Faculty & staff
Office
The Department of Anthropology general office is in Cornett Building (COR) B228. We're in the office Monday to Thursday 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. & work remotely on Fridays.
Faculty
Dr. Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier
Status: On leave
Professor Anthropology
Accepting graduate students
Office: COR B330 alexbf@uvic.ca 250-721-7052
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Visual anthropology, sound studies, creative practices, digital media, infrastructure, Cuba, Canada
Assistant teaching professor Anthropology & Faculty of Humanities
Accepting graduate students
Office: COR B212 rachelbr@uvic.ca
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Cultural anthropology, religion, food studies, migration, ethnography, embodiment, gender
Status: On leave
Assistant professor Anthropology
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Medical Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology of Race, Anthropology of Religion
Assistant professor Anthropology
Accepting graduate students
Office: COR B242 tatianadegai@uvic.ca 250-721-6282
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Indigenous research methodologies, ethics, and community-engaged research, ethnographies of the North-Pacific/Arctic, language revitalization
Associate professor Anthropology
Accepting graduate students
Office: COR B208 dzifa@uvic.ca 250-721-6284
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Metal hypersensitivity, evidence-synthesis, heart failure, sickle cell disease and critical care nursing, racism, nursing workforce
Associate teaching professor, undergraduate and honours advisor Anthropology
Office: COR B240 meligau@uvic.ca 250-721-6254
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Economic anthropology, border studies, informal & illicit economies, cross-border trade, Mexico-US borderlands, Mexico, Yucatán
Status: On leave
Teaching professor Anthropology
Office: COR B342 ehalstad@uvic.ca
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Archaeology, material culture, funerary rituals, Medieval North Atlantic, cemetery archaeology, teaching and learning in undergraduate education
Associate professor Anthropology
Accepting graduate students
Office: FPH 143 rola@uvic.ca 250-472-4231
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Indigenous–state relations, Metis studies, Indigenous anthropology, history of anthropology, Indigenous education, Indigenous studies
Assistant professor Anthropology
Accepting graduate students
Office: COR B223 tommyh@uvic.ca 250-721-6647
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Nuu chah nulth ways of knowing land, language, knowledge and Identity
Assistant professor Anthropology
Accepting graduate students
Office: COR B213 akalan@uvic.ca 250-721-7058
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Biological anthropology, primate behavioural ecology, animal communication, animal cultures, tool use, wildlife conservation, bioacoustics, camera trapping
Professor Anthropology
Accepting graduate students
Office: COR B211a hkurki@uvic.ca 250-721-7045
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Biological anthropology, skeletal biology, hominin functional anatomy
Status: On leave
Associate professor Anthropology
Accepting graduate students
Office: COR B209 ymlam@uvic.ca 250-721-7051
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Archaeology, zooarchaeology, palaeoanthropology
Associate professor Anthropology
Accepting graduate students
Office: Cornett B246a iim@uvic.ca 250-721-7351
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Coastal archaeology, historical ecology, Northwest coast, zooarchaeology
Status: On leave
Associate professor Anthropology
Office: Cornett B211 amacintosh@uvic.ca 250-721-7056
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Biological anthropology, functional anatomy, skeletal biology, life history
Status: On leave
Professor Anthropology
Accepting graduate students
Office: COR B340 anowell@uvic.ca 250-721-7054
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Neanderthal, Paleolithic art and archaeology, Hominin life histories, cognitive archaeology, archaeology of children, Levant and Europe
Professor, graduate advisor Anthropology
Accepting graduate students
Office: COR B210 daromir@uvic.ca 250-721-6273
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Money, capitalism, the state, ethnography. religion, finance, development, economy, globalization, social studies of finance, cryptocurrency, liberalism & neoliberalism, Southeast Asia, North America, Europe
Professor, Chair and Provost’s Engaged Scholar Anthropology
Accepting graduate students
Office: Cornett B246B bthom@uvic.ca
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Cultural anthropology, Indigenous legal orders and land rights, ethnographic mapping, space and place, Coast Salish
Associate professor, Smyth chair in arts & engagement Anthropology
Accepting graduate students
Office: COR B238 awalsh@uvic.ca 250-721-7050
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Visual anthropology, visual culture & theory, contemporary First Nations visual culture
Staff
Graduate & undergraduate program assistant Anthropology
Office: COR B228 jindra@uvic.ca 250-721-7047
Administrative officer Anthropology
Office: COR B228 kdelsol@uvic.ca 250-721-7046
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Administrative oversight for the department
Senior Lab Instructors
Senior lab instructor, adjunct assistant professor Anthropology
Office: COR B227 scalce@uvic.ca 250-472-4730
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Biological anthropology, bioarchaeology, forensic anthropology, paleopathology
Senior lab instructor Anthropology
Office: COR B217 markmcin@uvic.ca
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Socio-cultural and multimodal anthropology, and qualitative methodological research approaches
Emeriti
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Professor Emeritus Anthropology
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Ethnology; cultural ecology; political economy of Oceania; ideational systems and material culture; Austronesian culture; history and language; Micronesia and Oceania; Southeast Asia
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Assistant Teaching Professor Emeritus Anthropology
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Folklore, religion, social justice
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Associate Professor Emeritus Anthropology
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Family and migration, medical anthropology, gender and reproduction, HIV/AIDS, Indonesia; the Pacific and Southeast Asia
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Professor Emeritus Anthropology
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Ecology, socio-ecology, behavioral endocrinology, demography and conservation of Endangered Lemur catta (the ring-tailed lemur).
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Associate Professor Emeritus Anthropology
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Archaeology, Haida Gwaii, Salish Sea, stone tools, Northwest Coast
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Assistant Professor Emeritus Anthropology
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Sociocultural anthropology, political economy, feminism, Latin America (Brazil), poverty, housing and homelessness, politics of food and hunger
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Associate Professor Emeritus Anthropology
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Cultural anthropology, bodies and embodiment, reproduction, ultrasound imaging, children and youth, visual culture, Philippines, Canada
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Professor Emeritus Anthropology
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Prehistoric Archaeology; palaeoanthropology, anthropology of foraging societies; palaeolithic; prehistory economy and ecology; social life of ancient hominids; method and theory of Archaeology; Anthropological theory; Europe, Mediterranean, Temperate and tropical Asia
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Professor Emeritus Anthropology
- Area(s) of expertise:
- HIV/AIDS; Substance use; Canada
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Professor Emeritus Anthropology
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Archaeology, comparative colonialism, materiality, digital heritage initiatives, Africa; Ghana
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Professor Emeritus Anthropology
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Applied and medical anthropology, aging & society, ethics, refugees
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Associate Professor Emeritus Anthropology
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Culture change, international development, Bangladesh, women's narratives
Adjunct professors
Christopher Ames, adjunct assistant professorcjhames@uvic.ca
Prehistoric archaeology, geoarchaeology, human-environment dynamics, geomorphology, sedimentology, palaeoecology, site formation processes, geospatial and computational methods, southwest Asia, South Africa
Michael Asch, adjunct professor
masch@uvic.ca
Socio-cultural anthropology, North America, political and legal anthropology
Judith Berman, adjunct assistant professor
jberman@uvic.ca
Franz Boas scholar, Northwest Coast oral literature and ethnohistory
Stephanie Calce, adjunct assistant professor
scalce@uvic.ca, Cornett B227, 250-721-4730
Biological anthropology, skeletal biology, forensic anthropology
Cassandre Campeau-Bouthillier, adjunct assistant professor
ccampeau@uvic.ca, Cornett B212
Medical anthropology, the ways in which people experience their skeletal lives in the context of yoga and chiropractic care
Sarah-Louise Decrausaz, adjunct assistant professor
decrausa@uvic.ca
Biological anthropology, skeletal biology, life history, puberty, growth and development, medical imaging
ranald_donaldson@shaw.ca
Paul Ewonus, adjunct assistant professor
paul.ewonus@ecoarcheology.com
Landscape archaeology, social zooarchaeology, communities of practice, ancient DNA, Pacific Northwest, Britain, the practice of commercial archaeology
Daryl Fedje, adjunct assistant professor
DarylFedje@gmail.com
Archaeology, quaternary paleoecology, Haida Gwaii
Timothy Knowlton, adjunct professor
tknowlton@uvic.ca
Linguistic & Sociocultural Anthropology, Comparative Religion, Ethnohistory, Indigenous Mesoamerica
qxm@uvic.ca
Archaeology, Haida Gwaii, Salish Sea, stone tools, Northwest Coast
Margo Matwychuk, adjunct assistant professor
mmatwych@uvic.ca
Sociocultural anthropology; political economy; feminism; Latin America (Brazil); poverty; housing and homelessness; politics of food and hunger
Duncan McLaren, adjunct assistant professor
dsmclaren@gmail.com
Archaeology, Northwest coast, environmental archaeology, long-term history
Lisa Mitchell, adjunct professor
lmm@uvic.ca
Cultural anthropology, bodies and embodiment, reproduction, ultrasound imaging, children and youth, visual culture, Philippines, Canada
Jennifer Robinson, adjunct assistant professor, post-doctoral fellow, Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research
jcrobins@uvic.ca
Canadian history, settler colonial studies, arts and social justice, museums and archives, cultural heritage and public institutional policy, community-engaged research and advocacy
Ann Stahl, adjunct professor
stahlann@uvic.ca
Archaeology, comparative colonialism, materiality, digital heritage initiatives, Africa; Ghana
Peter Stahl, adjunct professor
pstahl@uvic.ca
Archaeology, historical ecology, zooarchaeology, vertebrate taphonomy, South America, domestication
Margot Wilson
mwmoore@uvic.ca
Culture change, international development, Bangladesh, women's narratives
Sessional instructors
William C. Campbell
COR B221
campbecw@uvic.ca
Stephanie Calce
scalce@uvic.ca
Cassandre Campeau-Bouthillier
ccampeau@uvic.ca
Melanie Chang
mlchang@uvic.ca
COR B212
Timothy Knowlton
COR B221
tknowlton@uvic.ca
COR B225
Mark McIntyre
COR B217
markmcin@uvic.ca
COR B212
Kaela Parker
knparker@uvic.ca
CindyAnn Rose-Redwood
DTB B358
cindyann@uvic.ca
Stella Spak
spaks@uvic.ca
Grad students
Vist our grad student page to learn about our amazing PhD and master's students!