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 sub-sections, graduate students in our program are conducting primary research in all areas of anthropology.
We are pleased to be welcoming 14 new graduate students to our program in 2018-19!
Graduate Students 2018-19
Sociocultural Students
MASTERS
| Name | Topic | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|
| Kalley Armstrong [Harvard] | Growing up on the Outside of Spanish Residential School | Gerald McKinley |
| Tamara Britton [Ryerson] |
Ethnoprimatology, primate conservation, community perspectives, ecological knowledge | Ian Colquhoun |
| Marie-Pier Cantin [Western] | The ethics of Anthropology and the Anthropology of ethics | Andrew Walsh |
| Harry Dal Bello [Grant Macewan] | Language revitalization/linguistic anthropology, the intersection between anthropological work and bureaucracy | Tania Granadillo |
| Diana Gavric [Western] | Impact of changing US-Cuban relations on Cuban citizens' notions of national identity since 2014; Cuban state discourses on national identity in relation to the United States | Adriana Premat |
| Dallas Hauck [Alberta] |
Power in Recreation: Hockey and the Enforcement of Canadian Identity |
Kim Clark |
| Alana Kehoe [Grant Macewan] | Anthropology of disaster, human reaction to natural disasters, traditional knowledge, space-based knowledge, and cross-cultural reactions to natural disasters | Karen Pennesi |
| Kara Kelliher [Ottawa] | Gender, Representation and Identity in Maasai Owned and Operated Tourism Projects | Sherrie Larkin |
| Tyler MacIntosh [Western] | Madagascar's vanilla trade: An ethnobotanical study | Andrew Walsh |
| Alexandra Nelson [Western] | Coping and Survival Strategies Deployed by Homeless Single Mothers: Negotiating Homelessness, Motherhood and Identity in Victoria, BC, and London, Ontario | Bipasha Baruah |
| Everett Newland [Guelph] | Developing Transgender Ethnography: Against the Medicalization of Gender | Kim Clark |
| Wade Paul [Western] | Medical anthropology | Regna Darnell |
| Emily Pitts [Alberta] | How the use of Indigenous languages affects the process of identity construction in urban Indigenous populations | Tania Granadillo |
| Brianne Vescio [Western] | The 'economy of appearances' as it relates to the Northern Ontario Ring of Fire project | Dan Jorgensen |
| Jutta Zeller-Beier [Western] | Leadership and Integration of Newcomers in London, Ontario | Kim Clark |
PHDs
| Name | Topic | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|
| Ricki-Lynn Achilles [British Columbia] | Language revitalization, emotions, reconcilliation, endangered languages, identity | Tania Granadillo |
| Danielle Alcock [Western] | Community Based Research on Traditional ecological knowledge and Elderly Care in First Nations Communities | Regna Darnell |
| Nathan Dawthorne [Western] |
Narratives of Male Sex Work in London Ontario | Regna Darnell |
| Patrick Galler [Western] | A Politics of the Production of Bodies in Distance Running | Kim Clark |
| Federica Guccini [Georg-August-Universitat, Germany] | Hakka language and identity in Mauritius | Karen Pennesi |
| Arwen Johns [Western] | Peru, food, gastronationalism, representations of indigenous heritage, national identities, tourism, memory and nostalgia | Jean-Francois Millaire & Adriana Premat |
| Beatriz Juarez Rodriguez [Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas] | State, memory and politicial identities among Afro-Venezuelan people | Kim Clark |
| Bruce Lawrence [Korean National University] |
Investigating English language in Korea | Karen Pennesi |
| Kelly Linton [Calgary] | Place-based knowledge and Sites of Exchange - Innovation and Adaptation in Southern Ontario Agriculture | Andrew Walsh |
| Elaine McIlwraith [Western] |
Al-Andalus of the Past in the Present: Contemporary historical narratives of Arab Spain within a shifting political environment | Randa Farah |
| Alexandra Nelson [Western] | Coping and Survival Strategies Deployed by Homeless Single Mothers: Negotiating Homelessness, Motherhood and Identity in Victoria, BC, and London, Ontario | Bipasha Baruah & Regna Darnell |
| Driton Nushaj [Western] | Indigenous ontologies | Regna Darnell |
| Bimadoshka Pucan [Western] | Aligning Anishinaabeg Health Practices and Western Methods | Regna Darnell |
| MD Rashedul Alam [Western] | Non-State Spaces in New Maps: The Partition of "British India" and Seventy Years of Statelessness Along the Bangladesh-India Border. | Dan Jorgensen |
| Jennifer Spinney [Western] |
Weather and Society: how people understand & experience severe weather in Canada; how people use these understandings to assess risk and decision-making; weather warning - effects & consequences of communication. | Karen Pennesi |
| Mingyuan Zhang [Western] |
Chinese influence in Madagascar | Andrew Walsh |
Archaeology & Biological Anthropology Students
MASTERS
| Name | Topic | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|
| Andrew Arsenault [Concordia] | Archaeology (primarily Egyptian and Classical) , mummification, disease/ paleopathology, hominid evolution | Andrew Nelson |
| Carolina Delgado [Universidad de la Republica] | Settlement Pattern of the Chaupiyunga zone during the Colonial Period | Jean-Francois Millaire |
| Scott Eckford [University of Toronto] | Analyses of fluted point assemblages from Ontario & surrounding areas | Chris Ellis |
| Kayla Golay Lausanne [Western] | Peruvian archaeology, urban morphology, geophysical techniques, GIS | Jean-Francois Millaire |
| Felipe Gonzalez Macqueen [Ryerson] | Reconstructing the Architectural Landscape of Cerro Arena, Peru | Jean-Francois Millaire |
| Jillian Graves [Western] | Bioarchaeology, Disease, Ancient Populations, Mummy studies, Hominid Evolution, Human Osteoarchaeology, Growth and Development, Peru | Andrew Nelson |
| Jeffrey Grieve [Western] | Digital Mapping of Inuvialuit Archaeology & Heritage | Lisa Hodgetts |
| Hilary Hager [Toronto] | Primate social behaviour and ecology, community conservation initiatives, and the human impact on our primate relatives | Ian Colquhoun |
| Hillary Kiazyk [Western] | Neal Ferris | |
| Jessica Lacerte [Eastern Michigan] | Indicators of stress in the Precolumbian populations of the North Coast of Peru | Andrew Nelson |
| Katya Valladares [Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos] | Social identities and death histories at Chan Chan archaeological site, Chimu society, Peru | Andrew Nelson |
PHDs
| Name | Topic | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|
| Kirsten Bruce [Manitoba] | Investigations of cancer and disease in the Chachapoya population using CT & X-ray images | Andrew Nelson |
| Mary (Beth) Compton [York] |
Examining the user needs for digital representations of physical archaeological objects. | Neal Ferris & Lisa Hodgetts |
| Trevor Fowler [Dalhousie] | Neal Ferris & Jean-Francois Millaire | |
| Lauren Gilhooly [Oxford Brookes] |
Impact of tourist presence on long-tailed macaque behaviour and the implications for malaria transmission | Ian Colquhoun |
| Rebecca Goodwin [Toronto] | The construction of gender identity (particularly women's identity) among Inuit and their ancestors in the Canadian Arctic | Lisa Hodgetts |
| Amanda James [Leiden, Netherlands] | The effect of diet on Fluorosis in late Roman populations of the Somma-Vesuvius region | Andrea Waters-Rist |
| Casey Kirkpatrick [Swansea] |
Comparing the Accuracy of Region-specific and Universal Dental Aging Standards in Egypt. | El Molto |
| Diana Moreiras Reynaga [British Columbia] |
Mexica (Aztec) diets at the Templo Mayor and Temlo "R" (Tlatelolco) in Tenochtitlan through stable isotope analysis. | Jean-Francois Millaire /Fred Longstaffe |
| John Moody [Western] |
A Petrographic analysis of Thule Ceramics | Lisa Hodgetts/Linda Howie |
| David Norris [Saskatchewan] |
An Examination of the presence and activities of Paleo-Indians regarding the colonization of northern Ontario. | Chris Ellis |
| Amedeo Sghinolfi [Padua, Italy] | Archaeological Survey in the Viru Valley chaupiyunga, Peru to document settlement patterns & the nature of interaction between coastal & highland peoples through time | Jean-Francois Millaire |
| Taylor Smith [McMaster] | Stable isotope and trace element analyses in the study of breastfeeding and infant feeding practices | Andrea Waters-Rist & Fred Longstaffe |
| Amy St. John [Memorial] |
The Use of Micro Computed Tomography in Archaeological Ceramic Studies | Neal Ferris |
| Joanna Suckling [Texas State] | Non-destructive analysis of mummy bundles from the Central Coast of Peru | Andrew Nelson |
| Amanda Suko [Waterloo] | Conceptualizing material borderlands: An archaeological examination of community-building, identity formation, and syncretism of domestic practices in the Arkona cluster sites, Ontario, Canada | Neal Ferris |
| Candie Thomas [McMaster] |
Archaeological Ethnography of Traditional Ceramic Production, Use and Meaning Among the AmaZulu of the Mnweni Valley, South Africa. | Neal Ferris |
| Renee Willmon [Toronto] |
3D Paleopathology of Tuberculosis | Andrew Nelson |
| Jennifer Willoughby [University College London] |
Paleo-oncology: Identifying neoplastic disease in mummified remains | Andrew Nelson |
Applied Archaeology Students
MASTERS
| Name | Topic | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|
| Corbin Albani [Toronto] | Subsoil Sampling on Southern Ontario Historic Sites | Peter Timmins |
| Corbin Berger [Toronto] | An Ethnographic Study on Field Technicians in Ontario's Cultural Resource Management | Neal Ferris |
| Sarah Bolstridge (Intensive) [Wilfrid Laurier] | Neal Ferris | |
| Sarah Clarke (Intensive) [Wilfrid Laurier] | Archaeological management at the Mohawk Village | Peter Timmins |
| Peter Epler (Intensive) [Wilfrid Laurier] | The Present State of Urban Archaeology in Ontario | Peter Timmins |
| Jonathan Freeman [Western] |
Occupational history of the Middle Iroquoian Dorchester Village site. | Peter Timmins |
| Gabryell Kurtzrock-Belyea [Wilfrid Laurier] | Interaction during the Middle Ages in Southwestern Ontario studied through lithic analysis at South Bend and Ridge Pine sites. | Peter Timmins |
| Jason Lau [McMaster] | Multimedia, visual anthropology, media production, design, public archaeology, community engagement, cultural heritage, advertising | Lisa Hodgetts |
| Shane McCartney [McMaster] |
Investigation of Season of Occupation of Western Basin archaeological sites based on thin-sections of deer teeth. | Lisa Hodgetts |
