Julie Cruikshank
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Julie Cruikshank is a Canadian anthropologist known for her research collaboration with Indigenous peoples of the Yukon.{{Cite news|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/their-own-yukon-photo-book-reprint-1.3671443|title='Their Own Yukon': Book of historic First Nations photos back in print|work=CBC News|access-date=2017-10-25|language=en}} She is a Professor Emerita in the Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. She has lived and worked for over a decade in the Yukon Territory, creating an oral history of the region, through her work with people including Angela Sidney, Kitty Smith, and Annie Ned. Her work focuses mainly on the practical and theoretical developments in oral tradition studies.
Awards and achievements
In 2012, Cruikshank was appointed an Officer to the Order of Canada.{{Cite news|url=https://news.ubc.ca/2013/01/02/four-ubc-professors-appointed-to-order-of-canada/|title=Four UBC professors appointed to Order of Canada|date=2013-01-03|work=UBC News|access-date=2017-10-25|language=en-US}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/little-known-canadians-receive-big-honour/article6801756/|title=Little-known Canadians receive big honour|last=Morrow|first=Adrian|date=2012-12-30|access-date=2017-10-25|language=en-ca}} In 2010, she became a fellow in the Royal Society of Canada, the Academies of Arts, Humanities, and Sciences of Canada.{{Cite web |url=https://www.mcgill.ca/mse/files/mse/RSC_NF_Citations_EN_FINAL_000.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2017-10-24 |archive-date=2017-10-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171025022229/https://www.mcgill.ca/mse/files/mse/RSC_NF_Citations_EN_FINAL_000.pdf |url-status=dead }}
In 2006, Cruikshank's book from the University of Washington press, Do Glaciers Listen? Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, and Social Imagination, won the Julian Steward Award from the Anthropology and Environment Society, which is a section of the American Anthropological Association.{{Cite web|url=http://ae.americananthro.org/prizes/julian-steward-award/|title=Julian Steward Award {{!}} Anthropology and Environment Society|website=ae.americananthro.org|language=en-US|access-date=2017-10-25}} The book also won the Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing in 2006.{{Cite web|url=http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=LitRC&u=ubcolumbia&id=GALE%7CH1000188119&v=2.1&it=r&sid=summon&authCount=1|title=Gale - Enter Product Login|website=go.galegroup.com|access-date=2017-10-25}}
In 1995, Cruikshank was awarded the Robert F. Heizer Prize by the American Society for Ethnohistory as well as a UBC prize Prize for Excellence in Teaching from the Faculty of Arts. In 1992, she was awarded the UBC Killam Research Prize and two years later in 1994, received the UBC Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Faculty Research Fellowship.{{Cite web|title=Department of Anthropology: Julie Cruikshank|url=https://anth.ubc.ca/profile/julie-cruikshank/|access-date=2022-01-26|website=The University of British Columbia|language=en-US}}
Publications
=Books=
- {{cite book |ref=none|last=Cruikshank|first=Julie|year=2005|url=https://www.ubcpress.ca/do-glaciers-listen |title=Do Glaciers Listen? Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters and Social Imagination|place=Vancouver|publisher=UBC Press}}
- {{cite book |ref=none|last=Cruikshank|first=Julie |year=1998|url=https://www.ubcpress.ca/the-social-life-of-stories |title=The Social Life of Stories: Narrative and Knowledge in Northern Canada|place=Lincoln|publisher=University of Nebraska Press}}
- {{cite book |ref=none|last=Cruikshank|first=Julie |year=1991|title=Reading Voices: Dan Dha Ts'edenintth'e|place=Vancouver|publisher=Douglas and McIntyre}}
- {{cite book |ref=none|last=Cruikshank|first=Julie |year=1990|url=https://www.ubcpress.ca/life-lived-like-a-story |title=Life Lived Like a Story: Life Stories of Three Yukon Native Elders|place=Lincoln|publisher=University of Nebraska Press}}
=Edited volumes=
- 2007. [http://www.tc.gov.yk.ca/publications/southern_tutchone_stories_part1_2007.pdf My Old People’s Stories: A Legacy for Yukon First Nations], by Catharine McClellan. 3 volumes. Occasional Paper in Yukon History, 5(1-3), 804 pages.
- Changing Traditions in Northern Ethnography CRUIKSHANK, Julie. Introduction: Changing Traditions in Northern Ethnography. Northern Review, [S.l.], n. 14, nov. 2015. ISSN 1929-6657.
References
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External links
- [https://anth.ubc.ca/faculty/julie-cruikshank/ Faculty website]
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Category:Officers of the Order of Canada
Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
Category:Academic staff of the University of British Columbia
Category:Canadian women social scientists
Category:Canadian women anthropologists
Category:21st-century Canadian women scientists
Category:Canadian anthropologists
Category:21st-century Canadian women writers