and Emma Whelan certainly allowed time for reflection on of Social Work and two Philippine 3. Howard Ramos and Barbara Cottrell being retired from the SOSA routines colleagues, one a successful Dalhousie 4. Jean-Sebastien Guy, Peter Mallory and which have ordered my daily life for alumnae, Clarence Batan (PhD SOSA Laura Eramian nearly thirty years. Can it really be so 2010) Professor of Sociology, University 5. Sinziana Chira, Pauline Gardiner long? Some SOSA duties are happily no of Santa Tomas in Manila. Together Barber and Karen Foster.

11 REFLECTIONS ON A CAREER IN SOSA cont’d

Research aside, retirement in Cape Breton, followed by a one Mobility”, a SSHRC funded partnership provides opportunities for publically year appointment at Mount Saint based at Memorial University, I was able remembering one’s career highlights Vincent, and then finally the dream to introduce Natasha (studying mobile which in my case, include participation appointment at SOSA. In those early truckers in PEI), Catherine (studying in some major definitive changes days at Dalhousie, the academic wife of temporary foreign workers in Manitoba in SOSA’s modus operandi – in the then University President, hosted hotels) and Shiva (studying foreign curriculum, graduate teaching, networking events for women faculty; nurses in Halifax) to that project. All departmental priorities, and indeed awkwardly contradictory but of the three made excellent contributions in in what anthropologists like to call times. And as the tenure and promotion various formats to the very productive departmental culture. At the time of clock moved forward, so too came OTM network; they represented my appointment, when I was a relatively the long days (and years) of teaching, Dalhousie and SOSA with distinction. new Canadian and mother of two research, conferencing, publishing, and Aside from those early heady days young children, a major restructuring grant writing. A sequence of successful of SOSA curriculum reform and my of the undergraduate curriculum was SSHRC research grant applications ongoing research projects, the standout underway, one of a number of changes funded several Philippine research things I am most proud of include my necessitated by external reviews. projects to include annual trips to many wonderful graduate students and Revisions were much debated and when the field. After an initial workshop on especially those who were international finalized included new additions to Philippine coastal communities where students or immigrants to Canada. I am the core curriculum, including classes I represented Dalhousie during my forever grateful for the many things I that focused on gender, alongside first year at SOSA, invitations followed learned from them. Which is not to say I of those that focused on the social to contribute to various international am not also very proud of the numerous inequalities of racism and class. At initiatives (CIDA funded). This work other students I have taught over the the time, these new feminist priorities has been life-altering, both a pleasure years, most of whom impressed me were not uncontroversial anywhere and a privilege. The projects were all with their efforts to learn, some of in the academy, nor in any workplace university partnerships consisting of whom even contacted me years later to and public institution. SOSA’s changes multi-disciplinary teams including reassure me I was more successful as came with struggle and even moments Filipinos, other South East Asian a professor than sometimes seemed to of what felt like subterfuge. Suffice it colleagues, and occasionally, colleagues be the case based on their assignments. to say, I and a small cohort of like- from the University of the West Indies. And, in terms of graduate teaching, minded colleagues worked tirelessly My contributions as an anthropologist I am equally proud of my leadership and sometimes anxiously, on the new helped fine tune my expertise in role in the implementation of SOSA’s curriculum structure and logics. To livelihood, gender and development balanced graduate programming, everyone’s credit, that curriculum plan issues. The international friendships with MA and PhD degrees in both succeeded, as have subsequent models, forged through these projects continue disciplines. Gaining approval for the sometimes inspired collectively within though the files are long closed. PhD in Social Anthropology was an SOSA which has developed one of Later came collaborations with important milestone in the history of the most collegial academic cultures European partners and the amazing the department, not without various on campus. Nowadays curriculum opportunities afforded by the Atlantic challenges but again, a collegial modifications are more routine as Metropolis Centre of Excellence endeavour. Fast forward in time, I universities undergo corporate-style through several phases of research cannot close without noting that I strategic planning, not necessarily funding focused on citizenship and believe I was the first woman Chair of popular, nor at times sensible, but immigration issues. The Metropolis the Department (2010-2016), and this mostly, with collective commitment project’s collaborative umbrella allowed I am more certain of, the first Social and good leadership, SOSA collegiality numerous opportunities for other SOSA Anthropologist to hold that position. and good humour prevails, aided by the colleagues and graduate students over As I said, time flies, or rather the occasional social gathering. May this the years, including their participation temporalities defining our lives and long continue! in local, national, and international through which we perceive life, occur In response to the kind words of networks. How much we all learned in particular contexts. Currently we, FASS and SOSA colleagues at the from those exciting exchanges; or should I say I, inhabit the strange several retirement events in my honour, including lessons about how SOSA rhythms of COVID as a speed-up I rehearsed the rapid passing of time research can contribute to political (the grant and research clock ticking noting that as a young kiwi woman and public policy dialogues. In addition as research travel is stalled) and an from a country where at that time only to Catherine Bryan’s project, several incredible slow-down, day by day, two percent of the population attended excellent PhD theses and successful checking the news for updates on the university, I never imagined how my life careers were nurtured through pandemic and the political struggles would unfold as I travelled abroad after Metropolis and related collaborations. that define our present. Thank you all, MA study at the University of Auckland. For example, Natasha Hanson (PhD colleagues, friends, students, wonderful A PhD in Social Anthropology from the 2013), Sinziana Chira (PhD 2016), Shiva SOSA staff, and alumnae. Let’s keep in University of Toronto, a SSHRC post- Nourpanah (PhD 2017). And most touch. doctoral fellowship located at Dalhousie recently, as a co-investigator for “On the following on from my doctoral project Move: Employment-related Geographic

12 | SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY SOSA HONOURS SYMPOSIUMS

Members of the SOSA community at 2019 graduation reception. April 9, 2020 Introduction by Dr. Emma Whelan Emily Alward The Double Burden of Motherhood: Balancing Kristen Levesque Madness in the Media: News Coverage of Maternal Role Expectations with the Pressure of Responsibility to Police Lethal Force on Persons with Mental Illness Care for the Self: Self-Care Talk Amongst Mothers on the Online Victoria Mak Negotiating Utopia: ‘Come From Aways’ and the Parenting Forum BabyCentre.ca Production of Rural Idylls in Digby County Mackenzie Cormack “You Can Curate Your Own Experience”: Victoria R. Michels “Open Yourself to the World”: Reasons for Individuality and Social Interaction Within the K-Pop Fandom Studying Foreign Languages in University Morgan Herbert “It’s a Gift and a Burden”: The Non-Patrilineal Surname as an Alternative Representation of Kinship Ties

April 9, 2019 Introduction by Dr. Laura Eramian PANEL 1: RELATIONSHIPS, CARE, AND WORK PANEL 3: MODERN SOCIAL IDENTITIES Briana Kelly: Getting Acquainted: The Hidden Value of (In) Charisma Walker: “The Home I Never Knew”’: Understanding Significant Others how Blacks’ Connection to Africa Transcends an Interaction with Africa and its Culture Rena Vanstone: “Finding Joy in the Act of Giving:” Volunteering Amidst Tensions of Altruism and Egoism Lauren Coutts: “I Wanted to Know if I was Right in Thinking Who I Was”: User Negotiations of Genetic Ancestry Testing Shekara Grant: What’s the Deal with Small Talk?: A Sociological Analysis of Self-Help Books Michael Davies-Cole: Gender Expression in a “They” Generation

Cheyanne Manhas: “A Paradoxical Need to Care and Control”: Jillian Ramsay: “I’m Just a Nature Person”: How Nature Lovers Exploring Emotional Labour and Professionalism in Social Work Make Their Identities in an Urban Environment

PANEL 2: CONTESTED PUBLICS PANEL 4: HEALTH, RISK, AND REGULATION Maeve Morin: ‘Inoculated by White Privilege’: Exploring White Asrar Haq: “Why are We Prescribing a Plant?”: Nova Scotia Students’ Reluctance to Discuss Racism Doctors’ Perspectives on Cannabis in the Era of Legalization

Patrick Bondy: The 95%’: Identities, Groups and Boundaries in Mackenzie Maeland: Canadian Citizens, Immigrants and Organized Hockey in Halifax Health: the Role of Strain and Capital

Melissa Slauenwhite: “How Do We Better Prepare for the Mary-Ellen Murray: O Cannabis: Managing Risks and Purveying Future?”: Political Ambivalence and Income Guarantees in Pleasures of a Newly Legal Substance Canadian Media

13 ALUMNI UPDATES

MARK AYYASH (BA Hon SOCI 2003), is and mentors young immigrant women MATTHEW HOWE (BA Hons SOAN now Associate Professor of Sociology for the Calgary Immigrant Women’s 2015). After three years working at Mount Royal University in Calgary. Association. as research assistant manager for In 2019 he published A Hermeneutics HALEY FARRAR-MUIR (BA Hons Bermuda Tourism Authority, Matthew of Violence: A Four-Dimensional SOCI 2013, MA SOCI 2016) and her has moved to Washington, DC, where Conception at University of Toronto co-authors at the Canadian Centre for he works for Hanover Research in their Press. The book draws on theories Vaccinology recently published their qualitative team. He is responsible from the disciplines of sociology, qualitative work on British Columbia’s for sample development, in-depth anthropology, international relations, influenza prevention policy for expert interviews, and focus groups for and philosophy in order to advance healthcare workers (https://pubmed. corporate and education research. He a dialogical analytic for the study of ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31922460/). Haley most enjoys the education projects, violence. This approach reveals four contributed to this project while writing especially moderating focus groups. dimensions of violence: instrumental her graduate thesis. She is currently DAVID G. JONES (MA SOCI 1973) (violence as an instrument for politics), living in Boston working as a Clinical is an active volunteer with CESO linguistic (violence as communicative Research Program/Project Manager - the Canadian Executive Service and formative), mimetic (violence as in the Division of General Academic Organization. David collaborated dialogical), and transcendental (the Pediatrics at Massachusetts General with the staff of the National Library unknowability of violence). This four- Hospital, focused on health disparities of Mongolia, with whom he led a dimensional conception opens up a research and social determinants of workshop in the subject of Knowledge rich landscape of analysis whereby health. Management. He continues his social scientists can examine the often- overlooked transformative dimensions of violent acts. CLAUDIA CHENDER (BA Hon. SOAN and POLI 1999) was elected as an MLA ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT for Dartmouth South, Nova Scotia in 2017. In addition to her MLA duties, she is NDP House Leader and Critic for Jennifer Finance, Business, Rural and Regional Peruniak Economic Development, Justice, Education, and Energy and Mines. (BA SOCI 2016) writes: SARAH ENGLAND (BA Hons SOAN 2017) graduated with an MSc in “I finished my MA at University Anthropology and International of Toronto in 2019. My thesis Development Management at the constructed a theoretical framework London School of Economics (LSE) that applies to transracial adoptees in December 2019. Her dissertation and how they negotiate their racial explored how and why gendered, identities within white adopting always has a special place in my racialised, neoliberal, and nationalistic families (there are huge holes in the heart though. On a more personal discourses are actively promoted, literature which I hope to address note- between Dal and my MA, I shaped, and (re)produced by the with my PhD dissertation). Last worked in social work--which was Philippine state and its migratory year at this time I was presenting at very difficult because I was working infrastructure, affecting the lives of the CSA and ASA conferences; this with sexually abused children. So I Filipina migrant domestic workers. year’s plans were cancelled by Covid. took off on a 7 month backpacking It won LSE’s Lucy Mair Prize for I am going into my second year of trip around Southeast Asia. After Anthropology and Development my PhD in Sociology at University that I spent a year in Vancouver Management for best dissertation in of Toronto, where I am researching working in the film industry until I the graduating class. While at LSE, transracial adoptees, racial identity, got into grad school! Grad school has Sarah worked as a consultant for the positionality, and contested been pretty amazing, and stressful, International Labour Organization motherhood within the family unit. but I’ve met some amazing people researching Mutual Recognition I won OGS, and guest lectured for and its cool to think we will continue Agreements in Caribbean and a class on sociology of violence, I to grow together in these next 4 to Southeast Asia. She then returned continue to TA and RA here under 6 years. I’m super excited to audit 2 to Calgary and completed a strategic very interesting professors. In a of my dream PhD film courses this communications and public affairs happy place in Toronto, I love the city year (one on post colonialism and internship. After COVID hit, Sarah and the diversity and am working cinema and one on black identity pivoted completely to open a small under really cool people. Halifax and cinema).” business, “bysarahe”, designing and creating jewelry with epoxy resin. She also volunteers for United Way Calgary

14 | SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY research and writing on the subject of this will be Molly’s second article based the events related to the first Empire of on her Honours research. The first China and its emperor, Qin Shi Huang. one came out in 2019 in the Journal MIRIAM KARREL (BA Hon SOAN for Undergraduate Ethnography vol. and ESS 2015) completed her MA in 9 no. 1 (https://doi.org/10.15273/jue. Anthropology at McMaster University v9i1.8884). in 2019 with a thesis entitled “An NETHRA SAMARAWICKREMA Exploration of Death Cafés in Canada.” (MA SOAN 2012) successfully TAMEERA MOHAMED (BA Hons SOCI defended her doctoral dissertation in 2015; MA SOCI 2018) is working at the anthropology, Speculating Sapphires: University as the Cultural Diversity Mining, Trading, and Dreams that Advisor, supporting BIPOC students at Move Gems across the Indian Ocean, the University of Guelph and running at Stanford University on August programming and educational events. 18, 2020 (via Zoom). Her research is This role includes facilitating workshops an ethnography of gem mining and and trainings around EDI, recently trading in Sri Lanka and across the dabbling in webinars for students, staff Indian Ocean, following the gems as and faculty. She is a certified trainer for they are passed through many hands the Instructional Skills Workshops and along ancient maritime routes to new is very interested in critical pedagogy sites of global capital. By exploring and pedagogical approaches to social everyday worlds of work in the gem justice education. trade – from miners who work without DRU MORRISON (BA Hon SOAN and wages for a share of gem revenue to FILM 2013; MA SOCI 2017) is pursuing a traders who exchange stones on credit PhD in the Department of Sociology at across ethnic and religious lines with University of Waterloo. little recourse in the event of default PARKER MUZZERALL (BA Hons SOCI – Speculating Sapphires reimagines 2017) has relocated to Vancouver to speculation through ordinary forms of start an MA in Sociology there this fall. risk taking in labour and trade. If you His research will build on the questions are curious to know more, you can he addressed in his Honours project read an accessible richly illustrated on social responses to climate change, essay that Nethra wrote about her investigating how climate change will research at http://desiwriterslounge. exacerbate existing inequalities and net/articles/papercuts-nomad-nethra- create new ones in its wake. samarawickrema-indian-ocean- MOLLY RYAN (BA Hons SOAN 2018). sapphires/ After graduating, Molly continued CHARISMA GRACE WALKER (BA Hons working with Dr Janice Graham SOAN & PSYC 2019) became Saint (Pediatrics, Dalhousie) and published an Mary’s University’s first African Nova article in BMJ Global Health on the role Scotian/Black Student and Community of trustworthiness in epidemic response Liaison in February 2020. She provides (https://gh.bmj.com/content/4/1/ support to current African Nova Scotian e001272.abstract). In June 2021, she and Black students; builds relationships will complete a Master’s of Public with local Black communities; and Health at the University of Toronto works collaboratively in university policy (supported by an Ontario Graduate reviews and development. In addition, Scholarship, 2019-2021). Molly has been she is starting a Master of Education putting her SOSA skills to excellent use, in Counselling online through Acadia working as an interviewer for a Toronto- University. based study on vaccine hesitancy and as a qualitative data analyst for the Positive Plus One mixed methods study of couples where one partner is HIV- postive and the other is HIV-negative. Molly has also just submitted a new manuscript reanalyzing her Honours thesis data, on how doctors and funeral directors manage their emotions around death, from an institutional ethnography perspective. If published,

15 MA students’ proposal presentations

APRIL 15 AND APRIL 16, 2020 APRIL 5, 2019 Emily Taweel The Construction of Sex Offenders in Canadian PANEL 1 ~ THE CHANGING WORLDS OF WORK: Media and Policy PRECARITY AND (UN)PREDICTABILITY

Brooke Thomas Social Workers’ Conceptions of Trauma and Jo Minx Deep learning: The educational and occupational skills Practice with Children and Youth in Canada of students entering the AI economy

Bryce Anderson Colonial Sentiments: Examining Canadian George On-Demand: Worker career narratives in the gig Depictions of Indigenous Suicide and Health economy

Brenna Sobanski Dealing with Contradiction: Employees’ Kate Crane Everyday moments of political possibility among Narratives of Work in Non-Profits with a Social Justice Mission precarious digital workers

Katie Merritt Representations of Lesbianism in The L Word and PANEL 2 ~ (RE)CREATING SPACES, The L Word: Generation Q* OBJECTS AND IDENTITIES

Patrick Bondy Rinks of Change: An Ethnographic Study of Lexie Milmine Queer safe spaces: Everyday successes and Morality and Ethics in Canadian Hockey Arenas challenges in Halifax

Briana Kelly Making Meanings: Material Culture in New Orleans’ Jenny Davison Ritual objects: Spirits, health and decolonizing Carnival the study of African power figures

Alastair Parsons AA groups: Spiritual sickness and the value of comparison

PANEL 3 ~ HIDDEN CURRICULUMS (MCCAIN 2198)

Betty Chukwu “10 Nigerian Food Blogs I heart”: Food and Nigerian culture

Hailie Tattrie Teaching Coloniality? The education system and Indigenous/ settler relations

Kayla Preston Identity and belonging: A discourse analysis of Canadian right-wing extremism online

The 2018/19 Grad Class: Left to right: Hailie Tattrie, Alyssa Gerhardt (PhD student), Kris George, Kate Crane, Jo Minx, Alastair Parsons, Betty Chukwu, Lexie Milmine (not pictured: Jenny Davison)

16 | SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY 2018-19 SIMON AND RIVA SPATZ VISITING CHAIR IN JEWISH STUDIES: SMADAR LAVIE I’ve Gone Back to San Francisco with an Aching in my Heart

IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2018/19 I spent The top students in my fall class the region to Cape Breton, the South eight exciting months at the Dal SOSA requested an independent study with Shore, North Shore, Bay of Fundy, and department as the Spatz Visiting chair me --their first empirical hands-on Scott's Bay. Malka, my doggie, enjoyed of Jewish Studies. In March 2020 the ethnographic project on young women it too. During my Dal time, my article, world as we know it ceased to exist. from the Global South crossing into “Gaza 2014 and Mizrahi Feminism” Having lived through 168 days of Canada. They conducted in-depth went through several revisions and was sheltering-in-place, my Dal time has interviews with six women their age, published in PoLAR (Political and Legal morphed into such a heavenly reverie. drawn from a wide range of immigrants Anthropology Review). It received a I came to Dal out of great respect and refugees, employed the course plaque for being one of the journal’s top for the scholarship and community materials, and reviewed the literature downloaded papers for 2019. engagement of its anthropologists on Canada's gendered immigration. I wish us all a creative academic year, who work for the collective land, They presented their graduate-level and success in the difficult transition water, economic, and cultural rights of undergrad paper at the 2019 Society from the real classroom to online indigenous peoples and disenfranchised for the Study of Gloria Anzaldua teaching. My heartfelt gratitude for populations. I’m forever grateful to conference in San Antonio. I was unable your generous welcome and hospitality. Brian Noble and Ajay Parasram for the to attend so they read my conference I hope our paths cross again when the invitation. paper as well. Right at the end of their pandemic is over. We must re-enter a The classroom experience was panel my colleagues phoned me to better world soon. so rewarding. I taught two classes, report how impressed they were with ’Comparative Borders and Diasporas: the data sets, rigorous analysis and Israel-Palestine, U.S.-Mexico’ poetic writing of these students. Their and ‘Intersectionality and Israeli paper is forthcoming in the Journal for Feminisms.’ I adored my students, Undergraduate Ethnography. all of whom came from a wide variety My expertise in Islam and Mizrahi of backgrounds including anthro, Judaism guided them in their discovery IDS, gender studies and even science that there are few studies on women majors, ranging from children of Arab immigrants' and refugees' religion immigrants and refugees, Toronto and spirituality due to what scholars elite, and first generation in working define as Canada's "fundamentalist class families to attend university. They secularism." were hardworking, original thinkers, I also got quite a lot of writing done, and deeply engaged with the course inspired by my weekends in the sublime materials. beauty of Nova Scotia. I travelled across

17 2019-20 FULBRIGHT CANADA RESEARCH CHAIR IN SOCIETY & CULTURE: Jessaca Leinaweaver (Brown University, Department of Anthropology)

JESSACA LEINAWEAVER began her at Dalhousie. She also continued to fractions and provincial flowers. Though sabbatical year at Dalhousie with advance her various research projects, her Fulbright has ended and she is a research project on the debate submitting three article manuscripts now the Chair of the Brown University around the opening of adoption on adoption in Spain co-authored with Anthropology Department, Jessaca will records in Nova Scotia. In keeping with Diana Marre (Autonomous University be regularly coming-from-away to Nova Fulbright’s emphasis on cross-cultural of Barcelona), and preparing a new Scotia and hopes to stay in touch with engagement, Leinaweaver published article on lay gerontology in Peru. And colleagues and students from SOSA in two op-eds on the open records debate: she traveled to St. FX in February to the years to come. this one for the Herald and this one present on her research about child for CBC. Inspired by an exhibit at Pier circulation and adoption in Peru. Aside 21, she also completed all the research from writing and public presentations, (interviews, bibliographic research, Jessaca enjoyed giving guest lectures and text analysis) for a related article in colleagues’ classes – Martha, Liz, currently in preparation, tentatively and Fiona all invited her to participate entitled “Museum Families: Kinship in their seminars – and meeting with and Material Culture at the Canadian students. Museum of Immigration.” In March, of course, everything Jessaca spoke about her research ground to a halt – the Fulbright public on international adoption in Spain talk that Lindsay worked so hard to to the SOSA Speakers Series in the organize at the Halifax Central Library fall, sharing the extended version of was cancelled due to COVID, and like an analysis of “solidarity problems” so many other academic parents, that, fittingly, had its earliest roots as Jessaca’s attention turned to home- a conference paper for CASCA 2016 schooling, with a specialization in

18 | SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY KUDOS TO OUR STUDENTS!

PhD Student Etni Zoe Castell Roldán, Sociology Honours students Maeve saw her master’s thesis published as a Morin (for 2019) and Rena Vanstone EXTERNAL GRADUATE book in late 2019; the title is: Mercancía (for 2020) were recipients of the STUDENT FUNDING Dañada: Carne y Carnales al Oriente de la Outstanding Graduating Student AWARDS: Ciudad de México (Damaged commodity: Award from the Canadian Sociological Meat and Meatworkers in Mexico's City Association. In the graduate student Eastside). category Tameera Mohamed (for 2019) AWARDED 2018/19 PhD student Daniel Salas has won the and Rachel McLay (for 2020) were the Jenny Davison-SSHRC, prestigious Roseberry-Nash Award for CSA Outstanding Graduating Student NSGS, Killam best student paper from the Society Award winners. for Latin American and Caribbean SOSA students have won the $4000 Alastair Parsons-SSHRC, NSGS Anthropology (SLACA). The winning FASS Glovin Essay Award two years Kayla Preston- SSHRC, NSGS, paper is titled: “Practices of Double in a row. The Irving and Jeanne Currency: Value and Politics in Rural Glovin Award was set up in 2003 to Daniel Salas NSGS Cuba”. The award was presented foster research into the meaning and at SLACA's business meeting at the underlying principles for “good human CASCA-AAA conference in Vancouver. conduct.” In 2019, Keith MacIsaac won AWARDED 2019/20: the prize with his essay ‘Happiness Patrick Bondy-SSHRC, NSGS and Good Human Conduct: A Cross Cultural Exploration.’ In 2020, Jillian Alyssa Gerhardt-SSHRC Murphy scooped the award with her Adam Grearson-NSGS essay, ‘Playful Ways of Learning Good Human Conduct.’ Both developed Brianna Kelly-SSHRC, NSGS their prizewinning essays in Dr Martha -SSHRC, Radice’s special topics seminar, Rachel McLay Happiness, Play, and Celebration in NSGS, Killam Winter 2019 and Fall 2019 respectively. Zoe Castell Roldan-NSGS, Coincidentally, both had first worked Wenner Gren with Dr Radice in her Introduction to Daniel Salas receiving Roseberry-Nash Anthropology class in 2010-2011. Brenna Sobanski-SSHRC, Award from Ronda Brulotte, President NSGS, Killam of the Society for Latin American and Maeghan Taverner-NSGS Caribbean Anthropology. Emily Taweel-NSGS Sociology MA student, Kayla Preston was awarded a studentship from the Brooke Thomas-SSHRC, NSGS Canadian Network for Research on Terrorism, Security and Society, and was one of the 25 finalists in the 2019 NOTES: SSHRC stands for the SSHRC Storytellers competition. Social Sciences and Humanities MA student Stef Peel won the 2019 Research Council of Canada. Canadian Anthropology Society NSGS refers to the Nova Scotia (CASCA) Best Student Poster Prize Graduate Scholarship. The (Juried) in Vancouver and the 2020 Wenner Gren is the Wenner Gren Canadian Anthropology Society Foundation for Anthropological (CASCA) Outstanding Graduating Stef Peel and her award-winning poster. Anthropology Master’s Student Research. Award, Dalhousie University. Other Outstanding Graduating Student Award Winners from the Canadian Anthropology Society CASCA were, for Honours, Briana Kelly (for 2019) and Morgan Herbert (for 2020) and for the doctoral category, Tonya Canning (for 2019).

19 DOCTORAL DEFENCES SOSA BABIES! December 10, 2018: REDDI SEKHARA YALAMALA successfully defended his PhD in Social Anthropology. His dissertation was entitled, Whose Reality Counts? Valuing Dalitbahujan Knowledge in a Technocratic India. December 12, 2018: BRIAN CAMPBELL successfully defended his PhD in Social Anthropology. His dissertation was entitled, Distinctive Dealings: Formal and Informal Entrepreneurship in Halifax, Nova Scotia. July 17, 2018: DIANA (DEE) LEWIS successfully defended her PhD in Sociology. Her dissertation was entitled, “Tlilnuo’lti’k – Weji-sqalia’timk: How we will be Mi’kmaq on our own Land Working Together with Pictou Landing First Nation to Redefine a Healthy Community. August 23, 2018: TONYA CANNING successfully defended her PhD in Social Anthropology. Her dissertation was entitled, “We Don’t Want Hippy Money”: Contradiction and Exchange in a Local Currency System

Left photo: brian Campbell and Reddi Audrey Halpin was born May 4th 2019. Yalamala, having just received their She loves reading, swings, and stealing PhDs at the May 2019 convocation. her mom’s sunglasses. Bottom photo: Tonya Canning, Diana (Dee) Lewis and Paul Armstrong, having just received their PhDs at the October 2018 convocation.

Natalia Eramian-Mallory was born on June 6, 2020. Her favourite pastimes include constant wiggling, prolonged feedings, and evading naps.

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