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Dear Colleagues, It gives me great pleasure to announce that we will be honouring Dr. Noel Dyck, Simon Fraser University, with the Weaver-Tremblay Award at AAA-CASCA 2019 in Vancouver. The Weaver-Tremblay Award in Canadian Applied Anthropology is named after two of Canada's most-renowned applied anthropologists, the late Sally Weaver, and the late Marc-Adélard Tremblay. It is one of CASCA's highest honours, and Dr. Dyck is a most deserving recipient. Dr. Dyck is well known in CASCA for his foundational work in the Society for Applied Anthropology in Canada (SAAC), two-time service on the CASCA Executive (including as President, 2006-7), editorial contributions to Anthropologica and Culture, and leadership on the Salisbury Award Committee. But it is his commitment and scholarly contributions to engaged and applied anthropology that we honour with this award. The nomination package for Dr. Dyck documents a career of engaged anthropological research excellence, and includes letters of support from scholars, representatives of community agencies and students inspired by his teaching and training in the areas of policy, ethical engagement, and community-based research. Dr. Dyck's work on Indigenous policy and residential schools is lauded as being ahead of its time, a clarion call for the reparation to First Nations People of Canada that the Truth and Reconciliation Commission confirmed. His work on Indigenous policy set the groundwork for an anthropological understanding of what must be done as we move forward towards justice and reconciliation. His more recent work in the anthropology of sport draws similarly high praise: "Noel brilliantly weaves a sophisticated social field theory with a blend of detailed ethnographic accounts, in depth interviews, and personal stories to reveal a more nuanced and complex analysis of the practices of being a coach, sport organizer, parent, and competitive or recreational athlete, and how these practices are mediated by intersections of gender, ethnicity, power, age and ability." The roles that policy plays in shaping, shifting, and governing the contexts of children's sporting activities in Canada ground this work centrally in applied anthropology. The Weaver-Tremblay Award Committee was impressed by the extent of Dr. Dyck's mentorship. He has, as one colleague put it, a "generosity of spirit" that inspires a commitment to the application of anthropology and ethical engagement with community partners. "If we were to do Anthropology," a former student explains, "we should apply it; and if we were going to apply it, we should apply it well. [Noel] did not suffer shoddy work or lack of commitment." In sum, excellence and inspiration are defining features of Dr. Dyck's work in applied anthropology in Canada. I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Noel Dyck on receiving the 2019 Weaver-Tremblay Award. I look forward to celebrating his success in Vancouver next November. |
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