News and events

Congratulations to two wonderful folks from our department who have received the "Above & Beyond" award this fall 2022.

Check out Dr. April Nowell's podcast interview with Michael Osborne, host of Generation Anthropocene.

Dr. Daromir Rudnyckyj is discussing how digital money impacts our everyday lives, and its complexities when it comes to real estate.

Canadian Geographic presents the findings of new research which uses ancient fish bones to calculate changes in ocean temperatures between 3000 BC and 1700 AD. Dr. Iain McKechnie, co-author of this study, describes how the findings advance current knowledge and understanding of climate.

Congratulations to our alumna (BA & MA) Wendy Proverbs on the feature in CBC Books

Dr. Daromir Rudnyckyj emphasizes the need for an internationally coordinated regulation of cryptocurrencies as a new report by the Commission of Inquiry into Money Laundering in BC highlights the increasing use of cryptocurrencies in money laundering schemes and other criminal activities.

Congratulations to our graduate student Dylan Hillis and Dr. Iain McKechnie on a new study using fish bones from two Vancouver Island's Indigenous archaeological sites to identify changes in ocean temperatures over several millennia.

Congratulations to our PhD student Xue Ma on being one of the recipients of the 2022 CAPI Student Fellowship awards. Xue is exploring the digital transformations of money in China.

UVic article and YouTube Video mentioning Dr. Iain McKechnie along other UVic researcher's work on World Oceans Day.

Congratulations to Dr. Alison Murray on being part of a National Geographic documentary on prehistoric women.

Congratulations to our MA alumnus & incoming PhD student Dylan Hillis and our PhD candidate Robert Gustas (as well as D. Pauly, W. W. L. Cheung, A. K. Salomon, and I. McKechnie) on a newly published paper.

Congratulations to our PhD candidate Robert Gustas (and Iain McKechnie, Quentin Mackie & Chris Darimont (GEOG)) on their recent publication

Our department hosted the Hostile Terrain-94 (HT94) exhibit earlier this year and Dr. Melissa Gauthier and her third-year undergraduate students took part in this project. Read the full story in The Ring.

New open access paper in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology by Dr. Jennifer French and Dr. April Nowell on the lives and deaths of Gravettian teens.

Write-up in UVic news about Dr. Brian Thom on receiving the Leadership Victoria Award for Extending Reconciliation.

The Smithsonian magazine cites Dr. April Nowell's 2018 quote in Live Science commenting on the many applications of red ochre in early human societies

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.