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Karim-Aly Saleh Kassam

International Professor

Graduate Fields

Research Focus

Applied participatory action research in the service of communities. This includes interdisciplinary areas of focus including: Ways of Knowing, Indigenous Human Ecology, Arctic Social Science, Natural Resource Policy, Social Policy, Community Economic Development and Socio-cultural History of Muslim Societies. Specific topics of research interest include: relationship between biological and cultural diversity, climate change, indigenous land and marine use, gender analysis and women's empowerment.

Educational Background

  • Ph.D.  Cornell University, USA  2005
  • M.Sc.  London School of Economics, UK  1993
  • M.Phil. University of Cambridge, UK  1992
  • B.A.  University of Calgary, Canada  1987

Research Grants

  • INDIGENOUS PEOPLE, ALPINE HUMAN ECOLOGY AND CHANGE IN THE PAMIR

Selected Publications

PubMed Listings
  • Kassam, Karim-Aly. 2009. Bio-Cultural Diversity and Ways of Knowing: Re-Thinking Human Ecology in the Arctic and Sub-Arctic.

     

  • Kassam, Karim-Aly (editor). 2008. Understanding Terror: Canadian Perspectives. University of Toronto Press. In press.

     

  • Kassam, Karim-Aly. 2007. Fire: Effective Practices in Self-Help Institutions Journal of Arts, University of Mysore. Forthcoming.

     

  • Kassam, Karim-Aly. 2005. Human Ecology. Encyclopeadia of the Arctic (3 Volumes). Ed. Mark Nuttal. New York: Routledge. Pp. 892-896.

     

  • Kassam, Karim-Aly. 2005. Hunting, Subsistence. Encyclopeadia of the Arctic (3 Volumes). Ed. Mark Nuttal. New York: Routledge. Pp. 899-902.

     

  • Kassam, Karim-Aly and Wisdom Tettey. 2003. Academics as Citizens Collaborative Interdisciplinary Research in the Service of Communities. Canadian Journal of Development Studies, 24(1): 155-174.

     

  • Kassam, Karim-Aly, George Melnyk, and Lynne Perras (editors). 2002. Canada and September 11th: Impact and Responses. Calgary: Detselig.

     

  • Kassam, Karim-Aly. 2001. Life North of 60?: Homeland or Frontier? In Passion for Identity: Canadian Studies for the 21st Century. Scarborough: Nelson Thompson Learning. Pp. 433-455.

     

  • Kassam, Karim-Aly and the Soaring Eagle Friendship Centre. 2001. So That Our Voices Are Heard: Forest Use and Changing Gender Roles of Dene Women in Hay River, Northwest Territories. Calgary: CIDA-Shastri Partnership Programme.

     

  • Kassam, Karim-Aly and the Wainwright Traditional Council. 2001. Passing on the Knowledge: Mapping Human Ecology in Wainwright, Alaska. Calgary: Arctic Institute of North America.

     

  • Robinson, Michael and Karim-Aly Kassam. 1998. Sami Potatoes: Living with Reindeer and Perestroika. Calgary: Bayeux Arts. (Translated and published in Russian 2000).