Academic Faculty

DeBernardi, Jean E., Professor
PhD U Chicago
Social/cultural anthropology; Anthropology of modernity (religion and the state; anthropology of tourism; contemporary Asian food culture); Chinese religious culture (including Daoism, popular religious culture, and Christianity); Chinese diaspora communities in Singapore and Malaysia; historical anthropology.
Number of students willing to supervise:  2 MA, 2 PhD

Forth, Gregory, Professor
DPhil U Oxford
Religion; kinship, marriage and sexuality; ethnobiological classification; folk zoology; oral narrative and rumour; Southeast Asia.
Number of students willing to supervise:  1 PhD, 1-2 MA

Garvie-Lok, Sandra, Associate Professor
PhD U Calgary
Reconstruction of past human diets and mobility using stable isotope analysis; palaeopathology; weaning and juvenile nutrition in the past; Greece; Eastern Mediterranean.
Number of students willing to supervise in 2012-2013:  Unspecified, inquiries welcome.  Candiates with a well-defined project will be preferentially considered. 

Ives, John (Jack), Professor and Director of the Institute of Prairie Archaeology
PhD U Michigan
Archaeological theory; public and prehistoric archaeology; Athapaskan and Algonquian social and economic organization; Apachean origins; Jin Dynasty; Northern Plains; Subarctic; northeast Asia.

Losey, Robert, Associate Professor (on sabbatical)
PhD U Oregon
Zooarchaeology, aquatic adaptations, mortuary archaeology, hunter-gatherers; Northwest Coast of North America, Eastern Siberia.
Number of students willing to supervise in 2012-2013:  one student at the MA level.

Lovell, Nancy, Professor
PhD Cornell U
Evidence of trauma and disease to determine diet and biological relationships in human skeletal remains from archaeological sites (esp. Egypt); trauma and disease in non-human primate skeletons; ethnohistorical study of cemeteries in western Canada; mortuary archaeology.

Lowrey, Kathleen, Associate Professor
PhD U Chicago
Economic anthropology; anthropology of science; political ecology; indigenous South America (Bolivia and Paraguay); contemporary indigenous politics; ethnohistory.
Number of students wiling to supervise:  1 PhD, 2 MA

Mayne Correia, Pamela, Faculty Service Officer
MA U Alberta
Applied biological anthropology; trauma, cremated human remains; human identification problems, bone curatorial issues. Current research: bone diagenesis, including fungal, heat and traumatic damage.

Nuttall, Mark, Professor & Henry Marshall Tory Chair (on sabbatical)
PhD U Cambridge
Anthropology of the Arctic and North Atlantic; human-environment relations; sustainability of living marine resources; climate change; locality, identity and memory; Greenland; Alaska; Canada; Scotland; Scandinavia.

Palmer, Andie, Associate Professor & Associate Chair (Graduate Programs)
PhD U Washington
Cultural and linguistic anthropology; discourse analysis; narratives of place; oral history; Aboriginal rights and title in the courts; Interior and Coast Salish; Northwest Coast; Maori and Pakeha relations, Aotearoa New Zealand.

Philips, Lisa, Professor & Chair
PhD U Texas (Austin)
Discourse and society; First Nations and state relations; borderlands, migration and identity; ethnohistory; language and politics; hegemonic processes; folklore.

Supernant, Kisha, Assistant Professor
PhD UBC
Archaeological mapping, Northwest Coast archaeology, indigenous archaeology, landscape archaeology.
Number of students willing to supervise:  One well motivated PhD and one MA with a clearly defined project.

Vallianatos, Helen, Assistant Professor
PhD U Oregon
Anthropologies of food, health and body; engendering migration experiences; place; identity(ies); Canada; South Asia; South Asian and Near East/Arabic diasporic communities; photography as a methodological tool; photovoice

Weber, Andrzej, Professor
PhD U A Mickiewicz, Poznan
Application of the optimal foraging theory to Baikal hunter-gatherers; modelling of past hunter-gatherer diets based on carbon and nitrogen stable isotope data; modelling of culture transmission mechanisms in hunter-gatherers; analysis of lithic assemblages from archaeological sites around Lake Baikal; hunter-gather method and theory (various topics)
Number of students willing to supervise: 2 MA and/or 2 PhD (In any of the areas listed above.) 

Willoughby, Pamela R., Professor
PhD UCLA
Palaeolithic archaeology; Palaeoanthropology; origin and dispersal of modern humans; African Stone Age prehistory; Lithic analysis; Arcaheological method and theory.
Number of students willing to supervise: 1 PhD, 1-2 MA

Zivkovic, Marko, Assistant Professor and Associate Chair (Undergraduate Programs)
PhD U Chicago
Social/cultural anthropology; politics; post-socialism; expressive culture; art; East-Central Europe; Mediterranean; Japan.
Number of students willing to supervise:  One advanced graduate student (preferably at the PhD level) in either expressive culture (art and society broadly construed) or post-socialism.