Julie Cruikshank, O.C.

The Canadian Anthropology Society is delighted to congratulate Julie Cruikshank upon her induction as an Officer of the Order of Canada.  Julie Cruikshank has made path-breaking theoretical and practical contributions in the exploration of narrative and oral history, based on decades of learning and collaboration together with First Nations peoples of the Yukon and British Columbia and also with indigenous peoples of Alaska and Siberia.  Her work is noted for its engagement with issues of oral history and struggles for legitimacy, and for linking oral history and memory with environmental anthropology and contemporary public issues.  She is the author of Life Lived Like a Story:  Life Stories of Three Yukon Native Elders  (1990), Reading Voices:  Dan Dha Ts’edenintth’e (1991), The Social Life of Stories:  Narrative and Knowledge in Northern Canada (1998), Do Glaciers Listen?  Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters and Social Imagination (2005), and of numerous articles.  She is the recipient of both the Victor Turner Award and the Julian Steward Award. 

Ellen Judd