HONOURS, GRANTS, & AWARDS
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HONOURS:
2020 Lifetime Service Award, American Society for Ethnohistory
2018 Dean’s Award of Excellence (for exceptional merit)
2017 Dean’s Award of Excellence (for exceptional merit)
2016 Presented with a Thunderbird Print by Marianne Nicolson at the Gwi’molas Potlatch, Alert Bay, B. C.
Dean’s Award of Excellence (for exceptional merit)
2014 Weaver-Tremblay Medal for Distinguished Service, Canadian Anthropology Society
2012 Founding Fellow, Canadian Anthropology Society (one of 1st 10 named)
2010 Presented with an Eagle Feather for creation of First Nations Library, University of Western Ontario
2009 Doctor of Letters, Honoris Causa, University of Waterloo
2007 Premier’s Discovery Award (for Social Sciences and Humanities)
(in the 1st round of these Ontario awards)
2006-08 Killam Research Fellowship
2005 Franz Boas Award for Exemplary Service to Anthropology
American Anthropological Association “in recognition of an AAA member’s outstanding contribution to Anthropology through increase and dissemination of humanistic and scientific knowledge and service to the Profession.”
Distinguished University Professor, University of Western Ontario
(in the 1st round of this award at Western)
2004 Elected Member, American Philosophical Society
(founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1743 “for the promotion of useful knowledge”)
First Gene Weltfish Award from the Weltfish Project, University of Victoria
(“for service and contribution to the discipline of anthropology”)
2002 President’s Award, American Anthropological Association
(“for her astute, energetic and magisterial role in shaping the Centennial Celebrations of the AAA”)
2001 Prize for the Study of Quebec Civilization. Trois Pistole Immersion French
2000 Guest Fellow, Pierson College, Yale University
The Isaac Hellmuth Prize for Achievement in Research, University of Western Ontario
1996 Fellow, Royal Society of Canada
1989 Honorable Mention, Society for Humanistic Anthropology, annual poetry prize
GRANTS AND AWARDS:
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC):
2019 Soil as a Relational Medium. New Frontiers in Research Fund (Principal Investigator Katherine Lawless (Huron University College).
2018 Connection Conference Grant (P.I. with Joshua Smith, Clint Westman). Land, Language, Locatives. (Application ranked # 1 in competition)
2013-20 Partnership Grant. Franz Boas Papers: Documentary Edition
Supporting Grant. V-P Research, University of Western Ontario
Supporting Grant. Faculty of Social Science, University of Western Ontario
2012 LOI Workshop Grant to finalize Partnership Grant proposal. Franz Boas Papers: Documentary Edition
2011-14 Standard Research Grant. Generational Parameters of Narratives of Revitalization
2010 Conference Grant (P. I. with Michelle Hamilton, Rob Hancock and Joshua Smith). Reassessing Franz Boas
2005-08 Standard Research Grant (Principal Investigator, with Karl Hele). Nomadic Legacies and Residential Choices: City vs. Reserve in Southwestern Ontario (Application ranked # 1 in Anthropology)
2002 Conference Grant (Co-Investigator with Julia Harrison, Trent University). Historicizing Canadian Anthropology
2001-04 Standard Research Grant (Principal Investigator, with Catherine Ross and Gaile McGregor). Communities under Stress: How Social Subgroups Experience and Mediate Technological Change
1997-2000 Standard Research Grant (Principal Investigator, with Lisa Valentine and Allan McDougall). Discourse, Power and Ethnicity in the Construction of First Nations Identity
1995 Conference Grant (Co-Investigator, with Lisa Valentine). Theorizing the Americanist Tradition
1994-97 Standard Research Grant (Principal Investigator, with Lisa Valentine). Performing Native Identity through English Discourse: A Comparison of Algonquian and Iroquoian Language Use in Southwestern Ontario (Application ranked # 1 in Anthropology)
1991-94 Standard Research Grant (Principal Investigator, with Lisa Valentine). Cultural and Linguistic Correlates of Reserve English of Ojibwe and Mohawk Speakers in Southwestern Ontario
1984-85 Leave Fellowship
1982 Conference Grant. Native American Interaction Patterns
CANADA COUNCIL:
1976-77 Leave Fellowship
1975-76 Research Grant. History of Canadian Anthropology
1973 Travel Grant. Anthropology Caucus of Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association
1971 Department of Indian Affairs (through Indian Association of Alberta). Cree Multilingualism and Language Learning
1970-78 Eight travel grants to attend Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association
1970 Canada Council Travel Grant. World Congress of Sociology, Varna, Bulgaria
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship to Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute Linguistics, Ohio State University, Columbus OH
CIHR:
2011-15 Ethics, Law and Society (Principal Investigator, Janice Graham, Dalhousie University). Articulating Standards: Translating the Practices of Standardizing Health Technologies
HEALTH CANADA (Ecosystem Health Team, Jack Bend P.I.):
2016-17 Regional First Nations Environmental Contaminants Branch. Speciation of Arsenic and Mercury in Volunteers; Traditional Foods and the Environment at Walpole Island First Nation, with three repeated 24-hour Dietary Recall Surveys and Food Frequency Questionnaire (awarded to WIFN)
2009-10 Regional First Nations Environmental Contaminants Branch. Baseline Biomonitoring Studies and a Survey of Child-Youth Health as a Prerequisite to Epidemiological Studies to Assess the Health Risk of the Walpole Island First Nation and Attawapiskat First Nation (awarded to WIFN)
2007-08; Regional First Nations Environmental Contaminants Branch.
2008-09 Collaborative Research at Walpole Island First Nation (awarded to WIFN)
2004-05 Regional First Nations Environmental Contaminants Branch. Feasibility Study to Assess the Health Risk of Exposure to Environmental Contaminants on Members of the Walpole Island First Nation (awarded to WIFN)
IDRC
2010-13 Water Sustainability at Lake Navaisha, Kenya (Principal Investigator, Charles Trick)
OTHER EXTERNAL FUNDING:
2016-19 (with Danielle Alcock). Alzheimer’s Society Research Grant.
2019 (with Alexandra Nelson). Northern Research Grant for fieldwork.
2013 Documentary Editing Workshop, Association of Documentary Editing
2010 Canadian Embassy Leadership Program (Central Europe). Lectures in Prague, Vienna and Berlin
2006-08 Killam Research Fellowship
2005 Aid to Scholarly Publications Grant (with Julia Harrsion), for Historicizing Canadian Anthropology
1997 Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. Publication Supplement for Americanist Tradition conference
1990 American Philosophical Society Phillips Fund. Archive work in the history of anthropology
1983 American Anthropological Association. Conference travel grant
1974 American Philosophical Society Phillips Fund. Cree linguistic fieldwork
1973 Citizenship Branch, Department of Secretary of State, Ottawa. Doukhobor Russian language textbooks
1971 Department of Indian Affairs (through Indian Association of Alberta) Cree language teaching materials in collaboration with Native teachers of Cree
1968-69 National Science Foundation. Grant for Improving Doctoral Dissertation Research
1967 American Philosophical Society Phillips Fund. Daniel Brinton and American Indian Linguistics
INTERNAL FUNDING (University of Western Ontario):
2019 Dean’s Grant, Franz Boas Speaker Series.
2018 Land, Language, Locatives Conference Matching Funds. Faculty of Social Science, Office of Research Services, Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Research, Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism, Interfaculty Program in Public Health.
2017 Established Regna Darnell Distinguished Lecture on Theory, Ethnography, Activism in Anthropology (endowment)
2016 Sabbatical Leave
2015 Franz Boas Symposium and Book Launch. Faculty of Arts, Office of the President, Public Humanities at Western, McIntosh Gallery, Departments of Anthropology and Women’s Studies, Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism, First Nations Studies Program.
2013-14 Dean’s Grant for Research and Curriculum Development in Public
2014-15 Health, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry
2011 Western Humanitarian Award, Africa Initiative. To Ecosystem Health Team (C. Trick, I. Creed, J. Bend, R. Darnell) – (1st such award at UWO)
2010 Reassessing Boas Conference: from Research Western, School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, Faculty of Social Science, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Faculty of Information and Media Studies, Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism, Department of Anthropology, First Nations Studies Program
2009-10 Graduate Supervision Award, Research Services
2010 Internal Research Support
2007 - Established Regna Darnell Graduate Award for Fieldwork in Cultural Anthropology (endowment)
2005 Distinguished University Professor, Research Grant
2005-06 Ecosystem Health at Walpole Island First Nation. Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry (to Ecosystem Health research team to develop teaching program)
2005 Internal SSHRC. Nomadic Legacies Pilot Project.
2003 Dean’s Grant for Editorial Work, Histories of Anthropology Annual
2003 Historicizing Canadian Anthropology Conference: from Faculty of Social Science, Faculty of Graduate studies, Office of Research Services, Department of Anthropology, Centre for Research and Teaching of Canadian Native Languages
2002 Dean’s Grant for publication of Kettle and Stony Point Veterans’ Narratives
2001 Faculty of Social Science Research Grant, Departmental Traditions and Professional Networks in North American Anthropology
2000 Faculty of Social Science Travel Grant for International Pragmatics Association, Budapest
2000 Ethnohistory Conference: from Faculty of Social Science, Faculty of Graduate Studies, Office of Research Services, Department of Anthropology, Centre for Research and Teaching of Canadian Native Languages
1997 Internal SSHRC travel grant for Ethnohistory Conference, Mexico City
1996-97 Sabbatical/Study Leave.
1996-97 Archive Travel Grant, Vice-President’s Research Fund
1995 For Conference on Theorizing the Americanist Tradition from Faculties of Social Science, Arts, Graduate Studies, Part-time and Continuing Education; Department of Anthropology, Centre for Research and Teaching of Canadian Native Languages, Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism
1993-06 Dean’s Grant. Director, Centre for Research and Teaching of Canadian Native Languages
1992-93 Dean’s Grant. Acting Director, Centre for Research and Teaching of Canadian Native Languages
1991 SSHRC Internal research grant. Pilot project on Native English discourse
1990-91 Faculty of Social Science Start-up Research Grant. Archive research in history of anthropology
INTERNAL FUNDING (UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA)
1988 Tuition to Audit Native Studies 403, Slavey Language
1987 Faculty of Arts Travel Grant. International Pragmatics Association, Antwerp
1984 Faculty of Arts. Research travel grant
1983 General Research Fund. Sapir archive work
1981 Boreal Institute. Cree fieldwork
1972 General Research Fund. Doukhobor Russian language attitudes.
1971-72 Boreal Institute. Cree multilingualism and language learning
1970 General Research Fund. Fieldwork on Cree language acquisition
