PhD Graduate Students
![Ricki-Lynn Achilles Ricki-Lynn Achilles](../img/RickiLynn Achilles_115x150.jpg)
Ricki-Lynn Achilles
Sociocultural & Linguistic Anthropology - Thesis Supervisor: Tania GranadilloResearch Interests / Specializations: Cree Language Revitalization, Racism & Reconciliation
![Ibtesum Afrin Ibtesum Afrin](../img/AfrinIbtesum_115x150.jpg)
Ibtesum Afrin
Sociocultural & Linguistic Anthropology - Thesis Supervisor: Randa FarahResearch Interests / Specializations: The Rohingya Refugees, Displacement, Memory, Humanitarianism, Migrant Health, Diaspora, and Bangladesh
![Franziska Albrecht Franziska Albrecht](../img/Westernlogo_115x150.jpg)
Franziska Albrecht
Sociocultural & Linguistic Anthropology - Thesis Supervisors: Greg Beckett & Andrew WalshResearch Interests / Specializations: Forensic Anthropology, Latin America, Human Rights Violations, Investigation of Political Violence
![Javier Alvarez Javier Alvarez](../img/Pablo Javier 115x150.jpg)
Javier Alvarez
Sociocultural & Linguistic Anthropology - Thesis Supervisor: Tania GranadilloResearch Interests / Specializations: Language Revitalization, Language ideology, Mapuche language, Indigenous education, Education policy
![Kalley Armstrong Kalley Armstrong](../img/ArmstrongK.jpg)
Kalley Armstrong
Sociocultural & Linguistic Anthropology - Thesis Supervisors: Gerald McKinley & Janice ForsythResearch Interests / Specializations: Indigenous youth, hockey, community based research, oral history
![Daniela Barba Daniela Barba](../img/BarbaDaniela_115x150.jpeg)
Daniela Barba
Sociocultural & Linguistic Anthropology - Thesis Supervisor: Kim ClarkResearch Interests / Specializations: History of anthropology, Anthropology of the state, Legal anthropology, and Social movements
![Katie Brent Katie Brent](../img/Katie Brent_sm.jpg)
Katie Brent
Archaeology/Biological Anthropology - Thesis Supervisor: Jay StockResearch Interests / Specializations: Skeletal biology, biomechanics, bone morphology and geometry, functional adaptation, evolutionary medicine, bioarchaeology, palaeopathology, historical archaeology
![Tamara Britton Tamara Britton](../img/TBritton_115x150.jpg)
Tamara Britton
Sociocultural & Linguistic Anthropology - Thesis Supervisors: Ian Colquhoun & Andrew WalshResearch Interests / Specializations: Primate conservation & community engagement, resource-use, ethnoprimatology, conservation education
![Beth Compton Beth Compton](../img/Compton, Beth_115x150.jpg)
Beth Compton
Archaeology/Biological Anthropology - Thesis Supervisors: Neal Ferris, Lisa HodgettsResearch Interests / Specializations: Examining the user needs for digital representations of physical archaeological objects
![Jaclyn Ellis Jaclyn Ellis](../img/EllisJ_sm-115x150.jpg)
Jaclyn Ellis
Sociocultural & Linguistic Anthropology - Thesis Supervisors: Gerald McKinley & Pamela BlockResearch Interests / Specializations: Participatory Research with Autistic Adults
![Patrick Galler Patrick Galler](../img/Galler, Patrick_115x150.jpg)
Patrick Galler
Sociocultural & Linguistic Anthropology - Thesis Supervisor: Kim ClarkResearch Interests / Specializations: Processes of Becoming: An Ethnography of Embodiment, Identity and Performance in Boxing
![Becky Goodwin Becky Goodwin](../img/Goodwin, Rebecca_2019_sm.jpg)
Becky Goodwin
Archaeology/Biological Anthropology - Thesis Supervisor: Lisa HodgettsResearch Interests / Specializations: The construction of gender identity (particularly women's identity) among Inuit and their ancestors in the Canadian Arctic
![Maddie Hertz Maddie Hertz](../img/HertzMadelyn_115x150.jpg)
Maddie Hertz
Archaeology/Biological Anthropology - Thesis Supervisor: Jay StockResearch Interests / Specializations: Human skeletal biology and morphology, biomechanics, activity, and energetics
![Charmaine Lovatt Charmaine Lovatt](../img/Charmaine Lovatt sm.jpg)
Charmaine Lovatt
Archaeology/Biological Anthropology - Thesis Supervisor: Andrea Waters-RistResearch Interests / Specializations: Isotopic lifeways, incremental dentine, nutritional and physiological stress
![Luis Meléndez Guerrero Luis Meléndez Guerrero](../img/Luis Melendez_sm 2022.jpeg)
Luis Meléndez Guerrero
Sociocultural & Linguistic Anthropology - Thesis Supervisor: Kim ClarkResearch Interests / Specializations: State dynamics in extractive contexts in the Andes
![Alexandre Mendes Cursino Alexandre Mendes Cursino](../img/Alexandre Mendes Cursino_sm.jpg)
Alexandre Mendes Cursino
Sociocultural & Linguistic Anthropology - Thesis Supervisor: Tania GranadilloResearch Interests / Specializations: Indigenous Education, Indigenous Resurgence, (De)colonizing (Auto)Ethnography , Indigenous Migration, Other-than-Humans relations as forms of Indigenous Environmental knowledge
![Alex Nelson Alex Nelson](../img/AlexNelson_115x150.jpg)
Alex Nelson
Sociocultural & Linguistic 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
![Lindsay Noël Lindsay Noël](../img/Westernlogo_115x150.jpg)
Lindsay Noël
Sociocultural & Linguistic Anthropology - Thesis Supervisor: Greg Beckett![Natalia Parra Natalia Parra](../img/Natalia Parra sm.jpg)
Natalia Parra
Sociocultural & Linguistic Anthropology - Thesis Supervisor: Kim ClarkResearch Interests / Specializations: The Darien Gap, Refugees, Diasporas, Displacements, Borders and Latin America
![Ashley Piskor Ashley Piskor](../img/PIskorAshley_115x150.jpg)
Ashley Piskor
Archaeology/Biological Anthropology - Thesis Supervisor: Lisa HodgettsResearch Interests / Specializations: Indigenous archaeology, community-based research, cultural heritage management
![Matthew Resendes Medeiros Matthew Resendes Medeiros](../img/MResendesMedeiros_sm.jpg)
Matthew Resendes Medeiros
Sociocultural & Linguistic Anthropology - Thesis Supervisor: Pamela BlockResearch Interests / Specializations: Brazil, Disability, Citizenship, Education, Subjectivity, Personhood, Identity, Dissent
![Hana Salahuddin Hana Salahuddin](../img/SalahuddinH_sm.jpeg)
Hana Salahuddin
Archaeology/Biological Anthropology - Thesis Supervisor: Andrea Waters-RistResearch Interests / Specializations: Isotopic biomarkers for reconstructing infant feeding practices and physiological stress in modern and archaeological individuals
![Amanda Suko Amanda Suko](../img/ASuko_sm_July 2019.jpg)
Amanda Suko
Archaeology/Biological Anthropology - 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
![Panchala Weerasinghe Panchala Weerasinghe](../img/Panchala Weerasinghe 115x150.jpg)
Panchala Weerasinghe
Archaeology/Biological Anthropology - Thesis Supervisor: Andrea Waters-RistResearch Interests / Specializations: Paleopathology, Metabolic diseases, Genetic and acquired anemias
![Philip Woodley Philip Woodley](../img/Westernlogo_115x150.jpg)
Philip Woodley
Archaeology/Biological Anthropology- Thesis Supervisor: Neal FerrisResearch Interests / Specializations: The Middle Woodland Period of Southern Ontario
![Ziqi Ye Ziqi Ye](../img/Ziqi Ye_sm.jpeg)
Ziqi Ye
Archaeology/Biological Anthropology - Thesis Supervisor: Jay StockResearch Interests / Specializations: Bioarchaeology, Human skeletal biology, Geometric morphometrics, Human variation, Hunter-gatherers