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PhD Graduate Students
Javier Alvarez Vandeputte -- Sociocultural & Linguistic Anthropology
Thesis Supervisor: Tania Granadillo
Research Interest/Specialization
Language revitalization; language ideology; Mapuche language; Indigenous education; and education policy.
Emmanuel Nii Amui Amui -- Archaeology & Biological Anthropology
Thesis Supervisor: Neal Ferris
Research Interest/Specialization
Historical archaeology; settlement history; and ceramic analysis.
Stephanie Arlt -- Sociocultural & Linguistic Anthropology
Thesis Supervisors: Lindsay Bell and Kim Clark
Research Interest/Specialization
Medical anthropology; harm reduction; ethnography; discourse analysis; anthropology of policy; and data practices in public health.
Sarah Bidinosti -- Archaeology & Biological Anthropology
Thesis Supervisor: Andrew Nelson
Research Interest/Specialization
Bioarchaeology; mortuary practices; osteology; paleopathology; violence and crime; societal structures and inequality; ethical and sustainable archaeology; and decolonization.
Katie Brent -- Archaeology & Biological Anthropology
Thesis Supervisor: Jay Stock
Research Interest/Specialization
Skeletal biology; biomechanics; bone morphology and geometry; functional adaptation; evolutionary medicine; bioarchaeology; palaeopathology; and historical archaeology.
Katie Chin-Quee -- Archaeology & Biological Anthropology
Thesis Supervisor: Lisa Hodgetts
Research Interest/Specialization
Indigenous sovereignty; digital tools in archaeology; cultural heritage sites; climate change and heritage; and tourism of archaeological and cultural heritage sites.
Maryam De Groef -- Sociocultural & Linguistic Anthropology
Thesis Supervisor: Lindsay Bell
Research Interest/Specialization
Linguistic anthropology; medical anthropology; health; language and power; culture and identity; death rituals; ethics of death and dying; and organ donation.
Michael Duncan -- Archaeology & Biological Anthropology
Thesis Supervisor: Jay Stock
Research Interest/Specialization
Paleoanthropology; modern human biomechanics and energetics; endurance running metabolics; and craniometric scaling.
Jaclyn Ellis -- Sociocultural & Linguistic Anthropology
Thesis Supervisors: Pamela Block & Gerald McKinley
Xiaoning Feng -- Sociocultural & Linguistic Anthropology
Thesis Supervisor - Pamela Block
Research Interest/Specialization
Autism and disability in migration contexts; caregiving experiences of Asian and Chinese immigrant parents; intersectionality of gender, race/ethnicity, and disability; structural inequalities and access to services.
El Gillies --Archaeology & Biological Anthropology
Thesis Supervisor: Trish Markert
Research Interest/Specialization
Community-based research; diaspora and migration; digital archaeology; mapping and GIS; oral history; and Scottish-Canadian history.
Ashley Henry -- Sociocultural & Linguistic Anthropology
Thesis Supervisor: Greg Beckett
Research Interest/Specialization
Post-colonialism; economic imperialism; globalization; violence; and the Caribbean.
Maddie Hertz -- Archaeology & Biological Anthropology
Thesis Supervisor: Jay Stock
Research Interest/Specialization
Human skeletal biology and morphology; biomechanics; activity; and energetics.
Sydney Holland -- Archaeology & Biological Anthropology
Thesis Supervisor: Andrea Waters-Rist
Research Interest/Specialization
Bioarchaeology; stable isotope analysis; infant feeding practices; wet nursing; nutritional and physiological stress; and skeletal biology.
Dima Kassem -- Sociocultural & Linguistic Anthropology
Thesis Supervisor: Pamela Block
Research Interest/Specialization
Rare diseases; complex medical conditions; transitions from pediatric care to adult care; social support networks; disability culture; disability studies; Canada; the Middle East; and Europe.
Charmaine Lovatt -- Archaeology & Biological Anthropology
Thesis Supervisor: Andrea Waters-Rist
Research Interest/Specialization
Isotopic lifeways; incremental dentine; and nutritional and physiological stress.
Alexandre Mendes Cursino -- Sociocultural & Linguistic Anthropology
Thesis Supervisors: Pamela Block & Evan Bowness
Research Interest/Specialization
Indigenous resurgence and wellness; (de)colonizing (auto)ethnography; and more-than-human relations as forms of Indigenous environmental knowledge.
Kun Mu -- Sociocultural & Linguistic Anthropology
Thesis Supervisor: Andrew Walsh
Research Interest/Specialization
International migration; social integration of ethnic groups; and cross-cultural comparison of beliefs.
Velma Noah-Nicholas -- Sociocultural & Linguistic Anthropology
Thesis Supervisor: Tania Granadillo
Research Interest/Specialization
Indigenous language revitalization
Lindsay Noel -- Sociocultural & Linguistic Anthropology
Thesis Supervisor: Greg Beckett
Natalia Parra -- Sociocultural & Linguistic Anthropology
Thesis Supervisor: Kim Clark
Research Interest/Specialization
The Darien Gap; refugees; diasporas; displacements; borders; and Latin America.
Ashley Piskor -- Archaeology &Biological Anthropology
Thesis Supervisor: Lisa Hodgetts
Research Interest/Specialization
Indigenous archaeology; community-based research; and cultural heritage management.
Matthew Resendes Medeiros -- Sociocultural & Linguistic Anthropology
Thesis Supervisor: Pamela Block
Research Interest/Specialization
Brazil; disability; citizenship; education; subjectivity; personhood; identity; and dissent.
Abouzar Samiei -- Sociocultural & Linguistic Anthropology
Thesis Supervisors: Kim Clark & Pamela Block
Research Interest/Specialization
Disability studies; academic ableism; cultural policy; and autoethnography.
Maris Schneider -- Archaeology & Biological Anthropology
Thesis supervisor: Andrea Waters-Rist
Research Interest/Specialization
Bioarchaeology; osteology; paleopathology; childhood nutrition; health and disease; computed-tomography; mummified animals.
Jiyon Shim -- Sociocultural & Linguistic Anthropology
Thesis Supervisor-Karen Pennesi
Research Interest/Specialization
Discourse analysis; language ideology; disability activism; mental health; digital ethnography; agency; multimodal social semiotics; and social justice.
Amanda Suko -- Archaeology & Biological Anthropology
Thesis Supervisor: Neal Ferris
Research Interest/Specialization
Conceptualizing material borderlands: An archaeological examination of community-building, identity formation, and syncretism of domestic practices in the Arkona cluster sites, Ontario, Canada
Farid Uddin -- Sociocultural & Linguistic Anthropology
Thesis Supervisor: Tania Granadillo
Research Interest/Specialization
Language shift and maintenance; language ideologies; sociolinguistics; displacement; and identity politics.
Brianne Vescio -- Sociocultural & Linguistic Anthropology
Thesis Supervisor: Pamela Block
Research Interest/Specialization
Critical disability studies; autistic self-advocacy movements; discourse analysis; collaborative event ethnography; and disruption.
Panchala Weerasinghe -- Archaeology & Biological Anthropology
Thesis Supervisor: Andrea Waters-Rist
Research Interest/Specialization
Paleopathology; metabolic diseases; genetic and acquired anemias.
Philip Woodley --Archaeology & Biological Anthropology
Thesis Supervisor: Neal Ferris
Research Interest/Specialization
The Middle Woodland Period of Southern Ontario
Ziqi Ye -- Archaeology & Biological Anthropology
Thesis Supervisor: Jay Stock
Research Interest/Specialization
Bioarchaeology; human skeletal biology; geometric morphometrics; human variation, and hunter-gatherers.