PhD Graduate Students

Ricki-Lynn Achilles

Sociocultural Anthropology - Thesis Supervisor: Tania Granadillo

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

Franziska Albrecht

Sociocultural Anthropology - Thesis Supervisor: Greg Beckett

Research 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 Forsyth

Research Interests / Specializations: First Nations hockey, community based research, oral history

Tamara Britton

Sociocultural Anthropology - Thesis Supervisors: Ian Colquhoun & Andrew Walsh

Research Interests / Specializations: Ethnoprimatology, primate conservation, community perspectives, ecological knowledge

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

Lauren Gilhooly

Archaeology/Bioarchaeology - Thesis Supervisors: Ian Colquhoun, Charles Trick

Research Interests / Specializations: Impact of tourist presence on long-tailed macaque behaviour and the implications for malaria transmission

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

Federica Guccini

Sociocultural Anthropology - Thesis Supervisor: Karen Pennesi

Research Interests / Specializations: Hakka language and identity in Mauritius

Amanda James

Archaeology/Bioarchaeology - Thesis Supervisor: Andrea Waters-Rist

Research 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 Clark

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

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, Regna Darnell

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

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: Stable isotope analysis, nitrogen metabolism, breastfeeding and weaning patterns, and diet and nutrition of past populations

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

Renee Willmon

Archaeology/Bioarchaeology - Thesis Supervisors: Andrew Nelson, Olivier Dutour

Research Interests / Specializations: 3D Paleopathology of Tuberculosis

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