Anthropology MA Candidates

neil brewerNeil Brewer

BA, BEd (St. Thomas)

Supervisor: Dr. Evelyn Plaice

Neil is in the midst of his master’s degree in socio-cultural anthropology, and his research is concerned with the transnational approach to education taken by South Korean families in New Brunswick. Neil is particularly interested in the effects of neoliberalism when it comes to education, as well as issues surrounding globalization, class and identity. His regional interests include East Asia (Korea) and North America. 

Luke deMarsh

Supervisor: Dr. Evelyn Plaice

Focusing on the medicinal plant knowledge of Elder Charles Solomon.


Ramona Nicholas

Ramona Nicholas

BA (STU)

Supervisor: Dr. Susan Blair

Ramona is exploring community-based research with a focus on her community of Tobique First Nation, New Brunswick.  Ramona’s interest in archaeology began with the Jemseg Crossing Project in 1996 and she has been involved in many different archaeological projects since then.  She currently is the Curator and Director of Research at Metepenagiag Heritage Park.

                                                                                                                                                                                       

michael rooneyMichael Rooney

BA (MTA)

Supervisor: Dr. Susan Blair

Michael has been a practising field archaeologist for 12 years with much of his experience having been gained in Europe.  Through the lens of human-fish interaction and archaeologically recognized food storage and processing facilities located on the banks of the Miramichi River in Northeastern New Brunswick, his research explores a particular form of hunter-gatherer delayed-return subsistence economy and its wider socio-cultural significance during the Maritime Woodland Period (ca. 2800 - 500 BP). 

                                                                                                                                                            

jesse webbJesse Webb

BA (UNB)

Supervisors: Dr. Susan Blair & Dr. Matthew Betts (Canadian Museum of Civilization)

Jesse's graduate research is focused on shell midden zooarchaeology in Passamaquoddy Bay, in southwestern New Brunswick, Canada. He is interested in prehistoric fisheries - especially those oriented toward small-bodied species - and how the procurement and consumption of fish articulates with subsistence economies, settlement patterns, and prehistoric lifeways of the ancestral Peskotomuhkatiyik (Passamaquoddy) people and other groups from the Maritime Peninsula. He is also involved with a strategic NSERC grant investigating the modern and historic ecology of sturgeon in the Maritime Provinces. His role on this project has involved the preparation of a osteological comparative collection for Atlantic sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrinchus) and analysis of sturgeon remains from provincial collections recovered from riverine and coastal archaeological sites.