Research areas
The Department of Anthropology and Archaeology embraces an integrative approach, grounding our study and research in rigorous training and extensive field experience in field and lab investigations throughout the globe.
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African Studies
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Motilola Akinfemisoye-Adejare (Teaching)
Ethnography of African newsrooms, Journalistic appropriation of new digital technologies in African contexts, Media representations of women politicians in African media, Teaching anti-Black racism in Canada, Climate change journalism in Africa, Diaspora engagements in Africa
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Rowland Apentiik (Teaching)
Political Economy of Global Development, Conflict and Peacebuilding, Human-Environmental Security (human-Wildlife interaction, food and water security and sovereignty), African Diaspora and Pan Africanism
Archaeology
- Bioarchaeology
- Ceramic analysis
- Development of complex societies
- Digital archaeology
- Ethnoarchaeology
- Faunal analysis
- Geoarchaeology
- Heritage management
- Human-environment interaction
- Landscape archaeology
- Lithic analysis
- Paleoethnobotany
- Paleoanthropology
- Remote Sensing
- Spatial analysis
- Social identity
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Lindsay Amundsen-Meyer
Canadian Plains Archaeology, Landscape Archaeology, Indigenous Archaeology, Geographic Information Systems
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Peter Dawson
Digital Archaeology and Heritage Preservation, Archaeology of Western North America and the Arctic
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Julio Mercader
Human evolution, Dietary and climatic change, Tropical ecosystems during the African Stone age
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Maribeth Murray
Arctic observing systems, Historical ecology, Human-marine interactions, Climate change research
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Elizabeth Paris
Urbanism, Mesoamerica, Ancient Economies, Materials analysis, Compositional Analysis, Lithic Technology, Faunal Analysis, Archaeometallurgy
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Kathryn Reese-Taylor
Mesoamerica, Maya, Urbanization, Ancient Economies, Settlement Patterns, Landscape Archaeology, Remote Sensing
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Matthew Walls
Human-environment systems, Historical ecology, Cognitive anthropology, Arctic archaeology, Paleolithic archaeology, Anthropocene
Biological Anthropology
- Behavioural ecology
- Bioarchaeology
- Conservation
- Ecology
- Health and nutrition
- Human osteology
- Sex difference and reproduction
- Paleoanthropology
- Primatology
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Susanne Cote
Paleontology, Paleoanthropology, African Cenozoic Mammals, Hominoidea
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Edwin Dickinson
Comparative and evolutionary anatomy, Dynamic musculoskeletal modeling, Experimental biology
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Jenny Godley
Social determinants of health, Social network analysis, Gender, Stigma and discrimination, Demography, Weight-related health, Ethics of research with human participants, Transdisciplinary research evaluation
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Steig Johnson
Conservation biology, biogeography, and behavioural ecology of Malagasy primates, Hybrid zones and speciation
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Amanda Melin
Plasticity and adaptation in the microbiome, The Aging Eye, Sensory ecology, Variation in the Pace of Aging in White-faced Capuchins
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Mary Pavelka
Primate behaviour, Aging and reproduction, Evolution of menopause, Evolution of human behaviour.
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Vivek Venkataraman
Human health, Hunter gatherers, Non-human primate behavior
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Warren Wilson
Determinants of maternal and child health in LMICs, Population health
Development Studies
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Rowland Apentiik (Teaching)
Political Economy of Global Development, Conflict and Peacebuilding, Human-Environmental Security (human-Wildlife interaction, food and water security and sovereignty), African Diaspora and Pan Africanism
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Ben McKay
Critical development studies, Critical agrarian studies, Political economy, Land politics, Food politics, Latin America
Social and Cultural Anthropology
- Anthropological Demography
- Anthropology and militarism
- Anthropology of sport
- Environmental anthropology
- Indigenous people
- Medical anthropology
- Natural resources and the environment
- Political economy
- Sustainability
- Urban anthropology
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Motilola Akinfemisoye-Adejare (Teaching)
Ethnography of African newsrooms, Journalistic appropriation of new digital technologies in African contexts, Media representations of women politicians in African media, Teaching anti-Black racism in Canada, Climate change journalism in Africa, Diaspora engagements in Africa
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Rowland Apentiik (Teaching)
Political Economy of Global Development, Conflict and Peacebuilding, Human-Environmental Security (human-Wildlife interaction, food and water security and sovereignty), African Diaspora and Pan Africanism
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Shayne Dahl (Teaching)
Japanese mountain asceticism, Indigenous traditions, spirituality, and historical consciousness
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Jenny Godley
Social determinants of health, Social network analysis, Gender, Stigma and discrimination, Demography, Weight-related health, Ethics of research with human participants, Transdisciplinary research evaluation
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Naotaka Hayashi
Relationships between humans and the environment
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Jean-Rene Leblanc
Research creation, AR, VR, Photography
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Charles Mather
Anthropology of comics, Integration of biomedicine and ethnomedicine
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Ben McKay
Critical development studies, Critical agrarian studies, Political economy, Land politics, Food politics, Latin America
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Sabrina Peric
Social aspects of energy transitions, Visual anthropology, Resource extraction, Historical anthropology
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Saulesh Yessenova
Political and environmental anthropology, historical anthropology, space age, post-nuclear politics and societies.
