MEMBERSHIPS AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
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MEMBERSHIPS
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Canadian Anthropology Society
American Anthropological Association
Society for Linguistic Anthropology
General Anthropology Division, History of Anthropology
Society for Humanistic Anthropology
Association of Senior Anthropologists
American Association for Ethnohistory
Algonquian Society
Association for Documentary Editing
Royal Society of Canada
American Philosophical Society
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
American Anthropological Association
2005 Franz Boas Award (Lifetime Achievement)
2002 Presidential Award
1999-2002 Chair, AAA Centennial Executive and Advisory Commissions
2000-2002 Centennial Countdown Column, Anthropology News (with Frederic W. Gleach)
1998-1999 Executive Board
1997-1998 1998 Program Committee
1998-2000 Section Assembly
1998-2000 Committee on Scientific Communications
1994-1998 American Anthropologist Editorial Board
1982-1984 AAA/Linguistic Society of America Joint Committee on Sapir Centenary (appointed by both executives)
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Society for Humanistic Anthropology
2000-2002 Past-President
1998-2000 PRESIDENT
1997-1998 President-Elect
1997-1998 Chair, Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing Panel
2006-2011 Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing Panel Chair 2007-2011
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Society for Linguistic Anthropology
1988-1991 Executive Board
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Association of Senior Anthropologists
2010-2012 Nominating Committee
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North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences
1994 PRESIDENT
1993 President-Elect
1992 Vice-President
American Society for Ethnohistory
2017 Conference Organizing Committee
2009-2010 Past-President
2008-2009 PRESIDENT
2007-2008 President-Elect
2003, 2010 Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin book prize panel (Chair 2003)
2001-2003 Executive Board
2000 Conference Organizer, London ON
1997-1998 Chair, Robert Heizer prize for best article in ethnohistory panel
Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA)
2015 Chair, Weaver-Tremblay Award Committee
2014 Received Weaver-Tremblay Award
2009-2010 Past-President
2008-2009 PRESIDENT
2007-2018 Vice-President
2004-2006 Executive Board, Anglophone Member
2003-2007 Resolutions Committee
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Social Science Research Council of Canada
2018 Connection Grants Panel
2017 Doctoral Fellowships Panel
2016 Partnership Development Grants Panel
2013 Connection Grants Panel
2013 Insight Development Grants Panel
2008 Chair, Standard Research Grants Panel, Anthropology and Archaeology
2004-2006 Standard Research Grants Panel, Interdisciplinary
2000 - Canada Research Chairs, College of Reviewers
1998 Panel to publicize social science to politicians, Ottawa
1995-1998 Conference Grant Adjudication Committee
1993-1998 Social Science Federation of Canada, Aid to Scholarly Publications Committees (Anthropology/Interdisciplinary)
1991 Social Science Federation of Canada, Social Science Book Prize Panel
Royal Society of Canada
2002-2004 Medals Committee
1997-2006 UWO Liaison for Social Sciences and Humanities
1996 Elected to Membership
American Philosophical Society
2014 - Native American Advisory Board, Center for Native American and Indigenous Research
2011-2014 Advisory Board, Digitizing American Indian Languages
2004 Elected to Membership
1994 - Phillips Fund for American Indian Ethnohistory and Linguistics Grants Adjudication Panel - Chair 2006 – 1994-2010 Library Acquisitions Policy Committee for Anthropology
American Council of Learned Societies
2014 Frederick Burkhardt & Charles A. Ryskamp Fellowship Panels
2015-2016 Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship Panel
Ontario Council for Graduate Studies
2009 Chair, Interdisciplinary Panel
2008 Chair, Student Visa Panel
1997,2002 Adjudication Panel, Ontario Graduate Fellowships
2012, 2018
Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
1994-2000 Council on Preserving Anthropological Documents (COPAR)
Canada Council for the Arts
2015 John Diefenbaker Award Panel
Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association
1975-1976 Chair, Professional Ethics Committee
1973-1975 Professional Ethics Committee
1971-1973 Status of Women Committee
Western Conference on Linguistics
1971-1973 Executive Board
Alberta Linguistic Association
1970-1971 Nominating Committee
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