Postdoctoral Fellows

Dr. Sawchuk is a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Anthropology. She holds a B.A. (Hon) (2008) and M.A. (2012) in Anthropology from the University of Alberta and a Ph.D. (2017) in Anthropology from the University of Toronto. After completing a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Postdoctoral Fellowship at Stony Brook University in New York, she returned to the University of Alberta in 2019 as a Lecturer and Adjunct Professor. She began her Banting Fellowship in the department in May 2020. She is currently also a Research Assistant Professor with the Department of Anthropology at Stony Brook University, a Research Associate with the Turkana Basin Institute (Kenya), and an Affiliated Researcher with the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (Germany).