Graduate Programs: Current Students

 

Current Graduate Students

The MA program was founded in 1979, with the first thesis completion in 1981. Since 2003, the department has offered a PhD in Sociocultural
anthropology and in archaeological sciences. As you will see in the details below, graduate students in our program are conducting primary research in all areas of anthropology.

For a listing of students who have completed our program and the title of their Thesis, click [HERE]

 

Sociocultural: MA - PhD

Archaeology and Biological Anthropology: MA - PhD

Applied Archaeology: MA

 

Sociocultural MA


Leanne Bekeris [University of Western Ontario]
Topic: First Nations Health
Supervisor: Regna Darnell

Joanna Berry [University of Western Ontario]
Topic: Impacts of Government Responses to Mexican Asylum Claims in Canada
Supervisor: Randa Farah/Sherrie Larkin

Johnathan Giles [The University of Western Ontario]
Topic: Irish Language Revitalization in North America
Supervisor: Tania Granadillo

Monica Kelly [University of P.E.I.]
Topic: Urban agriculture in Toronto
Supervisor: Adriana Premat

David Levine [The University of Western Ontario]
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Angela MacMillan [University of Western Ontario]
Topic: Changing Conceptions of Space in a Papua New Guinean Migrant Community
Supervisor: Dan Jorgensen

Matthew McKarney [University of Florida]
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Lisa Veldman [The University of Western Ontario]
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Brian Venne [University of Windsor]
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Catherine Villar [The University of Western Ontario]
Topic: Women's Health in Zambia
Supervisor: Douglass St.Christian

Mbaka Wadham [The University of Western Ontario]
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Sociocultural PhD

Kelly Baker [Dalhousie University]
Topic: Queer Space and Queer Histories in Montreal
Supervisor: Douglass St. Christian

Julianna Beaudoin [University of Western Ontario]
Topic: Refugees in Canada: Renegotiating Identities and Histories
Supervisor: Randa Farah

Darren Dokis [University of Western Ontario]
Topic: Exploring the intersections between development, identity, and spirituality among First Nations Peoples, and specifically Anishinabe
Supervisor: Darnell

Mark Dolson [McGill University]
Topic: Sociocultural, historical, political and religious implications of neo-shamanism and Laestadian-based faith healing in a small inland Saami community in Finnmark County, northern Norway.
Supervisor: Regna Darnell

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Christian Espanol [Universidad Central de Venezuela]
Topic: In between political rationales: how indigenous people navigate state policies in Venezuela.
Supervisor: Kim Clark

Jordan Levy [University of Western Ontario]
Topic: The Politics of Honduran School teachers: State Agents Working against the State.
Supervisor:  Kim Clark

Jennifer Long [University of Sussex]
Topic: Constructing national identity through space in the Netherlands: understanding the relationship between Dutch Muslims and Dutch natives
Supervisor: Randa Farah & Adriana Premat

Megan Lowthers [University of Guelph]
Topic: Internal migration in Kenya; cut flower industry; transactional sex; gender
Supervisor: Randa Farah & Regna Darnell

Elaine McIlwraith [University of Western Ontario]
Topic: Al-Andalus of the Past in the Present: Contemporary historical narratives of Arab Spain within a shifting political environment
Supervisor: Randa Farah

Gerald McKinley [University of Western Ontario]
Topic: Authors and Their Worlds: An Ethnographic study of authorship as scholarly via Contemporary Indigenous Narrative
Supervisor: Regna Darnell

Dina Najjar [University of Manitoba]
Topic: “Women and Access to Land in Egypt's New Lands"
Supervisor: Dan Jorgensen\Rachel Bezner Kerr

An Nguyen [Carleton University]
Topic: Street fashion, cross-cultural media, and Internet communities
Supervisor: Regna Darnell

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Ian Puppe [York University]
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Brandon Rouleau [University of Western Ontario]
Topic: Understanding Transgenerational Experiences of Migration in Lima, Peru.
Supervisor: Regna Darnell

Sarah Shulist [McMaster University]
Topic: Indigenous language revitalization, urban identity, and political action in Sao Gabriel da Cachoeira, Amazonas, Brazil.
Supervisor: Tania Granadillo and Kim Clark

Joshua Smith [University of Victoria]
Topic: Action Anthropology. An Ethnography of Anthropological Methods.
Supervisor: Regna Darnell

Melissa Stachel [University of Western Ontario]
Topic: Somalis in North America: Diverse and Shifting Identities in the Context of Prolonged Armed Conflict.
Supervisor: Randa Farah

 

Archaeology and Bioarchaeology MA

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Laura Booth [University of Western Ontario]
Topic: Stable Isotope Analysis of Iroquoian Ritual Fauna
Supervisor: Christine White/Fred Longstaffe

Kaye-Lynn Boucher [University of Western Ontario]
Topic: A comparative ontogenetic study of long bone structure and biomechanics in South African Foragers and Sadlermiut Inuit.
Supervisor: Andrew Nelson

Lisa Brown [University of Toronto]
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Alison Deplonty [The University of Western Ontario]
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Caleigh Farrell [The University of Western Ontario]
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Arthur Klages [The University of Western Ontario]
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Monica Maika [University of Toronto]
Topic: Use-wear Analysis of Paleoindian Spurred Lithics
Supervisor: Chris Ellis

Meridith Masoner [Arizona State University]
Topic: Stable Isotopes
Supervisor: Christine White & Fred Longstaffe

Kelly Miller [Wilfrid Laurier University]
Topic: Early Late Woodland settlement & material culture analysis.
Supervisor: Neal Ferris

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Nancy Van Sas [University of Western Ontario]
Topic: The People Along the Ausable: An Investigation into the Seasonal Occupation of the Davidson Site, A Late Archaic Multi-component Campsite.
Supervisor: Chris Ellis

Claire Venet-Rogers [The University of Western Ontario]
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Emily Wells [University of Western Ontario]
Topic: The Bioarchaeology of childhood using Isotopic Anthropology at the Sacred Heart cemetary in Ingersoll, Ontario
Supervisor: Christine White/Fred Longstaffe

Bryan Wilson [University of Western Ontario]
Topic: Impacts of conservation efforts in Northwest Madagascar.
Supervisor: Ian Colquhoun/Dan Jorgensen


Archaeological & Bioarchaeology PhD

 

Matt Beaudoin [Memorial University]
Topic: De-Essentializing the Past: Deconstructing Identity Categories in 19th-Centruy Ontario.
Supervisor: Neal Ferris

Christine Boston [University of Western Ontario]
Topic: Growth and Development of the Head in Relation to Artificial Cranial Modification.
Supervisor: Andrew Nelson

Michael Carter [University of Toronto]
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Alicia Donis [McMaster University]
Topic: Tracing the Movement of People at Lamanai through Time using Stable Isotopes
Supervisor: Christine White/Fred Longstaffe

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Jordan Downey [Trent University]
Topic: Lithic Technology in the Viru Valley
Supervisor: Jean-Francois Millaire

Lindsay Foreman [Lakehead University and University of Western Ontario]
Topic: Subsistence and Settlement Patterns at Southwestern Ontario Western Basin Sites.
Supervisor: Lisa Hodgetts

Pauline Goetz [University of Waterloo]

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Barb Hewitt [University of Manitoba] [ Website ]
Topic: Foreigners among the Dead at Túcume, Peru: The Identification of Migrants through Stable Isotope analysis.
Supervisor: Christine White/Fred Longstaffe

Jim Keron [University of Western Ontario]
Topic: Spatial Analysis of Archaeological Material
Supervisor: Chris Ellis

Casey Kirkpatrick [Swansea University]
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John Moody [University of Western Ontario]
Topic: An analysis of Early Thule Ceramics
Supervisor: Lisa Hodgetts

Jennifer Morgan [University of Manitoba]
Topic: Non-Destructive Analysis of Bone in Palaeopathology using Imaging techniques.
Supervisor: Andrew Nelson

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Zoe Morris [Louisiana State University]
Topic: The Comparative Examination of Iroquoian and Western Basin Maize Production and Storage Using Isotopic Profiles of Faunal Proxies, AD 1000 - 1700
Supervisor: Christine White/Fred Longstaffe

Karyn Olsen [University of Western Ontario]
Topic: Exploring the Effects of Pathology on Collagen Nitrogen-Isotope Compositions Using Bulk and Compound-specific Isotopic Analyses.
Supervisor: Chris White & Fred Longstaffe

Carlie Pennycook [University of Alberta]
Topic: Investigating Mobility, Trade & Subsistence Patterns Along the Pre-Columbian Coast of Ecuador Using Stable Isotope Analysis & Paloeopathology
Supervisor: Christine White & Fred Longstaffe

Flannery Surette [Trent University]
Topic: Textiles from the North Coast of Peru
Supervisor: Jean-Francois Millaire

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Paul Szpak [McMaster University] WEBSITE
Topic: Isotopic Analysis of Peruvian Textiles
Supervisor: Christine White & Fred Longstaffe

Matthew Teeter [University of Western Ontario]
Topic: Testing the efficacy of Aspartic Acid Reacemization as a means of estimating the age-at-death from human skeletal remains.
Supervisor:  El Molto

Candie Thomas [McMaster University]
Topic: Neal Ferris
Supervisor: Archaeological Ethnography of Traditional Ceramic Production, Use and Meaning Among the AmaZulu of the Mnweni Valley, South Africa.

Maricarmen Vega [Pontifical Catholic University of Peru Lima]
Topic: Possible causes of the different patterns of fractures between sexes previously detected in some Peruvian pre-Hispanic populations.
Supervisor: Andrew Nelson

Andrew Wade [University of Western Ontario]
Topic: Hearts and minds: Examining the evolution of the Egyptian excerebration and evisceration traditions through the IMPACT mummy database
Supervisor: Andrew Nelson

Renee Willmon [University of Toronto]
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Applied Archaeology MA

 

Namir Ahmed [York University]
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Chelsey Armstrong [Simon Fraser University]
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Tracie Carmichael [The University of Western Ontario]
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Joshua Dent [University of Victoria]
Topic: Origins of the Legislative Framework Concerning Heritage in B.C. and Ontario
Supervisor: Neal Ferris

John Dunlop [University of Toronto]
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Jonathan Freeman [The University of Western Ontario]
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Adria Grant [The University of Western Ontario]
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Adam Hossack [Wilfrid Laurier University]
Topic: Evidence of the agency of teaching and learning chert knapping on the EPI Bear Creek site cluster in Barrie, ON.
Supervisor: Chris Ellis

Nicole Jones [McMaster University]
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Chris Lemon [University of Toronto]
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Shane McCartney [McMaster University]
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Supervisor: Lisa Hodgetts

Jeffery Muir [Trent University]
Topic: An Exploration of Village Structure in a Western Basin Tradition Site Using Ceramics
Supervisor: Neal Ferris

Steve Naftel [University of Western Ontario]
Topic: Bone chemistry and differential diagnostics of bone disease
Supervisor: El Molto