Faculty

 

Full Time:

P. A. Erickson
Chairperson , 420-5627 (MS220)
PhD (Connecticut), Professor. Biological anthropology; forensic anthropology; history of anthropological theory; teaching anthropology; urban archaeology; Halifax history and heritage.

J. Fowler
420-5631 (MS226)

DPhil
(Oxford), Assistant Professor. Archaeology and colonialism; landscape archaeology; material culture and identity (particularly ethnic identity and ethnogenesis).

R. Higgins
491-6447 (MS224)

PhD ( Arizona), Assistant Professor. Socio-cultural anthropology; the anthropology of food; labour and marginality; social class, gender and consumerism; visual anthropology; engaged and public anthropology; United States and Viet Nam

T. R. Peckmann
496-8719 (MS217)
PhD (Cape Town, South Africa), Associate Professor. Forensic Anthropology; palaeopathology; indigenous peoples of South Africa; Canadian aboriginal peoples; historic biological anthropology.

M. Zelenietz
(MS219)
PhD (McMaster), Assistant Professor. Social change; social organization; anthropology of war/conflict; research methodology; New Britain; Melanesia.

 

Cross Appointment:

A. H. O'Malley
(IDS) 491-6221
PhD (Dalhousie). Latin America; theory/policy nexus; ideology and culture; politics of environment; community and structure

Part-Time:

Part-Time Office MS225
E. McEwan-Fujita, 420-5058
S. Walter, 420-5058

 

Adjunct:

M. Daveluy
PhD (Montréal), Professor, U of Alberta.  Ethnolinguistics; multilingual communities; language and mobility; language and (in)security; French across Canada; language use and issues in the circumpolar world; languages in military forces.

D. Grimes-MacLellan

Assistant Professor. Sociocultural and cognitive anthropology; practice theory; education; identity; gender; film/media studies; childhood and adolescence; qualitative methodology; Japan; East Asia.

T. Sable
420-5523
PhD (New Brunswick), Director of the Office of Aboriginal and Northern Research. Cultural anthropology; indigenous science education; circumpolar studies and research; applied research/community development; youth cultures; cultural landscapes; climate change.

 

Professor Emeritus:

S. A. Davis
DPhil (Oxford), Professor. Archaeology of the anonymous; archaeological evaluation of excavations; Canadian prehistory; historical archaeology; world prehistory.

Retired:

M. S. Walter

420-5058

MPhil (Toronto). Foraging adaptations (particularly "intensive" or "non-egalitarian" foragers); the roles and relative position of men and women in foraging societies; theories concerning the development of chiefdoms and states; ethnohistory of Canadian Native groups.

 

Staff:

Monica Lewis
Secretary, 420-5628 (MS218)

 

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