People

Full Time Faculty

  • David W. Black
    BA (Simon Fraser) MA, PhD (McMaster)
    Archaeology, geoarchaeology - lithic material analysis, zooarchaeology - shell-bearing deposits, human ecology - littoral adaptations, North America, Atlantic Canada.
  • Susan E. Blair
    BA (McMaster), MA (New Brunswick), PhD (Toronto) 
    Pre-contact archaeology, north eastern North America, ancient technology, watercraft, riverine adaptations.
  • Ryan Gibbon
    BSc, MSc, PhD (Witwatersrand, South Africa)
    Geoarchaeology: with a focus on studying the Stone Age in Africa.
  • Victoria Gibbon
    BA (Manitoba), PhD (Witwatersrand, South Africa)
    Biological anthropology, forensics, bioarchaeology, human genetics; current regions of study are South Africa, Northern China, Northern Africa (Ancient Nubia).
  • Koumari Mitra
    BSc, MSc, PhD (Delhi)
    Biological anthropology, human genetics, medical anthropology, South Asia.
  • Christiane Paponnet-Cantat
    BA (UBC), MA, PhD (Simon Fraser) Latin America (Peru, Cuba, Mexico)
    Latin American land reform processes, tourism, Latin American naïve painters, national identities and collective memory formation.
  • Evelyn Plaice
    BA (Oxford Plytechnic), MA (Memorial), PhD (Manchester)
    North America (Atlantic Canada and Eastern Arctic), South Africa, land claims, land restitution and renewable resource management, politics of identity, 'Fourth World', Metis, settler and white colonial societies, anthropology of education, First Nations education.
  • Melanie G. Wiber
    BA (Lethbridge), MA, PhD (Alberta)
    Legal and economic anthropology, Canadian Maritimes, resource management, rural development, economic change, legal anthropology, property systems, fisheries, gender studies.

Adjunct Professors

  • Matthew Betts   
    BA, MSc, PhD (Toronto)
    Archaeology of the Canadian Arctic, zooarchaeology, hunter-gatherer identity, radiocarbon dating, qualitative analysis, economic analysis.

Part Time Instructors

  • Greg Buchanan
  • Alekhya Das
    BA (Calcutta), MA (Delhi), PhD Candidate (New Brunswick)
    Health-seeking behavior; patriarchy and women’s health; access and barriers to medical care institutions; culture, beliefs and practices affecting health status; women’s ailments in marginalised communities; reproductive and contraceptive practises; disease and healthiness in South Asia
  • Karen Hutton
    BSc, MA, PhD Candidate (New Brunswick)
    Religion and ritual; environmental anthropology.
  • Heather Stymiest

Honorary Research Associates

  • Santiago Mora
    BA (Los Andes), MA (Florida), PhD (Calgary)
    Human Ecology, Agrarian Societies Past and Present, Native Resource Management, Complex Societies, Early Hunter, Savanna and Tropical Forest Adaptive Systems, Latin America Archaeology, Ethnography and Ethnoarchaeology
  • Craig Proulx
    BA (British Columbia), MA (Western Ontario), PhD (McMaster)
    Discourse analysis, Legal anthropology and the anthropology of sport, Aboriginal peoples in Canadian cities.
  • Christopher J. Turnbull
    PhD (Calgary)
    Eastern North American, Aboriginal heritage, Maritime Euro-Canadian period, archaeological resource management, applied archaeology, cultural tourism, Maliseet Mi’Kmaq cultural preservation.
  • Darcy J. Dignam
    BA (Western Ontario), MA (New Brunswick)
    Historic Archaeology, northeastern North America, cultural resource management, remote sensing (geophysics), methodology, statistics.

Administrative Assistant