Faculty, Instructors, Adjunct and Emeriti
Professors • Instructors • Adjunct • Emeriti
| André Costopoulos Professor and Chair costopou@ualberta.ca |
Evolution of social complexity; human adaptation to environmental change;, quantitative and computational methods in archeology; agent-based simulation in anthropology, and prehistoric exchange networks | |
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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 l.harrington@ualberta.ca |
Physical/biological anthropology, bioarchaeology, dental anthropology, growth & development; hunter-gatherers; southern Africa | |
| Joseph Hill Associate Professor jbhill@ualberta.ca |
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 robert.losey@ualberta.ca |
Zooarchaeology, aquatic adaptations, mortuary archaeology, hunter-gatherers; Northwest Coast of North America, Eastern Siberia | |
| Kathleen Lowrey Associate Professor kathleen.lowrey@ualberta.ca |
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 mark.nuttall@ualberta.ca |
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 andie.palmer@ualberta.ca |
On Leave: January 1 to December 31, 2024. |
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| Tonya Simpson Faculty Service Officer tadubois@ualberta.ca |
Forensic anthropology, estimation of ancestral affiliation, trauma and taphonomy, structural violence and patterns in homicide. | |
| S. Margaret Spivey-Faulkner Assistant Professor spiveyfa@ualberta.ca |
On Leave: July 1 2023 to December 31, 2023. |
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| Kisha Supernant Professor and Director Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology kisha.supernant@ualberta.ca |
Archaeological mapping, Northwest Coast archaeology, indigenous archaeology, landscape archaeology | |
| Helen Vallianatos Professor vallianatos@ualberta.ca |
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 andrzej.weber@ualberta.ca |
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 pam.willoughby@ualberta.ca |
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 |
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| Marko Zivkovic Professor and Director, Graduate Programs zivkovic@ualberta.ca |
Social/cultural anthropology; politics; post-socialism; expressive culture; art; East-Central Europe; Mediterranean; Japan |
Academic Teaching Staff
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Emilie El Khoury |
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| Todd Kristensen toddk@ualberta.ca |
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Andrew Lints |
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Jennifer Nelson |
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| Mirjana Uzelac muzelac@ualberta.ca |
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| Joseph (Jeff) Werner jwerner@ualberta.ca |
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Adjunct Professors
| Alwynne Beaudoin Alwynne.Beaudoin@gov.ab.ca |
Curator, Quaternary Environments Royal Alberta Museum |
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| Ave Dersch dersch@ualberta.ca |
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| Kate Kingsbury kingsbur@ualberta.ca |
Social and cultural anthropology, religion, alterity, gender, youth, performance, West Africa, Mouridiyya, politics, modernity and globalisation, ontological anthropology, symbolic anthropology, existential anthropology, material culture, post-modernism | |
| Sara Komarnisky sarak@ualberta.ca |
Research Chair, Health and Community, Aurora College
Chief Drygeese Territory, Yellowknife, Canada Social and cultural anthropology of North America: Colonialism, Globalization, Health, Material culture, Migration, Mobility, Transnationalism, Ethnography, Qualitative methods, Community-driven research |
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Leslie Main Johnson |
Northern and Northwest Coast ethnography, ethnobiology, ethnoecology, ethnomedicine, traditional knowledge, material culture, and collaborative research methods | |
| Applied forensic anthropology; trauma, cremated human remains; human identification problems, bone curatorial issues. Current research: bone diagenesis, including fungal, heat and traumatic damage | ||
| Karyne Rabey rabey@ualberta.ca |
Division of Anatomy, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicince and Dentistry | |
| Elizabeth Sawchuk esawchuk@ualberta.ca |
Bioarchaeology; sub-Saharan Africa; food production; dental anthropology; biodistance; Holocene climate change; mortuary archaeology; mobility; pastoralism; ancient DNA; ethics | |
| Heather Young-Leslie heather.youngleslie@ualberta.ca |
Senior Research Partner for the College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Office of the Vice-President Research & Innovation Liaison, Research Impact Canada; Member, Anthropologica Open Access Working Group. Medical anthropology, feminist anthropology, development studies, knowledge mobilization, Oceania. |
Professors Emeriti
| Michael I Asch masch@uvic.ca |
Social structure, ethnomusicology, political anthropology; hunting-trapping economics; Subarctic | |
| Owen Beattie | Physical anthropology; forensic anthropology; human osteology; North America | |
| Jean DeBernardi jean.debernardi@ualberta.ca |
Social/cultural anthropology; Anthropology of modernity; Chinese religious culture; Chinese diaspora communities in Singapore and Malaysia; historical anthropology | |
| Gregory Forth gforth@ualberta.ca |
Religion; kinship, marriage and sexuality; ethnobiological classification; folk zoology; oral narrative and rumour; Southeast Asia | |
| Milton MR Freeman milton.freeman7@gmail.com |
Ecology, traditional resources management, applied anthropology; Arctic, North Pacific | |
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Ruth Gruhn |
Prehistoric archaeology, ethnology, language prehistory; Middle and South America | |
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Clifford G Hickey |
Ethnohistory, economics, subsistence economies in the modern world, culture change, development, sustainable forest management and aboriginal communities; circumpolar | |
| John (Jack) Ives jives@ualberta.ca |
Archaeological theory; public and prehistoric archaeology; Athapaskan and Algonquian social and economic organization; Apachean origins; Jin Dynasty; Northern Plains; Subarctic; northeast Asia | |
| Raymond Le Blanc ray.leblanc@ualberta.ca |
Prehistoric archaeology; lithic and bone technology; Alberta archaeology; arctic; subarctic; North America | |
| Nancy Lovell nlovell@ualberta.ca |
Evidence of trauma and disease to determine diet and biological relationships in human skeletal remains from archaeological sites (esp. Egypt); trauma and disease in non-human primate skeletons; ethnohistorical study of cemeteries in western Canada; mortuary archaeology | |
| David Lubell dlubell@uwaterloo.ca |
Prehistoric archeology and cultural ecology, transition to food production; Circummediterranean, southern Europe, northern Africa | |
| Lisa Philips lphilips@ualberta.ca |
Discourse and society; First Nations and state relations; borderlands, migration and identity; ethnohistory; language and politics; hegemonic processes; folklore | |
| Charles Schweger charlesschweger@mac.com |
Paleoecology; geoarchaeology; quaternary biology; palynology; climate-cultural change; Alaska; Yukon; western North America; Scandinavia; Greenland | |
| Carl Urion carl.urion@ualberta.ca |
Anthropological linguistics, anthropology and education; North America, Belize | |
| David E Young deyoung2@hotmail.com |
Psychological and cognitive anthropology, anthropology of religion, medical anthropology, anthropological aesthetics, material culture; East Asia |