News and events

Our faculty member Prof Brian Thom was part of the team that made this new Canada History Week video on the 1906 trip of Chief Joe Capilano (Squamish), Chief Charley Tsulpi’multw (Cowichan), Chief Basil David (Shuswap), and Simon Pierre (Katzie) to petition the King of England.

Our Anthropology of Sound class will be hosting The After Hours event: 'Listen Up' at the Royal BC Museum on Thursday evening, November 25, 7:00 to 8:30pm

The Department of Anthropology at UVic is hiring! We invite applications from scholars who self-identify as Black for a tenure-track appointment in the area of Sociocultural Anthropology in the field of critical health, inequality and wellness.

Congratulations - Dr. Rob Hancock (ANTH/IACE) has been named a Research Affiliate at the Rupertsland Centre for Métis Research

Our PhD student Luke Kernan has discussed the topic of Psychosis Narratives in this "Beyond The Jargon" episode.

Congratulations to Dr. Rob Hancock on being the recipient of Campus Kudos!

Congratulations to Dr. Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier on being the recipient of Campus Kudos!

University of Victoria Legacy Art Galleries and two on-campus locations spotlight visual arts for all—including a decade-spanning retrospective of Salish artists who have been visiting artists in the Department of Anthropology.

Congratulations to our MA student Shane Doddridge (supervised by Dr. Brian Thom) who just won the 2021 Canadian Cartographic Association ‘best student presentation’ award for his paper ‘Navigating Theory in Toponomy: Approaching Indigenous Place Names in the Chilcotin Region of Canada'

Our faculty member, Dr. Tatiana Degai, is one of the featured speakers on this upcoming free and open to public Virtual Language Conference on Restoring and Protecting Our Native Languages and Landscapes.

Congratulations to Dr. Ammie Kalan on her published paper in Ecological Informatics, Vol. 65, titled “Compensating class imbalance for acoustic chimpanzee detection with convolutional recurrent neural networks.”

Dr. Brian Thom was quoted in London School of Economics and Political Science article titled: “When executives inherit dark histories.”

Congratulations to one of our amazing faculty, Dr. Erin Lee McGuire, on being the recipient of the 2021 REACH Award of the Harry Hickman Alumni Award for Excellence in Teaching and Educational Leadership.

Congratulations to Dr. Stephanie Calce for receiving a SSHRC Insight Development grant.