PhD Graduate Students

Ricki-Lynn Achilles - Wellness Ambassador

Sociocultural Anthropology - Thesis Supervisor: Tania Granadillo

Research Interests / Specializations: Cree Language Revitalization, Racism & Reconciliation

Ibtesum Afrin

Sociocultural Anthropology - Thesis Supervisor: Randa Farah

Research Interests / Specializations: The Rohingya Refugees, Displacement, Memory, Humanitarianism, Migrant Health, Diaspora, and Bangladesh

Franziska Albrecht

Sociocultural Anthropology - Thesis Supervisors: Greg Beckett & Andrew Walsh

Research Interests / Specializations: Psychological trauma: exploration of the lived experience of forensic anthropologists, experts working at decomposition research facilities, current students of forensic anthropology with regard to potential traumatising events/circumstances

Kalley Armstrong

Sociocultural Anthropology - Thesis Supervisors: Gerald McKinley & Janice Forsyth

Research Interests / Specializations: Indigenous youth, hockey, community based research, oral history

Tamara Britton

Sociocultural Anthropology - Thesis Supervisors: Ian Colquhoun & Andrew Walsh

Research Interests / Specializations: Primate conservation & community engagement, resource-use, ethnoprimatology, conservation education

Beth Compton

Archaeology/Bioarchaeology - Thesis Supervisors: Neal Ferris, Lisa Hodgetts

Research Interests / Specializations: Examining the user needs for digital representations of physical archaeological objects

Patrick Galler

Sociocultural Anthropology - Thesis Supervisor: Kim Clark

Research Interests / Specializations: Processes of Becoming: An Ethnography of Embodiment, Identity and Performance in Boxing

Becky Goodwin

Archaeology/Bioarchaeology - Thesis Supervisor: Lisa Hodgetts

Research 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 Hodgetts

Research Interests / Specializations: Digital Archaeology, Cartography, and Indigenous Cultural Mapping in the Western Arctic

Federica Guccini

Sociocultural Anthropology - Thesis Supervisor: Karen Pennesi

Research Interests / Specializations: Hakka language and identity in Mauritius

Beatriz Juarez Rodriguez

Sociocultural Anthropology - Thesis Supervisor: Kim Clark

Research Interests / Specializations: Blackness, Gender and the State: Afro Women's Organizations in Contemporary Ecuador

Luis Meléndez Guerrero

Sociocultural Anthropology - Thesis Supervisor: Kim Clark

Research Interests / Specializations: Anthropology of the state, political ecology and development in the Andes

Joanna Motley

Archaeology/Bioarchaeology - Thesis Supervisor: Andrew Nelson

Research Interests / Specializations: Non-destructive analysis of mummy bundles from the Central Coast of Peru

Alex Nelson

Sociocultural Anthropology - Thesis Supervisors: Bipasha Baruah, Greg Beckett

Research 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 Ellis

Research 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 Darnell

Research Interests / Specializations: Indigenous ontologies

Ashley Piskor

Archaeology/Bioarchaeology - Thesis Supervisor: Lisa Hodgetts

Research Interests / Specializations: Indigenous archaeology, community-based research, cultural heritage management

MD Rashedul Alam

Sociocultural Anthropology - Thesis Supervisor: Dan Jorgensen

Research Interests / Specializations: Bangladesh, Anthropology of Mining, Grassroots Resistance, Statelessness, Border Enclaves, Political Geography

Matthew Resendes Medeiros

Sociocultural Anthropology - Thesis Supervisor: Pamela Block

Research Interests / Specializations: Brazil, Disability, Citizenship, Education, Subjectivity, Personhood, Identity, Dissent

Hana Salahuddin

Archaeology/Bioarchaeology - Thesis Supervisor: Andrea Waters-Rist

Research Interests / Specializations: Isotopic biomarkers for reconstructing infant feeding practices and physiological stress in modern and archaeological individuals

Amedeo Sghinolfi

Archaeology/Bioarchaeology - Thesis Supervisor: Jean-Francois Millaire

Research 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 Longstaffe

Research 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 Ferris

Research Interests / Specializations: The Use of Micro Computed Tomography in Archaeological Ceramic Studies

Amanda Suko

Archaeology/Bioarchaeology - Thesis Supervisor: Neal Ferris

Research 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 Ferris

Research Interests / Specializations: Historical Archaeology, Gender Studies, Medical Archaeology, Folkstudies, and Religious Sites

Jennifer Willoughby

Archaeology/Bioarchaeology - Thesis Supervisor: Andrew Nelson

Research Interests / Specializations: Paleo-oncology: Identifying neoplastic disease in mummified remains

Philip Woodley

Archaeology/Bioarchaeology - Thesis Supervisor: Neal Ferris

Research Interests / Specializations: The Middle Woodland Period of Southern Ontario