Two professors in the Department of Anthropology recently found out they each had been awarded a SSHRC standard research grant.
These grants are active from 2008-2011, and will allow Dr. Pamela R. Willoughby and Dr. Robert Losey to continue their respective research.
The Evolution of Modern Humans in Southern Tanzania is a project that focuses on the transition between Middle and the Later Stone Age technologies (60,000 to 30,000 years ago). Dr. Willoughby and her graduate students will return to the Iringa Region of southern Tanzania to continue excavations started in 2006. More information is available on Dr. Willoughby's webpage at http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/~pwilloug.
Dr. Robert Losey was also awarded a grant entitled Animals Among the Dead: Faunal Remains in Mortuary Context, Cis-Baikal, Siberia. Dr. Losey's research focuses on human-animal relationships as displayed in 7000-8000 year old cemeteries around Lake Baikal. This grant will allow Dr. Losey to travel to Siberia to analyze collections from three different cemeteries.
A third Anthropology professor, Dr. Michelle Daveluy, has been named as a co-investigator on a SSHRC standard research grant entitled "Mobility, identity and new political economies: a multi-sited ethnography". This grant is administered through the University of Toronto, under Dr. Monica Heller, who is the principal investigator.
Congratulations to all!