Full-time Faculty

Sociocultural Anthropology

Greg Beckett

Greg Beckett

Associate Professor

Telephone: (519) 661-2111 x85081

Email: gbeckett@uwo.ca

Office: SSC-3409

Sociocultural Anthropology

Research Interest/Specialization

Crisis * Disaster & trauma * Responses to crisis * Humanitarian intervention ** Caribbean, specifically Haiti

Sociocultural Anthropology

Lindsay Bell

Lindsay Bell

Associate Professor

Telephone: (519) 661-2111 x82541

Email: lindsay.bell@uwo.ca

Office: SSC-3312

Sociocultural Anthropology

Research Interest/Specialization

Language * Political economy * Circumpolar world * Natural resource development * Visual & ethnographic methods * Aboriginal/Indigenous - state relations **Alaska, Northern Canada, Finland

Sociocultural Anthropology

Pamela Block

Pamela Block

Professor

Telephone: (519) 661-2111 x85077

Email: pblock@uwo.ca

Office: SSC-3425

Sociocultural Anthropology

Research Interest/Specialization

Disability culture and cultural perceptions of disability * Movements of disability liberation (justice and rights) * Disability oppression (eugenics, sterilization, mass-incarceration and killing) * Intersections of gender, sexuality, race/ethnicity, poverty, and disability * Emergence of autistic and disability studies in Brazil and other Global South Countries **Brazil, United States, Canada

Sociocultural Anthropology

Kim Clark

Kim Clark

Professor

Telephone: (519) 661-2111 x85090

Email: akc@uwo.ca

Office: SSC-3412

Sociocultural Anthropology

Research Interest/Specialization

Political anthropology * Historical anthropology * Anthropology of the state ** Ecuador

Sociocultural Anthropology

Nicholas Harney

Nicholas Harney

Professor

Email: nharney@uwo.ca

Sociocultural Anthropology

Research Interest/Specialization

Urban life * migration studies * critical perspectives on global processes with a focus on Canada and Italy

Sociocultural Anthropology

Jameelah Morris

Jameelah Morris

Assistant Professor

Email: jmorr337@uwo.ca

Office: SSC-3316

Sociocultural Anthropology / Joint appointed in the Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies

Research Interest/Specialization

Sociocultural Anthropology; Black Geographies, Historical Anthropology; Political Mobilization; Political Ecologies, Racial Formations; Youth; Black Feminist Thought; African Diaspora; Latin America; Caribbean; Colombia

Sociocultural Anthropology / Joint appointed in the Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies

Jeremy Trombley

Jeremy Trombley

Assistant Professor

Email: jtrombl@uwo.ca

Office: SSC-3314

Sociocultural Anthropology

Research Interest/Specialization

Environmental Anthropology * Anthropology of Science and Technology * Water and Watershed Governance * Settler Colonial Landscapes * Infrastructure * Climate Justice ** North America

Sociocultural Anthropology

Andrew Walsh

Andrew Walsh

Professor / Undergraduate Chair

Telephone: 519- 661-2111 x 85092

Email: awalsh33@uwo.ca

Office: SSC-3402

Sociocultural Anthropology

Research Interest/Specialization

Artisanal Mining Communities * Conservation and Ecotourism * Commodity Production and Consumption ** Madagascar

Sociocultural Anthropology

Linguistic Anthropology

Tania Granadillo

Tania Granadillo

Associate Professor

Telephone: (519) 661-2111 x85096

Email: tgranadi@uwo.ca

Office: SSC-3408

Linguistic & Sociocultural Anthropology

Research Interest/Specialization

Linguistic Anthropology/Linguistics * Endangered languages * Language ideologies * Language documentation * Language and culture ** Lowland Amazonia, Venezuela, Latin America

Linguistic & Sociocultural Anthropology

Karen Pennesi

Karen Pennesi

Associate Professor

Telephone: (519) 661-2111 x85098

Email: pennesi@uwo.ca

Office: SSC-3404

Linguistic Anthropology

Research Interest/Specialization

Linguistic Anthropology * Linguistics * Language & Identity * Names & Naming * Immigration & Belonging * Work and Rural Identity ** Northeast Brazil, Canada

Linguistic Anthropology

Archaeology

Neal Ferris

Neal Ferris

Professor

Telephone: (519) 661-2111 x85059

Email: nferris@uwo.ca

Office: SSC-3215

Archaeology

Research Interest/Specialization

Archaeology * Woodland * Historical * Colonialisms - Contemporary Practice and Praxis ** Great Lakes, Eastern North America, North-Atlantic Colonialism

Archaeology

Lisa Hodgetts

Lisa Hodgetts

Professor / Department Chair

Telephone: (519) 661-2111 x80105

Email: lisa.hodgetts@uwo.ca

Office: SSC-3423

Archaeology

Research Interest/Specialization

Community Archaeology * Digital Heritage * Zooarchaeology * Equity and Diversity in Archaeological practice ** Canadian Arctic and Subarctic

Archaeology

Trish Markert

Trish Markert

Assistant Professor

Telephone: (519) 661-2111 x85100

Email: pmarkert@uwo.ca

Office: SSC-3433

Archaeology

Research Interest/Specialization

Historical Archaeology * Oral History * Placemaking * Migration and Settler Colonialism in North America * Linguistic/Narrative Analysis * Archaeological Ethics * Archives and Museums * Community-Based Archaeology * Texas and the American West

Archaeology

Alec McLellan

Alec McLellan

Assistant Professor

Email: amclel7@uwo.ca

Office: SSC-3331

Archaeology

Research Interest/Specialization

Colonial interactions; Settlement patterns; Landscape archaeology; Spatial analysis; Geographic Information Systems (GIS); Cultural ecology; Palaeoclimatology; Early Complex Societies; Archaeology of the Americas; Ancient Maya archaeology

Archaeology

Biological Anthropology

Andrew Nelson

Andrew Nelson

Professor

Telephone: (519) 661-2111 x80101

Email: anelson@uwo.ca

Office: SSC-3410

Biological Anthropology & Archaeology

Research Interest/Specialization

Bioarchaeology * Human Skeletal Biology * Paleoradiology * Hominin Evolution * Paleopathology * Archaeometry * Mummy Studies ** Peru (North Coast), Egypt

Biological Anthropology & Archaeology

Jay Stock

Jay Stock

Professor / Graduate Chair

Telephone: (519) 661-2111 x80547

Email: jstock8@uwo.ca

Office: SSC-3423

Biological Anthropology

Research Interest/Specialization

Bioarchaeology * Skeletal biology * Phenotypic plasticity * Human variation * Growth and development * Evolutionary ecology * Biomechanics and behaviour * Hunter-gatherers * Origins of agriculture * Human athletic palaeobiology **Jordan, Malta, Sri Lanka, Japan, Sub-Saharan Africa

Biological Anthropology

Andrea Waters-Rist

Andrea Waters-Rist

Associate Professor

Telephone: 519- 661-2111 x 85091

Email: awaters8@uwo.ca

Office: SSC-3427

Biological Anthropology

Research Interest/Specialization

Human Osteoarchaeology * Paleodiet * Infant Feeding Practices * Paleopathology * Dental Anthropology * Growth and Development * Hunter-Fisher-Gatherers * Stable Isotopes * Trace Elements * Synchrotron Light Technology ** Siberia, The Netherlands, Nicaragua

Biological Anthropology