Ken J. Caine - Curriculum vitae
Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts 5-21 HM Tory Building
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2H4
Office: 4-25 HM Tory Building (780) 492-5853 (office) [email protected]
EDUCATION
Doctor of Philosophy, Rural Sociology 2008
Department of Rural Economy, University of Alberta
Trudeau Scholar: 2004-2008 (Trudeau Mentor: Sheila Watt-Cloutier)
University Teaching Program Certificate, University of Alberta 2008
Bachelor of Science in Forestry (with Distinction) 1997 Department of Renewable Resources, Faculty of Agriculture, Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Alberta
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Associate Professor, Environmental Sociology 2017 - present Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta
Assistant Professor, Environmental Sociology 2011 - 2017
Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta
International Polar Year (IPY) Post-Doctoral Fellow 2009 - 2011 Northern Governance and Resilience
Faculty of Agriculture, Life and Environmental Sciences / Faculty of Native Studies, University of Alberta
CAREER NOTES
University of Alberta Sabbatical July 1, 2018 – July 1, 2019 University of Alberta Compassionate Care and Emergency Leave February 2017 - August 2017 AWARDS
Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research ‘Great Supervisor Award’ 2020 Faculty of Arts Undergraduate Teaching Award (Early Achievement) 2015
Nominee, Provost’s Award for Early Achievement of Excellence in 2016 Undergraduate Teaching
Student’s Union Centre for Teaching and Learning Award (Finalist) for 2015 Innovations in Academic Materials
RESEARCH
Co-Investigator, European Research Council Consolidator Grant €2,000,000 (Submitted, 2019 for 2020-2025)
PI: Rauna Kuokkanen, University of Lapland, Finland
Indigenous Legal Traditions in the North: Examining Laws in Sápmi (Scandinavia) and the Sahtú (NWT, Canada)
Collaborator, Trans-Atlantic Platform Social Science and Humanities: Social Innovation
(Submitted, 2019 for 2019-2022) $1,000,000
PI: Hannu Heikinen, Simo Sarkki (Finland/Oulu), Maria Nijnik (U.K./Aberdeen), Bettina Bock (Netherlands/Waggeningen), John Parkins (Canada/UA)
Matching social innovations to their contexts for enhancing rural well-being in Europe and Canada
Canada Research Cases:
Community Forestry, Energy and Fishing in Canada ($100,000) With John Parkins (Alberta) and Marco Alberio (Quebec, Rimouski)
Collaborator, World Universities Network: Research Development Fund €20,0825 (Submitted, 2018 – unsuccessful)
PI: Bjorn Erik Anderson, Siddarth Sareen. University of Bergen, Norway Accountability and Legitimacy in Sustainable Energy Transitions Governance
Collaborator, Canadian Sociologial Association Grant (Policy, Ethics, and Professional $8,000 Concerns (PEPC) Sub-Committee) (2018-2019)
PI: Lisa Kowalchuk, University of Guelph
University student evaluations of teaching (SETs): The impacts of qualitative comments on professor health and well-being
Collaborator, KIAS Cluster Grant (2017-19) $35,000 PI: Leath Deacon, University of Alberta
Boom/Bust in Canada: Tempering Canadian Experiences of Resource Dependency PI, Centre for Community Disaster Research (2015-17) $7,500
Mount Royal University, Calgary
Neighbourhood disaster preparedness and response pilot project.
(Held for Eva Bogdan)
PI, SSHRC Insight Development Grant (2015-17) $75,000
Hybridized knowledge in practice: Engaging educated Northern Aboriginal youth in environmental governance.
Co-Applicant, SSHRC Awards to Scholarly Publications
ASPP Grant / UBC Press (2015) $8,000 When the caribou do not come: The social dimensions of changing caribou
populations in the Western Arctic.
Co-Applicant, Learning Without Borders Grant (2014) $7,485 University of Victoria, Office of the VP Academic and Provost. Environmental
sociology international field school. With Bruce Ravelli (University of Victoria), Naomi Krogman (University of Alberta) and Gary Machlis
(Clemson University, USA)
PI, U of A Office of the Vice President, Research (2014-15) $10,000 Hybrid youth knowledge in environmental governance in Northern Canada
SSHRC Small Operating Grant (University of Alberta)
PI, U of A Community Service-Learning Support Program Award (ISP) (2014-15) $4,500 PI, SSHRC Subgrant - Major Collaborative Research Initiative (MCRI) (2012-13) $10,000
Resources and sustainable development in the Arctic Gap Analysis for Theme 8: Community-Industry Relations
Co-Applicant, SSHRC Major Collaborative Research Initiatives Program
(MCRI) / Canada Foundation for Innovation Initiative (CFI) (2011-16) $2.5M Resources and sustainable development in the Arctic
Co-Applicant, SSHRC Major Collaborative Research Initiatives Program, Letter of Intent for (MCRI) / Canada Foundation for Innovation Initiative (CFI) (2010) $20,000 Resources and Sustainable Development in the Arctic
Collaborator, Volkswagen Stiftung (Endangered Languages Foundation) (2012-16) $200,000 Language, music and place: Building a foundation for governance in Délįne, Northwest Territories, Canada
Co-Applicant, Alberta Centre for Child, Family and Community Research (2011- 2013) $10,000 Understanding the role of social capital in oral health of First Nation children.
Co-Applicant, SSHRC Partnership Grant Letter of Intent (2011) $15,000 Stories and songs as policy: Addressing change and continuity in Indigenous
governance.
Co-Applicant [lead author], SSHRC Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences
in Canada (2010) $25,000
Authors workshop. Rethinking caribou: The social-ecological complexity of community- caribou relations in Canada’s Western Arctic.
Co-Applicant, Sahtu Renewable Resource Board for research workshop (2010) $30,000 Caribou and Communities in the Sahtu Region. With five community Renewable
Resources Councils in the Sahtu Region, NWT.
Co-Applicant, Community-University Research Alliances (CURA) (2004) $20,000 SSHRC Development Grant Letter of Intent for Dání Deneke Nê K’e Gokeredí/How people live with the land: Dene cultural and environmental integrity in the Délįne landscape. With Délįne Knowledge Centre Action Group and University of Alberta.
PUBLICATIONS Edited Books
Parlee, Brenda and Ken J. Caine (Eds). 2018. When the caribou do not come: The social- ecological complexity of community-caribou relations in Canada’s Western Arctic. Vancouver:
UBC Press.
Journal Articles Published
Bogdan, Eva Angelyna, Beckie, Mary A., and Ken J. Caine. 2020. Making room for nature?
Applying the Dutch room for the river approach to flood risk management in Alberta, Canada.
International Journal of River Basin Management.
https://doi.org/10.1080/15715124.2020.1723604
Bogdan, Eva Angelyna, Caine, Ken J., and Mary A. Beckie. 2020. Unraveling the Social Construction of a Flooding Disaster: A Threaded Situation Analysis Approach. International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters (In Press)
Braun, Jennifer, Beckie, Mary, and Ken J. Caine. 2020. Trust Us, We Feed this to our Kids”:
Women and Public Trust in the Canadian Agri-Food System. Agriculture and Human Values, 37: 495-507. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-019-10002-x
Bassi, Emilie M., John R. Parkins and Ken J. Caine. 2018. Situating Emotions in Social Practices: Empirical Insights from Animal Husbandry in the Cow-Calf Industry. Sociologia Ruralis, 59(2): 275-293. https://doi.org/10.1111/soru.12225
Wanvik, Tarje Iverson* and Ken J. Caine. 2017. “Understanding Indigenous strategic
pragmatism - Métis engagement with extractive industry developments in the Canadian North.”
The Extractive Industries and Society, 4(3): 595-605.
Caine, Ken J. 2016. “Blurring the boundaries of environmentalism: The role of Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society as a boundary organization in northern conservation planning” Rural Sociology,81(2): 194-223.
Caine, Ken J. 2013. “Bourdieu in the North: Practical understanding in natural resource governance.” Canadian Journal of Sociology, 38(3): 333-358.
Clare, Shari, Naomi Krogman, and Ken J. Caine. 2013. “The ‘balance discourse’: A case study of power and wetland management.” Geoforum, 49: 40-49.
Caine, Ken J. and Naomi Krogman. 2010. “Powerful or just plain power-full? A power analysis of impact and benefit agreements in Canada’s North.” Organization and Environment, 23(1): 76- 98.
Caine, Ken J., Colleen MacLean-Davison, and Emma J. Stewart. 2009. “Preliminary field-work:
Methodological reflections from Northern Canadian research.” Qualitative Research, 9(4): 489- 513.
Caine, Ken J., Michael J. Salomons, and Deborah Simmons. 2007. “Partnerships for social change in the Canadian North: Revisiting the insider-outsider dialectic.” Development and Change, 38(3): 447-471.
Bayha, Denise, Walter Bayha, Irene Betsidea, Ken J. Caine, Dennis Kenny, Edith Mackeinzo, Jane Modeste, Michael Salomons, Deborah Simmons, and Marlene Tutcho. (Lead author, alphabetical listing of authors). 2003. “The Délįne Knowledge Centre: From vision to reality.”
Pimatisiwin: A Journal of Aboriginal and Indigenous Community Health, 1(2): 163-172.
Bayha, Denise, Walter Bayha, Irene Betsidea, Ken J. Caine, Dennis Kenny, Edith Mackeinzo, Jane Modeste, Michael Salomons, Deborah Simmons and Marlene Tutcho. (Lead author,
alphabetical listing of authors). 2003. “The Délįne Knowledge Centre.” International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 63(1): 102-104.
*Underlined authors indicate graduate student mentored co-authorship
Book Chapters Published
Parlee, Brenda and Ken J. Caine. 2018. “Introduction: When the caribou do not come.” When the caribou do not come: Social-ecological complexity of community-caribou relations in the
Western Arctic. B. Parlee and K. J. Caine (Eds.). Vancouver: UBC Press.
Caine, Ken J. 2012. “Logic of land and power: The social transformation of northern natural resource management.” Pp. 169-188 in John Parkins and Maureen Reed (Eds.), Social
transformation in rural Canada: Community, cultures, and collective action. Vancouver: UBC Press.
Journal Articles Under Review
Braun, Jennifer, Caine Ken J. and Mary Beckie. 2020. Negotiating Respectable Farm Femininity in Agricultural Leadership. Agriculture and Human Values
Erfani Hossein Pour, Rezvaneh, and Ken Caine, “A postcolonial critique of environmental justice: The struggle over discursive power”, Environmental Sociology.
Erfani Hossein Pour, Rezvaneh, Ken J. Caine. “A Postcolonial Understanding of UN Documents on Post-invasion Iraq and Afghanistan: A Case Study of Environmental Justice”
Caine, Ken J. “Critical Institutionalism in Practice: Re-emergent Indigenous Environmental Governance” International Journal of the Commons. Manuscript IJC-825.
Copp, Cassandra and Ken J. Caine. “Mining the medium: Communication infrastructure theory, participation, and reclamation planning in the Vista Coal Mine Project.” Mass Communication and Society. Manuscript MCS-17-0085.
Copp, Cassandra and Ken J. Caine. “‘Projects that impact communities should have dialogue in the community’: A communication network analysis of the Vista Coal Mine Project in Hinton, Alberta.” Society & Natural Resources. Manuscript USNR-2017-0149.
In Progress Books
Caine, Ken J. The Waterheart: Indigenous Power and Practice in Northern Canada Journal Articles
Evans, Amanda and Ken J. Caine. An Ecological Habitus on the oilfield? Environmental concerns of oilsands workers and their lifestyle social practices.
Caine, Ken J. The Impact of Impact Benefit Agreements for Northern Development: Canada’s Northern Strategy as Natural Resource Development Policy Vacuum.
Baoyindureng, Xue Fang, Ken J. Caine, and Yan Jingjing. 2017. “Irrational decisions:
Grasslands mining growth and Inner Mongolian herdsman herding behaviour.”
Simmons, Deborah, Angela Bernarde, Walter Bezha, Ken J. Caine, Rauna Kuokkanen, Jordan Lennie, Michael Neyelle. “Future Chief”: Building Indigenous Youth Environmental Leadership in Changing Times. (As part of a SSHRC Major Collaborative Research Initiative: Resources and sustainable development in the Arctic (ReSDA))
Book Reviews
Caine, Ken J. 2013. “Development through bricolage: Rethinking institutions for natural
resources management.” Frances Cleaver, 2012. Society & Natural Resources: An International Journal, 27(02): 226-230.
Caine, Ken J. 2011. “Natural resources and Aboriginal peoples in Canada.” R. B. Anderson and R.M. Bone (Eds.), 2009. The Northern Review, 33 (Spring): 138-142.
Caine, Ken J. 2010. “Adaptive co-management: Moving beyond the critiques of co-
management.” D. Armitage, F. Berkes, and N. Doubleday (Eds.), 2007. Society & Natural Resources: An International Journal, 22(10): 941-944.
Technical Reports And Other Manuscripts
Caine, Ken J., Deborah Simmons, and Walter Bayha. 2011. “The Délįne Knowledge Centre: A discussion paper for the Délįne Self-Government Office.” Manuscript on file with Délįne Self Government Office. Délįne, Northwest Territories.
Abele, Frances, Walter Bayha, Ken J. Caine, and Deborah Simmons. 2010. “Living with caribou:
Dene knowledge and policy development in the context of ‘crisis’”. Discussion paper for presentation to the Sahtu Renewable Resource Board. Norman Wells, Northwest Territories.
Caine, Ken J., Deborah Simmons, Walter Bayha, and Collin Bayha. 2010. “Submission on Mackenzie Valley Environmental Impact Review Board Cultural Impact Assessment
Guidelines.” Manuscript on file with Mackenzie Valley Environmental Impact Review Board.
Yellowknife, Northwest Territories.
Caine, Ken J. and Deborah Simmons. 2009. “Délįne community report on Mackenzie Valley Environmental Impact Review Board status report and information circular: Developing cultural impact assessment guidelines.” Manuscript on file with Délįne First Nation. Délįne, Northwest Territories.
Caine, Ken J. 2005. “Sahoyúé and ʔehdacho candidate protected area public review and decision strategy.” Unpublished manuscript submitted to Sahoyúé and ʔehdacho Candidate Area Working Group. Northwest Territories Protected Areas Strategy. On file with Protected Areas Secretariat.
Yellowknife, Northwest Territories.
Caine, Ken J. 2003. “The Délįne Knowledge Centre: From vision to reality”. Report for Délįne Knowledge Centre Action Group. Délįne, Northwest Territories.
Caine, Ken J., Greg Hancock, Lance Schmidt, and Daniel Allaire. 2001. Out of the ashes: Forest fire management in the Northwest Territories. Public educational video. Government of the Northwest Territories. Yellowknife, Northwest Territories.
Caine, Ken J., Greg Hancock, Lance Schmidt, and Daniel Allaire. 2001. Out of the ashes: Forest fire management in the Northwest Territories. Elementary school (grades 4-6) educational video.
Government of the Northwest Territories. Yellowknife, Northwest Territories.
Caine, Ken J., Cathy Lewis, Brenda Hans, and Greg Hancock. 2001. Out of the ashes: Forest fire management in the Northwest Territories - Educational guide to research activities. Manuscript on file with the Department of Education, Culture and Employment. Government of the
Northwest Territories. Yellowknife, Northwest Territories.
Caine, Ken J. 1999. “Seeing the forest for the trees: An applied case – forest resource inventories.” The Wild Times: Environmental/Conservation Education. Department of Resources, Wildlife and Economic Development. Yellowknife, Northwest Territories.
Caine, Ken J. and Peter Redvers. 1998. Northern Forests, Northern Challenges: Establishing a Cooperative Approach to Forest Development. Published conference proceedings. October 24- 27. Hay River, Northwest Territories. Yellowknife: Government of the Northwest Territories.
PAPERS PRESENTED AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS
Caine, Ken J. 2020. “Teaching for Difficult Environmental Knowledge in a Risk Society” in session ‘Sociology and The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning’ at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Canadian Sociological Association (CSA), Western University, London, Ontario. June 1-4. (Note: cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic)
Caine, Ken J. and Rezvaneh Erfani Hossein Pour. “The Decolonizing Power of Ecofeminism: An Ecofeminist Reading of Edward Said’s Orientalism”, presented in the 2019 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Canadian Sociological Association (CSA), Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of British Colombia, Vancouver, June 2019.
Caine, Ken J. 2019. “In defense of 'the flat spot' in participation: Indigenous epistemologies and ontologies in Northern development and environmental governance.” Accepted to Canadian Sociological Association, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of British Colombia, Vancouver, June 4 2019.
Caine, Ken J. 2019. “Helping Students to understand 'Forget Shorter Showers': Teaching Environmental Sociology Through CSL, Critical Writing Assignments, and Reflection.”
Accepted to Canadian Sociological Association, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of British Colombia, Vancouver, June 5 2019.
Caine, Ken J. 2018. Sociology Keywords Panel on ‘Justice.’ “Environmental Justice”
International Sociological Association World Congress of Sociology. July 17, 2018. Toronto, Canada.
Caine, Ken J., Deborah Simmons, Michael Neyelle, Sean Lessard, and Trent Waterhouse. 2018
“From Songs, Stories and Language to Political Leadership? Indigenous Youth Hybrid Environmental Knowledge in Northern Rural Governance.” International Sociological Association World Congress of Sociology. July 19, 2018. Toronto, Canada.
Erfani Hossein Pour, Rezvaneh and Ken J. Caine. 2018. “The Decolonizing Power of
Ecofeminism: An Ecofeminist Reading of Edward Said’s Orientalism”, Accepted to Canadian Sociological Association, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of British Colombia, Vancouver, June 2019.
Erfani Hossein Pour, Rezvaneh and Ken J. Caine. 2018. “Climate Change or Water Crisis:
Iranian NGOs Choices of Environmental Discourse”, Presented in International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, University of Utrecht, Netherlands, June 2018.
Caine, Ken J. 2017. “Place, Power and Indigenous Youth Environmental Knowledge.” The Idea of Place. Space and Culture 20th Anniversary Conference. University of Alberta. Edmonton, Alberta. May 5-7.
Erfani Hossein Pour, Rezvaneh, Ken J Caine and Isabel Altamirano Jimenez. 2017. “A Postcolonial Understanding of UN Documents on Post-invasion Iraq and Afghanistan:
A Case Study of Environmental Justice.” Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting.
Vancouver, BC. April 13-15.
Caine, Ken. J. and Walter Bezha. 2016. “Indigenous activism and water: The Délįnegotine, self- Government and environmental governance.” Invited Panel on The Intersection of Land/Water Rights and Race/Ethnicity in Canada. Rural Sociological Society Annual Meeting. Toronto, Ontario. August 7-10.
Caine, Ken J. 2016. “Challenging the Sustainable Development Goals: Indigenous self- government, culture and the environment in northern Canada.” Canadian Sociological Association, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. University of Calgary. Calgary, Alberta. May 30-June 3.
Caine, Ken J. 2016. “Technique in the university classroom? Unmasking technology and teaching in sociology” Canadian Sociological Association, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. University of Calgary, Calgary Alberta. May 30-June 3.
Erfani Hossein Pour, Rezvaneh and Ken J. Caine. 2016. “Understanding power in environmental justice through a Foucauldian-Bourdieuian conversation.” Canadian Sociological Association, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta. May 30-June 3.
Caine, Ken J. 2015. “Aboriginal youth hybrid knowledge in environmental governance in northern Canada.” Canadian Sociological Association, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario. May 24-30.
Caine, Ken J., Katie MacDonald, Marcella Cassiano, Jason Chalmers, and Jennifer Braun. 2015.
“Overcoming the problem of teaching social problems: Use of music lyrics, spoken word poetry, and live performance in the classroom.” Canadian Sociological Association Meeting. Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. University of Ottawa, Ottawa Ontario. May 24-30.
Caine, Ken J. 2015. “Hybrid knowledge and the commons.” International Association for the Study of the Commons. Edmonton, Alberta. May 25-29.
Haluza-DeLay, Randy and Ken J. Caine. 2014. “Can we call the Alberta oilsands environmental injustice? Moving from environmental justice to just sustainability.” Annual Conference of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. San Francisco, California. August 15-17.
Caine, Ken J. 2014. “Towards a critical institutional approach to natural resources management.”
Canadian Sociological Association, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario. May 24-30.
Caine, Ken J. 2013. “A Case of Strange Bedfellows? Northern ENGOS as Boundary
Organizations in Natural Resource Management Planning.” Canadian Sociological Association, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. University of Victoria, Victoria, British
Columbia. June 1-8.
Caine, Ken J. 2012. “The impact of impact benefit agreements for northern development:
Canada's Northern Strategy as resource policy vacuum.” International Symposium on Society and Resource Management. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta. June 17-21.
Caine, Ken J. 2010. “The logic of land and power: Practical understanding in natural resource management in northern Canada.” Canadian Sociological Association. Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Montreal, Quebec. May 28-June 4.
Caine, Ken J. 2008. “Community-based co-management as bricolage in the Canadian North.”
Resilience 2008: Resilience, Adaptation and Transformation in Turbulent Times - International Science and Policy Conference. Stockholm, Sweden. April 14-17.
Caine, Ken J., Colleen Davison, and Emma J. Stewart. 2007. “Preliminary field research in Canada's North: Methodological observations, alchemy and anxieties in social scientific
research”. Annual Meeting of the Rural Sociological Society Social Change and Restructuring in Rural Societies: Opportunities and Vulnerabilities. Santa Clara, California. August 2-5.
Caine, Ken J. 2007. “Community-based natural resource management as bricolage: Practice and strategy in the development of new resource management institutions in the Canadian North.”
International Symposium on Society and Resource Management. Park City, Utah. June 17-21.
Krogman, Naomi and Ken J. Caine. 2007. “Powerful or just plain power-full? A power analysis of impact and benefit agreements in Canada’s North.” Annual Meeting of the Rural Sociological Society: Perils and Promises of Globalization - Difference, Resistance, and Possibility.
Louisville, Kentucky. August 10-13.
Caine, Ken J. 2006. “An EA step in the right direction? Sociological analysis of impact and benefit agreements in Canada’s north.” International Association for Impact Assessment conference: Power, Poverty, and Sustainability – The Role of Impact Assessment. Stavanger, Norway. May 23-26.
Caine, Ken J., Deborah Simmons and Michael Salomons. 2004. “Confronting the insider- outsider dialectic in community-based research and community development in the Northwest Territories, Canada.” Fifth International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences (ICASS V).
University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska. May 19-23.
Caine, Ken J. and Vera Caine. 2003. “Negotiating spaces: Reflections on collaborative northern research.” Paper presented and panel discussion at the 7th ACUNS Student Conference on Northern Studies - Breaking the Ice: Transcending Borders through Collaboration and Interdisciplinary Research. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta. October 24-26.
POSTER PRESENTATIONS
Salehyar, Mohammad, Maryam Amin, Louanne Keenan, Steve Patterson, Nancy Gibson, and Ken J. Caine. 2011. “Understanding the role of social capital in oral health of First Nations children - Pilot study.” International Institute for Qualitative Methodology Qualitative Health Research Conference. Vancouver, British Columbia. October 25-27.
Caine, Ken J. 2010. “Land use as management: Re-imagining the Délįne Renewable Resource Council in a self-government era.” Arctic Peoples, Culture, Resilience and Caribou Workshop.
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta. March 4-5.
Bayha, Walter, Jane Modeste, Dennis Kenny, Marlene Tutcho, Ken J. Caine, Michael Salomons, and Deborah Simmons. 2003. “The Délįne Knowledge Centre: Working together to go the right way”. Community-University Expo. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. May 7-9.
CONFERENCE SESSION CHAIR
“Critical sustainability approaches” 2018
RC24 Environmental Sociology Pre-Conference. International Sociology Association World Congress of Sociology. Toronto, Canada. July 14, 2018.
“Emergent and recurring critical issues in the university classroom.” 2016 Canadian Sociological Association Meeting. Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Calgary. Calgary, Alberta. May 30.
“Sociology of climate change: living with changing climates.” 2016 Canadian Sociological Association Meeting. Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta. June 1.
“Local and traditional knowledge and the commons: building livelihood and 2015 well-being.” International Association for the Study of the Commons.
Edmonton, Alberta. May 27.
“Community involvement.” Environmental Studies Association of Canada 2013 Annual Meeting. Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities.
University of Victoria, Victoria, BC. June 4.
“Indigenous roles in management of natural resources.” International Symposium 2012 on Society and Resource Management. University of Alberta. June 20.
“The enemy within: The dilemma of the outsider in northern Aboriginal communities.” 2004 Fifth International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences (ICASS V).
University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska. May 19-23.
CONFERENCE SESSION DEVELOPER/ORGANIZER
Session co-organizer (with Rezvaneh Erfani), Canadian Sociological Association (CSA), Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, to be held at Western University, London, Ontario (June 1, 2020). Session title: “Democracy, Citizenship and Environment Governance:
Challenges and Possibilities”. (Conference canceled due to Covid-19 pandemic)
RC24 Environmental Sociology Pre-Conference 2018
(with Dr. Debra Davidson, University of Alberta)
International Sociology Association World Congress of Sociology. Toronto, Canada. July 14.
Conference Session Developer (with Dr. Bruce Ravelli, University of Victoria) 2016
“Emergent and recurring critical issues in the university classroom.” Canadian Sociological Association Meeting. Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities.
University of Calgary. Calgary, Alberta. June 30.
Conference Panel Session Developer 2004
“The enemy within: The dilemma of the outsider in northern Aboriginal communities.”
Fifth International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences (ICASS V).
University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska. May 19-23.
Conference Panel Session Organizer 2003
“Negotiating spaces: Reflections on collaborative northern research.” 7th ACUNS Student Conference on Northern Studies - Breaking the Ice: Transcending Borders
through Collaboration and Interdisciplinary Research.
University of Alberta, Edmonton. October 24-26.
Conference Organizer 1998
Northern Forests, Northern Challenges: Establishing a Cooperative Approach to Forest Development.
K’atl’odeeche First Nation Hay River Dene Reserve, Northwest Territories. October 24-27.
INVITED PRESENTATIONS International
Caine, Ken J. “Délįnegot’ine Social Ecological Conscientization: Self-Determination as
Environmental Governance.” Paper presented at the Seminar on Indigenous Legal and Political Orders in the Arctic. Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland. December 10, 2018
Caine, Ken J. “Indigenous Youth and the Governance of Great Bear Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada.” Paper in panel: Indigenous Knowledge, Governance and Law Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland. December 12, 2018
Caine, Ken J. “From practical understanding to environmental governance: The power of culture in land use planning in the Northwest Territories of Canada” Public presentation in the
Department of Cultural Anthropology. University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland. December 14, 2018 Caine, Ken J. “Critical Institutionalism in Practice: Re-Emergent Indigenous Environmental Governance in the Northwest Territories, Canada - Lessons Learned.” Accepted paper for the Sixth International Conference on Mongolia Highland Pastoral Area Economy and Sustainable Development. Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China.
September 15th to 17th, 2017. (Note: did not present due to Chinese Visa problems)
Caine, Ken J. 2013. “Natural resource management and governance in Canada’s western arctic."
Invited presentation given at Inner Mongolia Agricultural University. Hohhot, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China. July 22.
Caine, Ken J. 2008. “Power, practice, and natural resource management institutions in the Canadian North.” FiDiPro Programme: Human-Environment Relations in the North: Resource development, climate change and resilience. Thule Institute, University of Oulu. Oulu, Finland.
February 11.
Caine, Ken J. 2008. “Panelist in Discussion on Research, Stakeholders, and the Media in the North”. Why North? Which North? Multidisciplinary Seminar on Research in and of the North.
Thule Institute, University of Oulu. Oulu, Finland. February 7-8.
National
Caine, Ken J. 2019. Invited Keynote Talk - Environment, Sustainability and Society Lecture Series: “Culture & Power: Indigenous Environmental Governance of Great Bear Lake,
Northwest Territories.” College of Sustainability, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
March 21, 2019 (Invited)
Caine, Ken. J. 2017. Discussion Leader: “Consent, Consultation and Collaboration: The Three 'C's of Northern Research” Panel Discussion. ACUNS 2017 Northern Symposium. Yellowknife, NT. October 26, 2017 (Invited)
Caine, Ken J. 2017. “Cross Cultural Knowledge Mobilization”. Dene Ts’ili School / Cross Cultural Research Camp. Bennett Field / Bear River, Northwest Territories. August 21 – September 8, 2017 (Invited).
Caine, Ken J. 2016. “Panelist: community research funding”. Tsa Tue United Nations Biosphere Reserve Workshop. Délįne, Northwest Territories. February 11.
Caine, Ken J. 2014. “Hybrid youth environmental knowledge”. Sahtu Cross Cultural Research Camp. Stewart Lake, Northwest Territories. July 12-19.
Bogdan, Eva and Ken J. Caine. 2014. “Water: What is the future we want?” Canada Water Resources Congress. Hamilton, Ontario. June 2-4.
Caine, Ken J. 2012. “Impact Benefit Agreements.” First Annual Resources and Sustainable Development in the Arctic (ReSDA) Workshop. Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. November 23-25.
Caine, Ken J. 2011. “Practical understanding, culture, and integrated natural resource
management in Northern Canada.” People in Places: Engaging Together in Integrated Resource Management. Halifax, Nova Scotia. June 26-29.
Caine, Ken J. 2011. “Land use as management: Re-imagining the Délįne renewable resource council in a self-government era.” Caribou and Communities in the Sahtu Region Workshop.
Délįne, Northwest Territories. January 24-27.
Caine, Ken J. 2010. “Oral traditions in natural resource management planning: The case of the Great Bear Lake Management Plan.” Cumulative Effects Monitoring Agency, Biodiversity Traditional Knowledge Regional Workshop. Fort McMurray, Alberta. November 16-17.
Caine, Ken J. 2010. “Stories and natural resource management institutions in the Canadian North.” Language, Stories and Governance. Centre for Aboriginal Initiatives. University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario. March 12.
Bayha, Walter, Ken J. Caine, Ruthann Gal, Edith Mackeinzo, Jane Modeste, Orlena Modeste, Dawn Ostrem, Deborah Simmons and Doris Taneton. 2009. “Learning about changes: stories, governance and the Délįne Knowledge Project talking circle.” Northern Governance Policy Research Conference. Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. November 3-5.
Caine, Ken J. and Walter Bayha. 2009. “Resource management and social change in Délįne, Northwest Territories.” Northern Governance Policy Research Conference. Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. November 3-5.
Caine, Ken J. 2009. “Stories, learning, and Great Bear Lake watershed management planning.”
Délįne Research Workshop: Learning About Changes. Délįne, Northwest Territories. June 24- 27.
Caine, Ken J. 2009. “Review of the Mackenzie Valley Environmental Impact Review Board cultural impact assessment guidelines.” Délįne Research Workshop: Learning About Changes.
Délįne, Northwest Territories. June 24-27.
Caine, Ken J. 2007. “Cross-Scale Dynamics in Natural Resource Management Institutions.”
Presentation made at the Royal Roads University/Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Environment Working Group Meeting, Victoria, British Columbia. January 26.
Bayha, Walter, Deborah Simmons and Ken J. Caine. 2005. “The words of our ancestors are our path to the future: Learning, governance and resource management in Délįne, Northwest Territories.” Learning Communities Workshop. Halifax, Nova Scotia. November 4-6.
Deborah Simmons, Michael Salomons, and Ken J. Caine. 2004. “Partnerships for social change in the north: Revisiting the insider-outsider dialectic.” Bridging Communities Conference.
Wilfred-Laurier University. Brantford, Ontario. September 30-October 2.
Caine, Ken J. 2004. “Discussant of Ann Dale conference paper.” Meeting of Trudeau Fellows, Scholars and Mentors, The Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario. September 7.
Provincial/Local
Caine, Ken J. 2020. “Connecting with Indigenous-engaged Research and Scholarship in Social Sciences”. Situated Knowledges: Indigenous Peoples and Place (SKIPP) Signature Area - Virtual colloquium on Indigenous-Engaged Research and Scholarship. Friday June 5, 2020 (accepted)
Caine, Ken J., Deborah Simmons, Michael Neyelle, Sean Lessard, and Trent Waterhouse. 2019.
Indigenous Youth Hybrid Environmental Knowledge in Northwest Territories, Canada.
Conversation North Series, UAlbertaNorth, University of Alberta, Edmonton. February 6, 2019.
Caine, Ken J. 2017. “Indigenous Governance in Northern Canada.” TERRE CREATE Program in Engineering (NSERC) with UAlberta North. University of Alberta, Edmonton. June 1.
Caine, Ken J. 2016. “Aboriginal treaties, land claims and self governance in Northern Canada.”
TERRE CREATE Program in Engineering (NSERC) with UAlberta North. University of Alberta, Edmonton. May 2.
Caine, Ken J. 2016. Career Panel Presenter. Annual REESSA Conference 2016
Department of Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology, Faculty of ALES, University of Alberta. Red Deer, Alberta. April 28.
Caine, Ken J. 2016. "Words in use: Teaching the social with music and spoken word poetry"
folkwaysAlive! Public Lecture at Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology / Arts Pedagogy Research and Innovation Laboratory. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta. March 16.
Caine, Ken J. 2016. “Culture and sustainability: A case study of Great Bear Lake.” New Approaches to Sustainability. International Week 2016. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta. February 1.
Caine, Ken J. 2016. “Traditional knowledge, research and public policy” Keynote Panel for Launch of UAlberta North. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta. January 27.
Caine, Ken J. 2015. “Panelist on GAships as professional development opportunities.”
Sociology Proseminar. Department of Sociology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta.
October 21.
Caine, Ken J. 2014. "What do stories have to do with it? Rethinking environmental governance."
Humanities 100 Public Lecture. Edmonton, Alberta. April 8.
Caine, Ken J. 2014. "Hybridity and environmental sociology" Public Lecture Series. University of Alberta Sociology Undergraduate Student Association. Edmonton, Alberta. December 7.
Caine, Ken J. 2014. "Teaching environmental sustainability and health equity through Community Service-Learning." Teaching Sustainability through CSL and Undergraduate Research. Office of Sustainability. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta. December 4.
Caine, Ken J. 2013. “Overcoming the problem of teaching social problems: Using music &
spoken word lyrics in the classroom.” Teaching in the Social Sciences: Theory and Practice.
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta. September 3-4.
Caine, Ken J. 2011. “The impact of impact benefit agreements for northern development:
Canada's northern strategy.” Canada's Arctic Policies and Strategies Workshop. Department of
Anthropology and Royal Holloway London University. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta. September 16.
Caine, Ken J. 2012. “Feminisms and environmental sociology.” Sociology Spring Research Day 2012, Feminist Explorations Outloud: The Politics of Feminist Theory. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta. April 25.
Caine, Ken J. 2010. “How to Work with Northern Communities as a Scientist”. Facilitator, University of Alberta Circumpolar Students Association Seminar. April 19.
Caine, Ken J. 2010. Panel Member, “Rural Sociology Career Panel”. Department of Rural Economy. University of Alberta. March 26.
Caine, Ken J. 2009. “Water hearts and cultural landscapes: practical understanding and natural resource management in the Northwest Territories, Canada.” CSA Northern Speaker Series.
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta. November 25.
Caine, Ken J. 2009. Conference Rapporteur and Conference Summary Presenter. Working Forum on the Duty to Consult: Now What? University of Alberta. October 22-23.
Caine, Ken J. 2009. “Pursuing post-doctoral studies in the arts, business and education.”
Professional Development Week. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta. November 17.
Caine, Ken J. 2009. “Research through engagement in context: An introduction to
ethnography.” Thinking Qualitatively Workshop Series International Institute for Qualitative Methodology (IIQM). University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta. June 16.
Caine, Ken J. 2008. “Water hearts and cultural landscapes: Power, practice, and natural resource management institutions in the Canadian North.” Department of Rural Economy Seminar Series.
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta. November 17.
Caine, Ken J. 2007. “Discussant for film documentary Village of Widows.” Welcome to the Reel World: Global Issues Film and Speaker Series. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta.
February 6.
Caine, Ken J. 2006. “Impact benefit agreements in Canada’s North - natural resource
development and indigenous peoples: Negotiating a level playing field?” Presentation and panel discussion with Ciaran O’Faircheallaigh, Griffith University, Australia and Ellen Bielawski, Dean of Native Studies, Faculty of Native Studies. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta.
November 9.
Caine, Ken J., W. Bayha, J. Modeste, D. Kenny, M. Tutcho, M. Salomons, and D. Simmons.
2003. “The Délįne Knowledge Centre.” First Nations Education Program. Department of Educational Policy Studies. University of Alberta. May 5.
SCHOLARSHIPS
Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Doctoral Scholarship (2004-08) $200,000
SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship (2004-08) $80,000
Walter H. Johns Graduate Fellowship (2004-08) $18,688 J. Gordin Kaplan Graduate Student Award (2007) $800 Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Scholarship (Honourary) (2004-05) $48,000 Alberta ACADRE Network Doctoral Graduate Research Award (2004) $19,000 Province of Alberta Graduate Student Award (2003) $2,000 Northern Scientific Training Program (NSTP) Research Award (2004) $3,200 Alberta ACADRE Network Masters Graduate Research Award (2003) $16,000 Alberta Learning Graduate Student Scholarship (2003) $2,000 Canadian Circumpolar/Boreal Alberta Research Grant Award (2004) $1,900 Northern Scientific Training Program Research Award (DIAND) (2003) $4,100 Al Brennan Memorial Graduate Scholarship in Forestry (2003) $15,000
TEACHING Courses Taught
Qualitative Methods In Social Research (Sociology 518) – Graduate Seminar 2016 - present
Introduction to Environmental Sociology (Sociology 291) – 60-90 students 2013 - present Introductory Sociology (Sociology 100) – 140 to 260 students 2010 - present Social Problems (Sociology 203/102) – 115 to 140 students 2011- present Society, Power and the Environment (Sociology 656) – Graduate Seminar 2011 - 2016 Oil and Community: Health Equity in a Petro-Environment
(Community Service-Learning CSL 350/360 & 550/560) 2011
Sociology of Environment and Development (Rural Sociology 365) – 30 students 2008 - 2010
Forest Economics Teaching Assistant (FOREC 345) 2002
Independent Study Courses
Directed Readings in Social Practice Theory (SOC 604) 2012, 2020 Directed Readings in Democracy and the Environment (SOC 604) 2018 Critical Social Theory and the Environment (SOC 403) 2016
Directed Readings in Environment and Development (SOC 604) 2015
Independent Study on Development and Environment in Nepal (CSL 480) 2010 Individual Study in Community Service-Learning and part of World University Service of
Canada International Seminar in Nepal
Guest Lectures
NURS 601 Advanced Inquiry. “An approach to community-based research.” University of Alberta. October 23, 2018.
RSOC 355 Rural Sociology. “A critical institutional approach to social-environmental change:
culture and conservation.” University of Alberta. March 4, 2015.
RSOC 365 Sociology of Environment and Development. “Northern development and the commons.” Department of Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology, University of Alberta. October 12, 2012.
RSOC 365 Sociology of Environment and Development. “Northern governance: a fine balance?” Department of Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology, University of Alberta. September 29, 2011.
Public Health Agency of Canada. “What is ethnography?” Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta. March 3, 2011.
SOC 518 Qualitative Methodology. “Standpoint Theory.” Department of Sociology, University of Alberta. November 17, 2011.
NS 330 Native Economic Development. “Impact and benefits agreements and Aboriginal economic development.” Faculty of Native Studies, University of Alberta. October 7, 2010.
BIOL 468 Problems in Conservation Biology. “Is traditional ecological knowledge a problem for conservation biology?” Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta March 25, 2010.
RSOC 555 Sociology of Natural Resources. Various dates: 2007-2009.
RSOC 450 Environmental Sociology. Department of Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology, University of Alberta. Various dates: 2003-2007.
SOC 518 Qualitative Methodology. “Participatory Action Research.” Department of Sociology, University of Alberta. 2003.
STUDENT SUPERVISION & SERVICE Graduate Thesis External Examiner/Reader
Master of Arts External Examiner 2016
“Resource Development in the Beaufort Sea Region Through the Lens of the Media.” Alycia Mutual. University of Northern British Columbia.
Master of Arts External Reader 2016
“When Petro-Capitalism Comes Knocking: Community Interpretations and Responses to the Gros Morne Fracking Controversy.” Jillian Smith. Memorial University.
Doctoral Student Supervision Supervisor
Eva Bogdan, Graduated; (Co-supervised with Mary Beckie) 2012 - 2019 Flooding discourse: perceptions and practices of the 2013 flood management in High River, Alberta.
Jennifer Braun, Graduated; Co-Supervisor with Mary Beckie) 2013 - 2019 Making a Place at the Table: Female Leadership in Agriculture in the Canadian Prairies
Shingirai Mandizadza, ABD (Co-Supervisor with Amy Kaler) 2014 - present Land, power and gender in Zimbabwean development.
Rezvaneh Erfani, ABD 2018 - present
Imagining a New Environmentalism: Social and Political Capacities of Environmental Movements in the Middle East
Jasmiini Fransala, ABD 2018 – present
University of Oulu, Finland; Co-supervised with Hannu Heikkinen
Mining and environmental risk governance in the circumpolar North – a quest for social justice?
Luke Wonneck (PhD Student) 2019 - present
Exploring Social Practice Networks that Impact Riparian Health in Alberta’s Agricultural Lands Supervisory Committee Member
Jason Chalmers, (Graduated, PhD, Sociology) 2015 - 2018 Reproducing and resisting national myth: Using genocide narratives to transform colonial relationships in Canada.
Manoj Misra (Graduated, PhD Sociology) 2011 - 2014
The implications of globalization and environmental changes for smallholder peasants: The Bangladesh case.
Kaitlin Young, ABD (PhD, Anthropology) 2015 - present
Critical Cartographies of Greenland’s Extractive Industries
Morgan Moffit, ABD (PhD, Anthropology) 2013 - present
Crude landscapes: Inuvialuit histories, environment, and industry in the Mackenzie Delta.
Michelle Borowitz, ABD (PhD, Anthropology) 2011 - present
Dene-water relations and hydroelectric dams: Confluence and contestations in the Mackenzie River basin.
Brenda Guernsey, ABD (PhD, Anthropology) 2013 - present
Environmental change and food security in northern British Columbia.
Naotaka Hayashi (Graduated, PhD Anthropology) 2011- 2012 Cultivating place, livelihood, and the future: An ethnography on dwelling and climate in Western Greenland.
Wayne Crosby (Graduated, PhD Rural Sociology) 2012 Moving through uncertain times: A morphogenetic approach to exploring people’s response to social and economic crisis in two forest community contexts in rural British Columbia.
PhD Candidacy Examination Committee
Michael Granzow (Committee Examiner) 2015
Department of Sociology
Gardening the Anthropocene: The socio-spatial politics of collective urban agriculture.
Kelly Struthers Montford (Candidacy Chair and Examiner) 2014 Department of Sociology
Speciesism and meat-eating: A genealogy of food safety laws in Canada.
Arshad Khan Khalafzai (Candidacy Arm’s Length Examiner) 2016 Human Geography
Flooding disaster and Kashechewan First Nation in Northern Ontario.
Duyen Truong (Candidacy Arm’s Length Examiner) 2016
Department of Renewable Resources
Residents’ perspectives on hydraulic fracturing issues in Rosebud hamlet, Fox Creek town, and the City of Lethbridge, Alberta Province, Canada.
Hereward Longley (Candidacy Arm’s Length Examiner) 2015 Department of History and Classics
Indigenous communities, resource extraction conflicts and the environmental history of the Athabasca Oil Sands industry, 1964 – 2015.
Gabriel Yanicki (Candidacy Arm’s Length Examiner) 2014 Department of Anthropology
Chournos Springs: The Late Prehistoric transition on Promontory Point.
PhD Final Defense Examination Committee
Arshad Khan Khalafzai (Arm’s Length Examiner) 2020 Human Geography
Flooding disaster and Kashechewan First Nation in Northern Ontario.
Kelly Struthers Montford (Chair) 2018
Department of Sociology
Agricultural power: Politicized ontologies of food, life and law in settler colonial spaces.
Katherine MacDonald (Chair and Examiner) 2016 Department of Sociology
Transnational helping and pedagogical encounters in Nicaragua: host families, intimacy, and catcalls.
Manoj Misra (Chair and Examiner) 2014
Department of Sociology
The implications of globalization and environmental changes for smallholder peasants: The Bangladesh case.
Barrett Weber (Chair and Examiner) 2013
Department of Sociology
The politics of development in Nunavut: Land claims, arctic urbanization, and geopolitics.
PhD Specialization Committee
Luke Wonneck (Chair and Examiner) 2020
Department of Sociology
Decolonizing Agriculture on the Prairies
Rezvaneh Erfani (Chair and Examiner) 2018
Department of Sociology
Ecofeminism: Colonization and the body.
Isabel Scheumann Scott (Chair and Examiner) 2017
Department of Sociology
Critical feminist methodologies.
Jason Chalmers (Chair and Examiner) 2015
Department of Sociology
Transforming academic knowledges: Indigenous and decolonizing research methodologies in relational perspective.
Shingirai Mandizadza (Chair and Examiner) 2015
Department of Sociology Culture and development.
Eva Bogdan (Chair and Examiner) 2013
Department of Sociology Social Impact Assessment.
Cynthia Amati (Examiner) 2012
Department of Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology Ecological Modernization.
Masters Student Supervision Supervisor
Cassandra Copp (Graduated MA, Sociology) 2013 - 2015
Mining the communicative flow: Communication and social learning in the reclamation and remediation of the ‘Vista Coal Mine’ project in Alberta, Canada.
Rezvaneh Erfani Hossein Pour (Graduated MA, Sociology/Political Science) 2015 - 2018 Co-supervisor with Isabel Altamarino-Jimenez)
A post-colonial critique of global “environmental justice” discourse.
Amanda Evans (Graduated MA, Sociology) 2014 - 2018
An Ecological habitus on the oil field? Climate change attitudes and environmental behaviours of northern Alberta oil extraction workers.
Masters Supervisory Committee Member
Emilie Bassi (MSc., Department of Resource Economics and Environmental 2017 - 2018 Sociology, Faculty of Agriculture, Life and Environmental Sciences).
A Comparative Case Study of Animal Welfare with the Livestock Production Sector of Alberta Cory Habulin (MSc., Department of Resource Economics 2015 - present and Environmental Sociology)
Carolyn Chenard (MSc, Department of Resource Economics 2013 - present
And Environmental Sociology)
Participatory practices in the public sphere: The case of the Site C Clean Energy Project in British Columbia.
Roger McMillan (Graduated MSc., Rural Sociology) 2011 - 2012 Resilience to ecological change: contemporary harvesting and food sharing dynamics in the K’asho Got’ine community of Fort Good Hope, Northwest Territories.
Kristine Wray (Graduated MSc, Rural Sociology) 2010- 2011 Ways we respect caribou: Hunting in Teetl’it Zheh (Fort McPherson, NWT).
Masters Examination Committees
Trina Lamanes (MA, Proposal Defence) 2016
Department of Human Geography
Resilience and Resource Based Communities.
Julio Arrogoces (MSc., Final Defense) 2012
Department of Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology
Climate change, adaptive capacity and new land use innovations implemented by local farmers and indigenous peoples in Puerto Carreño, Colombia.
Honours Undergraduate Student Supervision
Freya Hammond-Thrasher (Samuel M Strong Medal in Sociology)
Understanding Indigenous Food Sovereignty in Urban Canada 2019-2020 Caitlin Parker (Honours Undergraduate). Co-supervised with Dr. Eva Bogdan 2020-2021
ACADEMIC AWARDS OF SUPERVISED STUDENTS
Rezvaneh Erfani (PhD)
Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship 2018-2021
Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Scholarship 2020-2022 President’s Doctoral Prize of Distinction, University of Alberta. 2018-2021 Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship, Government of Alberta. 2019 Khalida Quraishi Memorial Graduate Award in Islamic Studies ($1200) 2019
Luke Wonneck (PhD)
SSHRC - Joseph-Armand Bombardier Doctoral Scholarship 2020
Shingirai Mandizadza (PhD)
SSHRC Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship 2016
Eva Bogdan (PhD)
Walter and Edith (Hughes) Fryers Graduate Scholarship 2017
SSHRC Michael Smith Study Abroad Award 2016
SSHRC - Joseph-Armand Bombardier Doctoral Scholarship 2014
President's Doctoral Prize of Distinction 2014
Canadian Water Resources Assoc. Dillon Consulting Scholarship 2014 University of Alberta Water Initiative Travel Grant 2014 Sociology Graduate Student Association Travel Grant 2014
Alberta Climate Dialogue Travel Grant 2014
Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship 2013
Amanda Evans (MA)
SSHRC Masters Scholarship 2015
Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship – Master’s Level 2014 Jennifer Braun (PhD)
Persons Case Scholarship, Status of Women, Alberta 2017
SSHRC Canada Doctoral Fellowship 2014
Cassandra Copp (MA)
Heritage Graduate Student Scholarship 2015
Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship 2015
SSHRC Masters Scholarship 2014
ACADEMIC SERVICE University Service
Member, UA Sustainability Council’s Research Steering Committee 2019 - present Member, Faculty of Arts Working Group on Indigenous Initiatives 2018 - present Organizer, Department of Sociology Speakers Series 2019 - present Member, Department of Sociology TRC Call to Action Committee 2018 - present
UAlberta North Scholarship Adjudication Committee. University of Alberta. 2015 - present Board Member, University of Alberta Research Ethics Board (REB1). 2015 - 2019 Board of Directors, Association of Canadian Universities for Northern Studies. 2013 - 2019 Member, Graduate Program and Policy, Department of Sociology. 2017 - 2018
Advisory Team Member, Department of Sociology, CampCrim. 2016 - 2018
Member, Graduate Admissions and Awards Committee, 2012- 2014; 2016 - 2017 Department of Sociology.
Chair Selection Committee, Department of Sociology. 2015
Parkland Institute Award Committee. 2015
Member, Communications Committee, Department of Sociology. 2014 - 2016 Member, Undergraduate Teaching Committee, Department of Sociology. 2011 - 2012
Chair, University of Alberta Northern Research Grants Adjudication Committee. 2012 Member, University of Alberta Northern Research Grants Adjudication Committee 2010 - 2013
- Northern Scientific Training Program Grants (Department of Indian and Northern Affairs, Government of Canada)
- Circumpolar/Boreal Alberta Research Grants (Canadian Circumpolar Institute) Undergraduate Student Mentor - ALES Student Internship Program / Health Canada 2010-2011 Environmental Health Program.
Member, Department of Sociology Faculty Roundtable on Graduate Supervision. 2014 Panel Presenter, Department of Sociology Proseminar. 2014
“Making the Most of your TA/RA-ship.”
Department of Sociology SSHRC Proposal Writing Workshop. Student Proposal Reviewer. 2014 Department of Sociology Teaching Symposium. 2012; 2013
“Overcoming the Problem of Teaching Social Problems: Using Music/Spoken Word Lyrics in the Classroom.”
Visiting Guest Seminar Organizer, Department of Sociology. 2011 Dr. Timo P. Karjalainen, Thule Institute, University of Oulu, Finland. November 22.
Department of Rural Economy Seminar Organizer and Chair. Barbara Heinzen, 2009
“The Barbet’s Duet: Environmental Markets, Rules and Institutions in East Africa.”
October 29. University of Alberta
Research Ethics Board Graduate Student Board Member, University of Alberta. 2006 - 2007
Professional Service
Member, Society & Natural Resources Book Series Editorial Board 2019 – present Member, Publications Committee, Rural Sociology Journal. 2013 - present Member, Professional Development Committee, 2014 - present International Association for Society and Natural Resources.
Member, Awards to Scholarly Publications Program (ASPP) 2017 - present Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Chair, Environmental Sociology Research Cluster. 2013 - present Canadian Sociological Association.
Chair, Environmental Sociology Research Cluster Student Paper Award 2013 - present
Committee. Canadian Sociological Association.
Coordinator, Environmental Sociology Research Cluster Student CV 2013 - present and Resume Review Committee, Canadian Sociological Association.
Faculty of Arts Environmental Studies Consortium (AESC) Member. 2012 - present Conference Organizing Committee Member (field trips) for the International 2014 - 2015
Association for the Study of the Commons (Edmonton, 2015).
Member, Canadian Circumpolar Institute Northern Advisory Committee. 2012 - 2014 Canadian Circumpolar Institute Research Affiliate, University of Alberta. 2008 - 2014 Workshop Presenter: Ethical Research in the North: CCI Northern Grants Workshop. 2014-2016 Student Paper Competition Committee Member. 2012 - 2013 International Symposium on Society and Natural Resources (ISSRM).
File Review Committee Member for 2013 Trudeau Foundation Scholarships. 2013 Student Presentation Award Committee. 2013 REESA Student Conference. 2013 Department of Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology, ALES.
Organizing Committee Member, International Symposium on Society and Resource 2012
Management (ISSRM).
ISSRM 2012 Conference Field Trip Tour Coordinator and Discussant: 2012
“Upgraders and Ecosystems”. June 19.
Chair and Lead Organizer, ISSRM 2012 Student Forum “World Café.” June 17. 2012
University of Alberta.
Book Development Workshop Co-facilitator (with Dr. B. Parlee). 2010 Winnipeg, October 24.
President and Founding Member. University of Alberta Student Organization 2006 - 2007 of Society and Natural Resources (chapter of International Association of SNR).
Rapporteur and Conference Summary Presenter. Trudeau Foundation Conference 2006 on Public Policy: Muslims in Western Society, November 16-18. Vancouver, British Columbia.
REVIEWER
Journal Manuscript
Organization & Environment; Environmental Sociology; Geoforum; Journal of Resources Policy; Journal of Canadian Studies; Society and Natural Resources ; Canadian Geographer;
Arctic; Polar Record; CCI Press; Nature & Culture; International Journal of Qualitative Methods; Land Use Policy; Canadian Journal of Forest Research
External Research Proposals
Academy of Reviewers, Grant Assist Program. Insight Development Grant 2015
SSHRC Insight Grant 2015
Health Canada Climate Change and Health Adaptation Program 2015 Textbooks
Comparative Review of Sociology as a Life or Death Issue, 3rd Canadian Issue 2015 Robert Brym. Nelson Education Canada
Comparative Review of Sociology for Everyone, 1st Edition 2009 Bruce Ravelli, Michelle Webber, and John Patterson. Pearson Education Canada
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIPS
International Sociological Association 2013 - present
Canadian Sociological Association 2009 - present
Trudeau Foundation Alumni Association 2006 - present International Arctic Social Sciences Association 2004 - present
American Sociological Association 2004 - present
International Association of Society and Natural Resources 2005 - present
Rural Sociological Society 2003 - present
NORTHERN PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Resource Management Consultant 2004
Saoyú-ʔehdacho Candidate Area Working Group. Northwest Territories Protected Areas Strategy. Délįne, Northwest Territories
Research Coordinator 2002
Driftwood in the Gwich’in Settlement Area, NWT. Gwich’in Renewable Resource Board, Sustainable Forest Management Network, and University of Alberta. Inuvik, Northwest Territories (Dr. Ross Wein)
Natural Resource Extension Specialist 2001 - 2002
Northern Forest Research and Extension Partnership. Smithers, British Columbia
Extension Forester 1997 - 2001
Forest Development Services - Forest Management Division; Department of Resources, Wildlife and Economic Development; Government of the Northwest Territories. Hay River, Northwest Territories.
NORTHERN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT & RESEARCH
Presentation to Sahtu Renewable Resources Board 2010
“Ekwç hé naidé living with caribou: Dene knowledge and policy development in the context of
‘crisis’.” Norman Wells, Northwest Territories. Frances Abele, Walter Bayha, Ken J. Caine, and Deborah Simmons. October 5.
Délįne Knowledge Project / Centre Action Group Member 2003 - present Sole non-local member. Délįne, Northwest Territories.
Délįne Land Corporation Conservation and Development Project Advisor 2006 Délįne, Northwest Territories.
Saoyú-ʔehdacho Working Group Member 2003 - 2006
Délįne, Northwest Territories.
Great Bear Lake Management Plan Working Group Member 2003 - 2005 Délįne, Northwest Territories.
Great Bear Lake Working Group Report 2004
“The Water Heart: Summary of the Draft Management Plan for Great Bear Lake and its Watershed, November 2004.” Unpublished manuscript.
Great Bear Lake Working Group Report 2005
“The Water Heart: Summary of the May 2005 Management Plan for Great Bear Lake and its Watershed. Directed by The Great Bear Lake Working Group (Plain
Language Summary).” Unpublished manuscript.
Great Bear Lake Working Group Report 2005
“The ‘Water Heart’: A Management Plan for Great Bear Lake and its Watershed. Directed by the Great Bear Lake Working Group and facilitated and drafted by Tom Nesbitt (May 31, 2005, with Caveat of February 7, 2006).” Unpublished manuscript.
