Adjunct Professors

Rhonda Bathurst

Adjunct Research Assistant Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Executive Director, Museum of Ontario Archaeology

Jerome Cybulski

Adjunct Research Professor (July 19, 2026)

Research Interests / Specializations: Bioarchaeology, Paleopathology, History of research in Canada, Northwest Coast and Plateau, Ancient Egypt, Public Outreach

Regna Darnell (Emeritus)

Adjunct Research Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Ecosystem Health, Public Health, Language and Culture, Gender and Migration, Indigenous Knowledge

Shari Forbes

Adjunct Professor (February 28, 2026)

Research Interests / Specializations: Forensic Taphonomy, Decomposition Chemistry, Time Since Death Estimation, Vertebrate Scavenging, Bone Chemistry

Marivete Gesser

Adjunct Research Professor (June 30, 2027)

Research Interests / Specializations: Feminist and Decolonial Theories in Disability Studies, Queer/Crip Theory, and Disability Justice; Structural Ableism and their Relations with Neoliberal Capitalist System, Focus on Brazil; Intersection Between Ableism, Gender and Racism in Higher Education; Disability Activism and the Production of Insurgent Narratives

Alicia Hawkins

Adjunct Research Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Collaborative and Indigenous Archaeology, Ontario Archaeology, Zooarchaeology, Ceramic Technology, Glass Bead Chemistry, GIS

Casey Kirkpatrick

Adjunct Research Professor (June 30, 2027)

Research Interests / Specializations: Bioarchaeology and Archaeology, Dental Anthropology, Age Estimation, Bioinformatics, Paleopathology, Paleo-oncology, Ancient Egypt and Nubia.

Corey Maggiano

Adjunct Assistant Professor (June 30, 2027)

Research Interests / Specializations: Physical Anthropology, Bioarchaeology, Skeletal Biology, Isotopic Anthropology; Mexico/Maya, Egypt; Histomorphometry, Bone Growth and Development

Nadia Meinerz

Adjunct Research Professor (November 30, 2026)

Research Interests / Specializations: Brazilian Anthropologist; Specialized in Gender, Sexuality and Disability Studies Interested in the Dialogue between Ethnography, Art and Activism

Charles E. Orser, Jr.

Adjunct Research Professor (August 11, 2027)

Research Interests / Specializations: Historical Archaeology, Eastern North America, Race, Slavery and Maroonage, Political Economy, Colonialism

Amedeo Sghinolfi

Adjunct Research Assistant Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Archaeology of the Central Andean Region (Peruvian North Coast, Peruvian Northern Highlands), Settlement Pattern Analyses, Prehistoric Borderlands, Remote Sensing, Photogrammetry, and Geographical Information Systems (GIS) in Archaeology