PhD Graduate Students

Ricki-Lynn Achilles

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: Forensic Anthropology, Latin America, Human Rights Violations, Investigation of Political Violence

Javier Alvarez

Sociocultural Anthropology - Thesis Supervisor: Tania Granadillo

Research Interests / Specializations: Language Revitalization, Language ideology, Mapuche language, Indigenous education, Education policy

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

Jaclyn Ellis

Sociocultural Anthropology - Thesis Supervisor: Gerald McKinley

Research Interests / Specializations: Participatory Research with Autistic Adults

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

Federica Guccini

Sociocultural Anthropology - Thesis Supervisor: Karen Pennesi

Research Interests / Specializations: Hakka language and identity in Mauritius

Luis Meléndez Guerrero

Sociocultural Anthropology - Thesis Supervisor: Kim Clark

Research Interests / Specializations: State dynamics in extractive contexts 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

Ashley Piskor

Archaeology/Bioarchaeology - Thesis Supervisor: Lisa Hodgetts

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

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

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

Panchala Weerasinghe

Archaeology/Bioarchaeology - Thesis Supervisor: Andrea Waters-Rist

Research Interests / Specializations: Paleopathology, Metabolic diseases, Genetic and acquired anemias

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