PhD Graduate Students

Javier Alvarez Vandeputte

Sociocultural & Linguistic Anthropology - Thesis Supervisor: Tania Granadillo

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

Kalley Armstrong

Sociocultural & Linguistic Anthropology - Thesis Supervisors: Gerald McKinley & Janice Forsyth

Research Interests / Specializations: Indigenous youth, hockey, community based research, oral history

Daniela Barba

Sociocultural & Linguistic Anthropology - Thesis Supervisor: Kim Clark

Research Interests / Specializations: History of anthropology, Anthropology of the state, Legal anthropology, and Social movements

Katie Brent

Archaeology/Biological Anthropology - Thesis Supervisor: Jay Stock

Research Interests / Specializations: Skeletal biology, biomechanics, bone morphology and geometry, functional adaptation, evolutionary medicine, bioarchaeology, palaeopathology, historical archaeology

Beth Compton

Archaeology/Biological Anthropology - Thesis Supervisors: Neal Ferris, Lisa Hodgetts

Research Interests / Specializations: Examining the user needs for digital representations of physical archaeological objects

Michael Duncan

Archaeology & Biological Anthropology - Thesis Supervisor: Jay Stock

Research Interests / Specializations: Paleoanthropology, modern human biomechanics and energetics (e.g., endurance running metabolics), craniometric scaling

Jaclyn Ellis

Sociocultural & Linguistic Anthropology - Thesis Supervisors: Gerald McKinley & Pamela Block

Research Interests / Specializations: Participatory Research with Autistic Adults

Becky Goodwin

Archaeology/Biological Anthropology - 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

Ashley Henry

Sociocultural & Linguistic Anthropology - Thesis Supervisor: Greg Beckett

Research Interests / Specializations: Post-colonialism, Economic Imperialism, Globalization, Violence, Caribbean

Maddie Hertz

Archaeology/Biological Anthropology - Thesis Supervisor: Jay Stock

Research Interests / Specializations: Human skeletal biology and morphology, biomechanics, activity, and energetics

Sydney Holland

Archeaology & Biological Anthropology - Thesis Supervisor: Andrea Waters-Rist

Research Interests / Specializations: bioarchaeology, stable isotope analysis, infant feeding practices, wet nursing, nutritional and physiological stress, skeletal biology

Dima Kassem

Sociocultural & Linguistic Anthropology - Thesis Supervisor: Pamela Block

Research Interests / Specializations: Rare diseases, complex medical conditions, transitions from pediatric care to adult care, social support networks, disability culture, and disability studies in Canada, the Middle East, and Europe

Charmaine Lovatt

Archaeology/Biological Anthropology - Thesis Supervisor: Andrea Waters-Rist

Research Interests / Specializations: Isotopic lifeways, incremental dentine, nutritional and physiological stress

Luis Meléndez Guerrero

Sociocultural & Linguistic Anthropology - Thesis Supervisor: Kim Clark

Research Interests / Specializations: State dynamics in extractive contexts in the Andes

Alexandre Mendes Cursino

Sociocultural & Linguistic Anthropology - Thesis Supervisors: Pamela Block & Evan Bowness

Research Interests / Specializations: Indigenous Resurgence and Wellness, (De)colonizing (Auto)Ethnography, and More-than-Human Relations as forms of Indigenous Environmental Knowledge

Alex Nelson

Sociocultural & Linguistic 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

Lindsay Noël

Sociocultural & Linguistic Anthropology - Thesis Supervisor: Greg Beckett

Natalia Parra

Sociocultural & Linguistic Anthropology - Thesis Supervisor: Kim Clark

Research Interests / Specializations: The Darien Gap, Refugees, Diasporas, Displacements, Borders and Latin America

Ashley Piskor

Archaeology/Biological Anthropology - Thesis Supervisor: Lisa Hodgetts

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

Matthew Resendes Medeiros

Sociocultural & Linguistic Anthropology - Thesis Supervisor: Pamela Block

Research Interests / Specializations: Brazil, Disability, Citizenship, Education, Subjectivity, Personhood, Identity, Dissent

Abouzar Samiei

Sociocultural & Linguistic Anthropology - Thesis Supervisors: Kim Clark & Pamela Block

Research Interests / Specializations: Disability studies, academic ableism, cultural policy, autoethnography

Maris Schneider

Archaeology & Biological Anthropology - Thesis supervisor: Andrea Waters-Rist

Research Interests / Specializations: Bioarchaeology, osteology, paleopathology, childhood nutrition, health and disease, computed-tomography, mummified animals

Amanda Suko

Archaeology/Biological Anthropology - 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

Farid Uddin

Sociocultural & Linguistic Anthropology - Thesis Supervisor: Tania Granadillo

Research Interests / Specializations: Language shift and maintenance, Language Ideologies, Sociolinguistics, Displacement, and Identity Politics

Brianne Vescio

Sociocultural & Linguistic Anthropology - Thesis Supervisor: Pamela Block

Panchala Weerasinghe

Archaeology/Biological Anthropology - Thesis Supervisor: Andrea Waters-Rist

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

Philip Woodley

Archaeology/Biological Anthropology- Thesis Supervisor: Neal Ferris

Research Interests / Specializations: The Middle Woodland Period of Southern Ontario

Ziqi Ye

Archaeology/Biological Anthropology - Thesis Supervisor: Jay Stock

Research Interests / Specializations: Bioarchaeology, Human skeletal biology, Geometric morphometrics, Human variation, Hunter-gatherers