Graduate Academic Unit

 

Faculty

Phone No

Specialization

Matthew Betts
Adjunct Professor

BA, MSc, PhD (Toronto)

819-776-8419

Curator; Atlantic archaeology; Canadian Museum of Civilization; archaeology; funerary zooarchaeology; ritual zooarchaeology.

David W. Black
Professor

BA (Simon Fraser), MA, PhD (McMaster)

506-458-7045

Archaeology, geoarchaeology - lithic material analysis, zooarchaeoloy - shell-bearing deposits, human ecology - littoral adaptations, North America, Atlantic Canada.

Susan Blair
Associate Professor & Undergraduate Advisor

BA (McMaster), MA (UNB), PhD (Toronto)

506-458-7929

Pre-contact archaeology, North Eastern North America, ancient technology, watercraft, riverine adaptations

Ryan Gibbon

Assistant Professor

BSc, MSc, PhD (Witwatersrand)

506-458-7998

Geoarchaeology: with a focus on studying the Stone Age in Africa. Studying landscape and human evolution including modern and palaeo-fluvial geomorphology; geo-chronology; palaeo-climate/environmental reconstruction;  and the evolution of stone tool technology; South Africa.

Victoria Gibbon

Assistant Professor

BA (Manitoba), PhD (Witwatersrand)

506-458-7994

Biological anthropology, forensics, bioarchaeology, human genetics; current regions of study are South Africa, Northern China, Northern Africa (Ancient Nubia).

Peter R. Lovell
Retired Associate Professor

Pacific; kinship and social organization; social change; method and theory

Koumari Mitra

Professor, Department Chair

BSc, MSc, PhD (Delhi)

506-458-7997

South Asia; biological anthropology; human genetics; medical anthropology.

Christiane Paponnet-Cantat

Professor

BA (British Columbia), MA, PhD (Simon Fraser)

506-458-7996

Latin America, Peru, Mexico, Cuba; Religion; applied anthropology; international development studies; rural developmental and tourism.

Evelyn Plaice

Associate Professor

BA (Oxford Plytechnic), MA (Memorial), PhD (Manchester)

506-452-6174

Canadian First Nations (Northeastern and Arctic); South Africa; land claims; anthropologic, ecology and adaptation; anthropology of education

Melanie Wiber

Professor & Director of Graduate Studies

BA (Lethbridge), MA, PhD (Alberta)

506-458-7995

Legal and economic anthropology, Canadian Maritimes, resource management, rural development, economic change, legal anthropology, property systems, fisheries, gender studies.

Lucy Wilson

Professor UNBSJ

BA (New Brunswick), DEA, Doc. 3è Cycle (Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris)

506-648-5607

Europe; archaeology; paleolithic; Neanderthals;  lithic technology; geoarchaeology