News and events

Congratulations to our Ph.D. candidate Luke Kernan whose essay was published in Anthropologica

Congratulations to Dr. Melissa Gauthier, whose short story about the Hostile Terrain 94 exhibit just came out in Culture.

Our alumna, Jenny Cohen (MA '14), is the lead archaeologist on this project. Check out this beautiful short film about some of the work being done at SGang Gwaay Llnagaay.

Congratulations to Dr. Brian Thom on receiving a Leadership Victoria Award for Extending Reconciliation.

CBC Vancouver's "The Early Edition" talks about new research and the importance of oyster fisheries to Indigenous communities in North America and Australia. Dr. Iain McKechnie, co-author of the study published in the journal Nature, speaks about climate-induced habitat destruction being the cause of these oysters' decline.

Congratulations to our graduate student Taylor Vollman and Dr. Iain McKechnie who are authors on a new publication on Indigenous use of Oysters out today in Nature Communications.

Huge congratulations to Dr. Brian Thom on having been awarded the Extending Reconciliation award by Leadership Victoria.

Congratulations to our PhD candidate Tommy Happynook on the successful defense of his dissertation.

Congratulations to our MA student Dylan Hillis on the successful defense of his thesis titled "Indigenous Archaeological Fisheries Records Provide Evidence of Multiple Baselines in the Northeast Pacific”.

If you've missed our Lansdowne Speaker - Dr. Christina Leza - and her presentation on "Indigenous rights and identities on the U.S. - Mexico border" the recording is now available.

Register now: Lecture of the Ottawa Chapter of the Canadian Institute for Mediterranean Studies, presented by Dr. April Nowell Sunday, April 24th, 2022 at 2:00p.m. EST, presented via Zoom

Congratulations to Denis St. Claire on his Indigenous Community Alumni Award from ⁦Uvic‬⁩ for his 49 years of archaeological & ethnographic work with Tseshaht and other Nuuchahnulth First Nations.