Full Time Faculty

Greg Beckett, Associate Professor  *Undergraduate Chair

Greg Beckett, Associate Professor *Undergraduate Chair

Sociocultural Anthropology

Research Interests / Specializations: Crisis * Disaster & trauma * Responses to crisis * Humanitarian intervention ** Caribbean, specifically Haiti
SSC 3409
(519) 661-2111 x85081
gbeckett@uwo.ca
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Lindsay Bell, Associate Professor

Lindsay Bell, Associate Professor

Sociocultural Anthropology

Research Interests / Specializations: Language * Political economy * Circumpolar world * Natural resource development * Visual & ethnographic methods * Aboriginal/Indigenous - state relations **Alaska, Northern Canada, Finland
SSC 3312
(519) 661-2111 x82541
lindsay.bell@uwo.ca
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Pamela Block, Professor

Pamela Block, Professor

Sociocultural Anthropology

Research Interests / Specializations: 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
SSC 3425
(519) 661-2111 x85077
pblock@uwo.ca
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Kim Clark, Professor

Kim Clark, Professor

Sociocultural Anthropology

Research Interests / Specializations: Political anthropology * Historical anthropology * Anthropology of the state ** Ecuador
SSC 3412
(519) 661-2111 x85090
akc@uwo.ca
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Randa Farah, Associate Professor

Randa Farah, Associate Professor

Sociocultural Anthropology

Research Interests / Specializations: Displacement * Refugees * History/Memory/Identity * Colonialism * Non-western nationalism * Children and Youth ** Middle East and North Africa
SSC 3423A
(519) 661-2111 x85088
rfarah2@uwo.ca
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Neal Ferris, Professor

Neal Ferris, Professor

Archaeology

Research Interests / Specializations: Archaeology * Woodland * Historical * Colonialisms - Contemporary Practice and Praxis ** Great Lakes, Eastern North America, North-Atlantic Colonialism
SSC 3215
(519) 661-2111 x85059
nferris@uwo.ca
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Tania Granadillo, Associate Professor

Tania Granadillo, Associate Professor

Linguistic & Sociocultural Anthropology

Research Interests / Specializations: Linguistic Anthropology/Linguistics * Endangered languages * Language ideologies * Language documentation * Language and culture ** Lowland Amazonia, Venezuela, Latin America
SSC 3408
(519) 661-2111 x85096
tgranadi@uwo.ca
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Nicholas Harney   ** Dean

Nicholas Harney ** Dean

Sociocultural Anthropology

Research Interests / Specializations: Urban life * migration studies * critical perspectives on global processes with a focus on Canada and Italy
Lisa Hodgetts, Professor

Lisa Hodgetts, Professor

Archaeology & Bioarchaeology

Research Interests / Specializations: Community Archaeology * Digital Heritage * Zooarchaeology * Equity and Diversity in Archaeological practice ** Canadian Arctic and Subarctic
SSC 3423
(519) 661-2111 x80105
lisa.hodgetts@uwo.ca
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Trish Markert, Assistant Professor

Trish Markert, Assistant Professor

Archaeology

Research Interests / Specializations: 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
SSC 3433
(519) 661-2111 x85100
pmarkert@uwo.ca
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Andrew Nelson, Professor    *Department Chair

Andrew Nelson, Professor *Department Chair

Biological Anthropology & Archaeology

Research Interests / Specializations: Bioarchaeology * Human Skeletal Biology * Paleoradiology * Hominin Evolution * Paleopathology * Archaeometry * Mummy Studies ** Peru (North Coast), Egypt
SSC 3410
(519) 661-2111 x85101
anelson@uwo.ca
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Karen Pennesi, Associate Professor

Karen Pennesi, Associate Professor

Linguistic & Sociocultural Anthropology

Research Interests / Specializations: Linguistic Anthropology * Linguistics * Language & Identity * Names & Naming * Immigration & Belonging * Weather & Culture ** Northeast Brazil, Canada
SSC 3404
(519) 661-2111 x85098
pennesi@uwo.ca
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Jay Stock, Professor

Jay Stock, Professor

Biological Anthropology

Research Interests / Specializations: 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
SSC 3316
(519) 661-2111 x 80547
jstock8@uwo.ca
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Peter  Timmins, Assistant Professor

Peter Timmins, Assistant Professor

Archaeology

Research Interests / Specializations: Cultural Resource Management * Indigenous Peoples and archaeology * Hunter-Gatherer-Foragers * Early Farming Societies ** Great Lakes, Northeastern North America
SSC 3216
(519) 661-2111 x85097
ptimmins@uwo.ca
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Jeremy Trombley, Assistant Professor

Jeremy Trombley, Assistant Professor

Sociocultural Anthropology

Research Interests / Specializations: Environmental anthropology, science and technology studies, activist research methods, and post-constructivist theory
Andrew Walsh, Associate Professor

Andrew Walsh, Associate Professor

Sociocultural Anthropology

Research Interests / Specializations: Artisanal Mining Communities * Conservation and Ecotourism * Commodity Production and Consumption ** Madagascar
SSC 3402
(519) 661-2111 x85092
awalsh33@uwo.ca
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Andrea Waters-Rist, Associate Professor     *Graduate Chair

Andrea Waters-Rist, Associate Professor *Graduate Chair

Biological Anthropology

Research Interests / Specializations: 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
SSC 3427
519- 661-2111 x 85091
awaters8@uwo.ca
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