Julie Cruikshank

• 1987 - PhD, Anthropology, University of British Columbia
• 1980 - Diploma, Polar Studies, University of Cambridge
• 1969 - M.A., Anthropology, UBC
• 1967 - B.A., Anthropology, University of Toronto

Affiliations and dates:

• 2003 - Professor Emerita, University of British Columbia
• 1997-2003 - Professor, Anthropology, UBC
• 1992-97 - Associate professor, Anthropology, UBC
• 1990-92 - Assistant professor, Anthropology, UBC
• 1987-88, 1995-96, 2001-02 - Visiting Scholar, Univ. of Cambridge

Julie Cruikshank is Professor Emerita in the Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia where she also held the McLean Chair in Canadian Studies, 2001-2003.  For more than a decade, she lived in the Yukon Territory where she worked with the Yukon Native Language Centre recording oral traditions and life stories with Athapaskan and Tlingit elders. She has also conducted research in Alaska and Siberia.  Her research interests include environmental anthropology, circumpolar political developments and approaches to analysis of oral tradition.  

Her books include Life Lived Like a Stories (1990, written in collaboration with three Yukon elders, Angela Sidney, Annie Ned and Kitty Smith, and winner of the Canadian Historical Association’s 1991 MacDonald Prize); Reading Voices (1991), and The Social Life of Stories (1998). Her recent book, Do Glaciers Listen? Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters and Social Imagination (2005) received two book prizes from the American Anthropological Association - the Victor Turner Prize and the Julian Steward Book Award.

She has also published papers in a number of scholarly journals - American Anthropologist, Ethnohistory, Anthropology Today, Arctic Anthropology, American Indian Quarterly, Culture, B.C. Studies and other journals. She was awarded the Robert F. Heizer Prize by the American Society for Ethnohistory in 1995. Other research awards have included a UBC Killam Research Prize (1992) and a UBC Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Faculty Research Fellowship (1994). She received a UBC Prize for Excellence in Teaching from the Faculty of Arts in 1995.