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- Department Chair
- Faculty
- Adjunct Faculty
- Professors Emeritus
- Archaeological Repository Research Assistant
Department Chair
Smith, Dr. Angèle
PhD (University of Massachusetts), MA (McMaster University), BA Honours (University of Toronto)
Biography
I am a social/cultural anthropologist with two primary research fields focusing on Migration, Belonging, Identity, Place, Precarity, and Social Justice. My international project concerns asylum seekers in Ireland. My national project involves young adult mobile tourism workers in Banff, Alberta.
Faculty
Bouchard, Dr. Michel
PhD (University of Alberta), MA (Université Laval), BA (University of Toronto)
Biography
Born and raised in a French-speaking community in Northern Alberta in the shadow of the historical fur economy, he has researched ethnicity and nationalism, particularly in Eastern Europe and Russia.
Kilius, Dr. Erica
PhD (University of Toronto), MPH (Simon Fraser University), BSc Honours (University of Toronto)
Biography
Erica Kilius is a biological anthropologist whose research focuses on the roots of health inequities through both biocultural and public health perspectives.
LaTosky, Dr. Shauna
PhD (Johannes Gutenberg University)
Biography
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology. As a cultural anthropologist, I am interested in gender and pastoralism, customary land use practices and indigenous cultural heritage in East Africa.
BA Hons (Manitoba), MA (Alberta), PhD (UBC)
Biography
December 10, 1951 - February 20, 2015
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our friend and colleague.
PhD, MA (Simon Fraser University); MA (University of Toronto); BA (University of Alberta)
Biography
Farid is an archaeologist with a wide range of research interests. He has been involved in, and he has directed several archaeological projects throughout the coast and interior of British Columbia, and in Eastern Africa.
Adjunct Faculty
BA (SFU), MPhil, PhD (Glasgow, Scotland)
Biography
I am an anthropological archaeologist whose research focusses on heritage and movement in contested colonial landscapes (Canada and Cyprus).
PhD Candidate (University of Alberta), MA (UNBC), BA (UNBC)
Biography
Brenda Guernsey is an applied anthropologist who lives and works in northwest British Columbia. After obtaining her MA in Anthropology from the University of Northern BC in 2010, Brenda started a heritage consulting business, Cedarwood Heritage Consulting based in Terrace, BC.
Joly, Dr. Tara
PhD (University of Aberdeen)
Biography
Tara Joly is a 10th generation Euro-Canadian settler who is grateful to have lived in unceded traditional Lheidli T'enneh territory since 2016.
Oehler, Dr. Alex
PhD (University of Aberdeen); MA, BA (University of Northern British Columbia)
Biography
Alex Oehler is an environmental anthropologist focusing on the ethnography of the Circumpolar North region. He is principal investigator of Sensory Acts, a federally funded research project investigating nonverbal inter-species communication in Arctic communities.
Biography
As a member of the Skwxwu7mesh Uxwumixw (Squamish Nation) most my research focuses on my home territory and surrounding areas of the Salish Sea. I also have broader interests on the Northwest Coast, the Plateau and western Sub-Arctic culture areas.
Professors Emeriti/Emeritae
PhD (McMaster University); MA, BA (Simon Fraser University)
Archaeological Repository Student Assistant
Nick Caverzacio Sawyer