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Current Graduate Students
Socio-cultural/Linguistic
Jonathan
Eaton
Supervisor: Lena
Mortensen
Degree: MA
Research: I am studying
the creation/representation of national identity through cultural
heritage projects and institutions, particularly in the Western
Balkans. Currently, I am interested in how heritage projects seek to
preserve/create a common Albanian identity across state borders.
Email: jon.eaton(at)UT
Graham
Candy
Supervisor: Joshua
Barker
Degree: PhD
Research: Crime and
security, Internet infrastructures as well as game studies. A central
focus is China, where a massive growth of Internet and Communication
Technologies (ICTs) use coincides with rapid social-economic change and
government regulation.
Email: graham.candy(at)UT
Website:
http://www.grahamcandy.com
Lindsey
Garner-Knapp
Supervisor: Andrew Gilbert and
Frank Cody
Degree: MA
Research: I am looking
into peace and reconciliation processes in post-conflict Sri Lanka,
specifically exploring the role of development and foreign aid.
Dylan
Gordon
Supervisor: Shiho Satsuka and Naisargi Dave
Degree: PhD
Research: Dylan currently researches the growing,
cooking, eating and sharing of food in
everyday life in North America and China. He is particularly interested
in how making and eating food incorporate and objectify body, self and
society; and in what, from this perspective, the pleasures and affects
found in food practices oriented to deliciousness accomplish. This
project exemplifies Dylan's general interest in how pleasure, reason
and embodiment relate to contemporary forms of personhood and
intersubjectivity: in the aesthetics, enchantments and technologies of
"the good life" within modernity.
Daniella Jofre
Supervisor: Valentina Napolitano
Degree: PhD
Research: Her doctoral fieldwork explores the construction
of cultural landscapes and Aymara communities in the Chilean Andes. In
order to analyse how competing discourses and practices locally shape
spatial knowledge and indigenous heritage, she focuses in the design of
a new management plan for the Lauca Biosphere Reserve. Currently in the
process of thesis-writing.
Email: d.jofre(at)UT
Sharon
Kelly
Supervisor: Joshua Barker and Bonnie McElhinny
Degree: PhD
Research: My dissertation research concerns the
redevelopment of Regent Park, Canada's oldest and largest government
housing project, and the redevelopment of the Queen Street site of the
Centre of Addiction and Mental Health.The end goal of both
redevelopments is the construction of mixed-income, mixed-use
communities intended to decrease the institutional feel of each site,
reduce stigma, and facilitate "normalized"
neighbourhoods. I seek to understand the ideological reformulation that
underlies these transitions "from institutional facility to
urban village" and to what extent exclusionary urban forms are
mitigated by such an initiative. I also examine the redevelopments in
connection to social, economic and political processes, to explore
whether they are reflective of a period of neoliberal urbanism, or a
city's attempt to remain competitive in a global economy.
Email: sharon.kelly(at)UT
Anna Kruglova
Supervisor: Ivan Kalmar and Michael Lambek
Degree: PhD
Research: postsocialism; anthropology of (future) time;
imagination; risk; uncertainty; boredom; lifecourse; phenomenology;
subjectivity.
Email: anna.kruglova(at)gmail.com
Esther Kuhn
Supervisor: Michael Lambek
Degree: PhD
Research: My research focuses on the dynamics of artisanal
gold mining in Mali (the Mande area) and the ways women manage to
'find' money there. My interests include issues of debt in artisanal
mining, changing family relations and the ways artisanal miners deal
with their unstable economic environment that includes the fluctuating
gold price, local and national power holders in a time of
decentralization, and large mining corporations.
Previously I conducted research on ritual and savings strategies in
women's savings associations (RoSCA's/tontines) in South Mali.
Email: esther.kuhn(at)UT
Chantelle LeBlanc
Supervisor:
Chris Krupa and Krystyna Sieciechowicz
Degree: PhD
Research: Good living,
Ecuador, Post-neoliberalism, Livelihoods.
Email:
chantelle.leblanc(at)UT
Carmen Nave
Supervisor: Sandra Bamford
Degree: PhD
Research: My research reconsiders matrilineal kinship in
Ghana in a modern urban context. I examine the intersection of
matrilineal and national definitions of kinship by looking at how
people incorporate a national law (PNDCL 111) that radically redefined
inheritance into their kinship and inheritance practices.
Email: carmen.nave(at)UT
Hoang Vu Nguyen
Supervisor: Hy Van Luong
Degree: PhD
Research:
Transnationalism, diaspora, overseas Vietnamese, homeland.
Email:
hoang.vunguyen(at)UT
Kevin Nixon
Supervisor: Naisargi Dave
Degree: PhD
Research: My dissertation research examines the
intersections between the drag queen (female impersonator) and the
transgender female community in Toronto, Ontario. In particular, I am
interested in processes of gender and sexual identity formation and
their intersection with the the sex, class, race, and identity
politics. Overall, my interests in anthropology focus on gay male
sexuality, gender identity, and the embodiment of the feminine.
Theoretically my research could be located within the realms of queer
theory, feminist anthropology, transgender studies, and gay and lesbian
studies. I also have a keen interest in how (mis)conceptions of gay
male and transgendered female sexual and gender identities affect
HIV/AIDS outreach and prevention efforts within those communities.
Email: k.nixon(at)UT
Matthew
Pettit
(Socio-cultural/Medical)
Supervisor: Michael
Lambek
Degree: PhD
Research: Alcoholism
recovery movements, models of illness and causality, frameworks of
responsibility, agency and moral selfhood, and the history of
psychiatry and temperance movements.
Email: matthew.pettit(at)UT
Website: http://www.matthewpettit.com
Leah
M.
Shumka
(Socio-cultural/Medical)
Supervisor: Janice Boddy
Degree: PhD
Research: Leah is interested in exploring the
commodification of women's sexuality, that is, what is socially deemed
erotic and sensual, and the 'branding' of distinct forms of feminine
sexualities associated with self-fashioning and self-pleasure. This
research draws on theories of the body, embodiment, and subjectivity.
Leah explores these issues using participant observation and life
history narratives alongside body mapping and photography.
Email: l.shumka(at)UT
Vivian Solana
Supervisor: Andrea Muhelebach
Degree: PhD
Research: Sovereignty, human rights, gender.
Email: vivian.solana(at)UT
Jessica Taylor (Linguistic)
Supervisor: Prof. Sandra Bamford and Prof. Joshua Barker
Degree: PhD
Research: I am currently researching the field of romance
publishing in North America and abroad.
Email: jessica.taylor(at)UT
Zoë
H.
Wool
(Socio-cultural/Linguistic)
Supervisor: Todd Sanders and Ivan Kalmar
Degree: PhD
Research: Based on 12 months of fieldwork in 2007-2008, my
dissertation focuses on the experiences of encounter at Walter Reed
Army Medical Center when injured American soldiers' ambitions to the
ordinary are foiled by others' attempts to render them extraordinary. I
look at experiences of the displacement of the ordinary; the rise of
the ordinary as a sublime aspiration and social achievement; how it is
to live a life marked by public violence; the production of heroes and
patriots in intersubjective encounters; the violability of
physical/existential selves.
Email: zoe.wool(at)UT
Medical
Laura Anderson
Supervisor: Dan
Sellen
Degree: PhD
Research: My research
aims to investigate the determinants fo young children's diets within
Latin American and Tamil newcomer families living in Toronto's
Jane-Finch area. I am exploring mothers' experiences with household
food insecurity, and the influence these experiences have on their
feeding decisions for their young children. In addition, I am examining
mothers' constructions of optimal diets for their children with an aim
to understand how these constructions affect the impact of current
public nutrition programs and services.
Email:
laura.anderson(at)gmail
Mike Callaghan
Supervisor: Richard Lee
and Dan Sellen
Degree: PhD
Research: I focus on
antiretroviral (anti-AIDS) treatment programs in Namibia. I take a
mixed-methods approach to exploring whether and why some benefit from
this treatment than other patients. More generally, I'm interested in
healthy systems, infectious disease, development and governance.
Email:
mike.callaghan(at)UT
Website: http://individual.utoronto.ca/callaghan
Arie Molema
Supervisor: Michael
Lambek and Holly Wardlow
Degree: PhD
Research: My research
focuses on the circulation and contestation of therapeutic discourses
of "healing" in post-conflict projects of national reconciliation. I am
interested in the social, cultural and political work that therapeutic
discourses attempt to accomplish, particularly for the state. I am also
interested in interactions between community actors and regimes of
global health governance in post-conflict settings, particularly around
the promotion of health rights.
Email: ariemolema(at)UT
Peter Skrivanic
Supervisor: Valentina Napolitano & Shiho Satsuka
Degree: PhD
Research: Peter is interested in traditional East Asian
medicine, specifically Japanese acupuncture and shiatsu. His research
investigates the production and global circulation of this knowledge
and related self-cultivation practices.
Email: peter.skrivanic(at)UT
Archaeology
Adam Allentuck
Supervisor: E.B. Banning and T.M. Friesen
Degree: PhD
Research: My research project focuses on zooarchaeology at
the Early Bronze I village of Horvat 'Illin Tahtit in central Israel.
Questions of taphonomy, the use of space, and the relationship between
these factors will be brought to bear on the animal bone data from this
site.
Email: a.allentuck(at)UT
Peter Bikoulis
Supervisor: Ted Banning
Degree: PhD
Research: : I am primarily interested in the Late
Prehistory of Southwest Asia, especially focused on the Neolithic.
Other research interests include Geographic Information Science (GISc)
and Landscape and Spatial approaches to the past (including
Archaeological Survey, Settlement Patterns, Space Syntax, and Social
Network Analysis).
David Bilton
Supervisor: Gary Coupland
Degree: PhD
Research: My research focuses on the emergence of social
inequality and complexity among hunter-gatherers, especially in the
Northwest Coast. I excavate households and middens in Sechelt, BC.
Email: david.bilton(at)UT
Gregory Braun
Supervisor: Heather
M.-L. Miller
Degree: PhD
Research: My main
interest is in Neolithic technologies, particularly how the mechanical
and social performance of ceramic objects articulated with technologies
of manufacture, use and eventual discard. I am currently using
analytical techniques such as petrography, scanning electron
microscopy, and inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry to examine
pottery recovered from the Middle Iroquoian site of Holly (Ontario),
and the Late Neolithic occupation at 'Ayn Ghazal (Jordan).
Email: greg.braun(at)UT
Susan Dermarkar
Supervisor: David G. Smith
Degree: PhD
Research: I am investigating the validity of the Ontario
Iroquois
Tradition through the analysis of the cultural and ethnic separation
of the Northern and Southern Division Huron between A.D. 1400 and
1600. I will be reviewing cultural material and reports from the
Draper, Baumann, Carson, and Keffer sites.
Email: s.dermarkar(at)UT, dermarkar(at)lincsat.com
Katrina Gataveckas
Supervisor: Edward
Swenson
Degree: MSc
Research: I study Moche
household archaeology, looking specifically at spatial organization and
gender relations.
Email:
katrina.gataveckas(at)UT
Candis Haak
Degree: PhD
Email: candis.haak(at)UT
Lesley Howse
Supervisor: Max Friesen
Degree: PhD
Research: How technology effects hunter-gatherer
archaeofaunas' of the Eastern Arctic is the subject of my doctoral
research. In general I am interested in how hunter-gatherers interacted
with their environment. I am specifically interested in Arctic
anthropology/archaeology and zooarchaeological theory, I am keen at
learning different types of zooarchaeological methodologies. I am also
interested in how archaeofaunas can help interpret the use of space
within hunter-gatherer households, and how animal behavior can aide in
the interpretation of animal acquisition.
Email: lesley.howse(at)UT
Danielle
MacDonald
Supervisor: Michael Chazan
Degree: PhD
Research: Lithic and use-wear analysis of the Levantine
Epipalaeolithic, social identity, materiality, and technology studies.
Email: danielle.macdonald(at)UT
Giles Spence Morrow
Supervisor: Edward R.
Swenson
Degree: PhD
Research: Spatial
analysis of urban and ritual architecture in the pre-Columbian Andes.
Email:
gspence.morrow(at)UT
Matthew Mosher
Supervisor: Heather Miller
Degree: PhD
Research: I am interested in the intersection of community
identity and the built environment amongst ancient state-level
societies, and how this articulates with larger processes of urbanism
and political organization, particularly among the Classic Maya of
Mesoamerica and the Indus Valley Civilization of South Asia. Other
academic interests include the comparative and interdisciplinary study
of urbanism and complex societies, political economy, strategies of
political organization, the relationship between religious and
political systems, anthropological theory, architectural analysis and
social memory.
Lauren Norman
Supervisor: Max Friesen
Degree: PhD
Research: My research
will focus on analyzing faunal spatial patterns from multiple early
Thule Inuit houses from Alaska to Greenland. I want to investigate the
use of the Historical Inuit ethnographic record in the Arctic and how,
or if, it relates to household patterning of the archaeological record
of the Thule Inuit.
Email:
lauren.norman(at)UT
Marie-Annick Prevost
Supervisor: Gary Crawford
Degree: PhD
Research: Palaeoethnobotanical analysis of the Cote Rouge
site (Quebec, Canada)
Email: marieannick.prevost(at)UT
Talena
Stevenson
Supervisor: David Smith
Degree: PhD
Research: Ontario and
Great Lakes region archaeology; Iroquoian focus.
Email:
talena.atfield(at)UT
Alvina Tam
Supervisor: Alice Yao
Degree: MSc
Research: I am looking
at the material composition of Shang Dynasty proto-porcelain using
scanning electron microscope and radiography.
Email: alvina.tam(at)UT
Jessica Thiele
Supervisor: Heather
Miller and Edward Swenson
Degree: MSc
Research: My research is
currently based in Peru. I am studying how digital reconstruction
methods using the architectural program ArchiCAD can allow for a more
complete understanding of the Moche social system - more specifically,
how the elite Moche were able to control the social behaviours of the
non-elite Moche via construction, reconstruction and maintenance of
ceremonial architecture - through the application of post-structuralist
anthropological theory.
Email:
jessica.thiele(at)UT
Jayne
Wilkins
Supervisor: Michael Chazan
Degree: PhD
Research: Technological behaviour and raw material economy
during the Earlier and Middle Stone Age occupations of the Northern
Cape, South Africa.
Email: jayne.wilkins(at)UT
Emma Yasui
Supervisor: Gary Crawford
Degree: MSc
Research: I am interested in many aspects of archaeology
in Japan, including prehistoric and historic topics. My focus is on the
northern regions of Japan (Hokkaido and northern Honshu), and this
degree will mostly be centered on the Jomon culture period.
Email: emma.yasui(at)UT
Biological
Janna Andronowski
Supervisor: Susan
Pfeiffer
Degree: MA
Research: My research
interests are focused on aspects of bone histomorphology and
histomorphometry and bone biology. More specifically, the use of bone
histomorphometry to estimate adult age at death. My Masters research
project is designed to improve methods of measuring cortical area of
bone and to determine the relationship between trabecular connectivity
and chronological age.
Email:
janna.andronowski(at)UT
Laura Bolt
Supervisor: Shawn Lehman and Joyce Parga
Degree: PhD
Research: Laura studies the relationship between dominance
and vocal communication in male ringtailed lemurs (Lemur catta) in
Madagascar and on St. Catherines Island, USA.
Email: laura.bolt(at)UT
Joel
Cahn
(Physical/Forensic)
Supervisor: Dr. Tracy Rogers
Degree: PhD
Research: My research involves assessing the
representativeness of skeletal collections as modern populations and
the feasibility of using antemortem fractures as a means of positive
identification of unidentified remains.
Email: joel.cahn(at)UT
L. Elizabeth Doyle
Supervisor: Susan Pfeiffer
Degree: PhD
Research: I am studying the ecology of chronic joint
disease in the small-bodied Holocene foragers of coastal South Africa.
Email: bess.doyle(at)UT
Laura
C.
Eastham
(Paleoanthropology/Paleoecology)
Supervisor: Dr. David Begun
Degree: PhD
Research: My doctoral research examines the impact of Late
Miocene
climatic change on the evolution and dispersal of early Eurasian
hominids. This research concentrates on examining short-term
ecological variability, through the high-resolution analysis of stable
carbon and oxygen isotopes, as well as trace elements in fossil
mammalian dental enamel.
Email: laura.eastham(at)UT
Emily Holland
Supervisor: Tracy Rogers
Degree: PhD
Research: Generally I am interested in juvenile osteology
and skeletal biology, growth and development, bioarchaeology and health
and nutrition. Specifically for my doctoral work I am researching
health and nutrition in children and adults from a documented skeletal
collection in order to better understand childhood health and issues of
survivability.
Email: emily.holland(at)UT
Emma Humphrey
Supervisor: Michael Chazan
Degree: PhD
Research: Zooarchaeology and Taphonomy; Specialised
gazelle hunting at the Epipalaeolithic site of Urkan e-Rubb IIa, Jordan
Valley. Other research interests include bone-grease production and
Palaeolithic nutrition, landscape use and mobility patterns of
Palaeolithic peoples, cultural and population transition during the
Mesolithic/Neolithic boundary in Europe.
Email: emma.humphrey(at)UT
Stephanie
Kozakowski
(Paleoanthropology)
Supervisor: Dr. David Begun
Degree: PhD
Research: Hominoid cranial growth and development;
Hylobatids;
Hominoid fossil record; 3D Geometric Morphometrics; Virtual
reconstruction of fossil material.
Email: stephanie.kozakowski(at)UT
Amber MacKenzie
(Paleoanthropology)
Supervisor: David Begun
Degree: PhD
Research: I am interested in the functional morphology of
Miocene hominoids, more specifically morphology related to primate
locomotor behaviour. Currently interested in the mechanisms of tail
loss (and reduction) among primates, as well as other arboreal mammals.
Email: amber.mackenzie(at)UT
L.
Keriann
McGoogan
Supervisor: Dr. Shawn Lehman
Degree: PhD
Research: I am interested in primate responses to habitat
disturbance
and specifically habitat edges. I am studying the effects of the
forest edge on the behaviour and ecology of Propithecus coquereli,
Coquerel's sifaka, in NW Madagascar.
Email: keriann.mcgoogan(at)UT
Catherine Merritt
Supervisor: Susan Pfeiffer
Degree: PhD
Research: My doctoral research will assess the influence
of body size on adult age estimation techniques. My primary research
question will address how weight-bearing joints such as those on the
pelvis, and non-weight bearing joints such as rib ends, are affected
differently in skeletal aging.
Email: catherine.merritt(at)UT
Mary Kathleen Pitirri
Supervisor: David Begun
Degree: PhD
Research: Functional analysis of living and fossil primate
masticatory morphology.
Email:
kathy.pitirri(at)UT
Hannah Pryce (Physical/Forensic)
Supervisor: Tracy
Rogers
Degree: MSc
Research: My research
examines the potential for using radiographs of the proximal femur to
reliably and accurately estimate age. Other interests include juvenile
growth and development and juvenile age-estimation.
Email: hannah.pryce(at)UT
Karyne
Rabey (Paleoanthropology)
Supervisor: David Begun
Degree: PhD
Research: My dissertation research seeks to understand
muscle and tendon attachment sites in living primates to better
reconstruct the locomotor behaviour of our fossil ancestors. This
research will give a better understanding of the detailed nature of
muscle attachment to bone and will also have potential implications for
such applied fields as physical therapy, prosthetic and reconstructive
surgery.
Email: karyne.rabey(at)UT
Abigail Ross
Supervisor: Dr. Shawn Lehman
Degree: PhD
Research: My research examines the influence of habitat
edges on maternal care and infant development in Propithecus
coquereli, an endangered indriid, in NW Madagascar.
Email: abigail.ross(at)UT
Webpage: www.abigailchattaross.com
Sheryl Spigelski
Supervisor: Dr. Tracy Rogers
Degree: PhD
Research: I will be exploring the potential for
understanding the relationship between the jobs we choose, and our
overall health and vulnerability to disease. I will be using the Lisbon
Skeletal Collection, currently housed at the Bocage Museum in Lisbon.
My research would specifically compare occupations that are considered
to be "white collar," i.e. clerks, civil servants,
librarians, etc., to "blue collar" jobs, i.e. cooper,
maid, railway worker, and so forth. The research will systematically
observe both gross anatomical and radiographic evidence of bone loss,
nutritional deficiencies, skeletal disease involvement and incidences
of trauma.
Email: : sheryl.spigelski(at)UT
Travis
Steffens
Supervisor: Dr. Shawn Lehman
Degree: PhD
Research: I am interested in how primates respond to
natural and anthropogenic habitat disturbance. I am also interested in
conservation ecology of primates.
Email: travis.steffens(at)UT
Webpage: www.tssteffens.com;
www.lambasforlemurs.com
Alessandra Sztrimbely
(Physical/Forensic)
Supervisor: Prof. Martin Evison
Degree: MSc and MAIR
Research: Currently interested in forensic facial
reconstruction. Other interests and previous research include the
interplay of culture and biology in evolution and tracing the
interaction between humans and sweetness over time.
Email: alessandra.sztrimbely(at)UT
Renee
Willmon
(Forensic)
Supervisor: Dr. Tracy Rogers
Degree: MSc
Research: My Master's research will examine the incidence
and distribution of commonly observed skeletal lesions (cribra
orbitalia and porotic hyperostosis) in a documented archaeological
skeletal collection to evaluate two conflicting hypotheses of the
lesions' etiology. My research interests also include the development
of forensic identification techniques rooted in biological features
with have limited susceptibility to environmental influences, and
admissibility issues with respect to forensic anthropological evidence.
Email: renee.willmon(at)UT
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