PhD Graduate Students

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

Ibtesum Afrin
Sociocultural Anthropology - Thesis Supervisor: Randa FarahResearch Interests / Specializations: The Rohingya Refugees, Displacement, Memory, Humanitarianism, Migrant Health, Diaspora, and Bangladesh

Franziska Albrecht
Sociocultural Anthropology - Thesis Supervisors: Greg Beckett & Andrew WalshResearch 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 ForsythResearch Interests / Specializations: Indigenous youth, hockey, community based research, oral history

Tamara Britton
Sociocultural Anthropology - Thesis Supervisors: Ian Colquhoun & Andrew WalshResearch Interests / Specializations: Primate conservation & community engagement, resource-use, ethnoprimatology, conservation education

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

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

Luis Meléndez Guerrero
Sociocultural Anthropology - Thesis Supervisor: Kim ClarkResearch Interests / Specializations: Anthropology of the state, political ecology and development in the Andes

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, Greg BeckettResearch 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

Ashley Piskor
Archaeology/Bioarchaeology - Thesis Supervisor: Lisa HodgettsResearch Interests / Specializations: Indigenous archaeology, community-based research, cultural heritage management

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: Isotopic biomarkers for reconstructing infant feeding practices and physiological stress in modern and archaeological individuals

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

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

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

Philip Woodley
Archaeology/Bioarchaeology - Thesis Supervisor: Neal FerrisResearch Interests / Specializations: The Middle Woodland Period of Southern Ontario