Staff
Kristin enns-kavanagh
Executive Director
Kristin Enns-Kavanagh was born and raised in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. She received a B.A. (Honours) in Anthropology, Archaeology and Women’s and Gender Studies from the University of Saskatchewan in 1997, and an M.A. in Anthropology and Archaeology from the U. of. S. in 2002. Her early career as a field archaeologist gifted her with a deep-rooted sense of connection to Saskatchewan's varied landscape. It also gave her the chance to study a wide range of the Province’s history through archival research, oral history, and archaeological survey. Her career has since evolved to include community engagement, facilitation for community-based visioning, and non-profit governance, complemented by volunteer roles in the non-profit heritage and culture sectors. Kristin is a strong advocate for community-driven processes to share and explore the past and what it means for contemporary people. She believes in building connections between people to collaboratively create shared histories that reflect the diversity of Saskatchewan experiences. She believes storytelling – including the sharing of personal stories – is a powerful way to support one another, create a sense of belonging, and promote justice in communities.
Kristin lives in Saskatoon with her husband, Nathan, and their two cats. She enjoys dance (mostly in her living room, these days), Zumba, yoga, and reading.
Kristin can be reached at kristin.ennskavanagh@shfs.ca or 306-361-2296.
Bethany Knowles
Folklore Editor
Bethany is a PhD student at the University of Saskatchewan, studying under Dr. Erika Dyck. Her dissertation explores how the promotion of abstinence through non-medical interventions and English-language educational campaigns from 1970 to 1990 entered Canadian youth's lives through curricula, Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE), television, and Christian purity literature, in ways that reinforced pre-war attitudes towards hygiene, sexuality, and non-medical drug consumption. Examining abstinence education through the lens of social, medical, youth, religious, and gender history complicates the history of temperance and drug history by considering how children were targeted in the War on Drugs, how they experienced and remember abstinence education, and how these experiences influenced their lives and decisions going forward.
You can reach Bethany by contacting the office. If you have a piece that you’re ready to submit to Folklore Magazine, start here.