Faculty and Instructors

André Costopoulos

Professor and Chair

Evolution of social complexity; human adaptation to environmental change;, quantitative and computational methods in archeology; agent-based simulation in anthropology, and prehistoric exchange networks

Sandra Garvie-Lok

Professor

Reconstruction of past human diets and mobility using stable isotope analysis; palaeopathology; weaning and juvenile nutrition in the past; Greece; Eastern Mediterranean

Lesley Harrington

Associate Professor

Physical/biological anthropology, bioarchaeology, dental anthropology, growth & development; hunter-gatherers; southern Africa

Joseph Hill

Associate Professor

Religion, Islam and mysticism, language and performance, gender, global and translocal movements, West and North Africa, Middle East

Robert Losey

Professor and Director, Undergraduate Programs

Zooarchaeology, aquatic adaptations, mortuary archaeology, hunter-gatherers; Northwest Coast of North America, Eastern Siberia.

Kathleen Lowrey

Associate Professor

Lowland South American anthropology, South American ethnohistory, comparative ethnohistory of South and North America, economic anthropology, disability studies, feminism, and the relationship of historical and contemporary evolutionary theory to anthropology

Mark Nuttall

Professor and Henry Marshall Tory Chair

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

Andie Palmer

Associate Professor

On Leave: January 1 to December 31, 2024.
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

Tonya Simpson

Faculty Service Officer

Forensic anthropology, estimation of ancestral affiliation, trauma and taphonomy, structural violence and patterns in homicide.

S. Margaret Spivey-Faulkner

Assistant Professor

On Leave: July 1 2023 to December 31, 2023.
Her work focuses on peoples who hunt, gather, and fish in the southeastern United States, looking specifically at examples of peoples who defy popular characterizations of hunter-gatherer societal complexity

Kisha Supernant

Professor and Director Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology

Archaeological mapping, Northwest Coast archaeology, indigenous archaeology, landscape archaeology

Helen Vallianatos

Professor

Anthropology of food, gender, body, health, mobilities and immigration, South Asian and Southwest Asian diasporic communities in Canada, anthropology of the senses

Andrzej Weber

Professor

Northeast Asia (Baikal, Hokkaido), Holocene hunter-gatherers, hunter-gatherer method and theory, archaeological science, subsistence and diet, mobility patterns, mortuary ritual, and social complexity

Pamela Willoughby

Professor

On Leave: July 1, 2023 to June 20, 2024.
Palaeolithic archaeology; Palaeoanthropology; origin and dispersal of modern humans; African Stone Age prehistory; Lithic analysis; Archaeological method and theory

Marko Zivkovic

Professor and Director, Graduate Programs

Social/cultural anthropology; politics; post-socialism; expressive culture; art; East-Central Europe; Mediterranean; Japan

Emilie El Khoury

eelkhour@ualberta.ca

Todd Kristenson

toddk@ualberta.ca

Alberta archaeology; pre-contact ecology in the Boreal Forest/Subarctic; heritage legislation; stone tool raw material identification; public outreach; archaeometry; human-animal relationships

Andrew Lints

lints@ualberta.ca

Jennifer Nelson

jsnelson@ualberta.ca

Mirjana Uzelac

muzelac@ualberta.ca

Anthropology of science, medical anthropology, gender, historical anthropology, Eastern Europe and the Balkans

Joseph (Jeff) Werner

jwerner@ualberta.ca

Stone Age archaeology; experimental archaeology; modern human origins; eastern Africa, stone tool economy and function, quantitative use-wear analysis