Faculty and Staff

The Department currently has 19 full-time faculty members, as well as an extensive complement of part-time, emeritus and adjunct faculty, teaching and conducting research across all the sub-disciplines of Anthropology. Our three administrative staff ensure the department runs well. Both the faculty and staff are always willing to answer questions you may have about studying Anthropology at Western. The First Nations Studies faculty listing can be found HERE.

Staff and Administration

	Contact	Title
Dan Jorgensen	Rm 3323, SSC 519-661-2111 Ext: 85085 Email Website	Department Chair
Kim Clark	Rm 3412, SSC 519-661-2111 Ext: 85090 Website Email	Graduate Chair
Sherrie Larkin	Rm 3328, SSC 519-661-2111 Ext: 85084 Email Website	Undergraduate Chair
Jeannie Taylor	Rm 3322, SSC 519-661-2111 Ext: 85082 Email	Administrative Officer
Diane Belleville	Rm 3324, SSC 519-661-2111 Ext: 85080 Email	Graduate Program Coordinator
Laura Cousins	Rm 3326, SSC 519-661-2111 Ext: 87064 Email	Undergraduate Program Coordinator & Office Assistant Anthropology Main Office 519-661-3430
Ed Eastaugh	Rm 3435, SSC 519-661-2111 Ext: 85006 Email	Lab Manager
Rhonda Bathurst	Rm 3331, SSC 519-661-2111 Ext. 85059 519-473-1360 Website Blog Email	Sustainable Archaeology Research Centre, Operations Manager
Christine Boston	Rm 3418, SSC 519-661-2111 x85072 Email	Lab Manager

Faculty

Sociocultural, Cultural and Linguistic Anthropology

	Contact	Research Areas
Kim Clark	Rm 3412, SSC 519-661-2111 Ext: 85090 Website Email	Sociocultural ◊ historical ◊ culture and political economy ◊ ethnography of the state ◊ race, class, gender, ethnicity, nation Ecuador; the Andes; Latin America
Regna Darnell	Rm 3329, SSC 519-661-2111 Ext: 85087 Website Email	Linguistic and Symbolic Anthropology ◊ Cross-Cultural Mis-Communication ◊ Ethnohistory ◊ Ecosystem Health ◊ Theory ◊ Indigenous Knowledge First Nations (Plains Cree, Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee)
Randa Farah	Rm3423A, SSC 519-661-2111 Ext: 85088 Website Email	Displacement; Refugees; History/Memory/Identity, Colonialism, Non-western nationalism, Children and Youth Middle East and North Africa
Tania Granadillo	Rm 3408, SSC 519-661-2111 Ext: 85096 Email	Linguistic Anthropology/Linguistics ◊ Endangered languages ◊ Language ideologies ◊ Language documentation ◊ Language and culture Lowland Amazonia, Venezuela, Latin America
Dan Jorgensen Department Chair	Rm 3421, SSC 519-661-2111 Ext: 85085 Website Email	Anthropology of Resource Frontiers ◊ Anthropology of Christianity ◊ Myth and Narrative Papua New Guinea
Sherrie Larkin	Rm 3328, SSC 519-661-2111 Ext: 85084 Email Website	Sociocultural
Karen Pennesi	Rm 3404, SSC 519-661-2111 Ext: 85098 Website Email	Linguistic Anthropology ◊ Linguistics ◊ Language & Identity ◊ Performance ◊ Language & Environment ◊ Weather & Culture Northeast Brazil, Canada
Adriana Premat	Rm 3410, SSC 519-661-2111 Ext: 85100 Website Email	Space and place ◊ Political ecology ◊ State power ◊ Urban poverty ◊ Sustainable development ◊ Environmentalism Cuba, Argentina and Canada
Douglass St.Christian	Rm 3425, SSC 519-661-2111 Ext: 85067 Website Email	Interpretive Anthropology ◊ Art, Spirituality, and Community ◊ Sex, Power and the "Body" ◊ Narrative and Sidereal Time Rural Ontario
Andrew Walsh On Sabbatical for 2011-12	Rm 3402, SSC 519-661-2111 Ext: 85092 Website Email	Artisanal Mining Communities ◊ Conservation and Ecotourism ◊ Commodity Production and Consumption Madagascar

Faculty

Archaeology, Biological Anthropology and Primatology

	Contact	Research Areas
Ian Colquhoun	Rm 3428, SSC 519-661-2111 Ext: 85061 Website Email	Primate Ecology, Behaviour and Conservation ◊ Ethnoprimatology ◊ Bioarchaeological Analysis Madagascar
Chris Ellis	Rm 3409, SSC 519-661-2111 Ext: 85081 Website Email	Archaeology ◊ Hunting and Gathering Societies ◊ Analyses of Stone Artifacts ◊ Peopling of the Americas Ontario, Great Lakes, Eastern North America
Neal Ferris Lawson Chair	Rm 3421, SSC 519-661-2111 Ext: 85059 Website Email	Archaeology ◊ Woodland ◊ Historical ◊ Colonialisms -Contemporary Practice & Praxis Great Lakes – Eastern North America – NorthAtlantic Colonialism
Lisa Hodgetts On Sabbatical for 2011-12	Rm 3427, SSC 519-661-2111 Ext: 80105 Website Email	Zooarchaeology ◊ Hunter-Gatherers ◊ Landscape Archaeology ◊ Archaeology and Traditional Knowledge ◊ Canadian Arctic and Subarctic
Jean-Francois Millaire	Rm 3314, SSC 519-661-2111 Ext: 85077 Website Email	Archaeology of the Andean region ◊ early complex societies ◊ settlement patterns ◊ ritual practices ◊ textiles ◊ GIS. Peru
El Molto	Rm 3433, SSC 519-661-2111 Ext: 85086 Website Email	Biological & Archaeology
Andrew Nelson Associate Dean (Research and Operations)	Rm 3312, SSC 519-661-2111 Ext: 85101 Website Email	Bioarchaeology – Human Skeletal Biology ◊ Paleoradiology ◊ Hominid Evolution ◊ Paleopathology ◊ Archaeometry ◊ Mummy Studies Peru [North Coast], Egypt
Peter Timmins	Rm 3316, SSC 519-661-2111 Ext: 85097 Website Email	Archaeology ◊ Cultural Resource Management ◊ Archaeology and First Nations ◊ Precontact Iroquoian History Lower Great Lakes
Christine White On Sabbatical for Jan. 1/12 to June 30/12	Rm 3423, SSC 519-661-2111 Ext: 85091 Website Email	Biological & Archaeology ◊ Isotopic Anthropology ◊ Skeletal Biology Mesoamerica, Egypt, Peru

Post-Doctoral Scholars

		Contact	Website & Email

Part-time Faculty

	Contact	Research Areas
Douglas Campbell	Rm 3438, SSC 519-661-2111 Ext: 82541 Email	Visual Anthropology and Video Ethnography ◊ Vanuatu, Coastal Maine
Alexis Dolphin	Rm 3421, SSC 519-661-2111 Ext: 80574 Website Email	Osteology ◊ Dental Anthropology ◊ Trace Elements ◊ Maternal & Child Nutrition/Health ◊ Biocultural Norway, Mexico, Belize
Claire Gurski	Rm 3402, SSC 519-661-2111 Ext: 85092 Email	Linguistics, specifically Phonetics and Teaching English as a Second Language
Linda Howie	Rm 3415, SSC 519-661-2111 Ext: 80547 Email	Archaeology ◊ Archaeometric Studies of Ceramics ◊ Ceramic Petrography ◊Technical Practice ◊ Materiality of Identity and Social Memory Belize, Eastern North America, Great Lakes
David Kanatawakhon	Rm 3424, SSC 519-661-2111 Ext: 85042 Email	First Nations Studies and Anthropology ◊ Native Language Centre
Christine Kennedy	Rm 3438, SSC 519-661-2111 Ext: 82541 Winter term only Email	Gender ◊ Postsocialism ◊ Memory and History ◊ Identity ◊ Globalization ◊ State and State policies East Germany; Eastern Europe
Jennifer Long	Rm 3438, SSC 519-661-2111 Ext: 82541 Email	Place and space - immigration - security and safety measures - neighbourhoods - nation and nationhood - integration of Muslim Minorities Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Rob Pearce	Museum of Ontario Archaeology Website Email	Anthropology
Kinga Pozniak	Rm 3415, SSC 519-661-2111 Ext: 80547Email	Memory, Postsocialism, Urban Anthropology, Generation Europe, Poland
Chantelle Richmond	Rm 2433, SSC 519-661-2111 Ext: 85324 Email	First Nations Studies; Geography Cross Appointment
Terry Webb	Contact by email only Email	Anthropology

Emeritus Faculty

	Contact	Website & Email
Chet Creider		Website Email
James Freedman		Email
Lee Guemple		Email
Jean-Marc Philibert		Email
Michael Spence		Website Email

Other Research Faculty

	Contact	Website & Email
Amarjit Chahal	Molecular World	Email
Rethy Chem	International Atomic Energy Agency	Email
Jerome Cybulski	Canadian Museum of Civilization	Website Email
Lara Descartes	Brescia College	Email
Brian Deller	Ontario Archaeology	Website Email
Elizabeth Graham	Institute of Archaeology, University College London, UK	Website Email
Kun-Hui Ku	National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan	Email
Fred Longstaffe	Rm 1023, BGS 519-661-2111 Ext: 83177	Website Email
Ron Martin	Rm 23, ChB 519-661-2111 Ext: 86314	Website Email
Robert Pearce	Museum of Ontario Archaeology	Email
Lisa Philips	Univ. of Alberta Chair, Dept of Anthropology	Email
Chantelle Richmond	Dept. Geography, UWO	Email
Lina Sunseri	Brescia College	Email
Theresa Topic	Rm 174, BC 519-432-8353 Ext: 28263	Website Email