Congratulations to Dr. Mélissa Gauthier on receiving the 2022 CASCA Award for Teaching Excellence

"Dr. Mélissa Gauthier is Assistant Teaching Professor at the University of Victoria where she teaches two core courses of the Anthropology undergraduate program (Sociocultural Anthropology and Introduction to Anthropological Research), in addition to special topics courses in Anthropology including Introduction to Anthropological Research, Economic Underworlds and Globalization, and Anthropology of Mexico. Mélissa’s teaching approach is characterized by a commitment to excellence, critical, transformative, engaged and experiential pedagogy. She fosters active learning in creating innovative and community-engaged opportunities for students. Her classrooms are spaces where equity and intellectual integrity are created and maintained and they are deemed ‘safe spaces’ for the engagement of difficult or challenging knowledge. Mélissa demonstrated at various occasions her consistent efforts to appeal to diverse student learning needs and provide opportunities to practice/develop useful skills."