PhD Graduate Students

Ricki-Lynn Achilles - Wellness Ambassador
Sociocultural Anthropology - Thesis Supervisor: Tania GranadilloResearch Interests / Specializations: Cree Language Revitalization, Racism & Reconciliation

Franziska Albrecht
Sociocultural Anthropology - Thesis Supervisor: Greg BeckettResearch Interests / Specializations: Mental Health Illness Experience, Psychological Trauma, PTSD/CPTSD, Stress and Coping Medical, Anthropology, Forensic, Anthropology, Skeletal Trauma, Biomechanics

Kalley Armstrong
Sociocultural Anthropology - Thesis Supervisors: Gerald McKinley & Janice ForsythResearch Interests / Specializations: First Nations hockey, community based research, oral history

Tamara Britton
Sociocultural Anthropology - Thesis Supervisors: Ian Colquhoun & Andrew WalshResearch Interests / Specializations: Ethnoprimatology, primate conservation, community perspectives, ecological knowledge

Beth Compton
Archaeology/Bioarchaeology - Thesis Supervisors: Neal Ferris, Lisa HodgettsResearch Interests / Specializations: Examining the user needs for digital representations of physical archaeological objects

Patrick Galler
Sociocultural Anthropology - Thesis Supervisor: Kim ClarkResearch Interests / Specializations: Processes of Becoming: An Ethnography of Embodiment, Identity and Performance in Boxing

Lauren Gilhooly
Archaeology/Bioarchaeology - Thesis Supervisors: Ian Colquhoun, Charles TrickResearch Interests / Specializations: Impact of tourist presence on long-tailed macaque behaviour and the implications for malaria transmission

Becky Goodwin
Archaeology/Bioarchaeology - Thesis Supervisor: Lisa HodgettsResearch Interests / Specializations: The construction of gender identity (particularly women's identity) among Inuit and their ancestors in the Canadian Arctic

Jeff Grieve
Archaeology/Bioarchaeology - Thesis Supervisor: Lisa HodgettsResearch Interests / Specializations: Digital Archaeology, Cartography, and Indigenous Cultural Mapping in the Western Arctic

Federica Guccini
Sociocultural Anthropology - Thesis Supervisor: Karen PennesiResearch Interests / Specializations: Hakka language and identity in Mauritius

Amanda James
Archaeology/Bioarchaeology - Thesis Supervisor: Andrea Waters-RistResearch Interests / Specializations: The effect of diet on Fluorosis in late Roman populations of the Somma-Vesuvius region

Beatriz Juarez Rodriguez
Sociocultural Anthropology - Thesis Supervisor: Kim ClarkResearch Interests / Specializations: Blackness, Gender and the State: Afro Women's Organizations in Contemporary Venezuela and Ecuador

Joanna Motley
Archaeology/Bioarchaeology - Thesis Supervisor: Andrew NelsonResearch Interests / Specializations: Non-destructive analysis of mummy bundles from the Central Coast of Peru

Alex Nelson
Sociocultural Anthropology - Thesis Supervisors: Bipasha Baruah, Regna DarnellResearch Interests / Specializations: Coping and Survival Strategies Deployed by Homeless Single Mothers: Negotiating Homelessness, Motherhood and Identity in Victoria, BC, and London, Ontario

David Norris
Archaeology/Bioarchaeology - Thesis Supervisor: Chris EllisResearch Interests / Specializations: 3D morphometric analysis of Paleoindian projectile points from the western Great Lakes region in an attempt to address issues of migration and colonization during the early Holocene period

Driton Nushaj
Sociocultural Anthropology - Thesis Supervisor: Regna DarnellResearch Interests / Specializations: Indigenous ontologies

MD Rashedul Alam
Sociocultural Anthropology - Thesis Supervisor: Dan JorgensenResearch Interests / Specializations: Bangladesh, Anthropology of Mining, Grassroots Resistance, Statelessness, Border Enclaves, Political Geography

Matthew Resendes Medeiros
Sociocultural Anthropology - Thesis Supervisor: Pamela BlockResearch Interests / Specializations: Brazil, Disability, Citizenship, Education, Subjectivity, Personhood, Identity, Dissent

Hana Salahuddin
Archaeology/Bioarchaeology - Thesis Supervisor: Andrea Waters-RistResearch Interests / Specializations: Stable isotope analysis, nitrogen metabolism, breastfeeding and weaning patterns, and diet and nutrition of past populations

Amedeo Sghinolfi
Archaeology/Bioarchaeology - Thesis Supervisor: Jean-Francois MillaireResearch Interests / Specializations: Archaeological Survey in the Viru Valley chaupiyunga, Peru to document settlement patterns & the nature of interaction between coastal & highland peoples through time
Taylor Smith
Archaeology/Bioarchaeology - Thesis Supervisors: Andrea Waters-Rist, Fred LongstaffeResearch Interests / Specializations: Breastfeeding & weaning practices in post-Medieval Dutch populations infered through stable isotope & trace element analyses of human teeth

Amy St. John
Archaeology/Bioarchaeology - Thesis Supervisor: Neal FerrisResearch Interests / Specializations: The Use of Micro Computed Tomography in Archaeological Ceramic Studies

Amanda Suko
Archaeology/Bioarchaeology - Thesis Supervisor: Neal FerrisResearch Interests / Specializations: Conceptualizing material borderlands: An archaeological examination of community-building, identity formation, and syncretism of domestic practices in the Arkona cluster sites, Ontario, Canada

Breanna Wilbanks
Archaeology/Bioarchaeology - Thesis Supervisor: Neal FerrisResearch Interests / Specializations: Historical Archaeology, Gender Studies, Medical Archaeology, Folkstudies, and Religious Sites

Renee Willmon
Archaeology/Bioarchaeology - Thesis Supervisors: Andrew Nelson, Olivier DutourResearch Interests / Specializations: 3D Paleopathology of Tuberculosis

Jennifer Willoughby
Archaeology/Bioarchaeology - Thesis Supervisor: Andrew NelsonResearch Interests / Specializations: Paleo-oncology: Identifying neoplastic disease in mummified remains