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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.
PhD (McMaster University); MA, BA (Simon Fraser University)
Biography
Dr. Richard Lazenby is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at UNBC. Dr. Lazenby is a Founding Faculty member of the University, arriving in 1994 and retiring in 2018. He received his doctorate in Biological Anthropology in 1992 from McMaster University.
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
Gibson, Dr. Erin
PhD, MPhil (University of Glasgow, Scotland); BA (Simon Fraser University)
Biography
Erin Gibson is from Chilliwack, British Columbia. She is an anthropological archaeologist whose research focuses on the relationships among heritage formation, identity, and social action in contested colonial landscapes (British Columbia 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.
Biography
Connection to Culture and Community Leadership: Earl Henderson is a respected Elder in the Prince George community and is of Métis/Cree descent. He is a pipe carrier practicing both contemporary and traditional methods of healing.
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
PhD (University College London); MA (University of Birmingham); BA (University of British Columbia)
Biography
I started my studies at UBC in the late 60s in Classical Studies with a special interest in archaeology. This provided my first field opportunity when I went on a UBC-UofT excavation in southern Turkey. After that my single goal was to go abroad for good and do archaeology – which is what I did.